Driver Phil Giesbrecht swept the co-featured $50,000 sophomore stakes on Friday, April 26 at Fraser Downs with Ray Gemmill Memorial upset winner Phone Nine One One and Penny Bath Memorial champion Kootenay Cocoa, who equalled the divisional track record.
The Great Emotion wore down the 1-9 favourite, Hot Flash Kimmy, with a sustained first-over move and pulled off the 15-1 upset in Thursday’s (Jan. 11) feature at Hollywood Casino at The Meadows, a $16,667 Conditioned Trot.
The finals for harness racing two-year-old fillies and colts & geldings are the main event on the Thursday card at Fraser Downs. Eight fillies are entered in the Betty Millbank Memorial, while nine of the top colts & geldings are in the Robert Millbank Memorial. Both races will have the eighth horse on the gate,
Two-year-old B.C.-bred harness racing horses will have their last chance to strut their stuff before the finals. There are two splits in the third leg of the Robert Millbank Memorial for colts & geldings and one split in the Betty Millbank Memorial for fillies. Both finals are set for Oct. 26 and will each have