BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Sunday, October 29,
2017—Home’n Dry (Jason Bartlett, $8.50) was anything but Sunday afternoon (Oct.
29th), winning Yonkers Raceway’s waterlogged $50,000 Open Handicap
Trot.
Away third from assigned post position No.
5, Home’n Dry did his bidding in a wind-swept deluge, but no problem. He
watched as 19-10 favorite In Secret (George Brennan), remanded outside his six
rivals, made the lead (:28.4, :57.1,
1:26.1).
As he did in his
prior effort, Home’n Dry vacated the three-hole, engaged the leader, then won
going away. The margin here was 2½ lengths in a moist 1:55. In Secret was a
safe second, with Tight Lines (Jeff Gregory), Centurion ATM (Dan Dube) and
Sumatra (Eric Goodell) settling for the remainder.
For third
choice (again) Home’n Dry, a 5-year-old Credit Winner gelding owned by J L
Sadowsky LLC and trained by Robert Bresnahan, it was his seventh win
(third consecutive) in 18 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $49.60, with the
triple returning $155.50.
This scheduled edition of the ‘New York, New York Double’ went south when
Belmont Park cancelled its last-day-of-meet program. The gimmick wager returns
Sunday, Nov. 12th, with Aqueduct as the NYRA venue.. Note post time
for Yonkers that afternoon is TBA (we promise to
advise).
