Yonkers, NY – His driver made the correct choices before and during the race, as Gokudo Hanover (Dan Dube, $13.80) rolled Saturday night (Nov. 17), winning Yonkers Raceway’s $44,000 Open Handicap Pace.

Gokudo Hanover won the $44,000 Open Handicap Pace at Yonkers on Saturday (Nov. 17).  Chris Brokate Photo

In play from assigned post position five, Gokudo Hanover moved to the lead around Techtor Hanover (Jordan Stratton), paying a :26.2, opening-quarter-mile privilege. After a snappy :55.1 intermission, Mach it So (Joe Bongiorno) made his second move, first-up from third.

However, Gokudo Hanover was more than up to it, passing a 1:23 three-quarters and owning a length-and-a-half lead into the lane. He then finished it off, beating Techtor Hanover by a length in a season’s-best-matching 1:52. Theartofconfusion A (Brent Holland) was a rallying third, with I’m Some Graduate (George Brennan) and Mach it So settling for the minor moolah.

For third choice Gokudo Hanover, a 6-year-old Cam’s Card Shark gelding co-owned (as Triple D Stables) by (trainer) Scott DiDomenico, James Craparotta and Par Berry Racing, it was his seventh win in 19 seasonal starts (sixth in last nine tries).

The exacta paid $94, the triple returned $418.50 and the superfecta paid $2,207.

For his part, Dube selected the winner after being triple-listed on the early overnight sheet.

The Raceway offers a Sunday (Nov. 18) matinee, with a first post of noon.