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Racine Bell and driver Jason Bartlett found room to the inside in the stretch and forged to the front late to capture one of four $40,000 divisions in the second leg of the Blue Chip Matchmaker Series at MGM Yonkers Raceway on Friday night (March 24). A six-year-old mare by So Surreal, Racine Bell scored in 1:52.3 and became harness racing's newest millionaire with the victory.
Racine Bell stamped herself as the one to beat in the $381,000 Blue Chip Matchmaker Series final set for April 25 with a powerful performance, capturing the second of three $40,000 divisions at Yonkers Raceway on Friday night (April 15) in 1:51.2, the second fastest leg victory in all five preliminary rounds.
If horseplayers were looking for drama, they found it Friday night in the first of three $40,000 divisions in the third leg of the Blue Chip Matchmaker Series at Yonkers Raceway.
A half-mile track might not be ideal for Machnhope, but it is difficult to quibble with her results at Yonkers Raceway. In her most recent 11 starts at The Hilltop, the seven-year-old female pacer has hit the board nine times, including three wins.
Machnhope, last seen winning the $232,800 Blue Chip Matchmaker at Yonkers Raceway on April 19, kept on rolling Friday night at The Meadowlands, taking the $30,000 featured Winners Over/Preferred Handicap for fillies and mares on the pace in wire-to-wire fashion despite going off as the fifth choice in the betting in the six-horse field. “I wasn’t sure how to play it,” said winning driver Andy McCarthy after being asked what was his thought process given how the extremely windy conditions favoured speed all night long. “I didn’t have a plan. I saw some of the horses to my inside were...