By Nicholas Oakes For Red Shores
CHARLOTTETOWN, PE – The Summer Racing Season is back for 2025 and One Eight Hundred came to play in the Saturday evening feature at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park.
Veteran New Brunswick driver Mike Downey engineered the winning ride for trainer Ellen Stevenson and owner Dr. Mitchell Downey, who finished first and second as he also holds the ownership papers of runner-up Blood Money (Driven by Gilles Barrieau). The $4,550 featured pace had Blood Money spring to the lead with splits of 28.2, 57 and 1:25.2 while One Eight Hundred sat second and surged in the stretch to hit the wire first, stopping the clock in 1:53.4. Third went to Jewels Dragon (Marc Campbell).
Carnival Heart (Ryan Desroche) opened up the Summer Meet in a 1:58.3 score for trainer Shayna Toll over Leavin Bruises (Jason Hughes) and Check Your Source (Adam Merner).
Merner doubled up as a trainer-driver winning with Here On Earth (1:58.2) and newcomer Sports Teller (1:56.3).
The final dash of the evening had Proudofyatoday (Keith Ford) light up the tote board with a 1:58.1 win at 24-1 over heavily favoured Mr Matt Major N (Merner).
Live racing continues Thursday May 8 at Red Shores Charlottetown. For more racing, visit our Player Portal.
