Yonkers Raceway Thursday evening hosted the $154,600 New York Sire Stakes Pat Quaglietta Trot for two-year-old fillies.
A pair $77,300 beneath-the-raindrops races comprised the event, which resulted in a perfect pair of winners
Love A Good Story (Andy Miller, $2.40) went the distance (:29.2, :58.3, 1:28, 1:57.2) in a gapped-out opening division, her sixth win in as many seasonal/sire stakes starts and matching her previous local effort.
From post position No. 3, the final margin was 3-1/4 lengths.
Without A Warning (Jason Bartlett) was the bridesmaid at every section, with Miss Jubilation (Ake Svanstedt), Flotus (John Stark Jr.) and C Me Hyde (Phil Fluet) completing the order after a pair of defections.
Love A Good Story is a daughter of Chapter Seven co-owned by Pinske Stables, Kentuckiana Racing Stable & Daniel Plouffe and trained by Julie Miller.
”It was just business as usual,” driver Miller said.
There was a lengthy weather (heavy rain/lightning) delay prior to the second group, which only forestalled the obvious.
The precipitation just about stopped as track record-holder Hypnotic AM (Brian Sears, $2.40) started
Away third from post No. 2, the lass took over from Really Blue Chip (George Brennan) right by the :28.4 opening quarter-mile before taking off…period.
She widened by the :58.2 intermission, then finished off the foray (1:27.4, 1:56.3) by 3-1/2 lengths.
Seventimesalady (Svanstedt) was second, with No Mas Drama (Joe Bongiorno) and Illdoitmyself (Bartlett) rounding out the gimmick finishers.
For Hypnotic AM, a homebred Chapter Seven ma’am trained by Marcus Melander for owner Courant Inc, she’s now 5-for-5 (three NYSS, elim and final of Jim Doherty Memorial) to begin her career, never once going off at odds higher than 1-2.
“She feels as good as she looks,” Sears said.
New York Sire Stakes returns downstate Thursday night (Aug. 29th), with the Bruce Hamilton Pace for three-year-old colts/geldings.
(Yonkers)