Final night race tonight

Collective Wisdom will look to deliver in her last seasonal race under the lights tonight at Red Shores at the Charlottetown Driving Park.

The 12-dash card has a 6:30 p.m. post time and will be the final scheduled evening card of 2019 as action shifts to a Saturday-Sunday schedule with afternoon post times next week.

Collective Wisdom is the favourite in the Race 11 top pace for a $2,200 purse with Gilles Barrieau back in the bike for trainer Jackie Matheson and owner Woodmere Farms of Marshfield. The six-year-old daughter of American Ideal was a front-end victor in her latest start in 1:58.1 and climbs up a class for this week but her competition still falls short of the open mares she has been banging heads with all season.

Innocent Kiss has Post 3 in the field, fresh off an eight-length romp in her latest for driver Adam Merner and trainer Chris Davies. Post 5 belongs to Dancers Pass (David Dowling), who scored a large upset in her last start while racing against the boys at 14-1 odds.

“Collective Wisdom gets a post that should allow her to exploit that gate speed and get spotted on the lead or at the very least in position to sit and stalk all the way,” said race analyst Les MacIsaac. “She’ll be hard to deny.”

The field also includes Killean Finale (Ken Murphy), Bettim Vicky (Marc Campbell) and Driving the dragon N (Jason Hughes).

The $2,250 open trot hits the track in Race 7 with Freddie assigned the outside as he looks for his 11th win of the season from 20 starts for trainer-driver Campbell and owner Three Wisemen Stable of Kingston. Other top entries include Summit City Nate (Barrieau) from Post 1 and Majian Tango (Jim Ripley) from Post 3.

Race 4 is the Lowther Refrigeration Ltd. pace with Narragansett favoured off the rail in the $1,400 class for driver Hughes and owner-trainer Ashley Gamester of Hunter River. The veteran son of Rocknroll Hanover will look for his first top-three finish of the season after just returning to racing in September.