BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Friday, August 23,
2019—Feelin’ Red Hot (George Brennan, $5.80) successfully authored another
installment of ‘Catch Me If You Can’ Friday night (Aug. 23rd),
winning Yonkers Raceway’s $46,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
Wasting no time from post position No. 5,
Feelin’ Red Hot worked around Wisdom Tree (Dexter Dunn) before a :27.3
opening quarter-mile. Out in :57.2 and home in :54.2 (1:24.4, 1:51.4) figured
to make it difficult for the pursuers, and it did.
Wisdom Tree and Alexa’s Power (Jim Marohn Jr.) wound up inseparable for second,
behind three-quarters of a length.
A belated 6-5 favorite Betterb Chevron N
(Jordan Stratton) and Miss You N (Brent Holland) rounded out the payees, while
Mach it a Par (Eric Goodell) received lovely parting gifts.
For second choice
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 11th
win in 26 seasonal starts (career 30-for-101, now up over a half-million
dollars). The exactas paid $8.30 and $9.50, the triples returned $31.60 and
$33.60 and the superfectas paid $72.50 and $68.50 (payoffs listed with Wisdom
Tree second, then with Alexa’s Power second).
For his part,
Brennan won half of the evening’s dozen races.
Friday night’s
Pick 5, which began with a $8,800-plus carryover and $20,000 guaranteed pool,
attracted $33,582 of new coin into the gimmick. It was a 3/6/5/4/4 winning
combination returning $206.50 for each correct half-a-buck wager.
The Raceway opens
for simulcasting Saturday (Aug. 24th) at 11 AM in advance of
Saratoga Race Course’s first post of 11:35 AM. Post time for the $1.25 million
Travers Stakes (11th race) is listed at 5:44 PM.
