Daley Deposit Only’s super season continued after the gritty gelding produced a 1:50.4 career-best victory in Monday’s $10,000 feature race at Vernon Downs
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While You Bet Your Glass was cutting blazing fractions of :26.4, :54.4 and 1:22.2 in mid-90 degree temperatures, Daley Deposit Only drafted along in the garden spot. With trainer Dan Daley doing the driving, the five-year-old bay son of Artiscape-Sassy Cessiann pulled the pocket in the final furlong and dug deep in a :28-second final quarter to defeat the game-going leader by a neck in the weekend’s Miracle Mile-1 pacing handicap. He paid $9.30 to win.
After clipping two-fifths of a second off his previous best speed-mark (earned this past winter at Florida’s Pompano Park), Daley Deposit Only secured his third local tally, ninth this season and 21st overall. Ann-Mari Daley (Dan’s wife) owns the career-winner of $215,854 along with Jared Daley, Richard Lombardo and Robert Pergament.
Daley Deposit Only’s half-brother, Daleys Interest, captured Monday’s $6,000 seventh race to give driver Daley his second double at the meet. The sophomore gelding is registered to Ann-Mari Daley, Jared Daley and Lombardo.
With Chuck Connor, Jr. teaming for trainer Jody Weidman and his ownership partner George Mathar, the productive pacer Up Front Rudy became the meet’s first seven-time winning equine following a 1:52.3 victory in the afternoon’s $8,000 fifth race.
Leading driver Josh Marks won three of Monday’s 10 races to increase his current Downs credits to 85 through 32 programs, while top trainer Tracy Brainard logged a pair of first-place finishes.
(Vernon Downs)