Heading into Friday night's Century Mile card, Stash The Cookies held the track record for older pacing mares, and while she added another sizzling score to her resume in the $14,000 Fillies & Mares Preferred Pace, another mare walked away with the distaff record.
Century Mile will be giving out $393,610 over 13 dashes on Saturday, and the feature event is one of the biggest on the Western Canada harness racing calendar. Nine sophomore colts & geldings will battle for the crown in the Western Canada Pacing Derby. Ten fillies also have their chance to see who is the
Iknowbetter recovered after a miscue in the final turn to win the faster of two Robert Millbank Memorial B.C. Breeders Stakes divisions as the third leg of the series, worth $15,000, contested on Thursday (Oct. 19) evening at Fraser Downs.
The stage is set. Favourite Over The Horizon and longshot King Kong slayer Blue Star Mercury both won this past Saturday’s Western Canada Pacing Derby eliminations to advance to this Saturday’s prestigious and rich $110,710 Derby final at Century Mile.
Planets aligned as Century Mile hosted the Western Canada Pacing Derby Eliminations, each worth a $14,000 purse prize, on Saturday (Oct. 14) evening with Blue Star Mercury and Over The Horizon winning their respective splits.