Yonkers: Posts drawn for Saturday Invitationals
Post positions have been drawn for Saturday afternoon’s (Oct. 13th) pair of Yonkers Raceway $250,000 Invitationals, the Harry Harvey Trot and Dan Rooney Pace.
The Harry Harvey goes as the seventh race (post time 3:10 PM), immediately before the $1 million Yonkers International Trot at Empire City Casino. Both are 10-horse fields (eight on the gate, two in the second tier) carded at the mile-and-a-quarter distance.
Here’s the field for the Harvey..1-Warrawee Roo (Dan Dube), 2-Top Flight Angel (Andy Miller), 3-Guardian Angel AS (Matt Kakaley), 4-In Secret (George Brennan), 5-Yes Mickey (Jason Bartlett), 6-Gruden (Tim Tetrick), 7- NF Happenstance (Jack Parker Jr.), 8-Sortie (Trond Smedshammer), 9-DW’s NY Yank (Yannick Gingras), 10-Homidice Hunter (Brian Sears).
The Rooney, going the penultimate 11th race (post time 5 PM), drew out as such..1-Nuclear Dragon (Tetrick), 2-McWicked (Sears), 3-Endeavor (Tetrick also listed), 4-Bit of a Legend N (Jordan Stratton), 5-Evenin’ of Pleasure (Joe Bongiorno), 6-Lazarus N (Gingras), 7-Mach it So (Bartlett), 8-Always at My Place (Brennan).
Saturday’s race schedule:
Race 1 – 1 PM
Race 2 – 1:20 PM
Race 3 – 1:40 PM
Race 4 – 2 PM
Race 5 – 2:20 PM
Race 6 - 2:40 PM
Race 7 – 3:10 PM $250,000 Harry Harvey Invitational Trot (1¼ miles)
Race 8 – 3:40 PM $1 million Yonkers International Trot @ Empire City Casino (1¼ miles)
Race 9 – 4:10 PM Open Trot (1¼ miles)
Race 10 – 4:40 PM Trot (1¼ miles)
Race 11 – 5 PM $250,000 Dan Rooney Invitational Pace
Race 12 – 5:20 PM
The 40th International Trot is to be drawn Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 9th) at a midtown luncheon. A reminder that races 7 and 8 are part of a special all-stakes Pick 4 with Belmont Park (Pebbles and Floral Park). Races 7 through 10 are simulcast to the French-hubbed audience.
-edited release (Frank Drucker for Yonkers)