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Life Is Better ground out a parked-out win in the Ken Houston Memorial Pace at Dresden Raceway Sunday afternoon (July 25) for Garrett Rooney in 1:58.1.
Favourite Bigmachwithcheese put in some steps through the first turn and broke stride before the quarter pole, totally shifting the dynamics of the race.
Dreaming Out Loud fired to the front for Tyler Borth, while Millenium Seelster slipped into the two-hole and left Life Is Better was caught out. Being parked out wasn t the best option but I also knew going to the back would have been a death sentence, so I just stayed out there, said Rooney. My horse raced big. I was just hoping that I would have some left down the stretch and that he (Borth) might tire a little bit.
Ontario’s world-class three-year-old pacing colts waged a pair of $99,800 Gold Series battles at Georgian Downs on Sunday (July 25) and it was Second Bruiser and Desperate Man who emerged victorious from the fray.
Favourite Second Bruiser did the bulk of the work on the front in the first division, leading the field through fractions of :27.4, :55.3 and 1:22.4 before pulling away to a 2-3/4-length win in a personal best 1:50.2. Century Heineken finished second and Bettor Of The West was third.
“He’s just a good horse, he’s been good since he come back this year and I wanted to drive him like I thought he was the best, because I thought he was the best,” said driver James MacDonald. “I pushed him a little bit, but he felt like if someone had come to him he’d have given me a little more too. He’s a tough horse, he’s just a good horse.”
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Another track record fell on a special stakes Sunday (July 25) at Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway featuring Canada’s oldest Standardbred stakes race, the P.E.I. Colt Stakes.
The 15-dash card saw stakes events in every race, with Defriended rewriting the track record for two-year-old fillies by way of a 2:04.1 performance in the day s fourth race. Myles Heffernan Sr. drove the record-setting daughter of Amigo Hall in her $7,000 P.E.I. Colt Stakes division for trainer Myles Heffernan Jr., and owner Jackie Heffernan. The mile lowered the former rookie filly record of 2:04.3, which was held jointly by Maple Leaf Spirit and Time Warp.