by Frank Drucker, publicity director, Empire City at Yonkers Raceway

Yonkers, NY — The mare with the big resume finally tries the small track.

Put On A Show, the fastest mare of all time, makes her Yonkers Raceway — and small-track — debut Friday night, beginning behind the eight ball in the $35,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace. Brian Sears does the sixth race honors for trainer Chris Ryder.

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World champion Put On A Show heads to Yonkers on Friday night.

The 5-year-old daughter of Rocknroll Hanover, co-owned by Craig Henderson and Richard and Joanne Young, invades Westchester with a sparkling 30-for-47, $2.35 million lifetime ledger. After spectacular seasons at 2 and 3 (a combined 19 wins, five seconds and nearly $1.9 million in 25 tries, plus divisional honors as a soph), Put On A Show missed her 4-year-old season with knee problems.

This season, she’s won half of her 22 starts ($465,203), including a life-best 1:47.3 Lady Liberty effort at the Meadowlands. Her latest outing — a try against the boys in the Breeders Crown at Woodbine — was fruitless, but it’s back against her own gender here.

According to reports, the plan is to retire Put On A Show sometime next season, and about all she hasn’t done is try the tight turns. Her connections have indicated this is a “barometer” to see how she handles the half, so perhaps Friday’s visit won’t be just a drive-thru.

Among those Put On A Show opposes Friday are Royal Cee Cee N (George Brennan, post seven), she with three wins and two seconds in her last five (local) tries, and Krispy Apple (Yannick Gingras, post six), who stormed home (with Sears) to win last week’s distaff derby.