The Rev has been the next best thing to unstoppable his past three starts. He will put his record to the test Saturday afternoon (Dec. 5) at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park.
The Rev, who is the richest Atlantic-bred pacer of all time, will be the one to knock off in the featured event on the 15-dash Saturday afternoon card. All the action gets underway at 12:30 p.m. AST on the lone program of the week in Island harness racing.
The Rev, a 10-year-old son of Western Paradise, has been assigned the outside post 5 in the $2,900 Preferred Pace, carded as race 14. Gilles Barrieau trains and drives the champion for owner Jeffrey Skinner. With $621,127 in lifetime earnings to his credit, The Rev was exceptional his last start while flashing a closing quarter of :26.4 to defeat Screen Test (Corey MacPherson) by the narrowest of margins. Screen Test has post 4 in this week’s class, while rail control belongs to his stablemate Revenant (Adam Merner). Rockin Indy has a pair of victories in his last two starts and will receive the driving services of Marc Campbell from post 2. Silverhill Buddy (David Dowling) has five straight top-three finishes and will start from post 3 on the move up to Preferred company.
In the $2,800 Fillies and Mares Open Pace, programmed as race 10, Filly Forty Seven will seek a repeat performance after handily disposing of her foes in the last two editions of the distaff feature, but will have the added competition of a pair of her stablemates in this week’s event. Marc Campbell trainee Filly Forty Seven is relegated to the outside post 6 with Jason Hughes picking up the catch driving call for owners Darryl MacLean, Cory Carver, Katelyn Smallwood and Alan MacDonald. The former sophomore Atlantic Triple Crown winner will face off with stablemates Dreamfair Zenfire (Adam Merner) from post 3, and Arc Light (Campbell) from post 5. Champion pacing filly Woodmere Skyroller (Dowling) has post 4 in the top-flight class while the inside posts belong to Traces Of Purple (Myles Heffernan Sr.) and Collective Wisdom (Barrieau).
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