By Nicholas Oakes For Red Shores
SUMMERSIDE, PE – Windemere Skye kept her perfect record intact Sunday afternoon at Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway, winning her 23rd race in as many career starts.
The three-year-old pacing filly led throughout the $27,200 Lady Slipper Stakes Gold division in race 17 and drew away in the stretch by three and three-quarter lengths in 1:53.2. Marc Campbell drove the $2.10 winner for trainer Earl Watts and owners Windemere Farms of Springvale and Matt Burke of Stratford. Fitness First (Driven by Corey MacPherson) sat in the two-hole and finished second, with Serenity Now (Jason Hughes) sitting third for the duration to finish there.
Campbell also won the other Lady Slipper Stakes Gold division for three-year-old pacing fillies when Bayonetta ($9.30) edged Ea Money Maker (Ken Murphy) by a head in 1:55.2. The race 13 winner is trained by Landon Campbell for 9267 7327 Quebec Inc.
The Joe O’Brien Memorial Gold divisions for three-year-old pacing colts went to Zero Two Sixty ($2.40) and Shanghai Whiskey ($4.30). Murphy sent Zero Two Sixty to the front in race 11 and won by two and one-quarter lengths in 1:55 for trainer Sifroi Melanson and owner Ultimate Stable. Campbell guided Shanghai Whiskey past Cattle Call (Gilles Barrieau) in race 15, stopping the clock in 1:56 for trainer and owner Wade Myers.
Campbell finished with six wins on the 17-dash card. He also drove Windemere Dinozzi ($3.50) to a 1:57.3 Lady Slipper Grassroots victory for trainer and owner Saul Lanigan; Louie The Lip ($5.30) to a 1:57.1 Joe O’Brien Memorial Grassroots score for trainer Tom Weatherbie and Rose Knows Money ($2.50) to a nine-length Lady Slipper Grassroots win in 1:56.1 for trainer George Rennison.
The remaining Lady Slipper Grassroots divisions for three-year-old pacing fillies went to Mrs Gallant ($9.20) in 1:58.3 for driver Ryan Desroche and trainer Joe Baxter, and Fern Hill Kream ($2.70) in 1:58.2 for Brodie MacPhee and Weatherbie. Starship Sharky ($5.40) won a Joe O’Brien Memorial Grassroots split in 1:57.1 for Adam Merner and trainer Earl Watts, while trainer-driver Darren Crowe sent Blazing Cays ($2.10) to a five-length win in 1:56.1 in another division.
The trotters shared the spotlight on the stakes laden program. Little Louis ($2.10) captured the $22,100 Lady Slipper division for three-year-old colts in 1:59.2 for MacPherson and trainer Kuri White. MacPherson returned to win the $22,100 three-year-old filly division with Bonmati ($3) in 2:01 for trainer and owner Blayne White.
Rockin Through It ($5.10) won a two-year-old trotting filly division in 2:03.4 for trainer-driver Mike McGuigan, while Early Speed ($8.10) took the other filly split in the same time for driver Myles Heffernan Sr. and trainer-owner Myles Heffernan Jr.
Among the two-year-old trotting colts, Shoe Dog Speed ($4) won in 2:01 for driver Paul Langille and trainer Tommy Collings. Hopthroughit ($5.30) took the other division by 10-lengths in 2:01.4 for trainer-driver Clare MacDonald.
Live racing continues Tuesday evening at 6 P.M., at Red Shores Summerside. For more go to Redshores.ca.
