Planets aligned as Century Mile hosted the Western Canada Pacing Derby Eliminations, each worth a $14,000 purse prize, on Saturday (Oct. 14) evening with Blue Star Mercury and Over The Horizon winning their respective splits.
On a Saturday (Oct. 14) night that saw Virtual Horizon’s streak end, Shark Week (Vertical Horizon) won his 11th consecutive harness racing contest and broke the track record at Century Mile. The gelding, who previously also held the track record for an aged pacing stallion, was never headed in the wire-to-wire Preferred-winning effort. He fired
Outlaw C My Shadow conquered the Open pacers at Fraser Downs yet again on Friday evening (April 21), running his win streak upto 11 for trainer Connie Kolthammer and kicking off a six-win night for driver Brandon Campbell.
Driven by five-time Friday night winner Brandon Campbell, favourite Mach Steady prevailed off a pocket trip to take the $9,500 Preferred Pace featured on the March 24 card at Fraser Downs.
Fraser Downs hosted pacing freshmen on Wednesday night (Oct. 5) in two $15,000 divisions of the Robert Millbank Memorial second preliminary, for colts and geldings, and in a single $20,000 split of the Betty Millbank Memorial second preliminary, for fillies.