Friday was Girls Night Out, with Yonkers Raceway hosting the $214,224 New York Sire Stakes Rye Pace for three-year-olds fillies
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Four divisions went postward, with formful femmes displayed in just about every event.
Indulge Me, the best this class has to offer, fooled positively no one in the first $53,056 NYSS group. With Mike Lachance acting as chaperone, Indulge Me marched right to the lead from post position No. 4.
Sent off at 15-cents-on-the-dollar, the pair waltzed through fractions of :28.3, :59 and 1:28, taking a length-and-a-half lead into the lane. Indulge Me defeated pocket-sitting Up Front Kellie Jo (Jordan Stratton) by two, never-in-doubt lengths in 1:55.2. Allstar Salute (Billy Dobson) was third.
The victress, a homebred daughter of Bettors Delight co-owned by Robert and Lauren Tucker and trained by Ed Lohmeyer, she paid $2.30 for her fifth win--all against Empire foes--in eight seasonal starts. The exacta paid $4.50, with the triple returning $19.
Friday night's second $53,056 Rye event saw 1-2 choice All Spirit (Jim Marohn Jr.) go up and over the soft fractions of Eagle Way (Jason Bartlett).
The latter, last season's statebred frosh champ, left around her quintet of inside rivals and rated seemingly tepid enough sub-divisions of :28.4 and :59 seconds. She picked up the pace to the tune of a :28.4 third quarter as All Spirit moved from third. Eagle Way had a length-and-a-quarter lead turning for home, but All Spirit was all business. She went right by, widening to a length-and-a-half at the line in 1:54.4. Maries Z Tam (Pat Lachance) was third.
For All Spirit, a Bettors Delight miss trained by Tim Lanpher for owner Larry Lanpher, she returned $3.30 for her fifth win in 11 '09 tries. The exacta paid $6, with the triple returning $25.60.
The evening's other two NYSS events, worth $54,056 each, were won by:
Friday night's pair of $50,000 Open Handicaps were won by Stonebridge Diablo (Trot) and K G Delight (Filly & Mare Pace).
"Diablo" ($7.60) took it the house for Bouchard in a season's-best 1:56.4, while favoured K G Delight (Bartlett, $4.70) won a stretch duel with Twin B Tiara (Jim Pantaleano) in 1:54.1.
(Yonkers Raceway)