Or wins 44G Open Handicap Pace at Yonkers

Or (Brent Holland), assigned the inside as the wagering outsider, picked off favored Code Word (Jason Bartlett) Saturday night, winning Yonkers Raceway's $44,000 Open Handicap Pace.

Code Word, last week's wire-to-wire winner and this week's 9-10 favorite, had few issues making the lead from post position No. 6. After a :27.2 opening quarter-mile and :56.2 intermission,  P H Jackpot (George Brennan) moved from fourth. That one challenged the leader through the 1:24.4 three-quarters before being summarily dismissed.

Meanwhile, Code Word looked comfy with a two-length lead into the lane. However, Or popped the pocket and closed steadily, snapping the people's choice by a half-length in 1:52.4. Iwannarace Hanover (Jordan Stratton), Aussie Reactor A (Eric Goodell) and Great Vintage (Jeff Gregory) rounded out the payees.

For Or, a 6-year-old Western Terror gelding owned by T R Stables and trained by Mike Temming, he returned $35.20 for his fifth win in 23 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $126.50, with the triple returning $751.

Special Saturday mentions to $1.2 million earner Real Nice (Stratton, $2.30), whose win in the $33,500, seventh-race pace (1:53) was the 40th of his career (including the 2011 final of the George Morton Levy Memorial Pacing Series).

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