Sunburned Vern paced home for his 50th career victory, winning Tuesday evening’s second race at Northfield Park.
The 10 year-old veteran, with 283 career starts, also has 36 seconds and 40 third place finishes.
Sunburned Vern, a son of Stand Forever-Sunset Melody, has career earnings of $165,877 with a lifetime mark of 1:54.1. The pacer’s richest win was for a purse of $8,500 in a conditioned race at Pocono Downs in 2009. Sunburned Vern is a well-traveled campaigner. His 50 wins have been spread across 15 different racing surfaces.
Sunburned Vern started from post five. His competition set fractions of :27.3, :56.4 and 1:26.2. He kicked from the back in the final quarter and bested his competition by three-quarters of a length in 1:55.4. He returned $8.80 to win.
Rosy Weaver of Beach City, Ohio owns and trains Sunburned Vern. Robin Miller was aboard for the winning drive.
(Northfield Park)