Defending champion Bit Of A Legend N leads 40 Free-For-All nominees into Yonkers Raceway’s 2017 edition of the George Morton Levy Memorial Pacing Series. The event again honours the Hall-of-Fame founder of Roosevelt Raceway.
The five weeks of preliminaries begin next Saturday, March, 18, with each race in each leg worth $50,000.
Bit Of A Legend N, an eight-year-old Down Under son of Bettors Delight, swept through the series a season ago. He won the $609,000 final (1:51, matching stakes record) a week after his scintillating, dead-heat with Wiggle It Jiggleit (world-record ‘heater’ of 1:51.2).
Peter Tritton trains and Jordan Stratton drives for owner Harry von Knoblauch.
Other notable eligibles (alphabetically) include All Bets Off, Bettors Edge, Caviart Luca, Mach It So, McWicked, Missile J, Provocativeprincen, Rockin Ron, Soto, Take it Back Terry, Vegas Vacation and Wakizashi Hanover.
The Levy’s companion event, the ladies-only Blue Chip Matchmaker, seduced 28 of the best distaffers in training.
Among the fast femmes (alphabetically) are Bedroomconfessions, Devil Child, Krispy Apple, Mach It A Par and Sell A Bit N. The ’17 edition was guaranteed a new leading lady after Yagonnakissmeornot, last season’s victress, has begun her second career as a broodmare.
That series, also with five prelim legs (at $40,000 per race), begins Friday night, March 17.
Finals (and consolations) for both the Levy and Matchmaker are set for Saturday, April 22 (purses TBA).
The complete lists of eligibles appear below.
George Morton Levy Memorial Pacing Series Eligibles
All Bets Off
Always At My Place
Americanprimetime
Anwar Hanover
Arque Hanover
Artistic Major
Bettors Edge
Bit Of A Legend N
Blood Brother
Burning N
Caviart Luca
Classic American N
Clear Vision
Cooperstown
Dr J Hanover
Dreamoutloud N
First Class Horse
Great Vintage
Guantanamo Bay
Jeneral Patton
Keystone Velocity
Long Live Rock
Mach It So
Matt American
McArdles Lightning
McWicked
Melmerby Beach
Missile J
Our Sky Major N
PH Supercam
Provocative Prince N
Rockin Ron
Santa Fe Beachboy
Somewhere In LA
Soto
Take It Back Terry
TE Kawau N
Texas Terror N
Vegas Vacation
Wakizashi Hanover
Blue Chip Matchmaker Eligibles
Al Raza N
American Girl
Bedroom Confessions
Betabcool N
Change the Rulz N
Delightful Dragon
Devil Child
Divas Image
Empress Deo
For the Ladies N
Givemeyourheart
Hidden Land
Krispy Apple
Lispatty
Lyons River Pride
Mach It A Par
MacKenzie A
Medusa
Nike Franco N
Purrfect Bags
Quick Draft A
Regil Elektra
Sail To The Beach
Sandbetweenurtoes
Sellabit N
Shes Just A Delight N
Tessa Seelster
Wrangler Magic
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