The track photographer at Yonkers Raceway just kept taking Jason Bartlett's picture Thursday night, as the young reinsman racked up seven trips to victory lane over the course of the 12-race program
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Bartlett, running up the score in the local driving standings, smiled for the camera after races 2,3,5,6,9,11 and 12. He was scheduled to drive in every race, but one of his escorts came up ill.
Bartlett won the $12,000, second-race trot with the local debut of Moon City Special ($3.60) in 1:59.4, then doubled his pleasure in the $8,000, third-race pace with See You Around ($14.60) in 1:58.3. It was another double-figure performance with Highview Fella N ($21.80) in the $8,000, fifth-race pace before odds-on I Know Magic ($3.30) prevailed in the $18,000, sixth-race trot (1:59.4).
Pantomimist ($17.80) was a first-up winner (1:58.1) winner in the $12,000, ninth-race pace. Bartlett then swept the $90 late daily double with Little Moon Lake ($19.40) in the $16,000, 11th-race trot (2:00) and Moonlite Delite ($7.30) in the $16,000, 12th-race pace.
Bartlett's 649 wins currently ranks second in North America this season, with his Yonkers road work accounting for 516 of those victories.
(Yonkers Raceway)