By Nicholas Oakes For Red Shores
CHARLOTTETOWN, PE – Saulsbrook Rolo and Windemere Skye have yet to taste defeat but that is about to change Saturday afternoon at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park as the P.E.I. Colt Stakes for two-year-old pacers hits the capital oval as the first part of a Saturday doubleheader.
Post time for the 12-dash program is 12 P.M.
The stakes menu features four Gold divisions carrying purses of $22,500 for fillies and $18,600 for colts, along with a deep supporting cast of Grassroots splits worth $9,300 for colts and $11,250 for fillies.
The first $22,500 Gold division lines up in race 6 with a pair of undefeated rookie fillies going head-to-head with post 2 starter Saulsbrook Rolo (To be driven by Marc Campbell) from the Landon Campbell barn sporting a perfect six-for-six summary. The daughter of Roll With Joe has taken a mark of 1:55.2 over Red Shores Charlottetown this season. Windemere Skye has also been unheeded in her career with an identical six-for-six record from post 3 for trainer Earl Watts with Adam Merner picking up the catch drive as regular pilot Marc Campbell has elected to drive his son’s trainee.
The other Gold filly event is carded as race 10 where We Danced Anyway (David Dowling) is the 5-2 morning line choice from post 1 for trainer Walter Walker. The daughter of Shadow Play has been razor sharp with two victories already this season from six starts. Chief rivals include Fallon (Merner) from post 7 and Bayonetta (Marc Campbell) with post 5.
Race 8 is the first of two $18,600 two-year-old pacing colt Gold divisions with Tobins Gem the 5-2 morning line favourite from post 2. Marc Campbell drives for trainer George Rennison as the son of Flameproof Hanover has won three of five races so far in his career. Rollwiththewarden (Corey MacPherson) has won four races this year and has post 3 while Darbies Fancy (Merner) is fresh off a win in the Phil Pinkney Stake with rail control.
The second colt Gold split is in race 12 and has Woodmere Mahomes set as the 5-2 morning line favourite from post 2 for trainer-driver Gilles Barrieau after a 1:57 score his last start. Louie The Lip (Brodie MacPhee) has post 1 while Kapueno (Marc Campbell) gets post 7 after winning the Milton Downey Memorial stake last start at Connell Park Raceway in Woodstock, N.B.
The Grassroots divisions will be well-represented on the afternoon card with purses of $9,300 for the colts carded as races 1, 3, 5 (Fred & Rena Hughes Memorial), 9 and 11. The fillies Grassroots divisions will go for $11,250 slated for races 2, 4 and 7.
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