NAADA trot action at Yonkers Raceway

Yonkers, NY— The North American Amateur Drivers Association (NAADA) featured two $10,000 trotting events Thursday night at Yonkers Raceway. The first race on the wagering card saw Chief Justice and driver Tony Beltrami take the lead away from Skyway Tinacious and driver Robert Krivelin at the half mile marker and then held the field at bay the rest of the one-mile race.

By the top of the stretch Beltrami and Chief Justice were up by two lengths and then pulled away in the stretch to win by three open lengths in 1:59.3. Real McCoy (Dante Scattolini) was second with Skyway Tinacious third.

CHIEF JUSTICE REPLAY

It was the second win on the season for Chief Justice. The seven-year-old gelding by Justice Hall is trained by Paul Fusco for the J M F Racing, LLC of Freehold, NJ. He paid $4.80 to win.

When the wings of the mobile gate folded Joe Lee and Zagster zipped to the lead and made every pole a winning one enroute to a 2:01 triumph in the $10,000 NAADA trot, a race that went non-betting.

After starting from the pole position Zagster looked like a runaway leading by many open lengths throughout the mile and finished a 3-1/2 length winner over Winneress and driver Tony Verruso, who rallied from sixth at the half to gain the place money. Mosconi Hanover garnered the show dough with Dante Scattolini aboard.

Zagster, a 9-year-ol Muscle Mass gelding, is owned by Winners Circle Racing and John Campanuolo and trained by Dennis Laturza.