Atlanta set a new overall track record at Vernon Downs and just missed the world record for a 3-year-old trotting filly when she captured the $238,613 Empire Breeders Classic (EBC) final on Monday afternoon in 1:50 3/5.  Six Pack won the $223,673 EBC for sophomore trotting colts in 1:51 2/5, trying the track record for the division. Starting from post four, Atlanta (Scott Zeron) passed Seven Karats (Yannick Gingras) for the lead just beyond the 26 4/5 opening quarter.  Atlanta then got to the half in 55 3/5 and began to step away on second choice Plunge Blue Chip (Ake Svanstedt), who had moved from third to second on the far turn, heading to the 1:24 three-quarters. Through the stretch Atlanta poured it on, and she would reach the finish line 4 1/2 lengths ahead of Plunge Blue Chip, with Supergirl Riley third.  Golden Muscle (Drew Monti) and Repentance (Tim Tetrick) rounded out the top five. The final time of 1:50 3/5 lowered the all-age, all-sex Vernon Downs track record from 1:51, which was set by Intimidate, and was just a fifth of a second off Cee Bee Yes's world record of 1:50 2/5 set at The Red Mile. "Every time she steps out on the track she impresses me more and more," said Scott Zeron.  "I picked the four-hole behind the gate so that we'd already be going a nice tempo out of there, and she kind of was.  We let things settle the way it did.  I was happy to get in front of Plunge Blue Chip so that I could be the one taking command of the lead.  I just let her go a nice middle-half, and I spoke to her down the lane to see what we had and she put on a show. "For me, I take it race by race.  We'll see how things unfold, and when we meet Manchego we'll see how it goes." A daughter of Chapter Seven, Atlanta is trained by Rick Zeron, who also co-owns her with Holland Racing Stable, Howard Taylor, and Brad Grant.  Atlanta is now a seven-time winner from 13 trips behind the gate, and she has banked $255,467.  She was the 1-5 favorite and paid $2.60 to win. "I've trained great horses my whole career.  I'm very fortunate to have great owners and great partners, but nothing like this.  She's a creature," an emotional Rick Zeron stated.  "Number one, she gets a couple weeks off, then she'll get one more race, an overnight race, then she goes to Tioga.  Then she gets a couple more weeks off, then she comes back to Vernon for a sire stake.  Nine or ten days later she goes to the dance at the Meadowlands.  Scott and I will sit down and have a big, long chat.  He knows more about what's going on down here than I do.  He runs the operation here, and I run the one in Canada. "We'll talk about whether it's going to be the Oaks or the Hambletonian.  I'm not ruling out the Hambletonian, but for sure she will be in the Oaks." On the colt side, Six Pack (Svanstedt) moved outside from post two and took command passing the 26 2/5 opening quarter, and would leave Helpisontheway (Tetrick) parked out through middle-half stations of 54 and 1:22 2/5.  Six Pack scooted away from the field in upper stretch and began to tire late, but held off a closing Southwind Chrome (Scott Zeron) by half a length.  Clive Bigsby (Andrew McCarthy), Helpisontheway, and Voss Volo (Corey Callahan) finished third, fourth, and fifth. Tetrick lodged an objection after the race, claiming that Svanstedt had forced him wide going into the first turn while Six Pack was coming out in search of the lead, but the judges denied the objection and the result stood. "When I saw that I wasn't going to hold the lead I went out two- and three-wide so I wasn't going to be locked in.  I was never close to Tetrick's horse.  I was outside early," Svanstedt said in regards to the objection. "He felt good the whole race.  He was tired in the end, but he should have been," Svanstedt added.  "The big race is the Hambletonian, and we'll see what happens before that.  He's a nice, big horse." Svanstedt also co-owns Six Pack, a colt by Muscle Mass, with partners Little E LLC., Stall Kalmar Ff and Lars Berg.FotowonCourtly Choice also set a new track record at Vernon  This was Six Pack's seventh win from 11 career starts, and he has now earned $337,028.  He was the 2-5 favorite and returned $2.90 to win. Zeron and Svanstedt also divvied up the pair of EBC consolations, with Zeron winning the colt flight with George Ducharme-trained The Veteran in a then-track record of 1:51 2/5, and Svanstedt victorious with filly Lucky Ava in 1:53 4/5. The track record for a sophomore pacing colt also fell in New York Sire Stakes action, with Courtly Choice (David Miller) overcoming an early brief break to win the first $40,600 division in 1:48 4/5, topping Heaven's Gait's mark of 1:49 from last year.  Blake MacIntosh trains Courtly Choice, an Art Major colt, and also co-owns him with Hutt Racing Stable, Touch Stone Farms, and Daniel Plouffe. The other two New York Sire Stakes splits, also worth $40,600 each, went to American History (American Ideal) in 1:49 1/5 for driver Yannick Gingras, trainer Tony Alagna, owner/breeder Brittany Farms, and co-owners Marvin Katz and American History Racing, and My Delight (Bettor's Delight) in 1:49 4/5 for driver Marcus Miller, trainer Homer Hochstetler, and owner Bay Pond Racing.