A few excerpts from UPI Sports described some of the events.
The only losing favourite Topnotcher with Doug Brown driving, gave way grudgingly just before the wire after a gutsy late battle with 69-1 shot Bays Fella driven by fellow Canadian Paul MacDonell in the aged pacing divisions for colts and geldings. (Note the win payoff of $140.60 stood as the highest in Breeders Crown history for some 18 years.)
Beach Towel with Ray Remmen driving became the first harness horse to crash the $2 million mark for a season in his win in the three-year-old colts and geldings division.
Canadian invader No Sex Please, accustomed to being accompanied by two people named Ron Waples had to make a last minute adjustment. Ron Jr. failed to make his flight to Florida when a broken water main at his Ontario farm delayed his departure. Ron Sr. was equal to the challenge and piloted the trusty trotter to victory in the aged division. His mile in 1:55 shaved two-fifths of a second off the existing
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Rideau Carleton Raceway s Race Manager Peter Andrusek talked with Brian Perkin of Lake 88.1FM about the state of the Ottawa track in Ontario s third shut down as well as the obstacles the industry will have to overcome.
In the interview, Andrusek aired his grievance with the province for its prohibition of harness racing despite the competition taking place outdoors and the track not having a single case of coronavirus traced to its facility. Though racing is halted with the stay-at-home order, horses are still currently allowed to train at the track. We raced over 70 live cards during this pandemic, not to mention qualifiers and training, and we have not had one incident of Covid that was traced to our facility, Andrusek said. Not a sniff. That was not a coincidence. Racing is an outdoor activity, and is done under a very strict regime of protocols. So, what is the difference between racing, which is now prohibited, and training horses, which is permitted? Of course its permitt