Former Governor’s Plate champion Time To Dance will make his first appearance of the 2024 harness racing season on a special Canada Day program at Red Shores Summerside.
Post time on Monday, July 1 for the 13-race program is 1 p.m., with the $3,700 feature pace scheduled as race 12.
Time To Dance, who will leave from the outside post six in the feature, recorded 11 wins from 34 starts in 2023 including his last two in December in the Preferred at Charlottetown, and comes off a winning qualifier on June 15 where the Charlottetown track was listed three seconds off due to rain. Marc Campbell will be in the driver’s seat for trainer Brent Campbell and his co-owners Brady Doyle and Kent MacDonald.
It will not be an easy task with morning line favourite Middleton Terror leaving from post five. David Dowling trains and drives Middleton Terror for owners Kingsley Walsh and Frank Balcom. The son of Stonebridge Terror has won three of his eight assignments this season and was fourth in his last start charted in 1:54.4 with a closing panel of :27.4.
Spectrum Seelster, who also has a shot to take top billing, will start from post two from the Jennifer Doyle stable with Damian MacLellan listed to drive. The field also includes Coasttocoastshark (Jaycob Sweet), Sauble Attack (Ken Murphy) and Melody Maker (Corey MacPherson). The starter will call the field to the gate at 4:18 p.m.
Howmac Charmer (Campbell) is listed at 5-2 odds as the favoured from post position two in the Canada Day Pace in race seven for trainer Kyle Williams and owner Doug Williams. Sharky (post three, Dowling) and Ideal Jet (post four, MacLellan) could knock off the favourite, but the Backstretch Beat has Howmac Charmer to win it all: “He was defeated by a monstrous Freemans Legacy last week, but even in defeat, he still paced in 1:56 and change. Lots to like.”
The Summerside Legion, Branch #5, will be attendance on the special Canada Day program and will present the cooler to the winner in race nine. Her Honour, Antoinette Perry, Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island, will also visit the historic Prince County oval. Elroy Shiner is the favourite for driver Brady Sweet, trainer Jeff Holmes and owner Frank Sweet.
Red Shores Summerside will also feature the Isle Pick5 with a $2,000 guaranteed pool in race one, a Super Hi5 carryover of $656.17 in race five and a late Pick 4 carryover of $1,828.29 beginning in race 10.
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The Prince County Horsemen’s Club board of directors and their members will hold a moment of silence following the post parade of race two in honour of Kent Oakes, a member of their harness racing community and industry leader who passed away on Friday.
To view Monday's harness racing entries, click the following link: Monday Entries - Summerside Raceway.
(With files from Red Shores)