Trainer Ron Burke had three of the seven participants in this year’s installment of the $150,000 Joe Gerrity Jr. Memorial Pace at Saratoga Casino Hotel and managed to take the first three spots at the finish led by world champion This Is The Plan.
Yannick Gingras piloted This Is The Plan, who brought his close to $2.3 Million in career earnings to The Spa and wound up as the 7-5 betting favourite in the 12th annual Gerrity.
Gingras moved the standout to the lead in a :26.2 first quarter before giving way to fellow Burke trainee Backstreet Shadow. That one retook command after the sizzling first quarter and cruised through the first half in :55.2. It appeared that after three-quarters went in 1:22.3 that it would come down to those two stalwarts, but just then is when yet another Burke trainee tossed his hat into the ring.