SUMMERSIDE, PE – After being crowned champion in 2019, Woodmere Skyroller will look for her first win of her three-year-old campaign in Atlantic Sires Stakes action Friday evening at Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway as Governor's Plate Week racing continues.
The 11-dash Friday card has a 6:30 P.M. start time featuring the Atlantic Sires Stakes for three-year-old pacing fillies. The card will feature a trio of $9,360 A-divisions for the sophomore fillies in races 2, 5 and 9 and a pair of $2,500 B-divisions in races 4 and 6.
The first division in race 2 has Woodmere Skyroller leaving from post 3 in a compact field of five for driver Brodie MacPhee, trainer Kevin MacLean and owner Reg MacPherson of Stratford. The Rollwithitharry filly was top of her class as a rookie, winning the $20,000 Atlantic Breeders Crown final last season and sits on a pair of second place finishes so far in 2020. Also in the field are Live And Let Di (To be driven by Marc Campbell) and Gotta Love Cabot (Clare MacDonald).
The second $9,360 A-division in race 5 will see last year's Maritime Breeder's winner, Na Naa Said So, with post 2 on the gate for the Cape Breton connections of driver Redmond Doucet, trainer Robert MacLeod and owners Hugh MacEachern of Inverness and Ali MacEachern of Truro, N.S. The talented daughter of Westwardo Hanover easily toured the oval at Inverness, N.S., in her lone seasonal start in 1:56.4. Her main rival on Friday will be the currently undefeated Red Dirt Star (Gilles Barrieau) from post 1 sitting on a trio of victories from as many starts in 2020.
Tobins Choice has top billing in the final $9,360 Atlantic Sires Stakes three-year-old pacing filly split in race 9 with Barrieau at the lines for trainer Gary Chappell and owners Boyd MacDonald Produce of Crapaud and Daniel Ross of Belfast. The Camystic filly has already seen the winner's circle twice this season and has drawn post 5 for Friday's contest. Other top contenders are Woodmere Nasha (Kenny Arsenault) and Streakazana (Marc Campbell).
Race 8 of the card features the $2,700 Andrew Perry Memorial trot with the top five trotters on the East Coast. Freddie has yet to be defeated this season and is relegated to the outside post 5 for trainer-driver Campbell and owners Three Wisemen Stable of Kingston. His top rivals will be Glider Man (Arsenault) and Star Photo (Hughes).
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By Nicholas Oakes, for Red Shores