Sophomore colt trotters in NYSS action

Yonkers Raceway's Monday night fare featured the $210,566 New York Sire Stakes Bronxville Trot for 3-year-old colts and geldings. Three divisions--worth $69,322, $70,622 and $70,622, respectively--went at it, with all producing close finishes.

 

The opener, an off-the-card event, saw pocket-sitting Kash N Credit (Jason Bartlett) get to pacesetting South Jersey Flash (Steve Reisenweaver) by a length in 2:00.1. RC Authority (Brian Sears) was a first-up third. The winner, a son of Credit Winner, was trained by (co-owner) Clint Galbraith for his wife, Barbara, along with Arnold Rothschild.

 

The first wagering Sire Sstakes event found second-choice America (Jeff Gregory) yield to an intermission brush from 2-5 fave Calchips Brute (Sears), then nail that one on the money. America won by a nose in a  life-best 1:58.2, with Credit Blues (Cat Manzi) third.

 

For America, a Conway  Hall colt trained by Richard Norman for co-owners David McDuffee and David Scharf, he paid $5.20 for his fifth win in 18 seasonal starts.

 

The evening's final statebred grouping saw 3-10 favorite Russell Hill (Jim Morrill Jr.) set cheap-enough fractions, but that not deter a first-over And Away We Go (Andy Miller). In a match race for the final half-mile, And Away We Go stuck his neck out--literally--at the wire in 1:58.2 (last half in a snappy 57 seconds). It was than more than five lengths back to Hitontheflipside (Gregory).

 

For And Away We Go, a son of Conway Hall trained by Julie Miller for her husband and George Brennan, he paid $9.40 (second choice) for his third victory in nine '09 tries. (Yonkers)