BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY,
Saturday, November 17, 2018—His driver made the correct choices before and
during the race, as Gokudo Hanover (Dan Dube, $13.80) rolled Saturday night
(Nov. 17th), winning Yonkers Raceway’s $44,000 Open Handicap Pace.
In play from
assigned post position No. 5, Gokudo Hanover eschewed any earl three-hole, He
moved to the lead around Techtor Hanover (Jordan Stratton), paying a :26.2,
opening-quarter-mile privilege. After a snappy :55.1 intermission, Mach it So
(Joe Bongiorno) made his second move, first-up from third.
However, Gokudo Hanover
was more than up to it, passing a 1:23 three-quarters and owning a
length-and-a-half lead into the lane, He then finished it off, whipping Techtor
Hanover by a length in a season’s-best-matching 1:52. Theartofconfusion A
(Brent Holland) was a rallying third, with I’m Some Graduate (George Brennan)
and Mach it So settling for the minor moolah.
For third choice
Gokudo Hanover, a 6-year-old Cam’s Card Shark gelding co-owned (as Triple D
Stables) by (trainer) Scott DiDomenico, James Craparotta and Par Berry Racing,
it was his seventh win in 19 seasonal starts (sixth in last nine tries). The
exacta paid $94, the triple returned $418.50 and the superfecta paid $2,207.
For his part, Dube
selected the winner after being triple-listed on the early overnight sheet.
The Raceway offers
a Sunday (Nov. 18th) matinee, with a first post of High Noon.
