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Six Pack "Fabs": Jason Bartlett and Mark MacDonald at Yonkers Raceway on Friday and Saturday Nights
June 21, 2026
Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers Ave, Yonkers, NY
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A pair of six-packs were cause for celebration on back-to-back nights at Yonkers Raceway. Leading driver Jason Bartlett and fellow sulky starMark MacDonald both brought home six winners on consecutive nights at Empire City Casino-s historic half mile oval.
On Friday night (June 17), Krispy Apple registered her 44th career triumph, going wire to wire in the $45,000 Filly and Mare Open Handicap Pace, pairing with Bartlett for the four length score over Hidden Land (Brent Holland) in 1:52.2.
For Krispy Apple, an 8-year-old daughter of Western Ideal co-owned by Bamond Racing and Joseph Davino and trained by Jeff Bamond Jr., it was her fourth win in 10 starts this season, boosting her career earnings to $1.7 million). Yonkers Raceway-s ?Maine Man? brought home six wins on the 11-race program.
It was MacDonald-s turn on Saturday night to join the ?Six-Pack Fabs? twosome, highlighted by both halves of the evening-s $45,000 co-features on his best-ever Yonkers performance.
MacDonald first chauffeured favored Sunfire Blue Chip ($5) to a wire-to-window triumph in the Open Handicap Pace, stopping the clock in 1:51.2. ?Sunfire? won by a length over Doctor Butch with Dan Dube in the bike.
In the featured Trot, MacDonald took advantage of the rail assignment behind Aggressive, and lit up the board with a $38 win mutual, getting past E R Ellie (Jordan Stratton) by three-quarters of a length at the wire in 1:54.3.
Here-s a recap of MacDonald-s six pack: his first win of the evening was behind Northview Punter A ($11.40) in the $18,000, second-race pace (1:52.1)-in the fifth race, he steered Forty Five Red ($7) in the $22,000, fifth-race pace (1:52) to a wire to wire victory-After putting the aforementioned co-features in the books, he then swept a $591 late double with Summers Windsong ($59) in the $26,000, 10th- race trot (1:54.4), and Sapphire City ($25.60) in the $22,000, 11th-race pace (1:52.2).