Yonkers: Love A Good Story, Hypnotic AM maintain unblemished records

Yonkers Raceway Thursday evening (Aug. 22nd) hosted the $154,600 New York Sire Stakes Pat Quaglietta Trot for 2-year-old fillies. A pair $77,300 beneath-the-raindrops races comprised the event, which resulted in a perfect pair of winners.

Love A Good Story (Andy Miller, $2.40) went the distance (29 2/5, 58 3/5, 1:28, and 1:57 2/5) in a gapped-out opening division, her sixth win in as many seasonal/sire stakes starts and matching her previous local effort. From post position three, the final margin was 3 1/4 lengths. Without A Warning (Jason Bartlett) was the bridesmaid at every section, with Miss Jubilation (Ake Svanstedt), Flotus (John Stark Jr.), and C Me Hyde (Phil Fluet) completing the order after a pair of defections.

Love A Good Story is a daughter of Chapter Seven co-owned by Pinske Stables, Kentuckiana Racing Stable, and Daniel Plouffe and trained by Julie Miller. The exacta paid $7, with neither triple nor superfecta wagering offered.

”It was just business as usual,” driver Miller said.

There was a lengthy weather (heavy rain/lightning) delay prior to the second group, which only forestalled the obvious. The precipitation just about stopped as track record-holder Hypnotic AM (Brian Sears, $2.40) started

Away third from post two, the lass took over from Really Blue Chip (George Brennan) right by the 28 4/5 opening quarter-mile before taking off…period. She widened by the 58 2/5 intermission, then finished off the foray (1:27 4/5 and 1:56 3/5) by 3 1/2 lengths. Seventimesalady (Svanstedt) was second, with No Mas Drama (Joe Bongiorno), and I’lldoitmyself (Bartlett) rounding out the gimmick finishers.

“She feels as good as she looks,” Sears said.

For Hypnotic AM, a homebred Chapter Seven miss trained by Marcus Melander for owner Courant Inc., she’s now five-for-five (three NYSS, elim and final of Jim Doherty Memorial) to begin her career, never once going off at odds higher than 1-2. The exacta (two wagering choices) paid $3.80, the triple returned $50 and the superfecta paid $157.50.

--press release (Yonkers)--