CHARLOTTETOWN, PE – After being plagued by breaks in stride in recent races, Prettyndangerous was firing on all cylinders Thursday night crushing her opposition in the featured pace in 1:55.4.
Gilles Barrieau was in the bike for the journey as he stalked pacesetter Minor Wisdom (Driven by David Dowling) through fractions of 27.3 and 56.4 before moving to the lead before three-quarters in 1:26.4. The Bo Ford trainee powered forward to win by 10 lengths in the $1,500 class over Good Luck Kathy (Earl Smith) and Hurricane Hill (Mike McGuigan). Ford along with Arnold Myers of Charlottetown own the winning mare.
Isabella Hanover found herself in the winner’s circle as she captured her first $1,950 Open trot on the East Coast. Adam Merner engineered the 1:59.1 winning trip for trainer Stephen Gass and owners Kent Livingston of Cornwall and Wade MacDonald of Stanhope.
Dowling scored a driving triple on the program to give himself 993 career wins, just seven shy of the 1,000 win plateau. The Warren Grove driver clicked with CL La Rousse in 1:59.4 for trainer Reg Ferguson of Charlottetown, Brodys Leona in 1:58.1 for trainer Kerry Taylor of Stratford and House Of Style in a 2:01.2 maiden breaking win for trainer Earl Watts of Hampshire.
Taylor had two training wins on the program as he also teamed up with McGuigan to win with Swingirl in 1:58.4.
Mark Bradley also had two training scores with Atlantic Drive in 2:02.1 with the trainer in the bike and with Selfie in 2:01.3 for driver Ken Murphy.
Racing continues at Red Shores Charlottetown on Saturday evening at 6 P.M. and Red Shores Summerside on Sunday afternoon at 1 P.M. For more information go to www.Redshores.ca.
by Nicholas Oakes, for Red Shores