BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Saturday, August 10,
2019—Funny thing about Six Pack (Ake Svanstedt, $2.70).
Whenever he’s invaded Yonkers Raceway, the
end result is not a fair fight. Such was the case again Saturday night (Aug. 10th),
when Six Pack drilled seven outclassed foes in the co-featured $46,000 Open
Handicap Trot.
Making short work an assigned eight-hole,
Six Pack left around Eye ofa Tiger AS (Jason Bartlett), t hen made even shorter
work of the teletimer. Never threatened at any point, he widened at every (:28, 57.2, 1:25, 1:53.1) point.
The result was…
a-matching the all-age trot track record,
set by Svanstedt’s filly Plunge Blue Chip last September, and
b-a 6¼-length win over Lord Cromwell
(Austin Siegelman), and
c-a fifth consecutive win here, and
d-the fastest local trot mile of the
season, and
e-a new track record for his weight class.
For the record, New Heaven (Jim Marohn
Jr.) was third, with Eye ofa Tiger AS and Such an Angel (Eric Goodell) settling
for the small change.
Six Pack, a
4-year-old $1.5 million statebred son of Muscle Mass co-owned by his
driver/trainer, Little E LLC, Knuttson Trotting. Stall Kalmer and Lars Berg, it
was his second win in seven seasonal starts (career 17-for-30). The exacta paid
$28.80, the triple returned $173 and the superfecta paid $1,122.
Not lost on
Svanstedt was throwing down a gauntlet in the hopes of getting an invitation to
October’s million-dollar International Trot.
“We wanted to see
him back on a short track and he handled it well,” Svanstedt said. “He’s not
been lucky in a many of his races this season. That’s the biggest difference in
him as a 4-year-old.
“The owners wanted
to enter him (tonight). We’re hoping he’s asked to race in the International.”
The weekly $46,000
adult-table pace was won by a down-the-road Scott Rocks (Goodell, $4.80) in
1:51.3. The 9-year-old Rocknroll Hanover gelding went up and over $995,000 in
career earnings after a 57th lifetime win.
For his part,
Goodell won four of the night’s last seven races.
