Yonkers, NY — Favored Feelin’ Red Hot (George Brennan $5.80) gave nothing else a shot Friday night (July 19), easily winning Yonkers Raceway’s $46,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace. 

Feelin’ Red Hot rolled to victory in the feature at Yonkers Raceway. Mike Lizzi Photo.

As she did a week ago, Feelin’ Red Hot went up and over her inside foes. In this case, that was all six of ‘em, as assigned eight-holer Betterb Chevron N came up ill.  

Feelin’ Red  Hot worked around Twinkle (Brent Holland), rating things much more realistically (:27.2, :56.1, 1:23.1) than last week before taking off.  She opened three lengths at the three-quarters and five lengths of the final turn before whipping Twinkle by a half-dozen in a seasons best 1:51.3.   

Third went to Annabeth (Mark MacDonald), with Mach it a Par (Jason Bartlett) and Lispatty (Joe Bongiorno) settling for the minors.

For Feelin’ Red Hot, a 6-year-old daughter of Feelin’ Friskie co-owned (as Burke Racing) by (trainer) Ron Burke and Weaver Bruscemi, it was her eighth win in 22 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $40, the triple returned $372 and the superfecta paid $1,631.

Deferring to the forecast of excessive heat throughout the area, the Raceway has pushed back its first post for Saturday night (July 20) to 7:50 PM…one hour later than usual.