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Gingras Nails Career Victory #2,000

May 15, 2007

Driver Yannick Gingras won four races on Monday night (May 14) at Yonkers Raceway, the last of which was the 2,000th of his career.

Gingras' milestone victory came behind odds-on favorite Perdition ($3.00) in the $25,000 tri-featured ninth race pace, an event for for $50,000 claimers. The 5-year-old gelding, owned by Richard Annunziata and trained by Mickey Burke, opened up to a 3-1/2 length victory in a season's best 1:53.

Earlier on the 10-race card, Gingras won with Apache Of Grey ($7.70), taking the $19,000, third race pace by 1-3/4 lengths in 1:55.2 despite being parked for much of the mile.

He then won the $15,000 fifth race pace behind favored Triple The Money ($4.50), prevailing by a neck in a season's best 1:54.1, and the $18,000 sixth race pace with Done Laagin ($9.70), getting home by a half-length in a season's best 1:54.4.

"I don't think much about these milestones," Gingras said. "It's nice to pass them, and hopefully, there are plenty more in the future."

The 27-year-old Gingras, a native of Greenfield Park, Quebec, won his first race as an 18-year-old with Tidewater Comic at Hippodrome de Montreal in January of 1998. After cutting his teeth in Quebec, he moved to New York in 2001 and has been a leading driver at both Yonkers Raceway and the Meadowlands ever since.

Gingras has won 241 races and more than $3 million in purses this season, placing him fifth among North American drivers in both categories.

Gingras set a career best in 2006 with more than $7.1 million in purses. His drives have earned in excess of $23.4 million in career purses.