YONKERS, NY, Saturday, January 12, 2013--Favored Electrofire (Brian Sears) was the champion of the chalk players Saturday night, winning Yonkers Raceway's $35,000 Open Handicap Pace.
Starting inside his six rivals, Electrofire retook from the six wins-in-a-row
Proven Lover (Jason Bartlett), after a foggy, 28-second opening quarter-mile.
The reformed claimer then rolled through a :55.4 intermission and 1:23.4
three-quarters, losing his pocket pursuer and any semblance of an outer flow.
Electrofire had 2½ lengths turning for home and was never threatened. He was
two lengths to the good at the wire, which he found in 1:52.3. Second went to
Saint William A (Larry Stalbaum), photoing over Here We Go Again (George
Brennan). Fitz's Z Tam (Matt Kakaley, seven winners in the first two racing
nights) and newly-minted millionaire River Shark (Mark MacDonald) rounded out
the payees.
For reformed claimer Electrofire, a 6-year-old son of Electric Stena co-owned
by West Wins Stable & Dave Miller and trained by Casie Coleman, he returned
$4.20 for his first win in a couple of seasonal starts. The exacta paid $46.20,
with the triple returning $172.
The Raceway resumes its normal five-night-per-week live schedule next week,
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.
