BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Friday,
May 11, 2018—Odds-on Newborn Sassy (Jordan Stratton, $3.40) did not play fair
Friday night (May 11th), winning Yonkers Raceway’s $44,000 Filly and
Mare Open Handicap Pace in obnoxiously facile fashion.
Forwardly-placed
from post position No. 5 (in one notch courtesy of an inside defection),
Newborn Sassy two-moved around Twinkle (Eric Goodell), retaking after a :27.2
opening quarter-mile.
A cheapy,
57-second intermission worked to her advantage when Delightful Dragon (Mark
MacDonald) moved first-up from fourth. Newborn Sassy then threw down a :27.3,
third-quarter gauntlet (1:24.3), putting four lengths between herself and the
gang off the final turn.
The final margin
was a rather unsightly 8¼ lengths in 1:52.3. Delightful Dragon was resurgent,
getting second, with Twinkle, Mach it a Par (Jason Bartlett) and Caviart Cherie
(Joe Bongiorno) rounding out the payees.
Mach it a Par and
Caviart Cherie were flipped after the latter was set down a place for cutting
the cones.
For Newborn Sassy,
a 5-year-old daughter of Western Ideal co-owned by CC Racing & Jo Ann
Looney-King and trained by Jim King Jr., it was her third (consecutive) win in
14 seasonal starts after starting’18 0-for-11. The exacta paid $19.80, with the
triple returning $109.50.
Saturday night’s
(May 12th) card includes six divisions of the W.N. Reynolds Memorial
Pace for 3-year-olds. More than $132,000 is up for grabs, with three divisions
each for the boys and the girls.
