by Frank Drucker, publicity director, Yonkers Raceway

Yonkers, NY — Pocket-sitting Breakheart Pass (Yannick Gingras) authored the upset Friday night (Nov. 25), winning Yonkers Raceway’s co-featured $38,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.

Leaving from post position No. 7, Breakheart Pass was one of several interested early. She wound up making the lead before yielding to 11-10 choice Tomorrowpan just after a :27.1 opening quarter-mile.

Breakheart Pass won the Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace in 2:00.2.

Before a :56.3 half, rank outsider Carnivalocity (Jim Pantaleano) elected to come first-up at 51-1, with the predictable result of stalling the outer movers and shakers. Both Lightning Treasure (Daniel Dube) and On The Glass (Eric Goodell) had to go wide early. Meanwhile, Tomorrowpan maintained her advantage in and out of the 1:25.1 three-quarters, taking a couple of lengths into the lane.

However, right at the 1:53.1 mile marker, she began to shorten stride. Extricating herself, Breakheart Pass edged past, winning by a length and negotiating the mile and one-sixteenth in 2:00.2. Tomorrowpan saved second, with Hula’s Z Tam (Patrick Lachance), Fox Valley Sage (Jordan Stratton) and Lightning Treasure coming away with the remainder.

Breakheart Pass, a 7-year-old daughter of Western Hero co-owned (as Burke Racing) by (trainer) Ron Burke and Weaver Bruscemi, returned $26.60 (sixth choice) for her fifth win in 26 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $78, with the triple returning $247.50.

Friday night’s co-featured $38,000 Open Handicap Trot saw another upsetter, this one from 24-1 eighth choice Wuthering Hanover (Pantaleano).

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Wuthering Hanover paid $50.50 in scoring the Open Handicap Trot upset.

At the outset, Gurf (Dube) looped Wind Surfer (Brian Sears) before the latter secured the lead after a :27.2 opening interval. Passing the :57 half, Wuthering Hanover — away third from post No. 3 — was on the move. He slid out in front of KLM Express (Jim Marshall III) just after the half and went right past Wind Surfer.

From there, a 1:25.2 three-quarters gave Wuthering Hanover a 2-1/2 length lead entering the lane. He found the mile in 1:55 and the added-distance in 2:02.3. Wind Surfer saved second, beaten three-quarters of a length, with 17-10 favorite Looking Hanover (Gingras), Baby Boy Grin (Stratton) and Fool’s Revenue (Brennan) rounded out the payees.

Wuthering Hanover, a 5-year-old Andover Hall gelding co-owned by Randy Bendis, Reed Broadway, Diane Novosel and James Walton and trained by Albert Meyer, returned $50.50 for his sixth win in 32 ’11 tries. The exacta paid $348.50, the triple returned $2,175 and the superfecta paid $25,266 (base $2 payoff, there were six 10-cent tickets at $1,263.30 each).