Brennan, Bartlett Near Milestones at Yonkers Raceway

Harness sulky stars George Brennan and Jason Bartlett, who sit atop Yonkers Raceway-s driver standings, are not surprisingly also sitting on their next major milestones at Empire City Casino's historic half-mile track. Brennan, who had a very rare harness version of the "Golden Sombrero" - he was blanked in nine drives on Tuesday afternoon - is 15 wins away from 9,000 career triumphs. Despite his protestations, the staunch New York Mets- fan cannot add any of their post-season victories to his personal number, but was at least pleased that the matinee card gave him the evening free to watch his Metsies in Game 1 of the World Series. Bartlett, after a two?win Tuesday (including a 27-1 [$56.50] bombardier in the finale), stands at 5,998 career victories, just two shy of the 6,000 career victory plateau. ‎Bartlett, with 411 wins this season at Yonkers, is a mile ahead of Brennan's 331 dash wins, but that-s an impressive total, too. This 1-2 tandem in the local standings are amongst the finest reinsmen in the world. The two resume the quest for those lofty milestones with full dance cards during Yonkers- final Thursday card of the season on October 29th, with first post @ 7:10 PM. ‎‎As an outstanding aside, driver Scott Zeron is catching attention, and picked up the Tuesday gauntlet with four winners (mutuels of $4.90, $4.10 [$13.60 early double], $66 and $13.60), while Mark MacDonald-s back-to-back winners returned $43.40 and $69.50, respectively. Those $60-plus mutuels had players salivating. Meanwhile, Mr. Brennan, despite the oh-fer, could kick back for Game 1, which turned out to be a disappointing extra innings loss to the Royals.