Stake season for two-year-old harness racing horses kicks off at Century Downs on Saturday (July 21) with the Norm Kennedy Memorial and the Emerald Filly Pace. Eight rookie colts & geldings draw into the $50,000 Norm Kennedy Memorial and will go to battle in the fifth race of the afternoon. Only a couple of them […]
Nathan Sobey’s Outlaw Sharktastic (Smart Shark) took back the Fillies and Mares Preferred harness racing title at Century Downs on Friday (May 17) in her fourth start since her first defeat of the season. She went all the way on the engine with Sobey in the bike, tailed by pocket-sitter If Only Id Known (Phil […]
Outlaw Sharktastic (Smart Shark) won her second straight Fillies and Mares Preferred in the harness racing feature at Century Downs on Friday (Apr. 12). The mare got every call again, heading the field of six through :28.4, :58.4, and 1:26.2 splits in line to Nathan Sobey. If Only Id Known (Phil Giesbrecht) led the outside […]
Outlaw Sharktastic (Smart Shark) went wire-to-wire as the second-longest shot on the board in the Fillies and Mares Preferred at Century Downs on Friday (Apr. 5). She made front from post six for Nathan Sobey and dictated the first-half panels of :29.1 and :58. If Only Id Known (David Kelly) brought first-over pressure to three-quarters […]
Outlaw Sharktastic (Smart Shark) stopped the dominance of Electric Amadeus in the Fillies and Mares Preferred at Century Downs on Saturday (Apr. 8) as part of a big night for trainer/driver Nathan Sobey. Electric Amadeus (David Kelly), entering the race with a streak of seven on the line, raced third through the opening half while […]
Icy Blue Scooter (Blue Burner) won for the first time since August in a late-charging harness racing victory to take the Preferred at Century Mile on Saturday (Jan. 14). After sitting fifth through the opening half mile, Nathan Sobey put the gelding on the back of first-over Outlaw Gunzablazin (David Kelly). The leaders held firm […]
Double Alberta Sires Stakes champion Divine Art (Outrageous Art) took the spotlight on opening day at Century Mile on Friday (Nov. 18) as she tallied her 11th consecutive harness racing victory in the evening’s Fillies and Mares Preferred. In the filly’s debut at the track, trainer/driver Nathan Sobey put her on top with :28.4 first-quarter […]
Nathan Sobey steered the winners of both the $91,920 Gord and Illa Rumpel Memorial and $77,740 Ralph Klein Memorial on the Midsummer Classic harness racing card at Century Downs on Saturday (Aug. 13). Sobey piloted Divine Art (Outrageous Art) to her fifth consecutive win in the Gord and Illa Rumpel Memorial for three-year-old pacing fillies. […]
Century Downs contested two harness racing elimination events each of the Alberta Diamond and Alberta Marksman for three-year-old Alberta-breds on Sunday, and Exotic Dragon was beastly in the second division for fillies. Exotic Dragon held the pocket spot for the opening quarter mile but brushed to the front for trainer/driver Nathan Sobey as the field […]