Giddy on up to Yonkers winner's circle

Giddy Up Lucky (Jason Bartlett, five winners on the card) closed from third-over Saturday night,.  winning Yonkers Raceway's featured $36,000 Open Handicap Pace.

 

Leaving from post position seven, Giddy Up Lucky sat chilly as 3-2 favorite McCedes (Yannick Gingras) moved around King Cat Anvil N (Jordan  Stratton) after a brisk :27.3  opening quarter-mile. McCedes found a :56.2 intermission and 1:25.2 three-quarters, with Southwind Tabor (Greg Grismore) uncovered and Runover Feeling (Brent Holland)--who gapped the gate--second-over. McCedes continued to front the fray into the lane, but he was about done.

 

Giddy Up Lucky swung wide, and did get the measure of a stubborn Southwind Tabor late. The former beat the later by three-quarters of a length in a  "good" 1:54.3, with Runover Feeling, King Cat Anvil N and Dark Sign (Cat Manzi) completing the cashers.

 

For Giddy Up Lucky, a 4-year-old Camluck gelding co-owned by David Rovine and Larry Baron and trained by Josh Green, he returned $8.60 (second  choice) for his eighth win in 32 seasonal starts. (Yonkers)