It is not often a three-year-old filly breaks her maiden against the best in the region while being three-fifths of a second off the track record, but that is exactly what Woodmere Delta did on Friday evening, July 19 at Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway as part of Governor’s Plate Week racing.

The Jeff Holmes trainee sat second in her $17,980 Atlantic Sires Stakes 'A' division for three-year-old pacing fillies and surged forward in the stretch drive to win by one length in 1:55.2. Woodmere Delta’s first career victory from nine starts was just three-fifths of a second shy of the sophomore pacing filly track record of 1:54.4 co-held by Rosetown Mary and JJ Scarlett. Gilles Barrieau was at the lines of the Rollwithitharry-Very Ideal Hanover filly, the younger half-sister of top flight pacer Woodmere Stealdeal, for owners Robert Sumarah of Halifax, N.S., Frank Brundle of East Garafraxa, Ont., and Brad Sumarah of Scarborough, Ont. Pacesetter Fern Hill Indigo (Brodie MacPhee) was second while Galway Girl (Marc Campbell) grabbed third.

In the other $17,980 'A' division for three-year-old fillies, Dusty Lane Dixie was victorious in 1:57 by 2-1/2 lengths for trainer/driver Gilles Barrieau and owner David Lund of Moncton, N.B. The Pang Shui-McDaisy Cutter miss earned a new lifetime mark as she defeated race favourite Chip Of Evil (Corey MacPherson) with Downtown Tonight (Adam Merner) third.

A trio of $6,000 'B' divisions of the Atlantic Sires Stakes were won by First Filly Chip in 1:58.2 and Miss Dutton in 1:57.4 giving the tandem of driver Corey MacPherson and trainer Kuri White a stakes double while Western Lily (Myles Heffernan Sr.) stopped the timer in 1:58.2 for conditioner Carrie Saunders.

The $7,500 Andrew Perry Memorial Trot had Irish Ray land on top in 1:59.4 for driver Marc Campbell, trainer Landon Campbell and owner Fred MacDonald of Cornwall, P.E.I.

Northern Belle provided a mild upset in the Bud Ramsay Memorial in race seven in 1:57.3 in line to trainer Damian MacLellan.

In the Race 13 Medastar Memorial, Spicey P (Jason Hughes) prevailed in 1:56 from the Ashley Gamester barn.

MacPherson had a driving triple on the card as he also won the opener with Tobins Future in 1:56.4 for Jason Biggar.

Trainer Phil Sizer celebrated a pair of winners with Paul Langille in the race bike behind Brookdale George (1:57) and Brookdale Johnny (1:57.1) as they hit the wire first in their dashes.

Live harness racing continues on Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m., with a phenomenal 16-dash line up including the $35,000 Governor’s Plate, presented by Summerside Chrysler Dodge, at Red Shores Summerside.

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

(With files from Red Shores)