Features headline Sunday program
Effective Sunday, Oct. 21, post- time for Truro Raceway will revert to 1 p.m. with qualifing rounds scheduled for noon.
Twelve dashes of exciting action, including the finals of the Maritime Breeders for colts and fillies are set for Sunday afternoon.
The formidable field for the MBA colt final is made up of the first four finishers in each of the two elimination divisions run on Sunday, Oct. 14 at Truro Raceway.
The eight successful contenders vying for the $ 22,500 purse follow:
A Grand Terror – Wayne Macrae, Robert Tiley and Gary Mott, driver/ trainer Gilles Barrieau.
Fern Hill Dynamic – David Kennedy & F Ian Smith, trainer Tom Weatherbie, driver Mark Bradley.
Dusty Lane Cortez – David Lewis & Jordan Lewis, trainer Devon Wallace, Ariver Adam Merner.
Notorious – Darryl Maclean &W Gordon Maclean, trainer Darryl Maclean, driver Marc Campbell.
Woodmere Bolt – Peter Smith, Gerald Morrissey and Arnold Hagen, trainer/ driver Earl Smith.
Red Dirt Boomer – Daniel Ross, trainer/ driver Gilles Barrieau.
Purple Poet – Kevin Harvey, trainer Robert Phillips, driver Marc Campbell.
Mall Peen Hammer – Dooley Boys Racing Stables, Nikway Farms, trainer Sean Dooley and driver Kenneth P Arsenault.
A total of eight fillies were declared in for last week’s filly division of the Maritime Breeders, therefore no elimination contest is required as the eight entered go directly to the $ 27,000 final this Sunday.
Stakes series
Truro Raceway is proud to host a division of the popular Nova Scotia Stake Series for three- year- old pacing colts on Sunday.
Developed by the Nova Scotia Harness Racing Industry As- sociation, the NS series fosters and promotes the breeding, owning and campaigning of standardbreds in our province.
In the 2015 conditions, a change was implemented by HRNS, allowing yearlings foaled in provinces other than Nova Scotia but owned 100 per cent by Nova Scotia owners to be eligible to be nominated to the stake.
The draw for the Oct. 21 race program is slated for today (Thursday).
When you’re hot, you’re hot
Truro’s leading teamster, Darren Crowe, and athletic and talented 14- year- old pacer Montreal Phil are certainly a “hot” duo, picking up their sixth consecutive victory as a team last Sunday afternoon at the local oval.
Owned by Dawn Ellis Abbott and Jeff Ellis, the seasoned contender paced a trip in 158.3 laying down an edge- of- your- seat finish in last week’s fifth dash.
Chase the Ace
Chase The Ace will return this Sunday, Oct. 21. Tickets will sell for $5 each or five for $20.
50-50 winner
Oct. 14 – Owen Fletcher, $353.50
Top of the Turn diner
Oct. 21 – Roast beef dinner Oct. 28 – Hot hamburg sandwich. Each special is $15.95 including tea/coffee and dessert
October events
Sunday, Oct. 21 – Maritime Breeders Final for two- yearold pacing colts and fillies and Nova Scotia Stake Series for three- year- old pacing colts. Post-time, 1 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 28 – Post- time, 1 p.m.