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g>Yonkers, NY — With nary a distaff derby in sight Friday night (Nov. 15), Yonkers Raceway offered $22,000 tri-features. Using some editorial discretion, we went with the trotters.

 

Odds-on favorite Icanflylikeanangel (Jason Bartlett, $3.30) has no issues whatsoever. From post position five, he worked around Majestic Brayden (Joe Bongiorno), making the lead before a :28.1 opening quarter-mile.


From, there, it was a :58.2 intermission and 1:27 three-quarters, with pole-sitting Lord Cromwell (Matt Kakaley) not getting close first-up from third. Icanflylikeanangel owned a 1-3/4 length lead into the lane, needing only to hold off his immediate stalker.


He did, defeating Majestic Brayden by a couple of lengths in 1:55.2. Third went to Lord Cromwell, sharing the minors with Sumatra (George Brennan) and I’m The Muscle (Dan Dube).


For Icanflylikeanangel, a 5-year-old Archangel gelding co-owned by Pollack Racing & Randy Bendis and trained by Scott DiDomenico, it was his fifth win in 21 seasonal starts. The exacta paid $31, the triple returned $90 and the superfecta paid $332.