BRENNAN REACHES 7,000 WINSClassic Camelot pulls George Brennan home to his 7000th winning drive Tuesday at Yonkers. Photo by Tom BergYONKERS, NY, Tuesday, October 18, 2011 -- Let's dust off the handy abacus and do some fast math.
Last June 9th, George Brennan won both halves of Yonkers Raceway's early daily double, the back portion serving as career win No. 6,000.
Three-quarters of the way through the Tuesday night card, Brennan upped the lifetime total to an even 7,000.
So, in the span of a bit more than 16 months--496 days to be precise--Yonkers Raceway's (and North America's) leading dash-win driver racked up another thousand winner's circle meet-and-greets.
Brennan won Tuesday night's $10,000 pacing opener, going up, over and away with favored Midnight Gambol ($4.80) in 2:01.2 for the
mile-and-one-sixteenth.
After sitting out the second race, Brennan was snapped on the money in the third and was a pocket second in the fourth.
He then was a non-factor longshot in the fifth race, a tiring leader in the sixth and beaten by a pacing-lane pacer in the seventh.
An uncovered second in the eighth race was a prelude to paydirt. Brennan went first-up with odds-on Classic Camelot ($3.50), striding out by four lengths in the $16,000, ninth-race pace. The 3-year-old Camelot Hall gelding won the third race in his last four starts.
"(The latest milestone) came up very fast," Brennan said. "I've been very fortunate to stay healthy the past couple of years, and to drive some very good horses for some very good people.
"The one thing is that I really haven't been able to do is sit back and enjoy it, because I'm always driving somewhere."
Or driving to somewhere.
By: Frank Drucker
