Pancetta, driven by Jordan Stratton, prevailed from third-over Saturday night, winning Yonkers Raceway's $44,000 Open Handicap Pace.

Sitting chilly early from post position No. 6, Pancetta saw Great Vintage (Larry Stalbaum) take over from pole-sitting Safe Harbor (Dan Dube). Great Vintage then put up intervals of :27.2, :56 and 1:24.

A first-up Shock It To Em (Eric Carlson) dueled the leader into submission early in the lane. At that point, it was a second-up Frankies Dragon (Eric Goodell) and a third-up Pancetta chiming in. The latter whipped the former by a half-length in a season's-best 1:52. Third went to a from-last, 17-10 choice P H Supercam (Jason Bartlett), with Shock It To Em and The Real One (Pat Lachance) rounding out the payees.

Second choice Pancetta, a five-year-old son of No Pan Intended trained by Jennifer Sabot for California co-owners Richard Morita and David Yamada, returned $7.10 for his fourth win in 16 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $95, with the triple returning $332.50.

(With files from Yonkers Raceway)