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| Scorpion Moon (near) wins Friday's $9,500 Open Trot |
The productive veteran Scorpion Moon converted a two-hole trip into the fastest
trotting mile of the season during Friday night's $9,500 featured eighth event
at Vernon Downs.
Chris Lems did the teaming for
owner/trainer Tracy Brainard as Scorpion Moon ($10.80) sat in the cat-bird's
spot behind the front-striding favorite Lorenzo Dream until the stretch drive,
then spurted to a nose triumph over last week's winner in this Open class,
Yankee Manny. The Saratoga-shipper
Lorenzo Dream finished third.
Friday's first-place finish
marked the fifth victory in eight current outings and the 84th
lifetime triumph for the 11-year-old son of Armbro Scorpion-Angie's Nugget, who
raised his career winnings to $904,156.
The 1:54 clocking lowered the
track's current standard for representatives of the diagonal gait by two-fifths
of a second.
It was one of three tallies
during Friday's 12-race card for Lems, currently the track's top dash-winning
reinsmen with 20 first-place finishes.
The evening's other multiple winners included drivers Rick Plano (three
wins and two training tallies), Truman Gale (two driving wins) Frank Davis (two
sulky scores), and Brainard (two training victories).
DOWNS DOINGS—Josh Kinney became the
10-night meet's top provisional pilot with a 1:54 pacing score behind Zinescape
in Friday's first event. It was his
second Vernon victory of 2012…Leslie Hale earned his initial provisional driving
win behind his pacer Filthy Rich in Friday's 11th event…Lems's triple
was his fifth of the current local campaign…The pacer Dynamic Rayzer (1:53.3)
and trotter Ulay Bono (1:55.4) became the meet's 10th and
11th two-time winners, respectively, as a result of their repeat
Friday victories…Vernon will simulcast the 137th Preakness Stake at
approximately 6:20 tomorrow afternoon, and then present a 13-race live program, including 10 events for New York-bred
3-year-old filly pacers at 6:55 p.m…Additional information regarding Vernon
Downs, its casino, hotel, racing and promotional events can be obtained at www.vernondowns.com.
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