The finest pacers in Eastern Canada will again meet up Saturday evening at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park.

The Saturday card has a 6:00 p.m. post time for the first of 12 dashes with the featured $3,000 Preferred pace carded as the 11th race of the night.

Simple Kinda Man is the favourite in the Preferred after a runner-up finish to Yankee Osborne in his track record 1:52 in last week’s $7,500 Lindsay Construction Cup at Truro Raceway. Jason Hughes is back in the seat behind Simple Kinda Man for trainer Chris MacKay and owners D Racing Stable of New York and Don MacRae of Vernon Bridge. Rose Run Quest has finished third in both the big Invitational dances this season and gets Post 6 on Saturday for trainer-driver Marc Campbell. Lisburn was a 1:53.4 victor by open lengths last Saturday in Charlottetown with that pacer drawing Post 4 this week for trainer-driver Kenny Arsenault.

Race analyst Les MacIsaac thinks today will be Rose Run Quest’s time to shine.

“Rose Run Quest has not been winning with the frequency he did last year but don't lose sight of the fact that he's yet to be out of the top three,” MacIsaac said. “He looks like the one to knock off.”

Completing the field are Rockin Indy (Mike McGuigan), Jetster (Brodie MacPhee), Burn Out Hanover (Walter Cheverie) and Soccer Hanover (Ken Murphy).

The Open Mares class lines up in the tenth race with a full field of eight heading to the gate. Sodwana Bay reasserted her dominance in her latest start in Truro with a 1:54.4 victory at the Nova Scotia half-miler. Gilles Barrieau is back in the bike behind his trainee for owners Wayne MacRae of Fall River, N.S., and Howmac Farms Ltd., of North Wiltshire.

Other top entrants are Arc Light (Campbell) and Woodmere Chella (David Dowling).

Catch the action live on the worldwide broadcast at Redshores.ca and wager online at HPIBet.com. To view the entries for Saturday's card, click the following link: Saturday Entries - Charlottetown Driving Park.

(Red Shores)