BY FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers
Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Friday, June 14, 2019—Yonkers
Raceway’s Friday evening (June 14th) Pick 5, buoyed by a carryover
of $9,416.12 and a $25,000 guaranteed pool, found some eyeballs.
Some $34,367 of fresh money poured in,
easily leapfrogging the minimum and leading to a total pool of $35,191…after
takeout and give or take a few pennies.
The combination of 5/2,9/4/8/1 returned
$1,050.25 for each correct half-a-buck ticket (in second leg, No. 2 was winning
favorite while No. 9 was scratched, with ticket defaulting to favorite).
The Pick 5 is a 50-cent base wager
comprising eithers races 6 through 10 or 7 through 11, depending upon number of
race drawn. It has no consolation payoff, meaning if no one selects all five
winners (as was the case Thursday night), the entire pool (minus takeout) moves
to the next racing program.
There’s a built-in $10,000 Pick 5
guarantee every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evening.
Friday night’s $44,000 Filly and Mare Open
Handicap Pace, which was not part of the Pick 5 sequence, turned into a Tour de
Twinkle.
Fourth choice Twinkle (Brent
Holland, $14) gave nothing else a shot. Winning the 3-thru-8
post-position draw after about a month of R&R, she blitzed ‘em (:27.1,
:56.3, 1:25, 1:53.1) for a first win in nine seasonal starts. Even-money
favorite Alexa’s Power (Jason Bartlett) chased from a loose pocket and saved
second—beaten a length-and-three-quarters—with a first-up Rockstar Angel A
(Eric Goodell) third.
Gold Orchid N (Austin Siegelman) and
Lispatty (Mark MacDonald) picked off the minors.
Twinkle, a 6-year-old daughter of Bettor’s
Delight trained by Ross Croghan for co-owners Let it Ride Stables and Dana
Parham, led exotics of $33 (exacta), $169.50 (triple) and $543 (superfecta),
respectively.
