Covered Bridge, coming off a campaign where he earned over $566,000, took the feature, while driver George Brennan made six trips to the winner's circle on opening night of the 2024 live racing season Monday (Jan. 22) at MGM Yonkers Raceway.
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With late-developing youngsters coming to Harrah’s Philadelphia from every direction, the southeast Pennsylvania track featured four $12,600 events, two on each gait, that could serve as steppingstones to nearby future glory. The meet’s leading driver, Tim Tetrick, guided a feature winner on each gait during a day which would see him win five races overall.
On the pacing side, where both headliners were limited to males, The Cookie Monster gobbled favoured pacesetter Rockin Rocko late to be along in 1:52.4 over what was then a “sloppy +2” surface. The son of American Ideal, unraced at two and three, has now won half his ten lifetime starts, with Tetrick driving and Scott Di Domenico doing the training for JFE Enterprise LLC.
Wednesday night s (March 10) card at Yonkers Raceway featured three $15,000 divisions of the second round of the M Life Rewards Gents Pacing Series for colts and geldings. Dragon Said and Scootnroll both repeated their victories from the first leg, while Diamondbeach took the night s fastest flight.
Dragon Said was the 1-5 favourite in the opening group and didn t disappoint, winning in 1:54.3. Away second from post 2, driver Joe Bongiorno brought Dragon Said to the outside coming off the first turn, and went around early pacesetter Cigar Smoking Tony to the top spot after the :28.1 quarter. Dragon Said continued to show the way to the half in :57.4 and the three-quarters in 1:26.3, but Rolling With Sam put some first-over pressure on him at that latter marker.