On Wednesday afternoon, June 2, Camwood reclaimed the title as the best pacer on the grounds by virtue of his win in the $6,7000 Open Pace. Making his Monticello Raceway debut Brocks Fortune (Brett Macdonald) starting from the rail was fastest off the gate and took the field to the quarter pole in 27.3. First to move approaching the half and starting the outer flow was Cool Blues Man (Cory Stratton) followed by last week’s Open winner Lacarmeliana. Brocks Fortune past the ½ in 57.2, down the backside Camwood started his move with Brocks Fortune still showing the way, taking the field to the ¾ in 1:26.1. At the top of the stretch pace setter Brocks Fortune began to tire slightly as Bruce Aldrich and Camwood overtook him to score by a head in 1:55.4 ($4.80) finishing second was Cool Blues Man and Brocks Fortune hung on for third.
It was
Camwoods 4th win in the Open class and 7th win for the
season, bringing his seasonal earnings to $27,953. Camwood a 7-year-old gelded
son of Woodstock is owned by George Dremonas of Oak Lawn IL and is trained by
Chris Petrelli, currently Pettrelli is in third place for leading dash winning
trainers at Monticello Raceway.
In the
$6,000 North American Amateur Driving Association race, Alan Schwartz scored
aboard Raceace in 2:00.1 - $7.20, also on the card leading dash winning driver
Mike Merton drove 3 winners, Kyle Dibenedetto and Shane Taggart each had a
driving double.
