Fans pack Ocean Downs on MDSS prelims night

Harness racing fun continued on Wednesday July 7th at Ocean Downs with Maryland Sire Stakes Prelims for three year olds and the ever famous camel and ostrich races with an overflow crowd in attendance.

Once again ‘Captain’ Corey Callahan guided three year old Pride Of Windswept (Charlie De Vie) to victory in the second round preliminary for Maryland sired trotting fillies. Pride Of Windswept remains undefeated in two years of Maryland Sire stakes and has 13 wins and 2 seconds in 15 lifetime starts. Shaun Callahan trains the filly for owner-breeders John and Sarah Swart. Call Me Keeper (Lockkeeper) was second in the 2:01.4 mile.

Callahan commented on the large crowd present on Wednesday in a tweet.

Monster crowd ⁦@OceanDowns⁩ tonight! Such a fun place to race. People still do turn out the the track!! ⁦@USTrotting⁩ ⁦@HarnessRacingFZ⁩ pic.twitter.com/fl8WDpdkAT

— Corey Callahan (@coreycallahan12) July 8, 2021

The three year old pacing colts and geldings went to post as race three with the rivalry between Real Made (Rusty’s For Real) and Dream Weaver (Capitol Power) continuing right to the wire. This week it was Real Made that crossed the wire a half-length in front in 1:57 giving them each a win in the same time heading into the finals on July 21^st. Allan Davis was in the bike for trainer Brian Wright and owner/breeder Willard (Dale) Hall Jr.

Ocean Downs also hosted two of its most highly anticipated events – camel races and ostrich races – which much of the crowd was there to see.

Stakes action switches to the Maryland Standardbred Fund (foaled) stakes on July 12th and 14th.

For full race results, click here.

by Cheryl Stambaugh, for the Maryland Standardbred Race Fund