Odds-on favourite P H Supercam (Jason Bartlett, $2.60) fooled very few Saturday night, winning Yonkers Raceway's $44,000 Open Handicap Pace.
Pocketed from a very generous post position No. 3, he sat patiently behind Aracache Hanover (George Brennan). 'Aracache' found sub-stations of :27, :55.2 and 1:23.1, taking a length and a half lead into the lane. P H Supercam, all dressed up this week after a pair of belated eight-holes efforts, zipped inside and zipped by. The final margin was three-quarters of a length in 1:51.1, matching his season's and life-best mark. Last week's winner, Pancetta (Jordan Stratton), flew home to snatch second, with Aracache Hanover, Sir Ziggys Z Tam (Pat Lachance) and Casimir Jitterbug (Larry Stalbaum) rounding out of the payees.
For George Morton Levy Series winner P H Supercam, a seven-year-old Million Dollar Cam gelding owned by Bamond Racing and trained by PJ Fraley, the win was his fifth in 19 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $26.60, with the triple returning $108.
Special Saturday props to Keystone Velocity (Stratton, $2.80), whose 1:50.4, nine and a quarter-length flogging of the field in the $20,000, fourth race pace was the fastest local mile of the season. It also matched the venerable former all-track record holder Silver Almahurst's 1993 (final of Levy) standard for an aged pacing horse.
(Yonkers Raceway)