Publisher / Editor Brian Harrod provides hyper local news for Yonkers, NY, that is also continually updated from thousands of sources on the Roundup Newswires Network
YONKERS, NY, Friday, May 18, 2018 - Stop us if you've read this one before... Odds-on Newborn Sassy did not play fair Friday night , winning Yonkers Raceway's $44,000 harness racing filly and mare Open Handicap Pace in obnoxiously facile fashion. This field, reduced to a half-dozen after a mid-pack defection , found Newborn Sassy and Call Me Queen Be hooking up early.
Harness Racing This Week: Graduate Series Trot first leg, Meadowlands Racetrack, East Rutherford, N.J.; and Art Rooney and Lismore eliminations, Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers, N.Y. Schedule of events: Grand Circuit action takes place this Saturday at Meadowlands Racetrack with a pair of $50,000 divisions in the first leg of the Graduate Series for 4-year-old open trotters. Also on Saturday, Yonkers Raceway will host two $40,000 eliminations in the Art Rooney for 3-year-old open pacers and a single $20,000 elimination in the Lismore for 3-year-old pacing fillies.
YONKERS, NY, Monday, May 14, 2018 - Ten harness racing 3-year-old guys - six colts and four geldings - were entered for The 28th Rooney begins with a pair of $40,000 elimination races this Saturday night , each a five-to-eliminate-one affair. Those go as races 6 and 8 during the 10-race card, with the first quartet in each returning for next Saturday night's $300,000 final.
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of 'It's Dark and Hell Is Hot,' Stereo Williams looks back at how the Yonkers rapper's stunning debut changed the game. DMX crashed the platinum-coated party that was late-'90s hip-hop and reminded fans that grit has always defined this genre and culture more than gloss.
YONKERS, NY, Saturday, May 12, 2018 - It's a Reynolds Wrap. The mercurial W.N. Reynolds Memorial found its way to Westchester Saturday night , with hosting six divisions for harness racing 3-year-olds pacers of both genders.
Bluebird Jesse making jump from Yonkers series winner to Open trotter Friday, May 11, 2018 - by Brandon Valvo, for the SOA of NY Bluebird Jesse defeated Seasoned Saint by a head in a life-best-matching 1:54.4 in the $85,000 final of the Bonus Trotting Series at Yonkers Raceway. Bluebird Jesse made his mark in Indiana as a 2- and 3-year old.
... say we expected this one to win the series final and show that he has a shot to be a very, very useful trotter at Yonkers. That says a lot about the horse." Bluebird Jesse made his mark in Indiana as a 2- and 3-year old. He won six races at Hoosier ...
Since arriving in the barn of Scott Di Domenico this year, Bluebird Jesse has surpassed expectations. The 4-year-old trotter won two of the three preliminary legs of the Yonkers Raceway/SOA of NY Bonus Trotting Series before capturing the $85,000 series final April 24. Last week, he made his first start in the local Open Trot, finishing third.
Nearly seven miles of the Bronx River Parkway will be closed to motorists between White Plains and Yonkers on Sunday, May 6 for the first of a summer's worth of bicycle freedom. Bicycle Sundays, one of Westchester's longest-running and popular recreational programs is held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. In addition to this coming Sunday, the county program runs on May 13 and 20; June 3, 10, 17 and 24; and Sept.
