After the Northeast’s initial snowstorm of the season left a lovely 20½ inches in beautiful, downtown Yonkers over the weekend, Yonkers Raceway was back it Monday night.

Saturday’s first-of-the-season cancellation turned out to be a one-hit wonder, as track superintendent Ed Ryan and his posse worked tirelessly Sunday into Monday to get the field in game shape. Monday night’s dozen-race program -- with guest announcer Peter Kleinhans doing for the honours for an under-the-weather John Hernan -- went off without a hitch.

Favoured Silouette (Dan Dube, $4.20) enjoyed the track crew’s work enough to turn in a life-best 1:55.2 effort in the $15,000, third-race pace.

The Raceway’s season continues Tuesday afternoon (first post 1:00 p.m.), then Thursday, Friday and Saturday (7:10 p.m. each evening).

(with files from Yonkers)