Yonkers, NY — Millionaire-in-waiting Smalltownthrowdown (Dan Dube, $28.20) parlayed from the pocket Saturday night (Jan. 25), winning Yonkers Raceway’s $40,000 Open Handicap Trot.

Smalltownthrowdown won Yonkers Raceway’s $40,000 Open Handicap Trot. Besjon Doda photo.

In the game from assigned post position No. 3, Smalltownthrowdown sat behind Nows The Moment (Jason Bartlett) as that one made the lead before a :27.4 opening quarter-mile and after a nasty break by Yes (Brent Holland).

It was between a :58.1 intermission and 1:27 three-quarters when 7-10 favorite Melady’s Monet (George Brennan) commenced and concluded a weak, first-over bid. With the fave done, Now’s The Moment opened a pair of lengths in and out of the final turn. However, he couldn’t close the sale as Smalltownthrowdown edged out and by.

The final margin was 1-1/4 lengths in a season’s-best 1:56, with eight-holer Swansea (Austin Siegelman) closing for third. Melady’s Monet and Lean Hanover (Jim Marohn Jr.) settled for the minors.

For fifth choice Smalltownthrowdown, a 7-year-old statebred Cash Hall gelding co-owned (as Allard Racing) by trainer Rene Allard, Yves Sarrazin, VIP Internet Stable and Bruce Soulsby, it was his second win in three seasonal starts (career 28-for-85, $998,223). The exacta paid $142.50, the triple returned $947 and the superfecta paid $3,015.

Allard didn’t do much wrong, winning with four of his six Saturday starters.

The week’s marquee pace, a $35,000 Preferred Handicap Pace, was won by a down-the-road (:27.3, :57.3, 1:25.2, 1:53.2) Tookadiveoffdipper (Jordan Stratton, $16.60).