BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY,
Sunday, November 12, 2017—Favored Charmed Life (Yannick Gingras, $5.50) was
first-up and faultless Sunday afternoon (Nov. 12th), winning Yonkers
Raceway’s $40,000 Open Handicap Trot.
With ‘only’ a
seven-horse field, the weekly trotting feature went at the flat mile. Charmed
Life, unhurried from post position No. 3, saw an early scrum for the lead. A
very wide In Secret (George Brennan) eventually worked around Georgie’s Pockets
(Joe Bongiorno) just after a :27.3 opening quarter-mile.
It was a 57-second
intermission as Charmed Life took out of fourth. The lone lass here found
minimal resistance as In Secret closed up shop around the 1:26 three-quarters.
Charmed Life,
showing few effects from 21 days out, opened a couple of lengths in and out of
the final turn. She eventually closed the sale, winning by 2¾ lengths in
1:54.4. Home’n Dry (Jason Bartlett) edged Tight Lines (Jeff Gregory) for
second, with Buen Camino (Brian Sears) and ‘Georgie’ rounding out the
payees.
For Charmed
Life, a 7-year-old daughter of Majestic Son co-owned (as Allard Racing) by
(trainer) Rene Allard, Yves Sarazin and VIP Internet Stable, it was her seventh
win in 22 seasonal starts (career earnings in excess of $1.2 million). The
exacta (two wagering choices) paid $33, the triple returned $99 and the
superfecta paid $203.
Sunday’s
return of the ‘New York, New York Double’ offered a winning combination of
1-Dig That Mine (Aqueduct’s 3rd race) and 6-Jacks to Open (Yonkers’
5th race) returning $15.90 for every correct $1 wager. Total pool
was $4,608.
Sunday
matinees, along with the ‘New York, New York Double,’ return Nov. 19th
(post time TBA).
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