Let's dust off the handy abacus and do some fast math. Last June 9, George Brennan won both halves of Yonkers Raceway's early daily double, the back portion serving as career win No. 6,000. Three-quarters of the way through the Tuesday night card, Brennan upped his

lifetime total to an even 7,000.

So, in the span of a bit more than 16 months - 496 days to be precise - Yonkers Raceway's (and North America's) leading dash-win driver racked up another thousand winner's circle meet-and-greets.

Brennan won Tuesday night's $10,000 pacing opener, going up, over and away with favored Midnight Gambol ($4.80) in 2:01.2 for the mile-and-one-sixteenth. After sitting out the second race, Brennan was snapped on the money in the third and was a pocket second in the fourth.

He then was a non-factor longshot in the fifth race, a tiring leader in the sixth and beaten by a pacing-lane pacer in the seventh. An uncovered second in the eighth race was a prelude to paydirt. Brennan went first-up with odds-on Classic Camelot ($3.50), striding out by four lengths in the $16,000, ninth-race pace in 2:01.2. The three-year-old Camelot Hall gelding won the third race in his last four starts.

"(The latest milestone) came up very fast," Brennan said. "I've been very fortunate to stay healthy the past couple of years, and to drive some very good horses for some very good people.

"The one thing is that I really haven't been able to do is sit back and enjoy it, because I'm always driving somewhere."

Or driving to somewhere.

"Even after I won both the Hambletonian and Hambletonian Oaks, as soon as my day (at the Meadowlands) was over, I had to make it for Yonkers' daily double...and I was stuck in traffic. I'm going to take some time off with my family in December, look back and appreciate the whole season."

Brennan heads out of town this Friday and Saturday, plying his craft at Woodbine and eliminations for the Breeders Crown.

To the surprise of no one, the 44-year-old Brennan is in the midst of a career season, both in wins (632, through his latest milestone, with 584 of those here) and purses (more than $12.6 million, second to Tim Tetrick). Brennan has earned more than $115 million in purses in a career that began at Monticello Raceway--his hometown track--in 1984.

"Rob Ron Romper," he said, recalling the name of his first winner. "I was a junior in high school, and I remember it like it happened yesterday."

(Yonkers Raceway)