Yellow Diamond makes Lady Maud elim 12th straight win

Millionairess Yellow Diamond and Jkmusicofthenite won Saturday night's (Oct. 31) pair of $20,000 eliminations for Yonkers Raceway's Lady Maud Pace.

In the interest of full disclosure, we should note that no one was actually eliminated in the first elim. The scheduled field of five was reduced by one when odds-on early choice Shacked Up--a $30,000 supplemental entrant--came up ill.

That moved understudy Kiss Me Kate (John Campbell) into the soggy footlights as the 4-5 favorite.

Kiss Me Kate sat second behind Up Front Kellie Jo (George Brennan) through fractions of 28.1, 58.1 and 1:27.2.  Jkmusicofthenite (Yannick Gingras, four winners Saturday night) pulled from third, engaging the leader in and out of the final turn. She grabbed the baton, then held a passing-lane Kiss Me Kate at bay by 1-1/2 lengths in 1:55.2.

For Jkmusicofthenite, a homebred daughter of Western Ideal trained by Linda Toscano for 3 Brothers Stables, she returned $8.30 (third choice) for her  second win in 16 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $20.40.

Yellow Diamond (Jeff Gregory), at 35 cents on the dollar, controlled the second elimination after taking over from Perfectionist (Dube). The Breeders  Crown winner had her way with divisions of 28.1, :57.3, 1:25.4 and 1:53.2. Shanghai Lil (Mike Lachance), as the second choice, moved from third but never  threatened.

Yellow Diamond--like her scratched stablemate a $30,000 buy-in-prevailed by a measured three-quarters of a length.
 
Perfectionist was third and Pumptuous (Gingras) fourth.

Unfortunately, in the game of "Duck, Duck, Goose,"  there was no seat at the final table for That's the Plan (Brennan), who was the lone lass settling for lovely parting gifts.

For Yellow Diamond, a homebred Western Terror miss owned by Bulletproof Enterprises and trained by Tracy Brainard, she returned $2.70 for her 12th win (sixth consecutive) in 19 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $4.20.

Open draws for next Saturday night's two stakes finals--the $364,430 Lady Maud and the $542,060 one-dash-for-the-cash Messenger Stakes--takes  place Tuesday afternoon.

The alphabetical roster for the Messenger includes Clear Vision, Doubleshotascotch, Fireintheshark, Hail Storm, Hypnotic Blue Chip, Breeders Crown/Art Rooney winner If I Can Dream and Straight Shooting. (Yonkers)

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