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| Northern Companion |
Dorothy
Zarza's Northern Companion advanced from last to first to capture Saturday
night's $10.000 Open pace feature at Vernon Downs.
Trainer
Robert Hoffman was in the sulky as Northern Companion started out
dead-last. The gritty 5-year-old gelding
stayed in sixth place through the half, as the favorite JK Panache cut out the
mile. The bay son of Cambest-Smoke It
Out rallied three wide from fourth around the final turn and kept on charging
until he caught the determined pace-setter in the final sixteenth, and then
zoomed on to a 1-3/4-length victory.
Saturday's
score was the fourth locally and the ninth this season for the career-winner of
$160,532, who now sports 29 lifetime win-credits.
Leading
driver Rick Plano posted four tallies during Saturday's 13-race card, including
a 152.1 triumph with the Maurice Bazinet-owned-and-trained sidewheeler Ideally
Magic in the fourth race. It was the
sixth win at the 48-program meeting for the rugged 11-year-old gelding, tops
among representatives of the lateral gait, and tying the trotters Glorious
Winner and Ulay Boko for most victories by equine performers at the 2013
meeting through Aug. 10.
John
MacDonald, a newcomer to the Downs this season, recorded his 12th
driving double of the track's 60th anniversary campaign.
DOWNS DOINGS—Plano, who raised his win total
for the meet to 93, leads in four-win performances here this season with
six…The Downs will offer live racing Thursday-Saturday next weekend, with first
post each evening at 6:45…A revised 2013
racing and stakes calendar, as well as additional information regarding Vernon
Downs, its casino, hotel, racing and promotional events can be obtained at www.vernondowns.com.
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