Yonkers, NY – Tequila Friday?

Odds-on favorite Tequila Monday (Matt Kakaley, $3.70) returned to the adult table and made it look facile Friday night (April 26), easily winning Yonkers Raceway’s soggy $44,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.

Tequila Monday easily won a $44K Filly & Mare Open Handicap Pace on Friday (April 26) at Yonkers. Katy Gazzini photo.

Eschewing an early three-hole from post position No. 6, Tequila Monday went around Alexa’s Power (Jason Bartlett) before a moist :27.1 opening-quarter. From there, it turned into equal halves (:56.1, 1:24.2, 1:52.2), with the eventual winner taking mild grief from last week’s victress, Made Of Jewel AS (Jordan Stratton).

Tequila Monday owned a length-and-a-half lead into the lane, and Alexa’s Power couldn’t do anything about that. The final margin was two lengths, with Lispatty (Mark MacDonald) grabbing the bottom of the ticket. Made Of Jewels AS and Dongal Rundlscrk N (Brent Holland) settled for the remainder.

For Tequila Monday, a 5-year-old daughter of American Ideal co-owned by Northfork Racing & Chuck Pompey and trained by Hunter Oakes, it was her fourth win in as many seasonal starts (all at odds-on). The exacta paid $11.20, the triple returned $61 and the superfecta paid $172.