Lola De Vie and Jurgen Hanover earned champion status, while JK Panache capped off Sunday night's 12-race card at Vernon Downs with the fastest pacing mile of the 21-program campaign, and a track record for 4-year-old geldings.
Lola De Vie (#2) gets up to win the EBC Filly Final |
With Jim
Morrill, Jr. doing the teaming for trainer Chris Ryder in Sunday's sixth
session, Lola De Vie used a fast closing spurt in the final furlong to
out-stride three determined rivals and capture the $237,600 Empire Breeders
Classic final for 3-year-old filly trotters with a career-best 1:55.3
performance. It marked the third victory
this season and the fifth win all-time for the bay daughter of Credit
Winner-Fan Favourite, who raised her career winnings to $194,554 for her owner
and breeder, the Joie De Vie Farm.
Three
races later, Jurgen Hanover used similar tactics in the $259,900 EBC male
clash, closing from second in the stretch to catch and defeat the mile-cutting
Modest Prince by a length at the finish of a lifetime-fastest 1:53.4
effort. David Miller did the steering
for trainer Donna Marshall as the bay sophomore son of Credit Winner-Yassi
Hanover remained undefeated after seven season's starts and improved his lifetime
record to seven scores in nine trips to the track. The career winner of $118,813 is owned by
Norman and Gerald Smiley and the T.L.P Stable.
Jurgen Hanover wins his 7th straight in the EBC Colt Final |
Not to
be out-shown, JK Panache took advantage of an opening :25.1 quarter by
Checkinthebox in Sunday's night-cap and, after taking charge before the half,
zipped on to a convincing 1:49.3 triumph in the weekend's $10,000 Open pace
that not only proved to be the swiftest score of the current campaign, but a
fresh record for 4-year-old altered sidewheelers. The sizzling mile trimmed 1/5th-of-a-second
off the standard for this class that had been set by Melvyn last August. Chris Lems logged a double with the all-time
fastest tally by the bay son of Art Major-Paris Hanover, who is registered to
trainer Dave Dewhurst and his partner Philip K. Hale.
Ashes
Cash captured one of five male divisions in the New York State Fair Excelsior
Series for 3-year-old trotters in 1:54.3, while the fastest of four filly
flights turned out to be a 1:56.3 showing by Royalty Free in Sunday's opening
race.
In
addition to Lola De Vie, Morrill, Jr. also finished first with colt Viper Blue
Chip and gelding Ruth-Like to secure his initial triple of the track's 60th
season.
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