CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — The East Coast has been nothing but kind to Doctor Royal and the pacer will look to keep his streak alive tonight at Red Shores at the Charlottetown Driving Park.
The Dawn Ellis Abbott-trainee rides a three-race win streak into the Race 8 featured pace on the nine-dash program at the capital oval. First race post time is 6 p.m.
Gilles Barrieau is back at the lines of Doctor Royal after teaming up to win the first two featured races of the season on P.E.I., combined with a top-class win at the horse’s home turf of Truro Raceway in Nova Scotia to give him three straight wins.
Mick Dundee was closing the gap in last week’s feature and will get rail control for tonight’s $2,900 contest for trainer-driver Don MacNeill. Euchred was a force to be reckoned with in 2018 on the invitational circuit and comes into tonight’s feature fresh off a 1:58.1 victory for new trainer-driver David Dowling.
“Doctor Royal has been assigned the outside post but that's the consequences of a three-race win streak,” said race analyst Les MacIsaac. “Until he shows he's vulnerable the road to the winners circle goes through him.”
Also in the field are Revenant (Adam Merner) and Adkins Hanover (Corey MacPherson).
Sodwana Bay was nothing short of superb in 2018 and will make her seasonal debut in Race 9 in the $2,800 fillies and mares open pace. The Barrieau trained and driven pacer is fresh off a 2:00.3 qualifier at her winter base of Exhibition Park Raceway in New Brunswick for owners Wayne MacRae of Fall River, N.S., and Howmac Farms Ltd., of North Wilshire. Other top entries include Innocent Kiss (Merner) and Prettyndangerous (Dowling).
– Compiled by Nicholas Oakes for Red Shores.
Doctor Royal, Barrieau favoured today at CDP
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