Favourite Legal Litigator (Stephane Bouchard) was the Saturday night standout, four-wide early and solid late in winning Yonkers Raceway's $42,500 Open Handicap Pace
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Legal Litigator, leaving from post position No. 6, was joined by a trio of inside entities. He worked around Ghees House (Brent Holland) after a :27.3 opening quarter-mile. He then found a :56.4 intermission and 1:24.1 three-quarters, all the while hounded by a first-up Doubleshotascotch (Jim Pantaleano).
The leader owned a length-and-quarter advantage turning for home, but neither the body double nor the pocket-sitter would go away. Legal Litigator, undeterred, found the line by a nose in a blanket 1:52.3. Doubleshotascotch photoed Ghees House for second, with Pandoras Sox (Eric Goodell) and Forensic Z Tam (Pat Lachance) rounding out the payees.
For Legal Litigator, a homebred five-year-old Camluck gelding owned and bred by Bob Hamather and trained by Casie Coleman, he returned $4.30 for his fifth victory in 23 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $27, with the triple returning $75.
(Yonkers Raceway)