FRANK
DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Friday, November 17, 2017—Call
Me Queen Be (Eric Goodell, $8.20) retook the lead early and grudgingly held it
late Friday night (Nov. 17th), winning Yonkers Raceway’s
blindly-drawn (by modern technology) $40,000 Filly and Mare Open Pace.
Away second from post potion No. 2, ‘Queen
Be’ at first was pocketed to HP Sissy (Dan Dube) then retook before a :27.2
opening quarter-mile.
It was a :56.1 intermission when Regil
Elektra (Joe Bongiorno) offered a fruitless, first-up bid from fifth.
Meanwhile, Call Me Queen Be maintained her social status in and out of a 1:24.3
three-quarters, taking a length-and-a-half lead into the lane.
She would need just about all of it.
Slight 5-2 favorite All About Madi (Brian Sears), who won the draw but sat a
loose three-hole, stormed home inside. ‘Madi’s’ memo arrived a tad late as she
missed a scant nose in 1:53.3. Mach it a Par (Jason Bartlett) left the cones to
snatch third, beaten a half-length. HP Sissy and She’sjustadelight N (Ron
Cushing) settled for the pre-turkey leftovers.
For tepid
second choice Call Me Queen Be, a 4-year-old millionairess daughter of
Somebeachsomewhere co-owned by Let it Ride Stables & Dana Parham and
trained by Ross Croghan, it was her fourth win in 19 seasonal starts. The
exacta paid $21.40, with the triple returning $63.50.
