BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Friday,
March 1, 2019—Lispatty (Mark MacDonald, $7.10) won the three-way scrum
for the early lead, then took it from there Friday night (March 1st),
winning Yonkers Raceway’s $44,000 Filly and Mare Open Pace.
From post position
No. 2, Lispatty worked around polester Kaitlyn N (Matt Kakaley), while Ideal
Lifestyle A (George Brennan) was forced to accept a three-hole.
Lispatty laid down
the law through early intervals of :27.4 and a flat 57 seconds before a
looking-around Ideal Lifestyle A was out and moving again. It was just a
28-second third quarter (1:25), which played to the advantage of Lispatty as
she took a length-and-a-half lead into the lane.
Ideal Lifestyle A
fought the good fight, but Lipatty held sway, the margin a neck in a
season’s-best 1:53.4. Third went to Kaitlyn N, with a closing Betterb Chevron
N (Jordan Stratton) and Shezza GNP N (Austin Siegelman) rounding out the
payees.
As for 3-4 choice
Don’t Think Twice A (Jason Bartlett), she wound up a wide-to-nowhere sixth.
For
third choice Lispatty, a 6-year-old daughter of McArdle owned by Gilberto
Garcia-Owen and trained by Gilberto Garcia-Herrera, it was her second win in as
many seasonal starts. The exacta paid $55, the triple returned $233 and the
superfecta paid $936.
Friday’s night
Pick 5 wager, which began with a carryover in excess of $5,100, easily vaulted
over the $15,000 guarantee. Some $23,442 of fresh lettuce led to a an
after-takeout pool of approximately pool of $22,752. Those with the winning
combination of 5/2/2/4/5 received fresh lettuce worth $217.50 for each correct
50-cent wager.
