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With Black Tie Bash breaking before the start, Ripped And Ready rolled to the lead and faced little threat to win the $10,500 Preferred Handicap Trot at Rideau Carleton Raceway on Thursday night (Aug. 25).

A foundation broodmare in the Standardbred industry is usually a mare that produces numerous stakes winners year after year. And fortunately for Quebec owner, breeder and trainer Denitza Petrova, she has one.

The full card of harness racing from Saturday (August 20) at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park, culminating with the 2022 $100,000 Atlantic Lottery Gold Cup and Saucer, is available here.

Stella Alpha scored in a romp in capturing the $10,000 final leg of the Breeders Trophy Series for three-year-old trotters at Hippodrome 3R on Friday (Aug. 19).

The 63rd edition of the Gold Cup and Saucer will parade under the light after midnight Saturday evening at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park as the crowning moment of Old Home Week 2022. 

Hippodrome 3R featured a 15-race program on Friday (Aug. 12) with seven divisions of the second round of the Future Stars Series for two-year-old trotters and pacers. And it was a day for the longshots to come in.

Thierry Vandenplas trainee Ripped And Ready landed on the point early and kept his competition behind to score a 1:54.4 win in the $10,500 Preferred Handicap Trot on Thursday night (Aug. 4) at Rideau Carleton Raceway.

Jack Panic scored his maiden victory with a 27-1 upset in a $10,000 division of the Breeders Trophy Series on Sunday (July 31) at Hippodrome 3R. Trainer Francis Richard swept the second leg of the series for three-year-old pacers, also sending out winning filly Shes Rockandfame.

The winningest horse at Hippodrome 3R this season is Stella Alpha and she crossed the finish line first as the overwhelming 1-9 race favourite on Friday afternoon (July 29), but was taken down for interference in the stretch against second-place finisher HP Felicity, who thus inherited the victory.

The draw for the 2022 Atlantic Regional Driving Championship, set for this coming Saturday, July 30 at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park is now complete.