Aruba Vacation and Fern Paquet Jr. equaled the track record
for aged gelding trotters on Saturday night at Tioga Downs with a 1:53.3 mark
in the $11,500 winners over trot.
Leaving from post position number five in a field of eight,
Paquet hustled Aruba Vacation past the quarter in 27.4 before yielding to Macs
Bad Boy (Sean Bier). Bier took the field by the half mile mark of the race in
56.1 and continued to lead by three quarters in 1:25. Around the final turn
Paquet angled Aruba Vacation off the rail to challenge the leader and he
responded trotting by Macs Bad Boy in the stretch for his second win of the
year.
Aruba Vacation is a 5-year-old homebred son of Dream
Vacation – Dixie Hit for Howard Stables of Binghamton, NY and trainer Guy
Howard. The win was the second in 10 seasonal starts for Aruba Vacation who
established a new lifetime mark with the mile, and increased his seasonal
earnings to more than $32,000.
Hoboken Sonny (Jim Raymer) got up to finish second, while
Macs Bad Boy (Sean Bier) hung tough for third.
The 1:53.3 track mark was originally established by Woody
Woodrow (Mike Simons) in 2007, and was equaled once more earlier this year by
Spice It Up Lindy (Jim Meittinis).
Sean Bier posted a driving double on the night's nine-race
card and increased his total to 1,997 on his quest to 2,000 career wins.
Tioga Downs continues live racing on Sunday, July 8th
at 1:30 pm, for more information on Tioga Downs please visit us on our website
at www.tiogadowns.com .
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