I’m having a good week, ”Parker said when contacted by phone
in the paddock after his six-win day. “I don’t think I’m doing anything
different but I am getting some live mounts.”
With two wins on the Monday program, one on Tuesday, and 11
over the past two days Zeke has 13 driving victories on the
past four-day Mighty M week.Parker scored his first victory right off the reel when he won the first race with Triple T Racing Stables’ Vinnie’s Valentine($6.20) in 1:59.4 and it wasn’t until the sixth race that Zeke scored again, and when he did he reeled off three consecutive winners.
He won the sixth with Robert Bourgon’s trotter Gate Keeper ($25.60) in 2:03.1 and copped the seventh behind Richard Stiles Wink And Nod ($8.00) in 1:57.4. He then drove Diana Bartells trotter Batu Khan($48.00) to a 2:03 victory.
And Parker wasn’t done.
He made a laugher out of race 10 when he guided Bill Demberg’s See You Smile ($5.20) to an eight-length triumph in a 1:56 clocking. He then capped another outstanding day winning the final race with his and Evan Katz’s Truponder ($4.70) in 2:00.
When told that his longtime friend
and fellow Mainer Walter Case, Jr. with 11,038 wins, is next in line on his
move up the victories ladder Parker dismissed any real accomplishment in that
saying “I don’t think it’s fair and I’ll feel bad because Casey hasn’t
driven in years.”
“Zeke, there’s no crime in moving
up because someone else hasn’t been racing for a long time,” Parker’s pal and
co-owner Evan Katz said to him after the last race which they won. “You know
you’re still 300 wins away and maybe when you start approaching Case’s numbers
he might be back in the sulky again.”
