The four-year-old Captaintreacherous mare Marloe Hanover smoked the Georgian Downs surface in the $13,000 Fillies & Mares Preferred 2 Pace to pace a track- and Canadian-record mile on Saturday (Aug. 14).
Driver Paul MacKenzie sent the Dr. Ian Moore trainee to the lead with Saulsbrook Jessie sitting second to a :27.2 opening quarter. Marloe Hanover led the field, scratched to a quartet, to a :55 half and continued to bottom out her competition with a swift clip. She clicked three-quarters in 1:22.4 and kept rolling into the stretch to win by 7-3/4 lengths in a time of 1:50.1, eclipsing the previous track and Canadian record for an aged pacing mare of 1:50.3 set by Dreamfair Eternal in 2011 and equaled by Camille in 2012.
Owned by Let It Ride Stables Inc. and JL Benson Stables Inc., Marloe Hanover won her seventh race from 20 starts this season and her 15th from 54 overall, earning $557,885. She paid $2.10 to win.
To view Saturday's harness racing results, click on the following link: Saturday Results - Georgian Downs.