Arc Light handed Marc Campbell an Atlantic record on Saturday afternoon at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park as the youngest driver to ever hit 2,500 victories on the East Coast.
The 36-year-old Winsloe reinsman found the milestone win in the tenth race of the day with his own trainee, Arc Light, in a 1:59.3 mile for owner Crossroads Racing Stable of Stratford.
Gilles Barrieau teamed up with Woodmere Skyroller for a repeat performance in the $2,900 Fillies and Mares Open class in 1:58.2 for trainer Kevin MacLean. Roselily (Jason Hughes) was second with Larjon Legacy (Dowling) third.
Driver David Dowling was the hot flavour of the day with three wins on the 14-dash program. Dowling scored a pair of wins from the Earl Watts barn with Galterio Hanover (2:02.3) for a maiden breaking score and with Howmac Missy (2:01.3). Dowling s other win came via a parked out performance with Babbling (2:00.4) for trainer Mike Dowling for the horse s second straight w
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 trainer Ronnie Gass. Other top contenders include Chocolate Swirl (Jason Hughes, post 3), who has won both of his East Coast tries from the red-hot Jennifer Doyle barn, and Revenant (Adam Merner, post 5), who also looks to build on a two-race win streak.
When Shape Shifter split through horses late in the 2020 Ontario Sires Stakes Super Final for three-year-old trotting fillies, she posted one of the biggest upsets of the year in her dead-heat win with Magic Cape. Was that the biggest upset of 2020 in Canadian harness racing?
While Shape Shifter was sent off at odds of 107-1, because she shared the win with Magic Cape her $2 win mutuel was $99.10, and thus not even in the top 10 of the biggest payouts for win this year. Barring any longshot victories on the final night of 2020 at Charlottetown Driving Park,
Trot Insider is counting down the 10 biggest upsets in terms of $2 win payouts over the past season.
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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. The 2020 O’Brien Awards finalists have been announced and aged pacing mare finalist So Much More has etched herself into the harness racing history books as the first Island-foaled horse to be nominated for the prestigious national honour.
The O’Brien Awards were formed in 1989 to honour the late Joe O’Brien, a native of Alberton, but no horse born in the province has ever made the cut as a final nominee. So Much More’s home turf is New Haven, where Doug MacPhee raised the four-year-old Big Jim filly out of his own Ladysai.
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