Yonkers: Six Pack dominates open handicap trot in half-mile track return

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), then made even shorter work of the teletimer. Never threatened at any point, he widened at every (28, 57 2/5, 1:25, and 1:53 1/5) point.

The result was…

a-matching the all-age trot track record, set by Svanstedt’s filly Plunge Blue Chip last September,

b-a 6 1/4 length win over Lord Cromwell (Austin Siegelman),

c-a fifth consecutive win here at Yonkers,

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 earning state-sired son of Muscle Mass co-owned by his driver/trainer, Little E LLC., Knutsson Trotting, Stall Kalmar, 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.”

--press release (Yonkers)--