Delayed a couple of nights due to weather, Yonkers Raceway debuted its mile-and-one-sixteenth overnight racing Thursday evening

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The new distance, which was to begin February 1, encompasses all overnight races. Series and stakes races remain at the traditional flat-mile distance.

Let the record show that the off-the-pace Nancy Irene (Jim Pantaleano, $17.40) won the first added-distance event in 2:05.2. These are the first non-mile races at the Raceway since it re-opened in October, 2006. Previously, Yonkers had contested 1-1/16 mile events, either on selected days or weeks during a given month

(Yonkers Raceway)