Tuscan Prince won a front-end battle in the $12,000 Preferred Trot featured on the snowy Saturday, Dec. 7 evening card at Flamboro Downs.
Tuscan Prince got away fourth at the pylons through a :28.2 opening quarter before driver Paul MacKenzie sent the favourite after the leading Insanity (Colin Kelly) and they battled back and forth on top through middle splits of :58.3 and 1:27.3 over the 'good' track, which was rated two seconds off. Tuscan Prince eventually put away Insanity when they turned for home and held one length clear at the end for the 1:59.4 victory as Marvin Hagler (Austin Sorrie), a winner of this class two weeks ago, shot through the passing lane off a pocket trip. Sicario (Samuel Fillion) edged out Yank My Halo (Roger Mayotte) for third.
Tuscan Prince has earned his four seasonal wins -- all at Flamboro -- in his last six starts. He paid $3 to win as the 1-2 favourite after managing a fourth-place finish in his last outing on Nov. 23 here when he broke stride at the start.
Luc Blais trains the four-year-old Kadabra-Tosca gelding, a 10-time career winner with $387,529 in earnings, for Determination, Montreal of Que.
To view Saturday's harness racing results, click the following link: Saturday Results - Flamboro Downs.
(Standardbred Canada; Photo of Tuscan Prince from a previous win)