Favoured Dont Think Twice A (Jason Bartlett, $3.70) picked up where her Aussie countrywoman left off Friday night (November 16), winning Yonkers Raceway’s $44,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
Two-moving — from post position No. 5 — to the lead by a :27.1 opening quarter-mile, Dont Think Twice A took over from Call Me Queen Be (Joe Bongiorno). The people’s preference then rated a :56.3 intermission before pole-sitting Delaware interloper Apple Bottom Jeans (Jim Marohn Jr.) moved from third.
That lass offered only mild intrusion in and out of a 1:24.2 three-quarters as Dont Think Twice A widened to 2-1/4 lengths off the final turn. She finished it off, whipped a second-over Lispatty (Matt Kakaley) by a couple of lengths in a life-best 1:53.
Call Me Queen Be, Apple Bottom Jeans and Lakeisha Hall (George Brennan) rounded out the payees.
Rockstar Angel A, who had won the last four editions of this race, was sixth here from an assigned eight-hole.
For Dont Think Twice A, a five-year-old Down Under daughter of Armbro Operative owned by trainer Andrew Harris and Arrhythmic LLC, the win was her fifth in 15 seasonal starts (two-for-four stateside). The exacta paid $19.60, the triple returned $127 and superfecta paid $399.
“I can’t wait to drive her in the Blue Chip (Matchmaker) Series,” Bartlett said, looking about four months down the road.
(With files from Yonkers Raceway)