Rookies Set To Battle In Maritime Breeders Stakes

Tobins Chester
Published: October 20, 2023 10:33 pm EDT

The top two-year-olds in Atlantic Canada will meet on Sunday afternoon (Oct. 22) in the Home Hardware Maritime Breeders Stakes at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park. 

The 14-dash program will start at a pushed back 2 p.m. post time due to expected heavy rains overnight and early in the morning. 

The first $17,500 Home Hardware Maritime Breeders Stakes division for two-year-old fillies hits the track in race two. U No Peach (Ken Murphy) is the favourite in that dash for trainer Jeff Holmes and owner Hardcore Racing of Belfast, P.E.I. 

Chip Of Evil will look to add to her six wins and two seconds from eight lifetime starts in her $17,500 division in race six with Corey MacPherson in the seat from post five for trainer Eddy Doucette and owner Inarush Stable of Kensington, P.E.I. 

The final division for fillies is in race 10 with Goodmorning Nova riding a three-race win streak with rail control for driver Gilles Barrieau, trainer Dwane MacEachern and owners Melissa Banks of Summerside and Jason Williams of McNeills Mills, P.E.I.

The $17,500 Home Hardware Maritime Breeders Stakes for two-year-old pacing colts starts in race four. Tobins Chester (pictured above) is favoured in that dash from post five for trainer/driver Jason Hughes and owner Donald MacRae of Vernon Bridge, P.E.I. 

Jackies Boy gets top call in his $17,500 colt division in race eight for owner/trainer Myles Heffernan Jr., and driver Myles Heffernan Sr. 

In the last division in race 12, Merigo Magic (Adam Merner) is the morning line favourite with post four from the Melissa Rennie barn for local owners Mike May, Herman McQuaid and Derrick Cameron and partner Ian Walker of Mermaid, P.E.I.

The $3,800 Preferred Pace lines up in race 13 with Twin B Tuffenuff (Barrieau) favoured off the rail from the Ron Matheson barn. 

To view Sunday's harness racing entries, click the following link: Sunday Entries - Charlottetown Driving Park.

(With files from Red Shores)

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