A field of seven top trotters will line up Thursday evening (June 21) at Red Shores’ Charlottetown Driving Park, and six of them will attempt to knock off the heavily favoured Freddie and his record setting driver.
First-race post time for the 10-dash card is 6:30 p.m.
Freddie has been favoured early for the $1,950 Open Trot (Race 6) for trainer-driver Marc Campbell. Campbell, who is fresh off win No. 2,000 of his driving career, has one more record firmly in his sight.
The 33-year-old Winsloe driver is currently sitting at 2,007 career wins, and when he hits win No. 2,013, it will be his 2,000th career victory in Atlantic Canada. With the countdown on at six more wins, Campbell will look to chip away at the barrier with five drives on the program.
Freddie – who has recorded with two wins and two seconds from four seasonal starts – will contest the Open Trot for the Three Wisemen Stable of Kingston. The only horse still on the east coast that has defeated him this season is the Post 4 starter, Frill Seeker, who will get it on for trainer-driver Kenny Arsenault.
Isabella Hanover will make her debut on red soil from Post 1 in Thursday’s top trot. Adam Merner will be at ‘Isabella’s lines for trainer Stephen Gass and new owner Kent Livingston of Cornwall. The seven-year-old daughter of Yankee Glide has already recorded a win in 1:57.2 over Rideau Carleton Raceway in Ontario and will look to add to her $122,000 in lifetime earnings on Thursday evening.
Other Open Trot entries include Professor Gordon (to be driven by Jason Hughes), Holy Molie Maggie (Walter Cheverie), Wedgewood (Gary Chappell), and Suicide Shift (Steven Shepherd).
The top pace of the evening will take to the track for the Race 10 finale. Last season’s aged pacing mare champion, Brodys Leona, will headline the field from Post 4 for driver Corey MacPherson, co-owning/trainer Kerry Taylor, and fellow co-owners Emily Taylor and Lisa MacPherson. The $1,700 class includes hard-hitting pacing mares Good Lucky Kathy (Earl Smith), Julep Hanover (Wade Myers) and Collective Wisdom (Gilles Barrieau). A newcomer to island racing, Can Art will make her island debut from Post 3 in the class for new owner Wayne Oakes of North Wiltshire.
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To view the harness racing entries for Thursday at the CDP, click the following link: Thursday Entries – Charlottetown Driving Park.
(With files from Red Shores)