by Frank Drucker, Publicity Director, Empire City at Yonkers Raceway
Yonkers, NY — After nearly doing it with a 73-1 number a race earlier, driver Jordan Stratton won his 3,000th career race Sunday afternoon (Nov. 20).
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Jordan Stratton collects the 3,000th win of his career at Yonkers on Sunday.
Stratton teamed with Bingo Queen ($7.70) for a powerful, first-up Yonkers Raceway victory in the $21,600, second race trot. The pair negotiated the 1-1/4 mile distance in 2:29 en route to a 2-3/4 length win.
Stratton nearly blew up the tote board in the late morning opener, missing a hard charging head in the featured Open Handicap Trot.
“I appreciate the number, probably more than my family does,” Stratton said.
Then, in a rather bold assumption, he offered that ,“they love me anyway.”
The affable 29-year-old Stratton, regular chauffeur of George Morton Levy Series winner Bit Of A Legend N, was joined in the winner’s circle presentation by his brother, Cory, a pretty fair horseman in his own right.
Stratton has earned $45 million in purses in a career which began in 2006. His 225 wins place him fifth in this season’s local driver standings.