On a cool November night with a wet track after significant overnight snowfall, High Roller put in one of the fastest trips ever recorded by a two-year-old filly in Atlantic Canadian harness racing history on Thursday (Nov. 2) at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park.
The two-year-old daughter of Big Jim scorched the half-mile Red Shores Charlottetown oval with an open-length victory in 1:55.1 with the track rated one-second off in her $2,750 overnight assignment to erase her former 1:55.2 track record set in September. Adam Merner supplied the winning steer with Melissa Rennie handling the training chores for owners Marsha Knox and Cory Livingston. The win ties her for the fastest two-year-old filly ever on Prince Edward Island with Saulsbrook Alana’s 1:55.1 victory over Red Shores Summerside in 2013. The overall Atlantic record for two-year-old fillies is held by Redlandbethany Jean in 1:54.4 at the Truro Raceway in Nova Scotia, which she set in 2022.
High Roller returned $4.00 to win as the even-odds favourite.
Merner and Rennie clicked later in the night for the same ownership group, as Woodmere Rollily won the $2,900 Fillies and Mares feature pace in 1:57.1 for Livingston and Knox. Merner also won with Imshortandsweet N (1:59.2) for trainer Nick Oakes in race 8 for the driving triple.
Woodmere Rollily is owned by Marsha Knox and Cory Livingston. She paid $5.30 to win.
Driver Marc Campbell and trainer Brent Campbell teamed up for a pair of wins with New Legacy (1:58) in the $3,100 Open Trot and The Lady Sheriff (1:57.1) in a conditioned pace in race four.
New Legacy is owned by Matt & David Burke and Don Mac Neill Jr. He returned $6.00 to his backers.
Live racing continues Saturday (Nov. 4) and Sunday (Nov. 5) afternoon at Red Shores Charlottetown with post time at 12:30 p.m. for both days.
To view Thursday's harness racing results, click the following link: Thursday Results - Red Shores at the Charlottetown Driving Park.
(With files from Red Shores)