BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Tuesday, February 27, 2018—A
week ago, Solo Story missed a hard-charging neck at 40-1.
Tuesday night (Feb. 27th), he
didn’t miss at all.
Try $125.50, Yonkers Raceway’s largest win
mutuel of the season. Bumping up from the $15,000 claimers to the $20,000
fraternity, the 61-1 Solo Story (catch-driver Larry Stalbaum) closed from
seventh from in the line, winning the $13,000, eighth-race pace in a
season’s-best 1:54.3.
Starting from post position No. 7 in the
field of nine, Solo Story was barely in the same area code—eighth, 14 lengths
out—early. He remained eighth (though closer) at both the half and
three-quarters before uncorking his rally from seventh off the final turn.
He actually won going away, beating Wild
Again (catch-driver Anthony Napolitano) by a length. Adonis Bay (Eric Goodell)
was third, with Inspiration View (Jordan Stratton) fourth to complete the
gimmicks.
For Solo Story, a 5-year-old Bettor’s
Delight gelding owned by Jesse McAssey and trained by Jaymes McAssey, it was
his second win in six seasonal starts. The exacta paid $599, with triple returned $4,971 and the
superfecta paid $40,448 (base $2 payout, 10-cent ticket worth $2,022.40).
