Shes Everything takes Vernon Open

Vernon, NY — Shes Everything continued her tender winning streak with a 1:54.4 pacing performance in Thursday night’s $10,000 featured ninth race at Vernon Downs.

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Shes Everything was a 1:54.4 winner.

Fresh from a front-striding 1:53.4 triumph on May 7, opening night at Tioga Downs, Shes Everything ($3.30) employed similar route going tactics in Thursday’s Open for female side-wheelers, cutting splits of :28.1, :58.3 and 1:28 on her way to a 1-1/4 length victory over Hugs Again.

Thursday’s tally was the third in 13 current outings, the 18th all-time, and it increased her lifetime earnings to $239,921. Greg Merton drove for trainer Tracy Brainard, who owns the quick-striding 5-year-old daughter of Badlands Hanover along with Andrew Herzog.

Newcomer Frank Milby’s driving skills were on display as he captured four of Thursday’s 10 races. He won with the pacers P L Comestowin (1:54), My Girl Lora (1:54.1), and Won Night Stand (1:53.1) and trotter Lekka (1:58.2) to join Jimmy Whittemore, Jack Rice and Howard Okusko, Jr. as the only drivers to have notched four races on a single program at the meet.

Driver Leon Bailey, as well as Brainard and trainer Lonny Hale also posted two wins during the track’s 10th program of 2011.

— Jim Moran

Cal Expo
A field reduced to five trotters was featured at Cal Expo on Thursday night for a purse of $3,900, in which Putoneonnetformom scored. Coming away a tight fourth into a :30.1 opening quarter and moving into a live second-over spot behind Broadway Victory at the half-mile juncture, timed in :59.3, driver Rocky Stidham liked what he was seeing. Getting a great lead up trip while Broadway Victory bickered with the pace-setting Berkshire on the final bend, Putoneonnetformom found himself just two lengths off the lead at the three-quarter station, timed in 1:28.4. Closing in willing fashion, the 7-year-old won ($6.00) by a neck. Bred and owned by Jeff, Gerald and Diana Cimini, the gelding stopped the timer at 1:58.2, establishing a seasonal best. A very unlucky Berkshire had to settle for second and Broadway Victory finished one length farther back in third.