The winners from August's I Love Canadian Harness Racing Fan Club have been determined.

GOLD CUP ONLINE HANDICAPPING CONTEST RESULTS

Stacy Gay of Fredericton, New Brunswick, was the winner of the Fan Club’s Gold Cup Online Handicapping Challenge. Stacy was one of a handful of people who scored 16 out of 20 point and hiss name was randomly pulled in the tie breaker draw.

Gay, who is recovering from hip replacement surgery in December, has four retired Standardbreds that he takes care of including a mare which he hopes to breed down the road. The former trainer-driver has been to the Gold Cup & Saucer a few times and selected Take It Back Terry in the Cup because “Campbell had a choice as to which horse he could drive.”

“Fredericton Raceway is my favourite racetrack because of the history of the track and because I won the oldest Free For All race in Canada – the Walter Dale Memorial with All Star Dragon,” Gay explained.

As the Grand Prize winner, Stacy wins a $50 gift certificate to the Canadian racetrack of his choice & a great I Love Canadian Harness Racing Fan Club tote filled with Fan Club merchandise!

Here are the questions and answers from the Handicapping contest:

• Select the winner of the Gold Cup and Saucer (5 points) #5 Take It Back Terry

• Will the Gold Cup’s time be over/under/equal to last year’s time of 1:50.4 (2 points) equal

• Select the race with the largest margin of victory (2 points) Papermaker Pace – race #5 - #5 Silverhill Shadow paced to a 6 and a quarter length victory over Smiley Bayama.

• Select the race that will have the highest superfecta payout (2 points) Race #9 - $1 superfecta of 7-5-4-6 paid $850.55

• Select the horse who will finish in a better position from these three Match Ups: (2 points each):

  • Race 9 - Joe O'Brien Memorial (2 points) #2 Woodmere Fullalife and #5 Ross Melvino

  • Race 10 - Norman MacPhail Memorial Pace (2 points) #4 Prince Adam and #5 Putnams Power

  • Race 11 -Premier's Pace (2 points) #4 Cabo Pan Lucas and #5 Machinthesand

Select the driver that will earn the most purse money for the entire card of racing (3 points) – list all Gold Cup & Saucer drivers. Marc Campbell with $33,269 in earnings from his Gold Cup win, two seconds, a third and fourth place finish on the day’s action.

MACKINNON WINS ZOOM POLL

Tessa MacKinnon of Souris, Prince Edward Island, is the I Love Canadian Harness Racing Fan Club’s Zoom Photo Challenge winner for August.

Fan Club members were asked to send in shots for the Horsin Around theme that captured kids and horses enjoying the summer, at the track or on the farm.

Tessa captured an image of Rowan Walker with Toons, an old quarter horse that Rowan loves to ride in Montague, PEI.

“I've grown up on a beef farm and raced horses all my life. My mother (Tanya) and grandfather own standardbreds so it’s in my blood! “I own horses with my mom and my friend, Cindy MacDonald,” explained Tessa of her involvement in harness racing. Rowan is Cindy MacDonald’s grandson, and will soon be going into grade 4.”

“I didn't even have to tell Rowan to go see Toons, they went straight for each other! All I had to do was press a button. I really do enjoy taking pictures of all our horses.”

Tessa’s favorite horse is her “lovely trotter,” Tymal Tyme and her favourite people in the industry are her Mom, Cindy, (MacDonald) and Claire MacDonald, one of the top trainer-drivers in the Maritimes.

Thanks to everyone who submitted photos and to our other finalists:

• Davandra Cribbie of Port Hope, Ontario, for her shot of Daniella Teixiera with Young Pointer N at the Standardrama show in Orono, Ontario.

• Dawn Ellis of Alma, Ontario, for her shot of Madelyn Ellis-Abbott and her horse Watersides Kipper!

• Kelly Nicholson of Caribou Marsh, Nova Scotia, for her shot of Hailey and her horse, The Great Oak

• Marta Dicocco Antolini of London, Ontario, for her shot of Sofia and Maddy with Sofia's race horse Unchained Desire

The theme for September’s Zoom Challenge, which is the final one for the year, will be announced early next week.