Airzoom Lindy posted the fastest trotting mile of the 40-program meeting and a track record for four-year-old diagonally gaited horses with his 1:54.1 triumph in Friday night’s $11,000 featured sixth race at Vernon Downs
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Trainer Frank Antonacci was on hand to drive Airzoom Lindy in his first official start of 2010. Leaving from Post 6, the well-bred son of Cantab Hall-True Diva followed Sharpshootennorris to the quarter, timed in :28 seconds over a “good” track, then took charge and remained of the lead en route to a 1-3/4-length triumph in the week’s Miracle Mile-1 contest.
The eye-popping performance trimmed three-fifths of a second off the previous meet standard for high-steppers, and four-fifths of a second off the track’s all-time mark, set by Diamond Goal in 2002.
It was the fifth lifetime tally for the career-winner of $212,349, who is owned by the Lindy Racing Stable (his breeder) and Robert Rudolph. He paid $4.10 for finishing first.
The M&L of Delaware stable’s Ladystar delivered the meet’s swiftest mile by a two-year-old filly pacer after her 1:56.2 triumph in Friday’s $2,900 second event. Chris Lems did the catch-driving for trainer Larry Rathbone as the brown daughter of Bettors Delight-Forever Cam chalked up a win record and her first score in three official trips to the track.
Friday’s fastest mile was a 1:53 showing by newcomer Here Comes Kris (trainer Kevin Hough driving for himself and Kelly Hough) in the $3,000 first race. The five-year-old pacer’s lifetime best mile resulted in his third season’s score.
(Vernon Downs)