Yonkers Trot
3 åriga 1.609m auto
Purse: $ 445
474
RACE 9 - Yonkers Raceway - NY - July 9, 2011
Conditions: THE $445,474 YONKERS TROT FINAL 3 YEAR OLD OPEN STARTING FEE $20,000
Gait: Trot Purse: $445,474 Class: YONKERTROT Distance: 1 mile Track Cond: FT
Temp-Allow: 82-0 Off Time: 10:07 PM
N:r Plac. Häst Kön Härstamning Kusk Tränare Tid Dist. Odds Pris
2 1 Leader Of The Gang h Muscles Yankee - Fraulien Bluestone David Miller Jimmy Takter 1:57.2 1609 33 222 737
1 2 Del Cielo h Broadway Hall - Not Just Blonde George Brennan George Buzzy Sholty 1:57.2 1609 48 111 368
5 3 Evil Urges h Cash Hall - Siren Hall Jimmy Whittemore Homer Hochstetler 1:57.3 1609 65 53 457
6 4 Live Jazz h Andover Hall - Limitless Sky Jim Meittinis Scott Andrews 1:58.3 1609 30 35 638
7 5 Bambino Hall h Tom Ridge - Sumpin Sweet Tim Tetrick Kelly O'Donnell 2:00.1g 1609 50 22 273
4 0 Pegasus Blue Chip h Glidemaster - Paloma Hanover Yannick Gingras Blair Burgess 2:05.2g 1609 30
3 0 Celebrity Bombay h Yankee Glide - Secret Harmony Brett Miller Staffan Lind ug 1609 229
1st Leader Of The Gang (3, H Muscles Yankee - Fraulien Bluestone - Angus Hall)
Registered Owner(s)/Lessee(s): Christina Takter - NJ,
Brixton Medical Ab - SD, Joyce Mc Clelland - OH, R A W Equine Inc - ON
Breeder(s): Herb Liverman - FL
2nd Del Cielo (3, H Broadway Hall - Not Just Blonde - Malabar Man)
Registered Owner(s): George F Sholty Stb Inc - FL, Barbara Bongiorno - NJ, Brendan Johnson - NJ
Breeder(s): George F Sholty Stb Inc - FL, Sholty Stable Inc - KY
3rd Evil Urges (3, G Cash Hall - Siren Hall - Striking Sahbra)
Registered Owner(s): Homer Hochstetler - IL, Robert Buddig - IL
Breeder(s): Thomas Hicks - FL
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Leader of the Gang wires 57th Yonkers Trot.
 We shall refrain from the cheap "Gang Warfare" headline
and just say that Leader of the Gang did what his name suggested...he led
the gang. Leader of the Gang went the distance Saturday night (July 9),
winning Yonkers Raceway's 57th Yonkers Trot and giving harness racing
trainer Jimmy Takter a third consecutive Trot victory.
Leaving from post position No. 2 in the $445,474 first jewel of the Trotting Triple Crown, driver Dave Miller--who won this race a season ago with On the Tab--put the 3-year-old son of 1998 Yonkers Trot winner Muscles Yankee in play early.
At the outside, Pegasus Blue Chip (Yannick Gingras) broke.
Leader of the Gang, meanwhile, stepped around pole-sitter Del Cielo (George Brennan) before the :28.4 opening quarter-mile. He then rated a :30.4 next interval (59-second intermission), before the lone New York-bred, Evil Urges (Jimmy Whittemore), moved from fourth. Live Jazz (Jim Meittinis) gapped that one badly.
"Leader" remained the leader at the 1:28 three-quarters, while Celebrity Bombay (Brett Miller) and a wide Bambino Hall (Tim Tetrick) both danced the dance of the doomed.
Leader of the Gang owned a length lead into the lane and held sway. He defeated a passing-lane-diving Del Cielo by a half-length in 1:57.2. Evil Urges was third, beaten a length-and-a-half, with Live Jazz and Bambino Hall grabbing the small change. Pegasus Blue Chip and Celebrity Bombay rounded out the order in the field of seven,
For Leader of the Gang, co-owned by Christina Takter, Joyce McClelland, R A W Equine and Brixton Medical Ab, he returned $6.70 (second choice behind the Pegasus Blue Chip-Live Jazz entry) for his first win in five seasonal starts. The exacta paid $25, with the triple returning $73.50.
"When you draw that well, I didn't want to waste it," Miller said, "I really though he was as good as any horse in here, so if I could get the lead and control the race, it would work to my advantage
"Evil Urges took a good run at me and I know I had George (Brennan with Del Cielo) on my back, but my colt was solid."
"I always believed in this horse," Takter--a Harness Hall of Fame nominee--said. "Even though he hadn't raced as well this season as he did at 2 (five wins, more than $356,000), I felt he was going in the right direction. I have to give all the credit to my daughter, Nancy. She's done a tremendous job taking care of him.”
Yonkers' regular five-night-per-week schedule (Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday) remains in effect. First post for all racing programs is 7:10 PM. Evening simulcasting accompanies all live programs, with afternoon simulcasting available around the NYRA schedule.
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