Creepin was first to the front and maintained his lead to the wire on a special Tuesday evening (Dec. 22) program at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park.
Dowling wasted no time sending his charge to the lead in the $2,300 featured pace and laid down splits of :28.4, :59.1 and 1:29.4 over a "sloppy" track rated off five seconds. Winter Blast came calling in the stretch drive but had to settle for second as Creepin held on to win in 2:00.4. Third went to Sports Royalty. Driver David Dowling trains Creepin for owners James Quinn of York, Jim Quinn of Vernon Bridge and Carl Peterson of Hunter River.
Doc Darryl made his East Coast debut a winning one in Race 2 with a 2:04.1 maiden breaking score for driver Ken Murphy, trainer Cliff Murphy and new owner Morgan Sheppard of Brackley Beach.
Race 3 saw a racing mishap as Scoot Out Of Here (Marc Campbell) made a break and fell to the track racing past the half-mile marker, taking Bad Silver (Taylor Doyle) with her. All horses and drivers walked away from the scene unscathed.
Live racing continues Saturday afternoon (Dec. 26) for the Boxing Day program getting underway at 12:30 p.m. (AST).
(Red Shores)
To view Tuesday's harness racing results, click on the following link: Tuesday Results - Charlottetown Driving Park.