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Torre, who won four World Series managing the Bronx Bombers, is part-owner of Hillosophical, a four-year-old mare racing at Yonkers Raceway Tuesday night in a $100,000 race. Hillosophical has four wins in 26 career starts, including a victory over the Yonkers half-mile oval on April 11. Torre has owned several Thoroughbred racehorses, including Homeboykris with former Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer, who won the 2009 Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park, Wild Desert, winner of the $1 million Queen's Plate in 2006 with former NHL player Keith Jones, and Game On Dude, who was the 8-5 favorite in the Breeder's Cup Classic in 2013 and finished 9th.
Torre, who won four World Series managing the Bronx Bombers, is part-owner of Hillosophical, a four-year-old mare racing at Yonkers Raceway Tuesday night in a $100,000 race. Hillosophical has four wins in 26 career starts, including a victory over the Yonkers half-mile oval on April 11. Torre has owned several Thoroughbred racehorses, including Homeboykris with former Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer, who won the 2009 Champagne Stakes at Belmont Park, Wild Desert, winner of the $1 million Queen's Plate in 2006 with former NHL player Keith Jones, and Game On Dude, who was the 8-5 favorite in the Breeder's Cup Classic in 2013 and finished 9th.
... went up by eight in the bottom of the fourth. Freshmen Samantha Gutierrez (Fullerton, CA) and Junior Kevona Jackson (Yonkers, NY) both went yard for CNR in the third and fourth innings, consecutively, to open up a 2-0 lead. The wheels came off for ...
... 24. Rustam BC. An EMT in her first amateur tournament. Is as tough as they come. RECORD: 1 Decision. Iman Lee, 17. Yonkers PAL.A junior at Roosevelt High; is ready for the upset. RECORD: 2 Dec., 1 Bye. Krystal Dixon, 28. Champs BC. Won 4 Gloves ...
... Missile J, a relative toddler at the age of four, finds himself worthy of a seat at Saturday night's adult table for Yonkers Raceway's $529,000 final of the George Morton Levy Memorial Pacing Series. This race, and its companion, the $310,600 Blue ...
Missile J, DiDomenico primed for 529K final of Levy Pacing Series Wednesday, April 19, 2017 - by Frank Drucker, Publicity Director, Empire City at Yonkers Raceway Missile J, a relative toddler at the age of four, finds himself worthy of a seat at Saturday night's adult table for Yonkers Raceway's $529,000 final of the George Morton Levy Memorial Pacing Series. This race, and its companion, the $310,600 Blue Chip Matchmaker, are the sport's two richest of the season to date.
... the song "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" was Ella's own idea, as she often played the game in the orphanage where she lived in Yonkers, New York. The lyrics are slightly different from the original nursery rhyme, as they are the words Ella remembered singing ...
YONKERS, NY, Wednesday, April 19, 2017 - It's one thing to stand out against many of the finest older harness racing pacers in training. It's quite another to do it as a young'un.
YONKERS, NY, Monday, April 17, 2017 - Post positions have been drawn for harness racing's two richest races of the season to date, The races go Saturday night , highlighting a 12-race card with total purses of just under $1.3 million. The 30th Levy, once again honoring the memory of the Hall of Fame founder of Roosevelt Raceway, is the 10th race .
