Windemere Skye makes it a perfect 23 from 23

SUMMERSIDE, PE – Windemere Skye (Somewhere Fancy) kept her perfect record intact Sunday afternoon at Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway, winning her 23rd race in as many career harness racing 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.

LIVE STREAM REPLAY (Windemere Sky starts at 5:51)

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.

For complete race results, click here.

by Nicholas Oakes, for Red Shores