Sudbury Preferreds To Check Le Look & Brawny

Sudbury Downs regulars Check Le Look and Brawny captured the co-featured Preferred events at the Chelmsford, ON half-mile oval on Saturday night

.

Check Le Look and trainer-driver David Dowling converted from the pocket to win the $11,000 Not Listed Preferred Trot in 1:59 by five and a quarter lengths over pacesetter Apeachtoremember (Paul MacLean). Bjs Fancy (Allan Hohner) rounded out the top three.

Sent postward as the 3-1 third choice in the field of six, Check Le Look paid $8.40 for his second consecutive win. The eight-year-old son of Glory B River-Flower Of Erin has won four of his 16 starts this season banking over $30,000 for co-owners David Haney of Waterloo and Lawrence Smith of Elmira, ON. The 27-time career winner is just shy of reaching $190,000 in earnings.

Later on the card, Brawny went wire-to-wire to win the matching Not Listed Preferred Pace in 1:56.1 for driver Allan Hohner and trainer Danielle Soulliere. The son of Cammibest-Blushin Love was one length better than Rush Rules (Patrick Rouleau). Pieraz (Pascal Berube) finished third.

Brawny, the odds-on favourite in the six-horse field, returned $4.70 to win for the fourth time in 16 outings this season and 17th time overall. The five-year-old gelding has earned $31,372 this year and $94,021 lifetime for owners Roger Brown of Lively and Donald Price of Powassan, ON.

To view Saturday’s results, click here.

Have something to say about this? Log in or create an account to post a comment.