Driver Josh Marks tied a record for the most wins on a single Vernon Downs’ program with seven scores on Thursday night, including a 1:53.3 victory with Arbeedo in the $8,100 featured sixth race
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Driver Jim Morrill, Jr. established Vernon’s all-time single program record in 2008.
Starting out fifth in her Downs debut, Arbeedo was given an overland journey by the 27-year-old reinsman. She closed from second in the final quarter to earn a head triumph in the evening’s top Miracle Mile test for female pacers.
It was the sixth career score for the four-year-old daughter of Artsplace-Shoobeedobeedo, who is owned by trainer Tracy Brainard and Andrew Herzog.
Marks began his victory binge behind the trotter Neon Dream (1:59) in Thursday’s first race. He won the third race with the trotter Study Hall (1:59.3), the fifth with the trotter Frosty Flirt (1:56.3), the seventh with the pacer Pounne De Luxe (1:53.4), the eighth with the trotter Justice Wyoming (1:58.3) - equaling his current previous single program high here - and the last with the pacer Honeys Luck (1:54.3).
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