Light precipitation and temperatures close to freezing couldn't put a damper on the hot barn of Travis Ellis on Saturday, Nov. 9 at Century Mile.

Not only did Ellis notch a training hat trick on the Saturday card, that three-bagger broke the deadlock he held with Brandon Campbell atop the Century Mile training leaderboard.

Both Ellis and Campbell entered the 10-dash card on Saturday evening with 18 wins on the season. Campbell did tally one win on Saturday, but Ellis was two better to give him the 21-19 seasonal edge.

The Ellis troop first found the winner's circle in the fourth with Im Outrageous Too (1:58.1; $3.10), then came right back to see photographer Ryan Haynes in the fifth courtesy Trust Me Alot (1:55.4; $3, pictured above). Ellis tripled when Flying Officer (1:56.2; $8.10) prevailed in the penultimate race. All three Ellis trainees were guided to victory by driver Mike Hennessy.

After Saturday's three-win performance with six of seven horses bringing home purse cheques, Ellis sports 244 career victories and more than $1.03 million in purses in his third full year of training. In those three years, he's posted UTRS averages no lower than 0.323.

For the results from Saturday's card of harness racing outside Edmonton, click the following link: Saturday Results - Century Mile.

(Standardbred Canada)