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Pick-5 carryover highlights Yonkers weekend

Pick-5 carryover highlights Yonkers weekend
Wednesday, February 10, 2016 - by Frank Drucker, Yonkers Raceway Publicity Director



Yonkers, NY --- Friday (Feb. 12) night's Pick-5 begins with a carryover of $2,578.54 (50 cent base wager, races seven through 11) at Yonkers Raceway. A pair of $32,000 Open Handicaps are also carded this weekend.



Saturday night's Open Handicap Trot (sixth race) finds last week's first three finishers back at it, with Crazshana (Jason Bartlett, post eight), Money Maven (Brian Sears, post one) and Red Hot Herbie (Dan Dube, post seven).



Can Do (Jordan Stratton, post six) crosses the river with a pair of Open Handicap wins, Home’n Dry (Eric Carlson, post two) graduated from restricted ranks with a pair of handy victories and Major Athens (George Brennan, post five) cut the fractions and faded to fourth in his local debut two weeks ago.



The week's marquee pace (eighth race) has the top four finishers from a week ago, with Atta Boy Dan (Brennan, post eigtht), Polak A (Sears, post five), Hugh Hefner N (Stratton, post three) and Rock Icon (Matt Kakaley, post two).



Phil Your Boots (Tyler Buter, post seven) won this race two Saturdays ago, while Bad Boy Matt (Mark MacDonald, post six) has been knocking hooves with the best Delaware has to offer.



Post time for both programs is 7:10 p.m.

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