Yonkers, NY – Made Of Jewels AS (Jordan Stratton, $8.20) prevailed off a live tow Friday night (April 19), winning Yonkers Raceway’s $35,000 Filly and Mare Preferred Pace.

Made Of Jewels AS was the winner of Yonkers’ $35,000 Distaff feature on Friday Night. Katy Gazzini Photo.

Unhurried from assigned post position five, Made Of Jewels AS was away sixth before hooking herself in back of the second move of Alexa’s Power (Jason Bartlett). That latter, advancing from third, ground down narrow 2-1 choice Bettorhaveanother (George Brennan) early in the lane after that one led through intervals of :27.4, :56.2 and 1:24.1.

While Alexa’s Power was good, Made Of Jewels AS proved better, doing so by a half-length in a season’s-best 1:53.1. Third went to a tiring Bettorhaveanother, with Queen Lostris N (Mark MacDonald) and Betabcool N (Joe Bongiorno) rounding out the payees.

For third choice Made Of Jewels AS, a 6-year-old daughter of Panspacificflight owned and trained by Ricky Bucci, it was her fourth win in 11 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $34.20, the triple returned $152 and the superfecta paid $518.

Saturday night’s (April 20) card, with a dozen races worth $1,530,320, features the $402,060 final of the Blue Chip Matchmaker (ninth race) and the $663,260 final of the George Morton Levy Memorial Pacing Series (11th race).

They’re the two richest North American harness races of the season to date and the richest ever among the 11 Matchmakers and 32 editions of the Levy.

Post time is the usual 6:50 p.m.