Yonkers, NY — Favored Itty Bitty (Jason Bartlett, $4.10) gave no one else a shot Friday night (Jan. 11), handily winning Yonkers Raceway’s $44,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.

Itty Bitty was a 1:55 winner on Friday. Mike Lizzi photo.

Leaving from post position No. 3, Itty Bitty retook from Wishy Washy Girl (George Brennan) before a :27.4 opening quarter-mile. She then opened more nighttime daylight at every subsequent interval (:58.1, 1:26.1, 1:55), as in two lengths (half), 2-1/2 lengths (three-quarters), 4-1/2 lengths (stretch) and 5-1/4 lengths (finish).

Clear Idea (Matt Kakaley) was a best-of-the-rest second, with Dude’salady (Jim Marohn Jr.), Amateur Hour (Brent Holland) and Culinary Delight N (Larry Stalbaum) rounding out the payees.

For Itty Bitty, a now-5-year-old daughter of Always A Virgin co-owned (as A Harris Racing) by trainer Andrew Harris, J. Robert Darrow and Evan Katz, it was her first win in a pair of seasonal starts. The exacta paid $17.20, the triple returned $156.50 and the superfecta paid $582.

Bartlett won half of the evening’s 10 races.