BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Friday, July 19, 2019—Favored
Feelin’ Red Hot (George Brennan $5.80) gave nothing else a shot Friday night
(July 19th), easily winning Yonkers Raceway’s $46,000 Filly and Mare
Open Handicap Pace.
As she did a week ago, Feelin’ Red Hot went up and over her inside foes. In
this case, that was all six of ‘em, as assigned eight-holer Betterb Chevron N
came up ill.
Feelin’ Red Hot worked around
Twinkle (Brent Holland), rating things much more realistically (:27.2, :56.1,
1:23.1) than last week before taking off. She opened three lengths at the
three-quarters and five lengths of the final turn before whipping Twinkle by a
half-dozen in a season’s-best 1:51.3.
Third went to Annabeth (Mark MacDonald),
with Mach it a Par (Jason Bartlett) and Lispatty (Joe Bongiorno) settling for
the minors.
For Feelin’ Red
Hot, a 6-year-old daughter of Feelin’ Friskie co-owned (as Burke Racing) by
(trainer) Ron Burke and Weaver Bruscemi, it was her eighth win in 22 seasonal
starts. The exacta paid $40, the triple returned $372 and the superfecta paid
$1,631.
Deferring to the forecast of excessive
heat throughout the area, the Raceway has pushed back its first post for
Saturday night (July 20th) to 7:50 PM…one hour later than usual.
