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Trotters headline Tuesday card in Summerside; Outside The Wire favourite in feature race

By Bo Ford
 
Summerside, PE – It’s trot night at Red Shores Summerside Tuesday, with the Atlantic Sires Stakes – Meridian Farms two-year-old and three-year-old trot taking center stage. Post time is 7 pm.
 
Stakes action gets under way in the third race with seven two-year-olds making their career debuts for a purse of $8, 820.
 
Paymenowpaymelater leaving from post 2 is the morning line favourite for owner Wade Peconi of Stanchel. Earl Watts trains the two-year-old Northern Bailey – Credibility filly and will hand the lines to veteran driver Kenny Arsenault. Paymenowpaymelater is coming off an impressive qualifier where she was a going away winner in 2:09 with Arsenault in the sulky. She will do battle with Dusty Lane Jacob from the rail (Clare Macdonald), B J Matador gets post 3 fresh off a 2:13.3 qualifying victory for owner-trainer Bert Honkoop, Brian MacPhee will do the driving. The field also includes Bayriver (3-1),
Oceanview Roz (6-1), Rustico Lighthouse (7-2) and Phoenician (10-1).
 
Race 5 features the first division of the three-year-old trotters, Saulsbrook Pippa has been saddled with post 6 after a 2:03.1 victory in the Maple Leaf Trot with Corey MacPherson in the bike. The winner of $11,681 in lifetime earnings is owned by John Pineau of Hunter River and Myron Ford of
Harrington, Pineau also handles the training duties, MacPherson will drive.
 
Wait For Me will have post one in the second division of the two-year-old trotters, Wait For Me is a full sister to former Maritime Champion and  Red Shores Summerside’s current track record holder Waiting On A Woman. The daughter of Northern Bailey – Southwind Faith is owned and bred by Mitchell and David Tierney, Mark McKinnon does the training and driving.
 
Last season’s Maritime Breeders and Breeders Crown champion Phantom Beau will compete in the final division of the three-year-old trotters. He was victorious in his last start for owner Peter Breau of Moncton. Phantom Beau will leave from post 7 at 4-1 odds, Pineau does the training and Arsenault
will handle the driving duties against seven other rivals.
 
Oceanview Rose is one of those rivals, she picked up a 205.4 victory in her division of the Maple Leaf Trot last Wednesday for owner-trainer Bill Roloson, Mike Stevenson who is closing in on win number 1,500, will drive.
 
Outside The Wire is the morning-line choice in the Race 11  feature, last time out he was a winner in 157.1 for owners Andrew Avery and John Brodrick, Craig Avery is the trainer and Brodie MacPhee will do the driving from post 4.
 
Putnam Mackenzie leaving from the 3 spot ships in from Ontario where she was a winner in her last start in 1:56 over the powerful Woodbine circuit, Kent Livingston of Cornwall and Dan Livingston of Stratford are now the owners with Alan Taylor taking over the training duties from former Gold Cup and Saucer winner Dean Nixon, Gary Chappell is scheduled to do the driving.
 
The rest of the field includes Tyber Champ (Edward Strongman), Capitalism (Jason Hughes), All Out (Kenny Murphy) and R Sonoflife (Marc Campbell).

For the complete list of entries, results or live broadcast go to www.redshores.ca
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