Vieira enjoys dream run with four-timer
Joseph Vieira had one of those race days that every driver dreams of during weekend harness racing at the Bermuda Equestrian Centre.
The top driver claimed four wins on three different ponies and posted the fastest time on the day for added measure.
Vieira was a double heat winner in the 1:06/1-1:07/1 time bar with mare GV Special Dream.
He also won a heat each in the 1:08/3-1:10/3 time bar and Free for All with mares IC’s Shakedown and Cherokee Kibbitz, whose time of 1:04/3 was the fastest on the day.
GV Crystal Ball posted the second-fastest time of 1:04/4 twice, with the evergreen Eddie Roque and Mark Richardson in the sulky.
No pony has run faster this season than GV Crystal Ball, Roque’s stallion, which posted a 1:04 in the Aged Division Best 3 Stakes series last month.
On Saturday at Vesey Street, Vieira also clocked the third-fastest time of 1:05, which was equalled by gelding Brona’s Mike, with Cameron Harris on board.
Moving up a time bar was the gelding Itsallaboutme, ridden by Kenny Mills, which ran a 1:07/1 in the 1:07/2-1:08/2 time bar in the thirteenth heat.
Mills, the former PHC Zebras star footballer, was one of five drivers managing two wins on the day.
Andrea Westerfield, Arthur Hurst, Casey Truran and Jason Peniston were also double heat winners.
Veteran driver Hurst was a heat winner in the 1:13 & Slower and 1:10/4-1:12/4 divisions with colt Bustin and stud Colonel’s J.
Truran won two heats in the 1:08/3-1:10/3 time bar with colt Inwood’s Generation, the fastest two-year-old on the domestic scene at present.
Peniston had two wins with mare Crown’s Jewel in the 1:07/2-1:08/2 time bar and Westerfield achieved the same feat with colt Casmir Camotion in the 106/1-1:07/1 section.
Lindsay Sousa was the remaining female driver claiming a win on the day, having done so with filly Shady Lady in the 1:13 & Slower division.
Veteran driver David Lopes had a win in the same division with mare LA Erma Time, with teenager Kiwon Waldron, last season’s top rookie, victorious in the Free for All with gelding Down Home Punch.
