By Nicholas Oakes For Red Shores<\/p>\n
SUMMERSIDE, PE \u2013 Downtown Tonight will try to get the party started on an all-stakes Sunday afternoon program at Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway.<\/p>\n
The program will kick off at 1 P.M., with 15-dashes scheduled during the special Sunday card.<\/p>\n
Race 1 of the afternoon is a $20,200 Lady Slipper Gold division for three-year-old pacing fillies with Downtown Tonight the top selection with post 5 for driver Adam Merner, trainer Tom Weatherbie and owners Cam and Gordon MacPhee. The Shanghai Phil lass will seek her fourth straight victory.<\/p>\n
Miss Dutton, the newly minted track record holder at Connell Park in Woodstock, N.B., is the favourite in her $20,200 Lady Slipper Gold division in race 8 for driver Merner, trainer Kuri White and owner Shoulda Been Onabeach Stb of Charlottetown.<\/p>\n
Fern Hill Indigo was second to Miss Dutton in that track record performance and draws clear this week with post 5 in the final $20,200 Lady Slipper Gold division for three-year-old pacing fillies in race 11. Brodie MacPhee drives the Tom Weatherbie trained daughter of Malicious for owner Next Generation Stable of Stratford.<\/p>\n
The $10,100 Lady Slipper Grassroots divisions for two-year-old pacing fillies hit the track in races 6, 9 and 13.<\/p>\n
Tobins Chester will try to go over $100,000 in seasonal earnings in his $24,300 Joe O\u2019Brien Memorial Gold division in race 4 for driver Jason Hughes, trainer Ashley Gamester and owner Donald MacRae of Vernon Bridge. The Shanghai Phil colt has rail control in the field of six.<\/p>\n
Merigo Magic (Merner) and Jackies Boy (Myles Heffernan Sr.) will tangle in the $24,300 O\u2019Brien Gold division in the race 15 finale. Both colts are sired by Tobago Cays.<\/p>\n
The Grassroots divisions of the Joe O\u2019Brien Memorial for sophomore pacing colts line up in races 3 and 12 for $12,150 purses.<\/p>\n
Race 2 is a $17,300 Lady Slipper trot division for three-year-old fillies. Dusty Lane Wee (Marc Campbell) gets the top call from post 3 from the Lenny Myers barn.<\/p>\n
Gettin Lit (Mike McGuigan) will headline the Lady Slipper stake for three-year-old trotting colts in race 7 for $17,300.<\/p>\n
The Lady Slipper two-year-old trotting filly division carries a $18,150 purse with Atlantic record holder Oceanview Rumours the top entry with post 5 for trainer-driver Adam Merner as she seeks her sixth straight win.<\/p>\n
West River Jet has seven foes in his $18,150 Lady Slipper two-year-old trotting colt dash in race 10 for driver Ken MacDonald and trainer Clare MacDonald.<\/p>\n
Race 14 is another leg of the Atlantic Aged Pacing Mares Series, presented by Standardbred Canada, with a field of seven vying for the $5,150 purse.<\/p>\n