After an opening week rain out at the newly named Cornerstone Raceway, the Yorkton Exhibition Association hosted a make-up day of racing Sunday
, with eight races on the card.
The sun finally cooperated giving fans a nice afternoon to watch racing, on a day when three drivers would go to the winner’s circles with two wins each.
Out Of Snorts would win race three with Jeff Stone in the cart.
“She’s just a good cheap mare,” said Stone. “I got parked and no place to go, so I just kept going. There were two trailers and no pacing lane. No on was giving any position, but I can’t really fault them for that, I don’t like giving position either. Her trainer (Ken Hanson) had her ready.”
Stone would be back in the final race of the card to win with Barona Dakota.
“I just went to the front and kept going,” he said. “I was just a passenger.”
Stone is in his first year back driving in Yorkton during the modern era of the sport in the city.
“Twenty-years ago I used to come here, when I was younger,” said the Alberta resident who is originally from Regina.
Stone said he came east to Yorkton this summer, because his father and step mother asked him.
“They always have a couple of horses, but this year have quite a few, so I came to help them out,” he said.
Asked how it was adapting to racing in Saskatchewan, Stone replied simply, “a race is a race.”
Even the half-mile track hasn’t proven a big change.
“I was in Grande Prairie all last summer,” he said.
Tyler Redwood would have his second two-win day of the young season, driving Judges Discretion to top spot in race two, and Kinset Hanover in the sixth race. Rick Kosterman would drive back-to-back winners Sunday with Ignite The Spark in race four and Pandoori in the fifth race.
To view Sunday's results, click here.
(A Trot Insider exclusive by Calvin Daniels)