Red Shores: P.E.I. Colt Stakes stars descend on Summerside

The very finest young trotters and pacers on Canada’s Eastern Seaboard will come to Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway for the first leg of a revamped P.E.I. Colt Stakes on Sunday afternoon.

The 15-dash Sunday presentation starts at 1 P.M. featuring the P.E.I. Colt Stakes for two-year-old pacers and two and three-year-old trotters.

The action starts off in race 1 with a $12,000 Gold division for two-year-old pacing fillies as Boo Yaya looks for her third straight win for driver Marc Campbell, trainer Robert MacLeod and owners Hugh MacEachern of Inverness and Ali MacEachern of Truro Nova Scotia. The 1:57 2/5 winning daughter of Stonebridge Terror was bred on P.E.I. by Wade Peconi of Stanchel.

The other $12,000 Filly Gold division lines up in race 9 as Woodmere Jazz will put her perfect record to the test with Gilles Barrieau at the controls for trainer Kevin MacLean and owner Reg MacPherson of Stratford. The Rollwithitharry filly comes from Bruce Wood's Woodmere Farms of Marshfield.

A trio of $6,000 grassroots divisions of the P.E.I. Colt Stakes for two-year-old fillies line up in races 3, 11 and 14.

The first $12,200 Gold division for rookie colt pacers is in race 7 with the impeccable Fern Hill General heavily favoured from post 4 for the team of driver Brodie MacPhee and trainer Earl Smith for owners Peter Smith of Stratford and Gerald Morrissey of Vernon River. A winner in 1:55 1/5 his last start at Truro Raceway, the son of Malicious was bred by Brian MacLeod of Truro, N.S.

St Charles Fireball is top choice in the other $12,200 Gold colt division in race 13 for trainer-driver Campbell and owners Ryan and Everett MacLeod of Souris after finishing second to Fern Hill General his last start. Jamie MacKinley of Cornwall raised the son of Tobago Cays.

The P.E.I. Colt Stakes Grassroots divisions hit the track in races 5, 8 and 15 carrying $6,000 purses in each.

The P.E.I Colt Stakes will also be split by sex on the trot side with $7,000 two-year-old colt trot divisions in races 2 and 6 and a $7,000 freshman filly trot in race 4.

The top three-year-old colt trotters will again meet in race 10 with $9,200 at stake. Mr Finlay Ridge has the rail for trainer-driver Clare MacDonald while Dusty Lane Milo (To be driven by Adam Merner) has post 4 and A Little Go Go (Campbell) has post 5.

The three-year-old trotting fillies hit the track in race 12 in their $9,200 P.E.I. Colt Stakes division.

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-edited release (Nicholas Oakes for Red Shores)