Krispy Apple (Jason Bartlett, $18.40) usually gets handicapped with an outside venue. So, what happened with a blind draw? She was ‘handicapped’ with an outside venue.
No matter as the millionairess took it the distance Friday night (August 5), winning Yonkers Raceway’s $45,000 Filly and Mare Open Pace.
In play from post position No. 7 (in one notch after a defection), she worked around Medusa (catch-driver George Brennan), then never had an anxious moment (:27.3, :56.2, 1:24, 1:51.3).
She easily handled a three-hole-sitting Regil Elektra (Mark MacDonald) by a half-length, with Medusa clearly third. The Kiwis, Sell A Bit N (Jordan Stratton) and Sheeza Shark N (Brent Holland), settled for the minors. Mach It A Par (Brian Sears), the 4-5 favourite, never was close to reaching and finished sixth.
For Krispy Apple, an eight-year-old daughter of Western Ideal co-owned by Bamond Racing and Joseph Davino and trained by Jeffrey Bamond Jr., the win was the fourth choice’s fifth in 12 seasonal starts (career 45-for-131). The exacta paid $113, the triple returned $545 and the superfecta paid $1,461.
Special Friday props to Anderlecht, the hard-knocking, 11-year-old gelding who finished second in his 250th career start. Going for a 50th win, he just about survived a first-up bid, missing a neck in the opener for bottom level ($12,500) claiming pacers.
(With files from Yonkers Raceway)