Yonkers: Stakes season gets underway Monday

Yonkers Raceway’s 2019 stakes season begins Monday night (March 4^th)—weather permitting—with the opening round of the Petticoat Pacing Series.

The series, for 3- and 4-year-old young ladies who are/were non-winners of four races and/or $40,000 through last Dec. 1^st, offers four, $20,000, first-round events.

That’s the same set-up for the gentlemen’s companion series, the Sagamore Hill, which gets underway Tuesday night (March 5^th).

Both the Petticoat and Sagamore Hill offer three prelim legs leading to $50,000-added finals March 25^th (girls) and 26^th (boys), respectively.

Eligibles have been announced for Yonkers’ premier older pacing soirees, the Blue Chip Matchmaker and George Morton Levy Memorial.

The Matchmaker attracted 43 of the sport’s preeminent mares, while the Levy numbered 55 male Free-For-Allers (links below). Those rich events begin their respective six-week runs Friday and Saturday evenings, March 15^th (Matchmaker) and 16^th (Levy).

https://www.empirecitycasino.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019-Bluechip-Matchmaker-Eligibles.pdf

https://www.empirecitycasino.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/2019-George-Morton-Levy-Eligibles.pdf

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