Ace high wins NYSS pot at Yonkers

Ace High Hall shuffled the Yonkers Raceway record book Thursday night, winning the fastest of four divisions of the $242,100 New York Sire Stakes Milt Taylor Trot for 2-year-old colts.

With Jim Morrill Jr.driving for owner Martin Scharf and trainer Mark Ford, the freshman son of Conway Hall bred by Walnut Hall Ltd. edged away from the pacesetting Colie's (Stephane Bouchard), winning the $59,975 penultimate event by 1 1/2 lengths in 1:59. The effort snipped one-fifth off the previous Raceway record for rookies, originally set by Mastec Lavec (Dan Daley) eight Septembers ago and matched by Napoleon earlier this evening.

"Even though I've been leaving with him every start, I think he's better racing from behind," Morrill said. "I think the fact that there was no one (starting) outside him really helped."

Ace High Hall, a popular ($2.70) pari-mutuel proposition, has four wins and thiree seconds in seven seasoal starts. He also went over the six-figure earnings plateau.

The aforementioned Napoleon, the divsion leader coming in, strolled home--a personal best--by four lengths in his $59,975 event. The son of Credit Winner, trained by Noel Daley for the foursome of Korn, Tucci, Thomases and Guarniere, now has four wins and a pair of seconds in seven '07 tries.

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