Quality older horses, a rarity at Hippodrome de Montreal during its abbreviated fall meet, return to the spotlight for the season finale Sunday.
The 12-race card includes five $20,000 events for older trotters and pacers.
Six-year-old Stallone, a $300,000 winner whose last Montreal start was a victory in June in the $85,000 Prix du Quebec final for Quebec-bred pacers, heads the $20,000 ninth race, where he’ll be tested by local three-year-old star Big Bam Ray and four-year-old St Pete Star, back in Quebec after a productive summer campaign in Atlantic Canada.
The $20,000 fifth race features four-year-old pacer Omega Bayama, idle since a third-place finish in the Prix du Quebec.
Accomplished trotting mare Norway No Day, who last raced in Montreal in June, heads a field of six in the $20,000 seventh race. A win would leave the six-year-old Self Possessed mare on the cusp of $100,000 in earnings for 2008. She collected $126,000 in 2007.
Sunday's races are the last scheduled for Montreal before May.
To view Sunday's entries, click here.
(Paul Delean for Trot Insider)