Charlottetown Driving Park: Time To Dance takes Gold Cup & Saucer

Time To Dance controlled the race on the front-end and could not be caught, winning the 61st edition of the C$60,000 Guardian Gold Cup & Saucer for older pacers at Charlottetown Driving Park in Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1:51 4/5.

Trainer-driver Marc Campbell pointed Time To Dance right to the point from post two, and he blazed through a 26 2/5 opening quarter while race favorite Casimir Richie P (Dale Spence) couldn't reach him from the outside and wound up parked. Campbell kept the tempo high from there, roaring to the half in 54 1/5 over the five-eighths-mile oval.

Casimir Richie P called it a night in the third quarter, and that allowed Campbell to get his charge a 29 2/5 breather to the 1:23 3/5 three-quarters, and he needed it as Lisburn (Ken Arsenault) popped to the outside from the pocket and Woodmere Ideal Art (David Dowling) found room on the inside from the three-hole.

Time To Dance had no intention on being defeated on this night, though, as he held sway determinedly to win by three-parts of a length over Lisburn. Woodmere Ideal Art, Simple Kinda Man (Jason Hughes), and Rose Run Quest (Gilles Barrieau) completed the top five.

A 4-year-old gelding by A Rocknroll Dance, Time To Dance is owned by Brent Campbell and Matthew McDonald. This was his 13th career victory, and he has now earned C$105,613. He was the second choice and paid $6.90 to win.