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

Yonkers, NY — Favored Krispy Apple (Jason Bartlett, $4.80) lasted on the lead Friday night (Oct. 28), winning Yonkers Raceway’s $45,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.

Chris Brokate photo

Krispy Apple visits a venue she is very familiar with, the winner’s circle, at Yonkers Raceway on Friday night.

Away quickly from post position five, Krispy Apple was strung out by Moma’s Got a Gun (Tyler Buter), then made the lead before a :27.2 opening quarter-mile.From there, she finished it off (:56.4, 1:24.3, 1:52.4), getting the line a nose before ‘Moma’ and a head before a stretch-smokin’ Mach it a Par (Jordan Stratton).

Diva’s Image (Mark MacDonald) and a first-up Devil Child (Dan Dube) rounded out the payees.

For Krispy Apple, a 8-year-old, $1.7 million-earning daughter of Western Ideal co-owned by Bamond Racing and Joseph Davino and trained by Jeffrey Bamond Jr., it was her seventh win in 20 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $24.80, with the triple returning $158.50.