After narrowly holding sway for a pillar-to-post win over the strong Doubleshotascotch in last week's top pace, Randy and Edward Copley's Intended Royalty ($3.20) made much easier work of his rivals in Sunday afternoon's (July 15) $1,150 winners-over pacing feature at Inverness Raceway.
Redmond Doucet sent the seven-year-old No Pan Intended gelding to his customary position on the lead, and after being tracked by Makes Me Stupid (Andrew MacLean) through early splits of :29.3 and :58.4, they opened up at will early in the second circuit. Intended Royalty amassed an 8-1/4 length lead at the end of a 1:57.2 mile, using a :28.4 closing split to outpace Makes Me Stupid. Macnamarra (Brett LeBlanc) made a mild bid to take third, another 2-1/4 lengths behind.
Randy Copley handles the training duties of Intended Royalty, who has won seven of his nine races to date this season.
To view Sunday's harness racing results, click the following link: Sunday Results – Inverness Raceway.