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

Yonkers, NY —Jordan Stratton won six races from his eight drives on Thursday night (Sept. 6) at Yonkers Raceway. One of his wins came in a dead-heat, while two were part of the $168,499 New York Sire Stakes Mike Cohen Pace for 3-year-old fillies.

Stratton won the $55,833 first division with a pocketed Line Dancer ($12.40) in a life-best-matching 1:54.2. The daughter of Art Major, co-owned by trainer Ricky Bucci and Blue Meadow Farm, has won five of her 18 seasonal starts.

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Newsday won her NYSS division in a time of 1:54.2.

Stratton doubled his sire stakes pleasure in the second $55,833 Cohen event, when a first-up Newsday ($7.20) matched Line Dancer’s 1:54.2 effort. The At Major miss, co-owned by trainer Richie Silverman, Mary Kinsey Arnold, Edward McEnery and Michael Gluckman, is four-for-13 this season, including a pair of NYSS wins here.

“It was one of those nights that everyone I drove raced well,” Stratton said.

Wisdom Tree (Matt Kakaley, $2.70) continued her statebred dominance in the night’s final $56,833 Empire grouping, a down-the-road night’s-fastest 1:53.2. Her sire stakes resume reads six wins (including two here) and a second in seven tries. The daughter of Betterthancheddar, co-owned by Tom Pollack and Jeff Cullipher and trained by Ed Hart, has won 10 of her 13 ’18 tries.

“She’s smart and she’s fast and I love her,” Hart said.

“Every so often I’m entitled to one of these,” Kakaley said.

Naughty Maravu N (Dan Dube, $96) led a quartet of longshots (9-1, 70-1, 92-1) home in the $10,000 fifth race pace.

New York Sire Stakes continue Tuesday night (Sept. 11), with Yonkers Trot winner Six Pack in the $172,000 Milt Taylor Trot (3-year-old colts/geldings).