Hi Steve,
Hopefully, this will work for you. It involves 2 steps. First you need to place a marker anywhere within the event that you want selected. You can fast forward and simply hit the M button for any event you want to select. The screen will then look like this.

Then run the script “SelectEventsWithMarker” (which you can find at the same DB address) and the screen will look like this.

If you copy the selected events and then paste somewhere else, you will have the same spaces between events. Since you have Vegasaur (great toolset), simply select the 3 tracks and run the 1-click command–Close Gaps (selected tracks). You can also use their Markers dialog to delete the original markers.
wwaag