The still-improving Daleys Interest continued his rise in the Miracle Mile pacing ranks with a career-best 1:53.1 victory in Monday’s 11-race program at Vernon Downs

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Trainer Dan Daley was at the controls in Monday’s sixth race as Daleys Interest powered three wide around the final turn, and then zipped home (final quarter :27.2) from fourth at the head of the lane to defeat the on-rushing Touch Of The Past by a neck in division two of the weekly MM class for top flight representatives of the lateral gait.

While trimming a full second off his previous win-mark, the three-year-old homebred son of Modern Art-Sassy Cessiann earned his second straight score (he won the MM-3 contest here on July 5) and his fourth all-time for breeder Ann-Mari Daley and her partners Richard Lombardo and Jared Daley.

The career-winner of more than $27,000 paid $44.80 to win.

Fastest mile-of-the-day honours went to Lewis Rosselli, Jr.’s pacer Miracle Freeluck, who recorded his third win at the meet after a 1:52.2 mile for driver Brian Connor and trainer Brandon Loomis in Race 10, the day’s MM-3 contest.

Former Vernon provisional driving champ Chris Lems, who ranks third in the track’s current standing with 33 victories, collected his second hat-trick at the meet after finishing first with the pacers Quick Step (1:56.3), Do’s Bigboy (1:54.3) and Onedayatatime (1:54).

(Vernon Downs)