BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Sunday, December 2,
2018—Yonkers Raceway’s Sunday (Dec. 2nd) matinee saw a down-the-road
Mostinterestingman (Austin Siegelman, $11) winning the featured—and
‘sloppy’--$44,000 Open Handicap Trot
The Sunday feature went at the flat mile,
one race after the seven added-distance ‘French’ trots.
The intervals were :27.3, :57.3, 1:26.3,
1:55.4 as Mostinterestingman—from post position No. 4--never had an anxious
moment. Jack Vernon (Dan Dube) rushed up around a breaking 8-5 favorite
Celebrity Ruth (Trond Smedshammer) to grab the early pocket around another
misbehaver in Crazy About Pat (Jordan Stratton).
New Heaven (Joe Bongiorno) did not get
close moving first-up from fourth as Mostinterestingman had 2¼ lengths in and
out of the final turn. He finished it off by three lengths, with Jack Vernon
coming back to get second. New Heaven, Royal Bachelor (Eric Abbatiello) and
Andy Ray (Jason Bartlett) picked off the minors.
For third
choice Mostinterestingman, a 5-year-old Manofmanymissions gelding co-owned by
(trainer) Ricky Bucci and Richard Solano, it was his eighth win in 38 seasonal
starts. The exacta paid $74.50, the triple returned $860 and the superfecta
paid $5,358.
Aqueduct was
‘fogged out’ Sunday, and with it this week’s scheduled revival of the ‘New
York, New York Double’.
The next
Sunday matinee is Dec. 16th (final program of season, post time
TBA).
