Daley Deposit Only ended a string of four second-place finishes with a 1:53 victory in Saturday night’s $9,000 Open Pace at Vernon Downs
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Competing over a track rated sloppy due to persistent rains, Daley Deposit Only went right to the front from the seven post position and remained in charge throughout the eighth event, winning by 5-3/4 lengths over The Best. The swift-footed favourite paid $4.70 to win.
Trainer Dan Daley did the teaming as the four-year-old son of Artiscape-Sassy Cessiann rang up his second season’s score, both over Vernon’s seven-eighths mile track. Ann-Mari Daley (Dan’s wife), Jared Daley, Richard Lombardo and Robert Pergament own the career-winner of $67,674.
Leading driver Howard Okusko, Jr. snared three tallies during Saturday’s 11-race card, hiking his win total to 40 after 27 programs.
David Pozefsky guided CJs Not A Clue to a front-striding, 2:00.2 triumph in Saturday’s $3,000 first event, a leg of the 2009 C. K. G. Billings Series for amateur drivers of trotters. It was the first score in five current outings for the seven-year-old daughter of Credit Winner-Trixies Comeback, who is trained by Chip Zombick and owned by Michael Pozefsky, William Pozefsky and Myron Ekstein.
Provisional reinsman Michael Miller achieved his first pari-mutuel win after he steered his dad’s (Lewis) four-year-old trotter Pacific Wave to a 1:59.3 decision in Saturday’s third test.
Victory Streak also used front-ending tactics to capture Saturday’s $7,000 seventh race, the week’s Open-2 Pace. Fern Paquet, Jr. did the driving for trainer Leslie Hale as the nine-year-old son of Keystone Raider won in 1:55 for owners Peter and Wai Shank.
(Vernon Downs)