The 2021 Maritime Stakes schedule was released Thursday (Feb. 4), with several new features added.
Firstly, Canada’s oldest harness racing stakes program, the PEI Colt Stakes, will have an additional profile in recognition of its 87th year of competition. Each division of two- and three-year-old pacing colts and fillies, and trotting two- and three-year-olds (split by sex if necessary) will compete in two legs with a Gold and Grassroots component based upon money earnings at time of the event. For 2021 and subsequent years, there is no final in any division, with the purse allotment usually paid out in the finals added to the purses for each leg.