Brian Sears, former three-time percentage driving champion at Vernon Downs (1991-93), made a triumphant return on Tuesday, capturing four of the eight races he competed in, including the Jack “J.L.” Bailey Memorial Trophy race, and the night’s top test for female pacers.
Sears, who began his provisional driving career here in 1990, steered Olivia’s Native to a career-best 1:56.3 “maiden” victory in Tuesday’s $3,000 sixth race, the Bailey Memorial, then piloted Perched to a 1:53 tally in the $5,500 seventh session.
Currently ranked among the Standardbred sport’s top reinsmen in both races won and purse earnings, Sears also won with the 2-year-old filly trotter Photogenic Lens (2:00) and veteran high-stepper Flying Scotsman (1:58.4).
The 41-year-old horseman came from off the pace to capture the Bailey Memorial, named in honor of his friend and former Vernon horseman. It marked the first score in three season’s starts for the 3-year-old pacer, who is trained by Bailey’s father, Jack, the track’s all-time driving champion and a member of the Greater Syracuse Sports Hall-of-Fame. Lawrence Broadway owns the gelded son of Allamerica Native-Perfect Look. In the very next event, the third-generation horseman urged Perched into the lead early in the week’s feature for distaff pacers and kept the 7-year-old daughter of Astreos-Chirp To Me alive throughout the mile, scoring by more than four lengths over Crazy Cathy, a winner in this class two weeks ago. It was the second local victory, fourth of 2009 and 21st all-time for the career-winner of more than $198,800, who is now owned by Ken Jacobs. (Vernon Downs)
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