BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Sunday, July 29, 2018—Lass
Rose Run Sydney (Brian Sears, $6.10) beat the boys (and one other girl), then
made ‘em cry Sunday afternoon (July 29th), winning Yonkers Raceway’s
featured $44,000 Open Handicap Trot.
The weekly trotting feature was a
flat-mile event, contested a handful of races after the day’s four,
mile-and-a-quarter, bigger-field ‘French’ forays.
Away fourth from assigned post position
No. 5, Rose Run Sydney saw eight-baller In Secret (George Brennan) eschew a
three-hole. That one made the lead around 17-10 favorite
Mostinterestingman (Jordan Stratton) after a :27.2 opening quarter-mile.
It was a :56.4 intermission before
‘Sydney’ was and out and moving in the third turn. She engaged In Secret in an
out of the 1:25.1 three-quarters, disposing of that one soon thereafter.
The lass opened a 2½–length lead in the
lane, then whipped a pocket-extricating Mostinterestingman by three-quarters of
a length in 1:54.2…a tick off her season and life-best effort. In Secret
was a stubborn third, with Madhatter Bluechip (Brent Holland) and the other
lady, Weslynn Dancer (Jason Bartlett), coming away with the remainder.
It was one of Sears’ four wins during the
dozen-race card.
For second
choice Rose Run Sydney, a 4-year-old daughter of Triumphant Caviar co-owned by
Steve Carter, Adam Friedland and RBR Racing and trained by Scott DiDomenico, it
was his fourth win in 13 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $17.40, the triple
returned $70 and the superfecta paid $168.
Sunday’s
go-round of the ‘New York, New York Double’ featured a winning combination of
7-Glossy (Saratoga’s 3rd race) and 4–Casa Palmera (Yonkers’ 5th
race), returning $7.60 for every correct $1 ticket. Total pool was $4,970.
The next
Sunday matinee is Aug. 5th (post time TBA).
