by Dustin Ross, for Vernon Downs

Vernon, NY — Vernon Downs will host an action packed 11-race card on Thursday, September 13, with a post time of 6:45 p.m.

The second leg of the Miss Versatility Trotting Series will co-feature the evening, along with $80,000 finals of the Kindergarten Classic for 2-year-old trotters of each sex.

Passionate Glide looks to be the one to beat in the $25,000 Miss Versatility for trainer Jimmy Takter. Ron Pierce has been listed to drive the 4-year-old Yankee Glide daughter and will leave from post position eight. Passionate Glide is coming off a second place finish in the Breeders Crown and sports a 2007 record of two wins, five seconds, and one third in 11 starts for earnings of more than $320,000.

Here are the trotters who will look to upset: Freeze Frame, Godess Of Chaos, Susie’s Magic, Queen Serene, Birminghim, Lavec Dream, and Tady Strikes Again.

The $100,000 (est.) final will be contested over the world’s fastest half-mile track in Delaware, Ohio, on Jug Day, Thursday, September 20.

Armbro Dancer, another Jimmy Takter trainee and the overall track record holder at Vernon Downs, will look to take the Fillies & Mares Open Handicap Pace from post position nine. Ron Pierce will do the piloting on the 4-year-old Blissfull Hall daughter, who comes into the event with four wins, two seconds, and a third in 11 outings. She sports a mark of 1:49.3 and has banked over $210,000 thus far in 2007.

A field of six pacers has been set for the $25,000 Invitational Pace which is slated as the sixth race of the evening. Winfall Nasty will look for his second straight win at Vernon Downs for owner Ken Jacobs of Baldwinsville, New York. The 5-year-old gelding will leave from post four with Ron Pierce in the sulky.

Here is the field for the $25,000 Invitational Pace (before driver changes): 1. Yoee Excels A-Yannick Gingras; 2. Squaw’s Ebony Chip-Brian Sears; 3. Srixon-Larry Stalbaum; 4. Winfall Nasty-Ron Pierce; 5. Stringtowner-Brian Sears; and 6. Fenman-Ray Schnittker.