Yonkers Raceway's premier event for the Free-For-Allers, the George Morton Levy Memorial Pacing Series, gets underway Saturday night with six divisions
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Post time for the 13-race card is 7:10 p.m., with the Levy - honouring the Hall of Fame founder of Roosevelt Raceway - going as races 7 through 12.
As is custom, each race in each of the five preliminary legs is worth $50,000. All told, 46 of the 59 eligibles are in to go.
Two-time defending series champ - and double-millionaire - Foiled Again drew the pylons in the second Levy division. Yannick Gingras drives the seven-year-old Dragon Again gelding for co-owner (as Burke Racing Stable LLC)/trainer Ron Burke, Weaver Bruscemi LLC and JJK Stables LLC. Burke will send out eight starters in the six races.
Southwind Lynx, winner of Yonkers' richest race ever - the $1 million Art Rooney Pace in 2007 - landed post five in the third grouping. Trainer George Teague co-owns (as Teague Inc) the seven-year-old son of Real Artist along with K And R Racing LLC.
Saturday's card also includes another six-pack, this one comprising the second round of the Sagamore Hill Pacing Series for three and four-year-old colts and geldings. Those go as the first six races on the program.
Once again, the purses for the final of Yonkers' four current series are $495,000 (Levy, April 30), $301,000 (Blue Chip Matchmaker, April 30), $67,200 (Sagamore Hill, April 9) and $66,000 (Petticoat, April 8).
(Yonkers Raceway)