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| Little Santamonica and Chris Lems |
Little Santamonica posted a gate-to-wire victory in the final $12,000 fillies and
mares Open pace on Friday night at Vernon Downs.
Chris
Lems did the teaming for trainer Jordan Hope as Little Santamonica led
through splits
of :27.1, :56.1 and 1:24.3 en route to a 1:52.4 decision over Bijou
Theater in Friday's second session. It was the first local score, but
the seventh season's tally for the 5-year-old daughter of Little
Steven-Tonianne, who is owned by Kelly Dawn Hope of Vernon.
The brave-hearted brown mare now sports 17 career victories and earnings
of more than $108,500.
Lems,
the local campaign's second-leading reinsman after 87 programs, earned
four first-place
finishes during Friday's 11-race card to reach the 100-win plateau.
Driver Truman Gale also visited Vernon's Blue Chip Farms winner's circle
four times during the program, while driver Adam Capizzano and trainer
Robert C. Gale each recorded two victories.
DOWNS DOINGS—Driver
Brian
Mattison was unseated when the pacer Prince Pendant fell during
Friday's ninth contest and reportedly suffered a hand injury…The
3-year-old pacer Steuben Huckleberi
notched his first pari-mutuel win after Capizzano steered him to a 1:58
triumph in Friday's 10th event…The
Downs will conclude its 2013 campaign with a special 6 p.m. first post on Saturday (Nov. 9). There will be a 60th
Anniversary Season coffee mug giveaway, while supplies last, during the
night and a spectacular fireworks display following the evening's 13th
and final race.
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