High Roller equals P.E.I. record

CHARLOTTETOWN, PE – On a cool November night with a wet harness racing track after significant overnight snowfall, High Roller (Big Jim) put in one of the fastest trips ever recorded by a two-year-old filly in Atlantic Canadian harness racing history on Thursday at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park.

The two-year-old scorched the half-mile Red Shores Charlottetown oval with an open-length victory in 1:55.1 with the track rated one-second off in her $2,750 overnight assignment to erase her former 1:55.2 track record set in September. Adam Merner supplied the winning steer with Melissa Rennie handling the training chores for owners Marsha Knox and Cory Livingston. The win ties her for the fastest two-year-old filly ever on Prince Edward Island with Saulsbrook Alana’s 1:55.1 victory over Red Shores Summerside in 2013. The overall Atlantic record for two-year-old fillies is held by Redlandbethany Jean in 1:54.4 at the Truro Raceway in Nova Scotia, which she set in 2022.

Merner and Rennie clicked later in the night for the same ownership group, as Woodmere Rollily won the $2,900 Fillies and Mares feature pace in 1:57.1 for Livingston and Knox. Merner also won with Imshortandsweet N (1:59.2) for trainer Nick Oakes in race 8 for the driving triple.

Driver Marc Campbell and trainer Brent Campbell teamed up for a pair of wins with New Legacy (1:58) in the $3,100 Open Trot and The Lady Sheriff (1:57.1) in a conditioned pace in race 4.

Live racing continues Saturday and Sunday afternoon at Red Shores Charlottetown with post time at 12:30 P.M. for both days. Go to Redshores.ca for more.

For complete race results, click here.

by Nicholas Oakes, for Red Shores