SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. – The Governor’s Plate decade of champion celebration continues on Canada Day Sunday at Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway.
The 13-dash card begins at 1 p.m.
The Race 12 preferred pace has $2,500 on the line while honouring the Governor’s Plate winners from 1981-1990 with connections of those horses invited out to the winner’s circle. The celebration continues with a decade honoured each time leading up to the 50th running of the Governor’s Plate final on July 14.
Fast N Victorious will look for another victory Sunday in the preferred pace in a bid to punch his ticket to a Governor’s Plate Invitation next week. Adam Merner drives the son of Art Major for trainer Stephen Gass and owners Kent Livingston of Cornwall and Wade MacDonald of Stanhope. The pacer leaves from Post 4, fresh off a 1:56 victory over Summerside last Sunday.
Cartoon Daddy aims to be a main contender in the preferred pace, drawing the rail after last racing in the Cecil Ladner Memorial Invitational. Dale Spence gets the catch-driving call for trainer Rachel Andrew and owner Brian Andrew of Milton and William Andrew of Calgary.
The Canada Day pace lines up in Race 10 with Old Buck favoured off the rail with Hughes in the seat in the $1,900 contest. Trainer and owner Alan MacDonald of Summerside has won this staple of Canada Day racing previously and will look to add to Old Buck’s two-race win streak Sunday. Other top entries include J Rs Hurricane (Arsenault) and Rash B Havior (Mike Peters).
– Compiled by Nicholas Oakes for Red Shores.
