Third rounds of Matchmaker, Levy to go this weekend

Yonkers, NY — The third of five preliminary rounds of Yonkers Raceway’s Blue Chip Matchmaker and George Morton Levy Memorial Pacing Series will go this weekend, with four ($40,000 each) and five ($50,000 each) divisions, respectively.

The lone two-for-two Matchmaker lass, Apple Bottom Jeans (Corey Callahan, post one), landed in the opening Matchmaker, carded as Friday night’s (March 29) fourth race. The 6-year-old daughter of Mr Apples enters with four consecutive wins as she tries for a 30th career win.

Feelin’ Red Hot (George Brennan, post five) took no prisoners a week ago, an open-length win after finishing second in her first series start.

Friday’s second Matchmaker event (race six) is led by Ideal Lifestyle (Brennan, post two) and Bettor Joy N (Tim Tetrick, post six), each with a win and second in a pair of Matchmaker rounds.

The same win-and-a-second resume belongs to Don’t Think Twice A (Jason Bartlett, post three) in the third division (race seven), where she meets up with Seaswift Joy N (Jim Marohn Jr., post five). The latter owns a win and three-move third in her two Matchmaker tries.

Defending Matchmaker champ Shartin N (Tetrick, post three) looms a short price in the eighth-race final division. After an opening-leg win, the career $1.1 million winner was a tough-trip fourth from an eight-hole a week ago.

Saturday evening’s (March 30) quintet of Levy legions goes as races 4, 5, 8, 9 and 11.

Rodeo Rock (Andy McCarthy, post one), a two-time winner in the series, won the draw in the second grouping. He shares the points lead with Ideal Jimmy (Brent Holland, post seven), who landed into the final foray.

The former, a 6-year-old Rock N Roll Heaven gelding, has done his damage from off the pace in both starts, last week prevailing after an elongated first-up route. Rodeo Rock has won all three of his seasonal starts for owner Royal Wire Products and trainer Robert Cleary.

By contrast, Ideal Jimmy, a 6-year-old homebred (D.R. Van Witzenberg) Western Ideal gelding trained by Erv Miller, has gone down the road in both of his series tries. He has won half of his 10 seasonal starts, including four of his last five efforts.

Other single-week winners include:

• Endeavor (Tetrick, post four), The Wall (Joe Bongiorno, post five) and The Downtown Bus (Scott Zeron, post seven) in Saturday’s first division,

Western Fame (Dan Dubé, post five) and Somewhere In L A (Bartlett, post eght) in the second division,

• JJ Flynn (Tetrick, post one) in the third division,

• Anythingforlove A (Bongiorno, post one) and More The Better N (Zeron, post two) in the fourth division.

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