Royal Regatta won his fifth race in a row at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Thursday, March 21 in the $10,000 to $12,000 claiming pace worth a $9,000 purse.
Louis-Philippe Roy took the Francis Guillemette student to post seven in the field of eight. Shooting to the top, Royal Regatta battled Choreographer (Tyler Jones) for the lead. He was caught on the outside in second as the timer clocked :27.2 at the opening panel before climbing to the lead. Once at the top, Royal Regatta never looked back. Setting two more panels in :56.4 and 1:25, the gelding battled onwards, brushing off a speedy charge from Mach Jacobs (Tyler Borth) to prevail by a nose in 1:54. My Land (Austin Sorrie) rounded out the top three.
Royal Regatta is a winner of four races from eight starts this season. In 193 career starts, the nine-year-old gelded son of Mcardle-Mary O Mel has earned a record of 34-32-23 and $282,395 in lifetime earnings. He returned $6.40 to win as the 2-1 second choice in the claiming pace.
A reminder that Woodbine Mohawk Park is closed from Monday, March 24 to Friday, March 29, with training and racing resuming on Saturday, March 30. There will be an early post time on Saturday evening of 6:10 p.m.
To view Thursday's harness racing results, click the following link: Thursday Results - Woodbine Mohawk Park.
(Standardbred Canada)