Favoured Feelin Red Hot gave nothing else a shot Friday night, easily winning Yonkers Raceway’s $46,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace.
As she did a week ago, Feelin Red Hot went up and over her inside foes for driver George Brennan. In this case, that was all six of ‘em, as assigned eight-holer Betterb Chevron N came up ill.
Feelin Red Hot worked around Twinkle (Brent Holland), rating things much more realistically (:27.2, :56.1, 1:23.1) than last week before taking off. She opened three lengths at the three-quarters and five lengths of the final turn before whipping Twinkle by a half-dozen in a season’s-best 1:51.3.
Third went to Annabeth (Mark MacDonald), with Mach It A Par (Jason Bartlett) and Lispatty (Joe Bongiorno) settling for the minors.
For Feelin Red Hot, a six-year-old daughter of Feelin Friskie co-owned (as Burke Racing) by (trainer) Ron Burke and Weaver Bruscemi, it was her eighth win in 22 seasonal starts. She paid $5.80 to win.
Deferring to the forecast of excessive heat throughout the area, the Raceway has pushed back its first post for Saturday night to 7:50 p.m. - one hour later than usual.
(Yonkers)