A pocketed Kaitlyn N picked off Write Me a Song nearing the wire Friday night, winning Yonkers Raceway’s $42,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
In play from assigned post position No. 4, Kaitlyn N and driver Jason Bartlett stung Write Me a Song (George Brennan), releasing that one before a chilly, :26-second opening quarter-mile. Odds-on pole-sitter Lady Dela Renta A (Matt Kakaley) was cutting her own mile in third.
It was after a :55.1 intermission and 1:23.1 three-quarters when Kaitlyn N edged from the pocket, Lady Dela Renta A in behind.
Write Me a Song had a diminishing three-quarter-length lead off the final turn, with Kaitlyn N closing. The former whipped the latter by a length in 1:53.3. Third went to Sudden Change N (Austin Siegelman), ahead of an empty, 4-5 fave Lady Dela Renta A. Robyn Camden (Jim Marohn, Jr.) was fifth, while returning Wisdom Tree (Jordan Stratton) trailed.
For Kaitlyn N, a six-year-old Down Under daughter of American Ideal co-owned by (trainer) Richard Banca, Barbara & James Boese, it was the third choice’s fifth win in 21 seasonal starts. She paid $10.60 to win.
(Yonkers)