Stay In Your Place (Leon Bailey) coasted
to a gate-to-wire victory in the Vernon Downs feature pace ($7,000), on
Saturday (April 21).
Stay in Your Place (Mr Wiggles), who is
owned by Victor Finocchiaro and trained by Andy Gardner, went to the front and
never looked back. The 4-year-old
controlled all the fractions (:26.3, :55.3, 1:23.4, 1:52.2). Drunken Desire A (Justin Huckabone) came on
late to finish second with Ben N Crosby (John MacDonald) taking third.
Stay In Your Place ($10.00), would pick up
his third win of the season and earn career win number 10.
Silver Arrow (John MacDonald) captured the
first leg of the Anthony Farina Pacing Series ($4000).
Silver Arrow (Roll With Joe) would charge
out to the front and lay down all the fractions (:27.4, :57.4, 1:27.1,
1:55.3). CJ’s Roll On Two (Claude
Huckabone III) would ride in the pocket seat the whole way and would settle for
second place. Back to Motown (Mike
Merton) would finish third.
Silver Arrow ($3.40), is owned by Purple
Haze Stables and George Wyman while trained by Howard Okuskow. He won for the first time this season. The 3-year-old colt now has two career
victories.
Vernon Downs returns to live racing on Friday (April 27)
at 6:10 p.m.
For more information go to www.vernondowns.com
