Gokudo Hanover wins Yonkers’ $44,000 Open Handicap Pace
November 17, 2018,Yonkers, NY – His driver made the correct choices before and during the race, as Gokudo Hanover (Dan Dube, $13.80) rolled Saturday night (Nov. 17), winning Yonkers Raceway’s $44,000 Open Handicap Pace.
In play from assigned post position five, Gokudo Hanover moved to the lead around Techtor Hanover (Jordan Stratton), paying a :26.2, opening-quarter-mile privilege. After a snappy :55.1 intermission, Mach it So (Joe Bongiorno) made his second move, first-up from third.
However, Gokudo Hanover was more than up to it, passing a 1:23 three-quarters and owning a length-and-a-half lead into the lane. He then finished it off, beating Techtor Hanover by a length in a season’s-best-matching 1:52. Theartofconfusion A (Brent Holland) was a rallying third, with I’m Some Graduate (George Brennan) and Mach it So settling for the minor moolah.
For third choice Gokudo Hanover, a 6-year-old Cam’s Card Shark gelding co-owned (as Triple D Stables) by (trainer) Scott DiDomenico, James Craparotta and Par Berry Racing, it was his seventh win in 19 seasonal starts (sixth in last nine tries).
The exacta paid $94, the triple returned $418.50 and the superfecta paid $2,207.
For his part, Dube selected the winner after being triple-listed on the early overnight sheet.
The Raceway offers a Sunday (Nov. 18) matinee, with a first post of noon.