Yonkers, NY – A pocketed Write Me A Song (George Brennan, $6.10) picked off favored I’mprincessgemma A (Joe Bongiorno) nearing the wire Friday night (Nov. 1st), winning Yonkers Raceway’s $42,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.

Making the first lead from post position No. 5, Write Me A Song stuffed Tequila Monday (Eric Goodell) in behind before yielding to 7-5 choice I’mprincessgemma A. All that transpired before a 27-second flat opening quarter-mile.

Write Me A Song outlasted I’mprincessgemma A to win the $42K Filly & Mare Open Handicap Pace on Friday at Yonkers. Georgia Panagi photo.

It was a rated :56.1 intermission when Tequila Monday made her second move, advancing from third toward a 1:24.3 three-quarters. That lass stalled soon after, with I’mprincessgemma A taking a length-and-a-half lead in and out of the final turn.

Write Me a Song edged by, however, the final margin three-quarters of a length in 1:52.4. I’mprincessgemma A held second, with ground-savers Robyn  Camden (Jim Marohn Jr.) and Angel’s Pride (Brent Holland), along with Glenferrie Blade A (Jordan Stratton) coming away with the small change.

For second choice Write Me A Song, a 4-year-old daughter of Sportsmaster co-owned (as Burke Racing) by (trainer) Ron Burke, Weaver Bruscemi and Phil Collura, it was her ninth win in 23 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $22.40, the triple returned $121 and the superfecta paid $694.

Note the Raceway shall open for simulcasting Saturday (Nov. 2) at 11:30 a.m. in advance of Aqueduct’s  first post of Noon as well as Day Two of Breeders’ Cup from Santa Anita (first post 1 p.m. ET).