Published:
June 25, 2009 02:21 pm EDT
The field for this Sunday's Des Smith Classic Pace has been narrowed with the announcement that
Mattscape Seelster has been scratched out of the $162,000 event.
Officials from Rideau Carleton Raceway have told Trot Insider that the seven-year-old Artiscape horse has been scratched due to lameness.
The career winner of 18 races and $542,000 in purses had drawn the rail for trainer Jerry Sims and driver Roger Mayotte. Mattscape Seelster had been installed at odds of 15-1 in the morning line.
Click here to view the entries for Rideau's Sunday card.
Listed below is some random trivia compiled by Rideau track announcer Norm Borg regarding the starters in the Des Smith.
- 33 -- Most lifetime wins of any starter in the field (Silent Swing)
- 45% -- Highest win percentage of any starter in the field (Shadow Play)
- $1,276,389 -- Highest earnings of any starter in the field (Silent Swing)
- $5.8 Million -- Total earnings of the field
- 2 -- Number of drivers in the Des Smith that have won a Little Brown Jug (Mark MacDonald, Mr Feelgood [2006]; David Miller, Shadow Play [2008])
- If Jody Jamieson manages a catch drive in this year’s Des Smith, that number climbs to three (Tell All, 2007)
- $254 Million -- Total earnings by Mark MacDonald, David Miller and Randy Waples, each of whom are scheduled to be driving in this year’s Des Smith
- $124,893,396 -- Lifetime purses earned by David Miller alone
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