Ideal Ligneries, one of three French representatives entered in this Saturday's MGM Yonkers International Trot, has been scratched.
As a result of the scratch, the Also Eligible, Southwind Coors, will draw into the vacant post seven and represents the United States, with Jason Bartlett driving for trainer Ron Burke. An 18-time winner with nearly $790,000 earned, the five-year-old son of Walner-Southwind Cabaret enters off a runner-up finish in the Charlie Hill Memorial Trot at Scioto Downs on Sept. 6. A former Goodtimes Stakes winner when trained in Canada by Matt Bax, he currently races for the Pennsylvania ownership group of Burke Racing Stable, Weaver Bruscemi and Phillip Collura. Southwind Coors is the second International Trot contender for Burke and company, along with Ontario-bred Lexus Kody, who is representing Canada.
Southwind Coors joins the Daniel Reden-trained Double Deceiver and Marcus Melander stable's Periculum as U.S. representatives in the 1-1/4-mile international affair.
The updated field for the Grade 1 stakes race, which carries a purse of $1 million USD, is listed below in post position order.
$1 million USD MGM Yonkers International Trot (Grade 1)
Post - Horse (Country) - Driver - Trainer
1. Lexus Kody (Canada) - Yannick Gingras - Ron Burke
2. Gamin Jaba (France) - Daniel Reden - Daniel Reden
3. Gio Cash (Germany) - Daniel Wajersten - Daniel Wajersten
4. Powwow (Norway) - Bjorn Goop - Jan Kristian Waaler
5. Aetos Kronos (Sweden) - Dexter Dunn - Marcus Melander
6. Double Deceiver (United States) - Orjan Kihlstrom - Daniel Reden
7. Southwind Coors (United States) - Jason Bartlett - Ron Burke
8. Diva EK (Italy) - Alessandro Gocciadoro - Alessandro Gocciadoro
9. Periculum (United States) - Scott Zeron - Marcus Melander
10. Hohneck (France) - Gabriele Gelormini - Philippe Allaire
Scratched: Ideal Ligneries (France) - Jean-Philippe Monclin - Jean-Philippe Monclin
Post time is 12:20 p.m. for Saturday's program at Yonkers Raceway, with the Yonkers International scheduled as the sixth race on the program with an estimated post time of 3 p.m.
(Standardbred Canada)