BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY,
Thursday, May 9, 2019—It was Scott Zeron Night at the Races Thursday (May 9th),
as the lad won 60 percent of Yonkers Raceway’s 10 events.
Zeron swept the
$8.40 early daily double with imported favorites Zach Maguire N ($4) in the
$10,000 pacing opener (1:54.4) and Whether or Not Fi ($3.80) in the $20,000,
second-race trot (life-best 1:56).
The consecutive
Zeron three-peat was finished when people’s preference Rock Icon ($4.40) won
the $10,000, third-race pace (1:54.2).
His fourth winner
came behind a sharp Vegas Rocks ($6.70) in the $17,500, sixth-race pace
(1:52.3), while No. 5 was a just-up Don’tforgetmaster ($3.60) in the $16,000,
seventh-race trot (1:58.1).
Zeron’s happy
half-dozen concluded in the $17,500 pacing finale, with an odds-on Zoe Ellasen
($3.50) holding sway (1:53.2).
Special Thursday props to the venerable veteran
Great Vintage (Austin Siegelman, $4.40), who scorched the $17,500, eighth-race
pace in a season’s-best 1:51. The 11-year-old son of American Ideal widened to
5¾ lengths
