Robert Cooper Stables LLC’s Temptation shattered one of Colonial Downs’ oldest track records with sizzling frontstepping score in 1:49.1 Monday. Temptation’s time bested Mr. Mikey’s 1:49.3 clocking, the track and world record for 4-year-old gelding pacers on a greater than one-mile track since July 5, 1998.
Temptation was very quick off the gate to seize a lead he would expand throughout the race. The Dragon Again gelding got the first quarter in :26.1 and reached the half in :54 with 4-5 favorite Civil Attack tracking in second. The field continued single-file around the turn as Temptation sped along on the lead. Temptation crossed three-quarter fraction in 1:22 and emerged at the top of the stretch with a 1¼-length lead over Civil Attack. Temptation found another gear in upper stretch and drew off to win as driver Chris Page pleased. South Park Kid closed well to get second, 3 ¾ lengths behind the winner. Civil Attack was third. The record-shattering score was Temptation’s 20th lifetime win from 60 starts and third straight since being transferred to trainer Manley Brown Jr. Monday night also featured the triumphant return of driver Corey Braden, the leading driver here in 2003 and 2006. Braden drove three winners Monday night in just his second race back in the bike after suffering a broken leg this summer. Braden won the fifth race with Real Trouble and added two more trips to the winner's circle in just four drives. Braden’s first drive back was a fifth-place finish with Windonesia in Sunday’s 10th race. (Colonial Downs)
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