Pocketed Rockn Ruby N picked off pace-setting favourite Regil Elektra (Jason Bartlett) Friday night, winning Yonkers Raceway’s $32,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
In play from her assigned post position six, Rockn Ruby N and driver Dan Dube worked around Dune In Red (Mark MacDonald) before yielding to Regil Elektra (Jason Bartlett).
The 13-10 choice made the lead right at the :27.4 opening quarter-mile, then found a :57.1 intermission. Jungle Genie N (Brian Sears) moved from fourth, offering a timid bid in and out of the 1:26 three-quarters. Regil Elektra owned a length-and-a-half lead off the final turn, but Rockn Ruby N was waiting. She ducked inside and won a protracted lane battle, prevailing by a neck in 1:54.1 Jungle Genie N salvaged the bottom of the ticket, with Jaded Dream (Matt Kakaley) and a season-debuting Sell a Bit N (Jordan Stratton) rounding out the payees.
For fifth choice Rockn Ruby N, a six-year-old Down Under daughter of Mach Three owned by J L Sadowsky LLC and trained by Robert Bresnahan, it was her first win n five seasonal starts.. She paid $21.60 to win.
(Yonkers Raceway)