Mickie Mantle collected his second B.C. Breeders Stakes title while Red N Ready upset defending filly champion Side Piece in a pair of $100,000 finals for three-year-old pacers co-featured at Fraser Downs on Friday night, Nov. 24.
Eliminations for the Western Canada Pacing Derby are set for this Saturday, Nov. 26 at Century Mile. Fourteen of the top three-year-old pacing colts and geldings in Western Canada will face off in a pair of $13,500 eliminations to determine the field for the $110,000 (est.) final, which will be contested on Saturday, Dec. 3.
Despite the Sunday afternoon showers, the stars of British Columbia racing were out for B.C. Breeders Classic Day, the richest day of harness racing in the province, on Nov. 6 at Fraser Downs, including full brothers Mickie Mantle and Joe Dimagio, who swept the male pacing finals.
Millbank Memorial action continued at Fraser Downs on Sunday afternoon (Oct. 23) with the third leg of the Robert Millbank Memorial, for two-year-old pacing colts, and the third leg for the Betty Millbank Memorial, for two-year-old pacing fillies.