There were just 10 horses entered in the eliminations for the 2024 edition of the Moores Mile Breeders Stakes on Saturday, June 8 at Century Downs, but those two $14,000 five-horse elims certainly weren't lacking for action.
Mike Hennessy won six races including the Alberta Sires Stakes Two-Year-Old Filly Super Final with precocious Byby Baby Byby. Yet, Hennessy was still upstaged by Doug McNair, who was flown into Edmonton from Ontario by Alberta trainer Jamie Gray for Saturday’s Super Final card at Century Mile.
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
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.
Eliminations for the Western Canada Pacing Derby are on the docket for this Saturday at Century Mile, and the top three-year-old harness racers in the region will all try their best to make it into the finals. One of the entrants, Handsome Dan (State Treasurer), comes into the elimination at 10-1 morning line, but he