Favoured Carolsideal (Dan Dube, $5.40) offered up some first-over fisticuffs Friday night, handily winning Yonkers Raceway’s $35,000 featured Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
Sitting chilly (literally and figuratively) early from post position No. 5, “Carol” saw Robin Cruiser (Jordan Stratton) step over Palm Patrol (Mark MacDonald) before a :28.3 opening quarter-mile. After a wind-compromised :59.1 intermission, Carolsideal moved from fourth...and did so with purpose.
She busted the race wide open before the 1:26.3 three-quarters, opening up six and a half lengths entering the lane. The final margin was sixth lengths in 1:55.2. Palm Patrol, stuck behind a tiring leader, won the “other” race for second, with last week’s victress, Set Me Up (George Brennan), Spirit Of Desire (Jason Bartlett) and Robin Cruiser earned the smaller pay envelopes.
Scheduled outside assignee Voelz Hanover was a judges’ scratch for a second time this month.
For Carolsideal, a six-year-old daughter of Western Ideal trained by Shawn Christner for co-owners Allard Racing, Yves Sarazin and Kapildeo Singh, it was her third win (each in the same time) in as many seasonal starts (and purchase/barn change). The exacta paid $24, with the triple returning $128.50.
(With files from Yonkers Raceway)