Lady Slipper Series

Two legs for each of 2-year-old pacing fillies, 3-year-old pacing fillies, 2-year-old trotters and 3-year-old trotters. Typically, Charlottetown Driving Park and Summerside Raceway will eachhost one leg of each division.

CONDITION CHANGES: The thresholds for the Lady Slipper Stake for pacing fillies have been changed to the following:
Events will be raced in Gold and Grassroots formats in the pacing divisions. If, at the time of
declaration, the entry has earned less than $10,000 lifetime for 2-year-olds and less than $20,000
lifetime for 3-year-olds the entry may, at the owners’ discretion, compete in a Grassroots division.
All other entries will compete in a Gold division.

GENERAL CONDITIONS:

1.APHRC assumes no liability for purses, injury, damages, or loss to participants in this event.
2. For this program, PEI foaled shall be defined as: A foal whose place of birth on the applicable
Standardbred Canada/USTA registration certificate is indicated to be Prince Edward Island.
3. The stakes administrator reserves the right to request the following from the nominator: proof
of sale, proof of payment, and/or training bills with proof of payment from an owner whose horse
has been late nominated to the Lady Slipper Stake and is not PE foaled, to verify that the horse in
question is owned by the PE resident listed on the horse’s ownership papers and remains in that
ownership for the duration of the series. Failure to provide the information requested to
the stakes administrator will result in the horse being ineligible to the stake.
4. Each event is to be contested at one mile (1609 m).
5. Purse distribution for five or more finishers is 45%, 25%, 15%, 10% and 5%; four finishers is
50%, 25%, 15% and 10%; three finishers 50%, 30% and 20%; two finishers 60% and 40%, and
one finisher 100%.
6. All nominating, sustaining, and starting fees shall be added to the purses with no deduction for
clerical or managerial work, advertising, or publicity.
7. Events will be raced in Gold and Grassroots formats in the pacing divisions. If, at the time of
declaration, the entry has earned less than $10,000 lifetime for 2-year-old pacing fillies and less
than $20,000 lifetime for 3-year-old pacing fillies the entry may, at the owners’ discretion,
compete in a Grassroots division. All other entries will compete in a Gold division. Trotting events
will separate filly and colt divisions of the same age group if there is a minimum of three horses of
the same sex in each division. Trotting events are not separated into Gold and Grassroot formats.
8. If more horses declare to start than are permitted in one dash on the track where the race is to
take place, the event shall be split into divisions with entries determined by Standardbred Canada
electronic draw. No division shall consist of more than eight entries. If two or more divisions are
required, the host track shall add the regular portion to each division.

9. Any entry changing gait after the sustaining fee(s) have been made will be transferred to the
new gait adopted, providing such request is in writing. The starting fees for the said entry shall be
applied to the new gait.
10. The PEI Harness Racing Industry Association, within its sole discretion, may from time to time
make changes to the terms, conditions, and/or to the purse structure of the PEI Lady Slipper
Series of any kind whatsoever, including added money, as well as nomination and sustaining
payments and starting fees with the approval of the APHRC and proper notice given to the
industry, and the nominator agrees to be bound by such changes.
11. Should conditions beyond the control of the PEIHRIA prevent the racing of any event, the
PEIHRIA reserves the right to declare off any event and distribute the money to the current
eligibles, or to transfer the event to another date, or to another track, or to do both.
12. Standardbred Canada and the PEIHRIA assume no responsibility for nominations or
payments made by mail which are not received. Sending payments by Registered Mail is
recommended. All payments must be post-marked no later than the said due date.
13. In the event that an explicit interpretation of these conditions might not be acceptable to all
parties, the Board of Directors of the PEIHRIA reserves the right to interpret these conditions in
an implicit manner in accordance with the goals and objectives of the organization as may be
established and amended from time to time with the approval of the APHRC and proper notice
given to the industry.