Mike Hennessy and Phil Giesbrecht recently both went over the $1-million mark for driving earnings this year, achieving the feat for the first time in their careers.
There was no shortage of action on the packed Saturday (Nov. 4) evening card at Century Mile with the ABSS Super Finals on tap as the main event with headliners featured by the longest win streak of the year extended by Shark Week and a $10 million career milestone earned by trainer Jamie Gray.
Harness racing driver Doug McNair, about 2,600 kilometres west of his home track, stole the show in the Alberta Sires Stakes Super Finals on Saturday (Nov. 4) at Century Mile as the Ontario-based reinsman won three of the four $75,000 events. Come On Santana (Santana Blue Chip) captured the first Super Final for two-year-old colts
Two weeks ago, on Oct. 14 at Century Mile, Byby Baby Byby and Outlawguns N Roses put on such a monumental performance in the Alberta Sires Stakes Starburst leg that it prompted Byby Baby Byby’s trainer Rod Hennessy to call it “one of the best miles paced in Western Canada by anyone.”
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.