At two, he won Grand River’s Battle of Waterloo. At three, he’s a Yonkers Raceway track record-holder. For a horse that owns all of four career victories, he’s certainly living right.
Locally-debuting Simple Kinda Man (Jim Marohn, Jr., $6.10) found his way into the annals Monday night, wiring his way to happiness in 1:51.2.
That effort, in the $16,000, seventh-race pace, is the new Westchester watermark for three-year-old geldings, wiping away Gokudo Hanover’s 1:51.3 in 2015.
From post position No. 5, Simple Kinda Man cruised through intervals of :26.3, :55.1 and 1:23, then finished it off by four lengths for just his second win in 13 seasonal starts.
“I’ve had him about 10 days,” trainer Bruce Saunders said. “The owners (M&L of Delaware) are hands-on and they said to race him with an open bridle because he can be a runaway. I saw the line where he was down in three-quarters in (1):21.2 in Canada, so I knew he was fast.
“The plugs were in and I spoke to Jimmy (Marohn, Jr.) after and he never felt as if the horse was getting away from him, so I’m very happy with the effort.”
(Yonkers)