BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Friday, August 30, 2019—A
shocking rerun, as Feelin’ Red Hot (George Brennan, $8.20) successfully
authored another down-the-road tome Friday night (Aug. 30th),
winning Yonkers Raceway’s $46,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
Assigned outside her seven foes, Feelin’
Red Hot pole-vaulted over all of ‘em, working round 3-5 favorite Alexa’s Power
Jason Bartlett) before a 27-second opening quarter-mile.
After a :55.4 intermission, Dibaba N (Eric
Goodell) tried it meekly first-up from fifth. Meanwhile, Feelin’ Red Hot rolled
in and out of a 1:23.1 three-quarters.
Taking a length-and-a-half lead into
the lane, she held off Alexa’s Power, winning by a length-and-a-quarter in a
season’s-best 1:50.4.
D G’s Elsa (Joe Bongiorno) was a
best-of-the-rest three-hole third, with Dibaba N and Safe from Terror (Jim
Marohn Jr.) settling for the remainder.
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 12th
win in 27 seasonal starts The exacta paid $16.40, the triple returned $71.50
and the superfecta paid $289.50.
Saturday night
(Aug. 31st) is one of the Raceway’s marquee programs of the season,
featuring the 64th Yonkers Trot and 65th Messenger
Stakes, both Triple Crown events and both worth $500,000. Companion events—the
Hudson Filly Trot and Lady Maud—each go for more than $120,000.
Post time for the
dozen-race card is the usual 6:50 PM, with the featured going as races 4
through 7.
The Raceway opens
for simulcasting Saturday at 11:30 AM in advance of Gulfstream Park’s early
post time of 12:15 PM. Note that Saratoga Race Course’s final weekend has a
first post of 12:30 PM through Labor Day (Monday, Sept. 2nd).
