Truro Raceway's top class turned into a two-horse race on Sunday afternoon (Nov. 6) with Batterup Hanover and trainer/driver Paul Langille defeating the George Rennison-trained American Risk and Redmond Doucet as the favourites ran away on the field.

Sprinting off the gate from the outside posts in the featured $2,500 Winners Over Pace, American Risk and Batterup Hanover raced one-two well ahead of the rest through a sizzling :26.3 opening quarter and middle splits of :56.2 and 1:25.4. Hot on Doucet's helmet, Batterup Hanover popped the pocket around the final turn with an eighth of a mile to go and swept by the pacesetter in the stretch to win by 2-1/4 lengths in 1:54.2. Frontier Cruiser and Robert Laffin were the best of the rest, finishing more than 13 lengths behind.

Sent postward at odds of 1-2, the favoured Batterup Hanover paid $3.10 to win. The victory was his second in a row, following up a 1:52.4 season's best score last weekend.

The four-year-old Betting Line-Beachbunny Hanover gelding, who has won four races from 16 seasonal starts, competes for Nova Scotia owners Debbie Francis, Rosanne Langille, Douglas Lowthers and Chantel Langille.

Batterup Hanover is a career winner of a dozen races and more than $55,000 in purses.

While facing off in the feature, Langille and Rennison joined forces earlier in the opener with the debuting All Bets On Tex, who defeated older pacers by 6-1/2 lengths in 1:56.4 to established a new track record for two-year-old colts. The All Bets Off-Tampa Town colt knocked one-fifth of a second off the former mark set by P H Super Dave back in 2005. The overall two-year-old male record still stands at 1:54 flat, set two weeks ago by gelding Malignity. All Bets On Tex is owned by Jeffrey Lilley, Blair MacLauchlan, Kent Livingston and Marc Gallant.

To view Sunday's harness racing results, click the following link: Sunday Results - Truro Raceway.