Brookdale Johnny flew from sixth to first in the last eighth of a mile to capture the Tuesday, Oct. 14 featured conditioned event at Red Shores Summerside.
Doc Awesome (Adam Merner) set up the fractions of :28.2, :57.1 and 1:26 before Brookdale Johnny, who was was sitting fifth at the head of the lane, slid off the cones and chased down the pacesetter in deep-stretch to notch his third victory in a row and stop the timer in 1:55.1. Doc Awesome was beaten by a neck in second with Howmac Exclusive (Corey MacPherson) completing the triactor.
Brookdale Johnny, driven to victory by Paul Langille, is a homebred for Douglas and Doug Polley of Amherst, N.S. Phil Sizer was the winning trainer of the five-year-old son of Rockin In Heaven-Brookdale Gia. The gelding is 21-for-111 lifetime with $155,952 in earnings. He returned $9 to win.
Langille, Sizer, and the Polley ownership team also sent Brookdale Shelley ($11.30) to victory lane in the evening’s opener. Langille scored with Redland Misspretty ($15.50) for trainer Kyle Williams to record the driving triple, while First Glance ($12.20), trained by Devon Wallace, won the finale to give Langille the grand slam on the night.
Drivers Brodie MacPhee, Ken Murphy, MacPherson, and Merner recorded driving doubles on the program.
Live racing continues on Thursday at Red Shores Charlottetown. Post time is 6 p.m.
To view Tuesday's harness racing results, click the following link: Tuesday Results - Summerside Raceway.
(Red Shores; photo of Brookdale Johnny winning on July 29)