BY
FRANK DRUCKER, Publicity Director, Empire City @ Yonkers Raceway
YONKERS, NY,
Friday, November 15, 2019—With nary a distaff derby in sight Friday night (Nov.
15th), Yonkers Raceway offered $22,000 tri-features.
Using some
editorial discretion, we went with the trotters.
Odds-on favorite
Icanflylikeanangel (Jason Bartlett, $3.30) has no issues whatsoever. From post
position No. 5, he worked around Majestic Brayden (Joe Bongiorno), making the
lead before a :28.1 opening quarter-mile.
From, there, it
was a :58.2 intermission and 1:27 three-quarters, with pole-sitting Lord
Cromwell (Matt Kakaley) not getting close first-up from third.
Icanflylikeanangel owned a length-and-three-quarter lead into the lane, needing
only to hold off his immediate stalker.
He did, defeating
Majestic Brayden by a couple of lengths in 1:55.2. Third went to Lord Cromwell,
sharing the minors with Sumatra (George Brennan) and I’m the Muscle (Dan Dube).
For
Icanflylikeanangel, a 5-year-old Archangel gelding co-owned by Pollack Racing
& Randy Bendis and trained by Scott DiDomenico, it was his fifth win in 21
seasonal starts. The exacta paid $31, the triple returned $90 and the
superfecta paid $332.
