by Frank Drucker, Publicity Director, Empire City at Yonkers Raceway

Yonkers, NY — Home’n Dry (Jason Bartlett, $8.50) was anything but Sunday afternoon (Oct. 29), winning Yonkers Raceway’s waterlogged $50,000 Open Handicap Trot.

Chris Brokate photo

Home’n Dry was a 1:55 winner on Sunday.

Away third from assigned post position No. 5, Home’n Dry did his bidding in a wind-swept deluge, but no problem. He watched as 19-10 favorite In Secret (George Brennan), remanded outside his six rivals, made the lead (:28.4, :57.1, 1:26.1).

As he did in his prior effort, Home’n Dry vacated the three-hole, engaged the leader, then won going away. The margin here was 2-1/2 lengths in a moist 1:55. In Secret was a safe second, with Tight Lines (Jeff Gregory), Centurion ATM (Dan Dube) and Sumatra (Eric Goodell) settling for the remainder.

For third choice (again) Home’n Dry, a 5-year-old Credit Winner gelding owned by J L Sadowsky LLC and trained by Robert Bresnahan, it was his seventh win (third consecutive) in 18 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $49.60, with the triple returning $155.50.

This scheduled edition of the ‘New York, New York Double’ went south when Belmont Park canceled its last-day-of-meet program. The gimmick wager returns Sunday (Nov. 12), with Aqueduct as the NYRA venue. Note post time for Yonkers that afternoon is TBA.