Harvey, Rooney Fields Drawn
Post positions have been drawn for Saturday afternoon’s (Oct. 13) 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 p.m.) 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 1-1/4 mile distance.
Here is 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-DWs NY Yank (Yannick Gingras)
10-Homicide Hunter (Brian Sears)
The Rooney, going as the penultimate 11th race (post time 5 p.m.), 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)
The 40th International Trot is to be drawn Tuesday afternoon (Oct. 9) 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 a French-hubbed audience.
(Yonkers Raceway)