BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Saturday, October 21, 2017—It
wasn’t quite heat racing, but Home’n Dry (Jason Bartlett, $10.80) won his
second event in five nights Saturday (Oct. 21th), this one Yonkers
Raceway’s $50,000 Open Handicap Trot.
The field of seven was essentially pared
to five after Winds of Royalty (Steve Smith) and Consolidator (Eric Goodell)
both jumped early. It was 13-10 choice Dayson (George Brennan) leaving over
Murmur Hanover (Victor Kirby), the latter returning to town for first time in
April of 2015 having won his last five races.
Dayson, 23 days out between starts, led
through seemingly cheap intervals of 28
seconds flat and :57.2. Home’n Dry, away third from post position No. 4,
took out after the leader toward the soft 1:26.2 three-quarters.
No resistance
was offered, with Home’n Dry opening two lengths into the lane. He defeated the
people’s preference by a length-and-a-quarter in 1:55, with Murmur Hanover,
Kanthaka (Brent Holland) and Dewycolorintheline (Jordan Stratton) rounding out
the payees.
For third
choice Home’n Dry, a 5-year-old Credit Winner gelding owned by J L Sadowsky LLC
and trained by Robert Bresnahan, it was his sixth win in 17 seasonal
starts. The exacta paid $41.20, with the triple returning $145.
No one took
down Saturday night’s Pick 5 wager, so Monday night’s (Oct. 23rd)
gimmick begins with a carryover of $2,460.60 (50-cent base wager, races 7 through
11).
