Ricks Crossroads and Nine Innings scored respective second leg division wins in lifetime best times Wednesday afternoon in the Juniors Pacing Series at Colonial Downs
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Ricks Crossroads, who was third through the first five-eighths, came first over just before the straightaway and paced beyond Little Water Tower and Rhapsody Rose in the stretch to win in 1:50.3. The four-year-old Dream Away gelding’s prior best was 1:52.1, which he set at Colonial as a freshman. Corey Braden, leading driver at the 2010 fall campaign, guided Ricks Crossroads for trainer Fran Raia II.
In the first $6,250 division, Nine Innings came outside before the turn and went from fourth to first in the quarter mile bend en route to a 1:51.4 one length triumph. The four-year-old Bettors Delight gelding collected his previous best winning time, a 1:53.4 effort, at Plainridge on September 7. Driver-trainer Todd Whitney directed the fast effort for owner Don Harmon.
Dustin Ingraham’s Jaavos Boy continued a solid fall campaign by capturing the $6,000 Winners Over Trot Wednesday afternoon in 1:54.1. The four-year-old S Js Photo gelding now has three wins, a second and a third at New Kent, nearly all in the meet’s toughest class. His other winning times were 1:53.4 and 1:54.3.
(Colonial Downs)