Time To Dance shows his heels to rivals

CHARLOTTETOWN, PE – Time To Dance landed in a familiar spot Saturday afternoon as he visited the winner’s circle in the preferred harness racing pace at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park.

The son of A Rocknroll Dance was sent to the lead in the $3,400 featured pace by trainer-driver Marc Campbell and led through splits of 27.3, 57.2 and 1:27.1 before closing out the mile in 1:55 by over two-lengths.

Screen Test (Driven by Corey MacPherson) was second while Bugsy Maguire (Dale Spence) finished third.

Brent Campbell of Charlottetown shares ownership of Time To Dance with Matt McDonald of Ontario.

Osprey Delta was the boss in the $2,700 Open Trot winning in 2:00.2 off the front for driver Walter Cheverie and owner-trainer Paul Larrabee of South Pinette. It was win number 10 of the Tad The Stud six-year-old’s career. Freddie (Campbell) had to settle for second with Daisy River (Jason Hughes) third.

Gilles Barrieau had a pair of winners from his barn on the day as Rollin Doubles (Adam Merner) opened up the card with a 2:00.4 maiden breaking score and The Rev (Spence) closing out the day in 1:56.3 for win number 48 lifetime.

The Jennifer Doyle barn was hot as Chocolate Swirl (Merner) delivered as the favourite in 1:55.3 and newcomer My Land (Hughes) overcame post 8 for a 1:57.2 victory in his Island debut.

Live racing continues this coming weekend (Nov. 27-28) with 12:30 P.M. opening post times for the Saturday and Sunday afternoon cards. Total wager was $49,196. For race replays and more go to Redshores.ca.

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by Nicholas Oakes, for Red Shores