Yonkers, NY — Yonkers Raceway’s Monday evening (March 2) Pick-5 wager began with a carryover of $4,148.77 and a $15,000 guaranteed pool.

Those two fun factoids led to $33,154 of fresh investing.

The sequential phrase that pays was…

2-Reigning Bills (Jason Bartlett, $4.90)
1-My Spirit Soars (Brent Holland, $23.20)
5-Canbec Kingkazimir (George Brennan, $4.80)
6-Followyourdestiny (Bartlett, $7.20)
7-Ari Allstar (Brennan, $20.40)

…returning $1,813.25 for every correct half-a-bucket ticket.

The Pick 5 is a 50-cent base wager (5 through 9).

Monday night also began the local stakes season, with the first of three rounds in the M Life Rewards Ladies (nee Petticoat) Pacing Series. The series was open to 3- and 4-year-old young ladies who are/were non-winners of four races and/or $50,000 through last Dec. 1st.

The first of three, $20,000 groupings was won by a pocket/cone-skimming Affluent Seelster (Joe Bongiorno, $69) in a season-debuting/life-best 1:53.4.