BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY,
Saturday, April 27, 2019—Major Crocker A (Dan Dube, $8.80) and favored
Eye ofa Tiger AS (Jason Bartlett, $4.60) proved best Saturday night (Apr. 27th),
winning Yonkers Raceway’s co-featured $44,000 Open Handicaps.
Major Crocker A,
from post position No. 4, was handy from first-up in the weekly adult pace. He
engaged Caviart Luca (Geortge Brennan) after that one’s seemingly-cheap early
intervals of :27.3 and :57.1.
Regardless, Major Crocker A disposed of that one by the
1:24.3 three-quarters. He opened a length-and-three-quarter lead on and out of
the final turn, then prevailed by that exact same margin in a life-best 1:52.3.
Micky Gee N (Jordan Stratton), as the 13-10 favorite, badly
gapped the winner down the backside before belated getting into second. Third
went to Caviart Luca, with Mac’s Jackpot (Brent Holland) and Our Max Phactor N
(Bartlett) picking off the remainder.
For third choice
Major Crocker A, a 9-year-old Down Under Art Major gelding co-owned (as Allard
Racing) by (trainer) Rene Allard, Stephen Klunowski and Kapildeo Singh, it was
his second win in nine seasonal starts. The exacta paid $21.20, the triple
returned $55 and the superfecta paid $165.
The week’s marquee
worked well for Eye ofa Tiger AS who—from post No. 4—was the only leaver and
has breaker-incited confusion behind him.
He went the
distance (:28.4, :58.4, 1:26.3,
season’s-best 1:55.3), holding off the bid of Will Take Charge (Austin
Siegelman) by three-quarters of a length. New Heaven (Holland), Melady’s Monet
(Stratton) and In Secret (Brennan) settled for the minor moolah.
For Eye ofa Tiger
AS, a 5-year-old Chapter Seven gelding co-owned by ACL Stuteri AB & Kjell
Johansson and trained by Anette Lorentzon, it was his fourth win in 11 ’19
tries. The exacta paid $35.60, the triple returned $98 and the superfecta
paid $295.50.
