YONKERS, NY,
Friday, January 11, 2019—Favored Itty Bitty (Jason Bartlett, $4.10) gave
nothing else a shot Friday night (Jan. 11th), handily winning
Yonkers Raceway’s $44,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
Leaving from post
position No. 3, Itty Bitty retook from Wishy Washy Girl (George Brennan) before
a :27.4 opening quarter-mile. Shen then opened more nighttime daylight at every
subsequent interval (:58.1, 1:26.1, 1:55), as in two lengths (half), 2½ lengths
(three-quarters), 4½ lengths (stretch) and 5¼ lengths (finish).
Clear Idea (Matt
Kakaley) was a best-of-the-rest second, with Dude’salady (Jim Marohn Jr.),
Amateur Hour (Brent Holland) and Culinary Delight N (Larry Stalbaum) rounding
out the payees.
For
Itty Bitty, a now-5-year-old daughter of Always a Virgin co-owned (as A Harris
Racing) by trainer Andrew Harris, J> Robert Darrow and Evan Katz, it was her
first win in a pair of seasonal starts. The exacta paid $17.20, the triple
returned $156.50 and the superfecta paid $582.
