The 2017 Drive For Charity continues into an action-packed card Saturday evening at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park.
First race post time is 6:00 p.m. for the 12-dash card. The evening feature is slated for Race 11 with a solid field of seven pacers vying for top prize in the $2,100 race.
Eagle Jolt is the morning line favourite with Charlottetown’s absolutely dominate driver in the seat. Marc Campbell trains and drives the Post 5 starter for owners Wilbur and Marie MacDonald fresh off a third-place finish against Mr Irresistible and Adkins Hanover, who are both absent from action this week. Elm Grove Kaboom has yet to finish worse than second in his four-year-old campaign for trainer-driver Earl Smith and gets Post 3 this week. A potential sleeper in the field is Rash B Havior, leaving from Post 4 with Ken Murphy getting the catch driving call from trainer Michael Peters after competing his first two starts of the season in the preferred ranks.
Race analyst Les MacIsaac sees Eagle Jolt as the one to beat if the chips fall in the right place in the early going.
“Eagle Jolt was a comfortable winner in his only start at this level when he was allowed to stroll through some pedestrian fractions,” MacIsaac said. “That won’t be the case tonight and he’ll probably be coming from off the pace but we’ll still treat him as the one to beat on the class drop.”
Other entries in the evening feature include Likely To Win (Adam Merner), Narragansett (Jason Hughes), The Big Bite (Kenny Arsenault) and Oh To Be Me (Gary Chappell).
The evening back-up class has a tight-knit group of five pacers for a $1,800 purse in Race 7. Mozartsplace was impressive in his three-year-old campaign with nine wins from 11 starts and now makes his four-year-old debut, reunited with driver Gilles Barrieau. The Jackie Matheson trainee draws Post 4 for owner Brad Duplisea and Shawn MacAdam, both of Charlottetown. Other top entries include Post 2 starter Simon Said, with early Drive For Charity promotion leader Corey MacPherson aboard, and Sporty B Skipalong (Norris Rogers) with rail control.
For entries, click the following link: Saturday Entries - Red Shores Charlottetown.
(with files from Red Shores)