Yonkers, NY---Odds-on choice Purrfect Bags (Victor Kirby, $2.40) completed her Yonkers Raceway Lismore/Lady Maud personal stakes double Saturday night, winning the latter event in 1:53. The $116,430 Maud, which attracted just a half-dozen 3-year-old pacing fillies, saw Purrfect Bags in play early from post position 2.

She retook from first leader Strut My Stuff (Jordan Stratton) just at the :27.3 opening quarter-mile, then found a rated :56.3 intermission. Bettor N Better (George Brennan) dropped the gloves, offering a hard challenge from fourth.

Bettor N Better engaged the people’s preference toward a 1:24.4 three-quarters, with Purrfect Bags owning a stubborn, half-length lead into the lane. 

She then closed the sale, winning by a length in 1:53. Bettor N Better fought the good fight for second, with Strut My Stuff, Repeat Please (Yannick Gingras) and Cheyenne Robin (Dan Dube) coming away with the small change. Heaven on Earth (Tim Tetrick) lost the fifth-place photo and was left with only lovely parting gifts.

For Purrfect Bags, a daughter of Roddy’s Bags Again brought to town from Delmarva by the Kings—owner JoAnn and trainer Jim Jr.—it was her eighth win (fifth consecutive) in 10 seasonal starts (15-for-18 lifetime). The exacta paid $10.80, with the triple returning $21.80.

“When she won the Lismore (in May at 11-1), no one knew a lot about her,” Kirby said of Purrfect Bags. “When she came back here, she had their respect.”