BIBLE HILL, N.S. – Truro Raceway officials have confirmed that effective Sunday, Oct. 14, live racing cards will be held on Sundays until Dec. 16 with a 12:15 post time.
Qualifiers are scheduled for 11 a.m. on Sundays.
Maritime Breeders Eliminations The tradition continues at Truro Raceway this weekend, featuring a jam-packed card of harness racing on Sunday afternoon. The Maritime Breeders Eliminations will attract an array of the finest two-year-old pacing colts and fillies lining up in several divisions of this prestigious fall stake. Known originally as the Rothman Stakes, renamed the Dairy Queen Futurity, this event evolved into the Maritime Breeders Stake in the early 1980s.
Draw day for Sunday is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 11.
Fresh stock
With the 2018 Atlantic Classic Yearling Sale in the books, several of Truro Raceway’s regular connections have added to their stables with yearling stock:
Proven By A Lady, Ima Looker Too – Robert Samarah, Halifax
Red Dirt Mr. Social – George Rennison, Truro
Woodmere Rollily – Paul Langille, Truro
Tequila In Paradise, Anne With An E, It Took A Village and Howmac Dunkirk – Stephen Morton, Windsor
A Fishermans Son – Chucky Symes, Springhill
J J Tammy – Gordon McCabe, Truro
Terrible Ted – Trish & Todd Hardy, Bill Turner and Mac Isnor, Windsor
Fern Hill Encore – Cecil McCallum, Truro
Rollem N Throwem – David Kennedy, Ian Smith, William Shearer, Charles Piper Jr. and Robert “Sonny” Siteman
Zero Stress Edie – Joe Baxter, Windsor
Windemere Lindsay, Elm Grove Oakley, Dusty Lane Manney – W. Allan McNeil, Windsor
Woodmere Rollnpop – Morah Kerr and Phonsie MacEachen, Truro & Cape Breton
Fern Hill Ember – Carrie Saunders, Truro
50-50 winner
Oct. 8 – Scott Daniels, Amherst ($256)
Top of the Turn Diner
October specials
Oct. 14 – Roast pork dinner
Oct. 21 – Roast beef dinner
Oct. 28 – Hot hamburg sandwich
*Each special $15.95 including tea/coffee and dessert
October live racing events at Truro Raceway
Sunday, Oct. 14 – Maritime Breeders Eliminations – two-year-old pacing colts and fillies, post-time 12:15 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 21, Maritime Breeders final – two-year-old pacing colts and fillies and Nova Scotia Stake Series for three-year-old pacing colts, post-time, 12:15 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 28 – Post-time 12:15 p.m.
