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The capital oval has a 10-dash program scheduled with a 6 p.m. (ADT) start time. The Fillies and Mares Preferred Pace lines up in Race 9 for a $3,100 purse as Woodmere Skyroller draws post 4 in her first start since her championship three-year-old season. Trainer Kevin MacLean has entrusted the driving duties to Corey MacPherson, who last sat behind the mare in her two-year-old season when he won the Atlantic Breeder’s Crown with the daughter of Rollwithitharry. Owned by Reg MacPherson of St...

The capital oval will host nine dashes on Saturday evening, getting underway at 6 p.m. Bugsy Maguire is assigned the outside post 5 in the $3,400 Preferred Pace after winning the class his last two starts. Marc Campbell will pick up the catch drive for the Wade Sorrie stable and owner Walter Simmons. The Bettors Delight seven-year-old was driven aggressively the first two starts of the meet by Austin Sorrie, and now Campbell will look to engineer the horse’s third straight win. GA Speed Sam...

Gonna Fool Ya has been nothing short of superb so far on P.E.I., but faces her greatest test to date on the first Thursday evening (May 20) card of the season at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park. The 10-dash Thursday presentation gets underway at 6 p.m. (ADT) with Gonna Fool Ya getting pylon control in Race 9, the $2,850 Fillies and Mares Preferred Pace. David Dowling trains and drives the daughter of Dream Away for owners Brittany Watts of Springvale, Rick Adam...

Driver Austin Sorrie put the pedal down on Bugsy Maguire from the start and never relinquished the lead on his way to a victory in the Preferred Pace on the opening program of the summer meet at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park Saturday (May 8). Leaving hard from post 4 in the $3,200 feature, Bugsy Maguire was first to the front over a rain-soaked oval in cool windy conditions with a five-second variant. He led through fractions of :30.1, 1:02.3 and 1:34.3 befor...

It has been over half-a-year since Bugsy Maguire’s biggest career moment but he returns to the fray in the preferred pace Saturday afternoon at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park. The 13-dash Saturday presentation starts off at 12:30 P.M. with the preferred pace going to the gate in the 12th race for a $2,850 pot. Bugsy Maguire put together a story book moment in winning the 2020 Governor’s Plate Final in July at Red Shores Summerside with Brodie MacPhee in t...

Perennial leading driver Marc Campbell returns to action Saturday afternoon and will look to be a big part of the first Super High-5 race at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park. The afternoon program kicks off at 12:30 P.M. with Eagle Jolt and Campbell the morning line favourite in the race 14 finale featuring the first ever Super High-5 wager at Red Shores. The Super Hi-5 will involve picking the first five finishers in race 14, with Red Shores guaranteeing a min...

Taking a textbook two-hole ride, Woodmere Skyroller surged forward to capture the Fillies & Mares Open Pace on Saturday (Jan. 9) at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park. The Atlantic Champion pacing mare sat the two hole in her $2,900 assignment while watching pacesetter Woodmere Chella (Corey MacPherson) go through splits of :29.1, 1:00.1 and 1:30. Driver Gilles Barrieau then pointed Woodmere Skyroller out of her two-hole ride in the stretch drive to win by a lengt...

First post time for the 14-dash Saturday program is 12:30 p.m. AST. Rose Run Quest, a former Governor’s Plate champion, returns to the Gilles Barrieau stable after a short stint in Ontario for owner Blair Hansen. The 49-time winner will start from post 2 in the Preferred at 6-1 morning line odds after going down to defeat in all three of his Ontario starts. Screen Test, who carries a two-race win streak at the Preferred level, is the top choice from post 6 for driver Corey MacPherson and trai...

Edison Hatter, USHWA Youth handicapping contest winner New Years Eve 2021 saw a close battle to the end of the 14-race harness racing card at Red Shores Charlottetown, and not just among horses and drivers. US Harness Writers Association (USHWA) Youth members of legal wagering age in their state/province were invited to handicap the only live races in Canada December 31, for non-cash prizes and bragging rights. It was a fun, skill-based competition, with zero pressure or expectation of betting....

Screen Test came swinging for the front right off the bat and was unheeded at every call in the $2,900 New Year’s Eve pacing feature on Thursday evening (Dec. 31) at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park. Corey MacPherson was at the lines of the Ron Gass trainee who struck the lead at the opening quarter of 29.1. Burn Out Hanover (Gilles Barrieau) sat in the two-hole and watched the heavily favoured Screen Test strike three-quarters in 1:28.3 before closing out the...