The phrases ‘Jason Bartlett’ and ’80-1’ aren’t usually uttered together, but those folks who successfully connected the dots were handsomely rewarded Monday evening.
Yonkers Raceway’s leading driver and Hearts Wild blew up the tote board (figuratively, since it didn’t actually go anywhere), rallying from sixth entering the lane for a $163 upset in the $14,000, second-race pace.
From post position four, she defeated Mother Of Art (George Brennan) by a nose, with 60-1 Lilmisstalksalot (Dan Dube) third.
Hearts Wild, a three-year-old daughter of Western Ideal co-owned by William and Barbara Ethier and trained by Scott Blackler, had make an early break in last week’s local debut. Her second win in a dozen seasonal/career starts matched her previous life-best effort.
She led a $514 exacta and $2,845 triple, enhanced when 1-5 favourite Soulmate Hanover (Scott Zeron) caved and wound up sixth.
(Yonkers Raceway)