Track record for Simple Kinda Man at Yonkers

YONKERS, NY, – Monday, September 17, 2018- At 2, he won Grand River's Battle of Waterloo. At 3, he's a Yonkers Raceway track record-holder. For a horse that owns all of four career victories, he's certainly living right.

Locally-debuting Simple Kinda Man (Jim Marohn Jr., $6.10) found his way into the annals Monday night (Sept. 17th), wiring his way to happiness in 1:51.2.

That effort, in the $16,000, seventh-race pace, is the new Westchester watermark for 3-year-old geldings, wiping away Gokudo Hanover's 1:51.3 in 2015.

From post position No. 5, Simple Kinda Man cruised through intervals of :26.3, :55.1 and 1:23, then finished it off by four lengths for just his second win in 13 seasonal starts.

"I've had him about 10 days," trainer Bruce Saunders said. "The owners (M&L of Delaware) are hands-on and they said to race him with an open bridle because he can be a runaway. I saw the line where he was down in three-quarters in (1):21 and 2/5 in Canada, so I knew he was fast.

"The plugs were in and I spoke to Jimmy (Marohn Jr.) after and he never felt as if the horse was getting away from him, so I'm very happy with the effort."

by Frank Drucker, for Yonkers Raceway