Can Temagami Seelster ignite that flame

CHARLOTTETOWN, PE – Temagami Seelster may have seen her harness racing win streak stop at five races but she will look to reignite that flame in the Thursday evening feature at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park.

The 12-dash Thursday presentation has a 6 P.M. opening post time with the featured fillies and mares pacers putting their noses on the gate in race 11. Brodie MacPhee will steer Temagami Seelster in the field of eight from the Tom Weatherbie stable for Nova Scotia owners David Mercer, Wayne McGean and Joseph Lewis.

The three-year-old daughter of Sunshine Beach was undefeated in her first five starts on red soil before finally being defeated on Sept. 24. Leaving from post 4, she will face some rugged company again on Thursday including 1:54.4 winner Miss Kabana (To be driven by Vincent Poulton) from post 3 and $400,000 earner Much Adoo (Gilles Barrieau) from post 7.

Peter MacPhee with the Post Time Picks sees a return to Temagami Seelster's winning ways.

"Temagami Seelster was a bang up third to Filly Forty Seven last week closing in a snappy 28.3. She should get another good trip from here and with the way she can fire home she could hit the wire first." Other entries in the field of featured pacers are Collective Wisdom (Kenny Arsenault), Better Be In Love (Jason Hughes), Tell Me Why (Corey MacPherson), Miss Sangria (Adam Merner) and Traces Of Purple (Marc Campbell).

The lone trot class of the evening lines up in race 6 with Banker Twentyfive making his East Coast debut for trainer-driver Campbell and owner Charles Symes of Springhill, N.S. A seven-time winner, the five-year-old son of Break The Bank K boasts over $106,000 in career earnings and a 1:55.4 record taken at The Meadows in Pennsylvania. His last start was also in Pennsylvania where he made a break at Pocono Downs. Banker Twentyfive's top rivals on the Thursday card are Majian Chester (Ken Murphy) and Professor Gordon (Merner).

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by NIcholas Oakes, for Red Shores