The 2026 season of harness racing in New Brunswick wrapped up on Saturday, Nov. 14 at Connell Park Raceway in Woodstock, N.B.

Saturday's card featured six dashes, including a pair of New Brunswick Breeders Stakes divisions and a driving title race that came down to the very last race.

The stakes action kicked off with Shekhan ($3.70) repeating his success in the Blood Money Stakes one week ago with a wire-to-wire 1:58.1 score in the $12,800 New Brunswick Breeders Stakes division for three-year-old male pacers. Driver Redmond Doucet positioned the 4-5 choice on top heading into the opening turn and then made every call a winning one from there. After fractions of :29.4, 1:00.2 and 1:29.2, Shekhan repelled a late surge from McLovin (Brodie MacPhee) to win by three parts of a length. Kapueno (Landon Campbell) completed the top trio.

Mike Ramsay trains Shekhan (Blood Money-Just Breathe) for owner Walter Deagle of Inverness, N.S. The bay colt pushed his earnings into six figure territory with the victory, his eighth lifetime from 38 starts.

Doucet, Ramsay and Deagle also connected in the filly division of the New Brunswick Breeders, winning the $13,000 dash with Nevaeh Divine ($2.70; pictured above). Sent off at 1-4, Nevaeh Divine rebuffed the early challenge from Going For Blood (Ken Arsenault) to handle all the heavy lifting on the front end. After cutting out splits of :28.2, :58.3 and 1:28.3, Nevaeh Divine held off the stretch rally of Going For Blood to win by a nose in 1:59. Stormys Hush Money (Campbell) finished in the show spot.

Nevaeh Divine (Blood Money-Cute Hill) scored her fifth career victory, lifting her lifetime bankroll to $38,249.

In the $2,000 Winners Over Pace, Nuttin But Finesse ($2.90) started his first-over approach for driver Mike Downey on longshot Thatmomentinlife (Campbell) after opening fractions of :30.1 and :59.2. A nose in front at the 1:28.4 third station, Nuttin But Finesse showed more than finesse around that far turn to finally fully collar the pacesetter and hold off a late lunge from P J Spudland (Brodie MacPhee) for the 1:58.1 tally. P J Spudland finished second by three quarters of a length, just ahead of Thatmomentinlife.

An eight-year-old intact son of Art Major-Nuttin But Trouble, Nuttin But Finesse is now a 45-time winner with $413,484 in purse earnings. He's owned by Dr. Mitchell Downey of Saint John, N.B. and trained by Ellen Stevenson, who notched her 15th local training victory to top the charts at the New Brunswick oval for 2026.

Downey's win gave him 12 driving victories at Connell Park this season, one fewer than Colin Decourcey, who piloted Party Place ($2.90; 1:57.4) to victory in the finale to take the Connell Park driving dash title with 13 trips to the winner's circle.

To view Saturday's results, click the following link: Saturday Results - Connell Park Raceway.

(Standardbred Canada)