Sweet wins last preliminary round of Gamester-Pinkney

SUMMERSIDE, PE – The harness racing finalists are now set for the second annual Gamester-Pinkney Cup final after Brady Sweet and Countercurrency (Sportswriter) captured their leg Tuesday evening (Aug. 8) at Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway.

The Gamester leg of the competition had divisions at Red Shores Charlottetown and Red Shores Summerside with Countercurrency circling the field in their Tuesday contest in line to Brady Sweet. Time of the mile was 2:00.4 for the Tyra Perry owned pacing mare as she defeated Think Again (Driven by Patrick Shepherd) and Dorabella (Kyle Desroche).

The victory put Sweet over the top in the point standings as he was presented the Byron Gamester Memorial trophy from the Gamester family as well as a certificate for a new driving suit courtesy of a partnership between Wendy MacRae and Atlanticharnessracing.ca. Joining Sweet in the Sept. 3 Gamester-Pinkney Cup final at the Truro Raceway in Nova Scotia will be Shepherd, Jaycob Sweet and Brett Clow from Team Gamester.

The Pinkney leg of the competition concluded Sunday in Truro with Kyle Mason garnering top prize along with the Phil Pinkney Memorial Award and a new driving helmet courtesy of Grattan Helmets and the Ben Hollingsworth Stable of Ontario. Also making the final from Team Pinkney were Zach Mullins, Luke Armstrong and Monica Sutherland.

In other Tuesday evening racing action at Red Shores Summerside, Melody Maker (Hes Watching) made it seven-straight victories as he captured the $3,600 Preferred 2 pace in 1:55.3 for driver Dale Spence and owner-trainer Greg MacInnis of Tyne Valley. Spence also scored with Speed Snip (1:56) for trainer MacKenzie Spence and Glenview Quintanna (1:56.3) from the Adam Johnson stable of Nova Scotia for the driving triple.

Trainer Chris Davies had a pair of victories winning with Stoney Curtis (1:57.3) in line to Jason Hughes and Midnight MacNeill (1:56.3) with driver Ken Murphy.

Live racing continues Thursday evening at 7 P.M. at Red Shores Charlottetown as action shifts towards Old Home Week 2023 and the 64^th running of the $100,000 Gold Cup and Saucer, presented by Atlantic Lottery.

For more information go to Redshores.ca.

For complete race results, click here.

by Nicholas Oakes, for Red Shroes