CHARLOTTETOWN, PE – A hard hitting field of eight pacers will don their bridles and go to battle in the Thursday night harness racing feature at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park.
First race post time is 7 pm for the 12-dash event.
The race 11 feature has Tempo Seelster installed as the morning line choice for owner-trainer-driver Vincent Poulton of Charlottetown. The five-year-old son of Santanna Blue Chip does not show a mile slower than 1:57.4 on his race lines and has post 2 to top it off. He won't be unchallenged though, as Cheyenne Ford has the rail for trainer-driver Kenny Arsenault and owner James O'Halloran of Montague and Forever Paradise (Marc Campbell) poses a real danger from post 7 after scoring a 1:57.1 victory in his latest outing.
Race analyst Les MacIsaac marks this race up as a likely Tempo Seelster victory.
"He's been in a bit of a dry spell as far as winning goes but he's still racing okay," MacIsaac said. "He gets some class relief for this one and when you couple that with a post that might allow him to control his own destiny, we'll give him top billing."
Other entries include The Big Bite (Corey MacPherson), Beckenbauer (Jason Hughes), A Fiesty X Ample (Mark Bradley), Artners In Crime (Ron Matheson) and First Art Down (Ken Murphy).
The back-up class lines up in race 7 with Lyndale Royal getting top call from Race Secretary Gerard Smith. The six-year-old son of Force Of Life gets post 5 with Marc Campbell in the bike for co-owner and trainer Brent Campbell of Charlottetown and co-owner Neal Moase of Warren Grove. Other top entries include Van Zant (Matheson), Windemere Eric (Gary Chappell) and Sinners In Heaven (Terry Gallant).
Two trot classes will go postward on the card in races 3 and 5. Summerside Raceway track record holder Suicide Shift will looks to come back from a break in stride last week in race 3 with Steven Shepherd in the bike from post 6. Race 5 has Dunmore Chance kicking off his four-year-old campaign from post 4 in the eight horse field with Jack Panting at the lines.
By Nicholas Oakes for Red Shores