YONKERS, NY, Friday, October 5, 2012--Yonkers Raceway's usual Friday night pair
of $44,000 co-featured Open Handicaps--for distaff pacers and
anyone-who’s-good-enough trotters--were won by a pair of George Brennan-driven,
eight-hole assignees in Keeper's Destiny ($6) and odds-on Blacktuxwhitesocks
($3.70).
It was the second Friday in succession Brennan took home both halves of the
featured double.
In this week's distaff dissertation, even-money favorite Breakheart Pass (Jason
Bartlett) worked around Quicksilvercandy A (Larry Stalbaum) to the lead before
a :27.3 opening quarter-mile. The people's preference then found a :56.2
intermission before Keeper's Destiny--who had taken a seat sixth--was on the
prowl.
It had turned into a match race in and out of the 1:24 three-quarters, with
Breakheart Pass owning a short schnoz lead into the lane, However, it was
Keeper's Destiny who just kept on keepin' on, winning by three-quarters of a
length in 1:52.2
Sir Jillian Z Tam (Pat Lachance) was third--beaten 4¼ lengths--with
Quicksilvercandy A and Up Front Kelli Jo (Jordan Stratton) rounding out the
payees.
For second choice Keeper's Destiny, a 6-year-old daughter of Intrepid Seelster
owned by Merlin Howse and trained by Casie Coleman (also the co-breeders), it
was her seventh win in 23 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $12, with the triple
returning $53.
Blacktuxwhitesocks, who owns a share of the all-age track record (1:54.1),
toyed with his rivals for a fourth consecutive victory. He had to wait his turn
early, moving past E L Rock (Eric Goodell) to the lead right at the :27.3 first
interval. From there, a soft, 57-second half with Celebrity Bluechip (Bartlett)
trying it first-up.
After a 1:26 three-quarters, Blacktuwhitesocks widened to 2½ lengths turning
for home. He then finished his foes by that identical margin in 1:54.3.
Backstreet Hanover (Brent Holland) closed inside for second, with E L Rock,
Celebrity Bluechip and Big Sky Storm (Stratton) grabbing the remainder.
For Blacktuxwhitesocks, a 5-year-old statebred Credit Winner gelding trained by
Trond Smedshammer for owner Purple Haze Stables, it was his ninth win in 20 '12
tries (career earnings just shy over $800,000). The exacta paid $17.40, the
triple returned $138.50 and the superfecta paid $827.
Special Friday recognition to Mymomsablizzard (Stalbaum, $9.30), who wired the
$33,500, seventh-race trot in 1:55, a new local record for aged mares.
The
Raceway continues its normal five-night-per-week live schedule, with first post
every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:10 PM. Evening
simulcasting accompanies all live programs, with afternoon simulcasting
available around the NYRA schedule.
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