Favoured Krispy Apple (Jason Bartlett, $4.80) lasted on the lead Friday night, winning Yonkers Raceway’s $45,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
Away quickly from post position No. 5, Krispy Apple was strung out by Momas Got A Gun (Tyler Buter), then made the lead before a :27.2 opening quarter-mile.
From there, she finished it off (:56.4, 1:24.3, 1:52.4), getting the line a nose before ‘Moma’ and a head before a stretch-smokin’ Mach It A Par (Jordan Stratton).
Divas Image (Mark MacDonald) and a first-up Devil Child (Dan Dube) rounded out the payees.
For Krispy Apple, a eight-year-old, $1.7 million daughter of Western Ideal co-owned by Bamond Racing and Joseph Davino and trained by Jeffrey Bamond Jr., the win was her seventh in 20 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $24.80, with the triple returning $158.50.
A friendly reminder from Yonkers Raceway that Saturday evening’s (October 29) Pick 5 wager begins with a carryover of $2,744.27. The Pick 5 is a 50-cent base wager comprising races seven through 11 during every racing program. It has no consolation payoff, meaning if no one selects all five winners (as was the case Friday night), the entire pool (minus takeout) moves to the next program.
(With files from Yonkers Raceway)