Sorrie troops triple on stakes’ Sunday
Big day for young trainer from Montague
In an impressive feat, trainer Austin Sorrie left his Montague home on Sunday morning with three two-year-old pacers. He returned home with three stakes’ winners after Sunday afternoon action at Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway.
The 17-year-old trainer scored his first win on the mega-stakes’ card in Race 1 in a $5,500 Lady Slipper Grassroots Division for two-year-old pacing fillies. Camco Willow scored a onelength decision in that race, with a time of 2:01. Gordie Hennessey was in the bike for owners Walter Simmons of Summerside and Tammy Collings of Hazel Brook.
The beat went on for Sorrie and Hennessey in Race 6 for a purse of $5,000 in Joe O’Brien Memorial Stakes’ grassroots action for two-year-old pacing colts. Dustylanesame was the winner in that contest in 2:01.1 by seven lengths, with the son of Ameripan Gigolo also owned by Simmons and Collings.
The card was capped off with JJ Powerball winning a $5,000 Joe O’Brien Grassroots Division in 2:01.4 while finishing the triples for trainer Sorrie, Hennessey and owners Simmons and Collings.
Other action
In other action on the card, Royaltywestho won a $10,750 Lady Slipper Gold Division in 1:58. Walter Cheverie drove for owner-trainer Joe Baxter and co-owner Gregory Francis of Windsor, N.S. Chocolate Terror won the other $10,750 Gold Division in 2:02.3, with Paul Langille at the lines for trainer Cyril MacDonald and owner David Livingstone of Halifax, N.S.
The $9,400 Joe O’Brien Memorial gold events for twoyear-old pacing colts had Dustylanewesty winning the first split for trainer-driver Clare MacDonald and owners Ian Tate of St. Andrews, N.S. and Riley Farms Ltd., of Summerside. Summerside two-year-old colt track-record-holder Sock It Away was a 1:59.1 winner in the other $9,400 O’Brien gold split as Marc Campbell engineered the winning drive for trainer Kevin MacLean and owner Reg MacPherson of Stratford. MacDonald and Campbell both had driving doubles while trainer Earl Watts had two wins on the program.
The total wager was $26,772.