BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Sunday, July 28, 2018—Yonkers
Raceway Monday night (July 30th) hosts the $172,000 New York Sire
Stakes Bruce Hamilton Pace for 3-year-old colts and geldings.
Post time for the dozen-race card is 6:50
PM, with the sire stakes event going as races 7 (purse $85,250) and 8 (purse
$86,750), respectively. The event again honors the memory of one of the true
movers and shakers (not to mention a damn fine fellow) in the state’s harness
program.
The opening event for the big boys offers
some solid resumes, the haughtiest of which belongs to Springsteen (Dave
Miller, post 2). The season has been highlighted by a win in the
half-million-dollar final of Pocono’s Max Hempt Memorial (life-best 1:48.3).
He hits town, though, after faltering
first-up in the his elim of the Adios. The son of Rock N Roll Heaven, co-owned
(as Allard Racing) by (trainer) Rene Allard, Bruce Soulsby, Alan
Weisenberg and Kapildeo Singh. has two wins in six starts ($286,500).
Rootin’ Tootin’ (Mark MacDonald, post 6)
has plied his craft versus statebreds, with sire stakes wins at Saratoga
(life-best 1:52.1). The Roll with Joe colt is co-owned by (trainer) Blake
MacIntosh, Stuart McIntosh, Robert MacNeil and Fred Brayford.
Topville Olympian (Brian Sears, post 5)
and Twin B Tuffenuff (George Brennan, post 7) have both been bridesmaids
in their last two statebred sojourns.
Monday night’s second and final division
finds the return of Art Rooney Pace winner Trump Nation (Jason Bartlett, post
2). The son of Betterthancheddar, who wired that $300,000 event in a life-best
1:51.3, comes back after sire stakes wins at Buffalo and Saratoga.
For the season, he’s 5-for-8 with $238,896
in the till for co-owners Evan Katz and Crawford Racing.
My Delight (Brent Holland, post 5)
authored a 34-1 upset in a $23,066 division of the Reynolds here in mid-May,
then won (at 14-1) a sire stakes event at Vernon (life-best 1:49.4). Ostro
Hanover (Miller, post 7) tries it after a 10-1 statebred win at Saratoga.
Rockapelo (Sears, post 8) has hit the
board in six of his eight ’18 tries, including a win (life-best 1:50.2)
in his $24,000 division of Tioga’s Geers.
