Maritime Breeders Stakes headline Charlottetown program

CHARLOTTETOWN, PE – A superb card of Atlantic Canadian Harness Racing will be front and center Saturday (June 24) evening at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park.

The city track has 15-dashes starting at an amended 5 P.M. opening post time featuring the Home Hardware Maritime Breeder’s for three-year-old colt and filly pacers along with two divisions of the Cecil Ladner Memorial Invitational presented by Ladner Source For Sports.

Atlantic champion Malignity (Malicious) is favoured in the first $15,700 Maritime Breeder’s division in race 2 over Fishermans Son (Driven by Adam Merner) and Elm Grove Restwind (David Dowling). Paul Langille trains and drives the favoured colt for owners Debbie Francis and Rosanne Langille from post 5.

Woodmere Dealer is the favoured choice in the $15,700 colt division in race 6 for trainer-driver Jason Hughes and owner Donald MacRae of Vernon Bridge. Top entries include Tobins Profit (Marc Campbell) and Junes Boy (Langille).

No Boats On Sunday (Source Of Pride) will have post 1 to take advantage of in the final colt division in race 9. Myles Heffernan Sr., drives the colt for trainer Myles Heffernan Jr., and owner Jackie Heffernan. JJ Landon (Gilles Barrieau) is a major threat from post 2 along with Starship Art (Patrick Shepherd) with post 4.

In three-year-old pacing filly action, the first $16,100 Home Hardware Maritime Breeder’s division in race 4 has Saulsbrook Abbey (Malicious) and driver Jason Hughes as the top choice from post 7 for co-owner and trainer Saul Lanigan and co-owners Peter and Mark Lanigan. The undefeated filly will face off with Woodmere Amora (Langille) and Marina Del Rey (Campbell).

Rock N Roll Cays is the morning line favourite in her filly split in race 7 with Dowling in the driver’s seat from the Jeff Holmes barn for owner Hardcore Racing of Belfast. Her archrival Saulsbrook Mabel (Barrieau) has rail control after seeing her four-race undefeated career cut short by Rock N Roll Cays in her last start.

Elm Grove Redwine is the favourite in race 12 in a $16,100 Home Hardware Maritime Breeder’s filly division. Dowling trains and drives the filly for owners Alex Quinn, Carl Peterson and Brittany Dowling from post 2. Her main rivals are on either side of her with Itsuptoyou (Campbell) leaving from the rail and Lil Reeses Pieces (Merner) with post 3.

The first $7,500 Cecil Ladner Memorial Invitational dash is carded as race 11 with YS Mathis as the top entry from post 5 fresh off setting a new stallion record at Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway winning in 1:52.1, two-fifths off the overall track record. Corey MacPherson picks up the drive for trainer Campbell and owners Brady Doyle and Jacinta Campbell. Time To Dance (Campbell) is a top choice from post 1 along with No Plan Intended (Hughes) from post 3 in the field of eight.

The other eight-horse Ladner Invitational race has Twin B Tuffenuff (Barrieau) as the morning line favourite with post 5 over Stash It Away (MacPherson) and Batterup Hanover (Langille). Ron Matheson trains the race 14 favourite for owner Pat Morris of Charlottetown.

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by Nicholas Oakes, for Red Shores