BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY,
Friday, April 26, 2019—Tequila Friday?
Odds-on favorite
Tequila Monday (Matt Kakaley, $3.70) returned to the adult table and made it
look facile Friday night (Apr. 26th), easily winning Yonkers
Raceway’s soggy $44,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
Eschewing an early
three-hole from post position No. 6, Tequila Monday went around Alexa’s Power
(Jason Bartlett) before a moist :27.1 opening-quarter. From there, it turned
into equal halves (:56.1, 1:24.2, 1:52.2), with the eventual winner
taking mild grief from last week’s victress, Made of Jewel AS (Jordan
Stratton).
Tequila Monday
owned a length-and-a-half lead into the lane, and ‘Alexa’ couldn’t do anything
about that. The final margin was two lengths, with Lispatty (Mark MacDonald)
grabbing the bottom of the ticket. Made of Jewels AS and Dongal Rundlscrk N
(Brent Holland) settled for the remainder.
For Tequila
Monday, a 5-year-old daughter of American Ideal co-owned by Northfork Racing
& Chuck Pompey and trained by Hunter Oakes, it was her fourth win in as
many seasonal starts (all at odds-on). The exacta paid $11.20, the triple
returned $61 and the superfecta paid $172.
