BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Friday, October 20, 2017—H P
Sissy (Greg Merton, $14.80) cleared down the backside Friday night (Oct. 20th),
winning Yonkers Raceway’s $50,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
Away fourth from post position No. 2, H P
Sissy saw outer entities Freakonomics (George Brennan) and slight 2-1 choice
Newborn Sassy (Tyler Buter) leave with purpose. Locally-debuting Freakonomics
worked around ‘Sassy’ before laying down early intervals of :27.1 and :57.4.
HP Sissy then extricated herself from the
cones, blowing right by Freakonomics before the 1:24.4 three-quarters. A
second-up Diva’s Image (Brent Holland) badly gapped the eventual winner, making
the job of third-up Mach it a Par (Jason Bartlett) that much more difficult.
HP Sissy opened 2¼ lengths off the final
turn, then held a noticeably-drifting (she does that now) Mach it a Par at bay
by a length-and-a-quarter n 1:54.
Newborn Sassy, returning Matchmaker
victress Mackenzie A (Jordan Stratton) and Betabcool N (Eric Goodell) rounded
out the payees. Alas, there would be no ‘Sissy’-‘Sassy’
exacta.
For fourth
choice HP Sissy, a 4-year-old daughter of Up the Credit owned by Claude Hamel
and trained by Rene Allard, it was her ninth win in 21 seasonal starts.
The exacta paid $76.50, the triple returned $208 and the superfecta paid $962
