BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY, Saturday, September 7, 2019—Favorites
Eye ofa Tiger AS (Jason Bartlett, $3.90) and Theartofconfusion A (Austin
Siegelman, $4.60) both prevailed Saturday night (Sept. 7th), winning
Yonkers Raceway’s $46,000 co-featured Open Handicaps.
Eye ofa Tiger AS, assigned outside his
seven rivals in the week’s marquee trot, made the first lead. He then played
leapfrog with Dayson (George Brennan) by a :28.1 opening quarter-mile.
Eye ofa Tiger AS found a comfy :57.3 intermission and was moving toward a
1:26.1 three-quarters when Dayson jumped it off in the pocket, leaving the
course.
Eye ofa Tiger AS owned a length lead into
the lane before holding off a ground-saving There’sademoninme (Eric Goodell) by
three-quarters of a length in 1:55.1. New Heaven (Jim Marohn Jr.), Barry Black
(Troy Beyer) and Fashion Creditor (Siegelman) settled for the minors.
For Eye ofa Tiger
AS, a 5-year-old statebred Chapter Seven gelding co-owned by ACL Stuteri AB
& Kjell Johansson and trained by Anette Lorentzon, it was ninth win in 24
seasonal starts The exacta paid $17.40, the triple returned $57 and the
superfecta paid $347.50.
The weekly adult
pace saw Theartofconfusion A, just removed from his all-age track record,
dispose of five foes. From post position No. 4, he led through intervals of
:28.2, :56.4, 1:23.4 and 1:51. Pole-assigned Benhope Rulz N (Shaun Vallee)
completed a two-speed number at 47-1, with The Real One (Pat Lachance), San
Domino A (Bartlett) and I’m Some Graduate (Brennan) picking off the
remainder.
Micky Gee N
(Stratton) did not fire.
For
Theartofconfusion A, a 9-year-old Down Under Riverboat King gelding co-owned by
(trainer) Gilberto Garcia-Herrera and Barbara & Donald Arnstine, it was his
seventh win in 25 ’19 tries. The exacta paid $61, the triple returned $165 and
the superfecta paid $554.
