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Friday, October 20, 2017

Drea's Good Powow wins Vernon feature as MacDonald wins five.

Drea's Good Powow (John MacDonald) captured the featured Fillies and Mares pace ($9,000) at Vernon Downs on Thursday (October 19). 

Bye Bye Michelle (Chris Lems) would control all the early fractions :26.4, :55.2, 1:23.3.  Drea's Good Powow (Squaw's Fella), who is owned by J P Stables and trained by MacDonald, would sit patiently in second almost the whole way.  The 7 year-old mare would pounce out of the pocket in mid-stretch and blow right by to get the win in 1:51.3.  Bye Bye Michelle would hang on for second with Graceful Vision (Atlee Bender) would finish third.

Drea's Powow ($4.90) would get her eighth win of the year.  She now has 27 career victories.

MacDonald, who is Vernon's leading driver would win five of the eight races on the night.  His other wins came with Yule Love It ($3.90), I Saw Red ($4.70), Axios ($3.20), and Rockin Show ($5.60).


Live racing returns to live racing on Friday (October 20) with a 10 race card starting at 6:45 p.m.