BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY,
Friday, August 3, 2018—Favored Newborn Sassy (Jordan Stratton, $4) rated her
rivals into submission Friday night (Aug. 3rd), winning Yonkers
Raceway’s $44,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
Away alertly from
assigned post position No. 5, Newborn Sassy worked around Caviart Cherie,
making the lead before a :27.4 opening quarter-mile. She then pilfered a
:29.2 second quarter (:57.1 intermission), effectively ending the melodrama.
Agent Q (birthday
boy [45] Eric Goodell) tried it first-up third from third, speeding up the
sojourn but never getting close in and out of a 1:24.3 three-quarters.
With that foe
dispensed, Newborn Sassy opened a length-and-a-quarter lead into the lane. She
then beat the other ladies up, widening to 3¾ lengths at the 1:52.3 wire.
Second went to
Caviart Cherie, with a third-over Magic Forces (George Brennan) third. Bronze
Over N (Dan Dube) and Made of Jewel AS (Joe Bongiorno) settled for the minors.
For Newborn Sassy,
a 5-year-old daughter of Western Ideal owned by CC Racing & Joann
Looney-King and trained by Jim King Jr., it was her sixth win in in 23 seasonal
starts. The exacta paid $16.20, the triple returned $122.50 and the superfecta
paid $657.
Note the Raceway
shall open earlier (11:30 AM) for Saturday (Aug. 4th) simulcasting
in advance of early post times from the Meadowlands (Hambletonian), the Meadows
and Gulfstream.
