Raise A Colt 06 Chapter Three

CHAPTER THREE
SINGLE DASH DIVISION RACING 1976 – Present Day

Division racing was the inevitable result of the
growth in nominations to the program that
developed after the purses in 1974 doubled
from the previous year. For the first time, the
number of horses paying in exceeded 300, and
the result would be an increase in the number
of starters and the need for more divisions of
the classes. In 1975 the annual meeting
approved a proposal that would see all divison
winners receive trophies with colts and fillies
racing in separate divisions. The Colt Stakes
would also adopt the single dash format that
the tracks used for overnight races.
Scarlet Hussy, a Colt Stakes winner in 1996, with Shane
Bernard for owner Norman Hall
Orville Willis and Raebell Dan on the right hold off a late
charge by Joe Arsenault to start the new format of division He She Gal wins for Kenny Arsenault and owner Paul Doyle
racing off in 1976 with a new stakes and track record of greeted in the winners circle by director Sandra Cole
2:07.3 for two year old pacing colts
Dunmore Tweed won trot divisions in 1985 and 1986. Molzan and Donnie MacDougal won in 1993 and went on to
Owner Orville Willis receives the Dr R F Seaman award, a become a Maritime Champion earning over $398,000
birds-eye maple Island clock, from Don Seaman. Others
from left to right are Dana Willis, Lee Taylor (Director),
Wally McGuinness, Marcel Barrieau, and Mrs Orville Willis
Ride The Lightning won twice in 2007 and 2008
The first races under the new format took place

in 1976 with seven divisions for the six classes
and total purses of over $10,000. The races in
Colt stakes director Ralph Annear and manager Norman 2008 consisted of twenty-six divisions racing
Hall make the winners and breeders presentations to Ralph for a total of just under $140,000.
Cole and son Garth as they take one of the two-year-old trot
divisions in Summerside in 1991
RAISE A COLT
1976
From The Minutes – A Blair Kelly – Secretary
“In his remarks to the annual meeting for 1975 October 1976 - Charlottetown
held on January 29th, 1976, President Ron
3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $890
MacArthur proposed that all stakes be single
West Prince Robbi (Ron Gass) 2:08
dash events since it was his feeling that this is Owner: Willard MacLeod, Cornwall
more popular with the bettors and the Merry Time Finesse (D Rector) 2:09.2
spectators. It is also better for the tracks since Owner: M K Smith, Dartmouth, NS
the number of horses seeking starts has grown
considerably. He also urged those responsible 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $1,890
to make early contacts for the renewal of the Bermac Norma ( P MacDonald) St Record 2:10
Government grant and the solicitation of Owners: Ron and Bernie MacArthur, Summerside
sponsors for our races. Discussion on these
3 Year Old Trot Purse - $1,310
items resulted in an approved motion to have Slapshot Genessee (Alyre Pineau) 2:14.3
single dashes with no race offs if a class Owner: Adrien Pineau, ON.
divides, but to provide a cooler and trophy to
each race winner.” 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $1,810
Rae Bell Dan (Orville Willis) Stakes record 2:07.3
Race Highlights Owner: Charles & Orville Willis, O’Leary
2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $1,800

West Prince Robbi and Merry Time Finesse Pineway Ann (Eric Moreside) 2:16.2
split the honours and the purse in the three- Owner: Ralph Frizzell, Winsloe
year-old pace divisions. Ron Gass recorded his
first Colt Stakes win as a driver. 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $1,380
Brackleys Ada (Earl Smith) Stakes record 2:13.4
Bermac Norma took the three-year-old pacing Owner: Bradford Murray, Brackley
filly class in a stakes record of 2:10 for Club
President Ron MacArthur and wife Bernie as
owners and breeders.
Slapshot Genessee doubled up as a Colt

Stakes winner, taking the three-year-old trot
this year.
Brackleys Ada set a record for two-year-old

trotters for owner/breeder Bradford Murray. It
was Earl Smith’s first PEI Colt stakes win.
Rae Bell Dan broke the two-year-old pacing

colt record and was driven by Orville Willis,
who shared ownership with father Charles.
Personalities
Charlie Willis holds on to Raebell Dan and a trophy
presented to him by Colt Stakes Secretary Dr. Blair Kelly
C F Willis and Sons was the name under
which Charlie Willis chose to race his many
horses over the years. Born in Kingston, he
began his racing involvement in 1945, later
moving to Covehead and building the
Covehead track. From there he moved to
O’Leary to begin a produce business and
constructed a second track for matinee
purposes that still operates as such today. His
co-owners were his sons, principally Orville,
and on occasion Melvin and Glydon. They
patronized the early yearling sales and several
times took home the sale topper. With Orville
often in the sulky the father-son partnership
took home several Colt Stakes trophies notably
with Maritime Champion and double Colt
Stake winner Dunmore Tweed. Charlie Willis
RAISE A COLT
1977
From The Minutes – A. Blair Kelly – Secretary
“A minute of silence was held to remember September 1977 - Charlottetown
passed members including Lorne Kelly, Grant
3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $1,876
MacLeod and Jack Gallant among others. The
Timbers Bay (Jody Hennessey) 2:13.1
President noted the many changes that have Owner: Jack Brown, Keppock
occurred in the past three years including the
name change to The PEI Colt Stakes 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $993
Association Inc., the breeders awards, the Carolyn D (Alex MacPhee) 2:13.2
increased grant from Government, the changes Owner: Richard MacPhee, Cornwall
in race format to single dashes, filly classes Robbis Brite Eyes (Mike Worthen) 2:13.2
and divisions with no race-offs. The first Owner: Gaetan Chretien, PQ
yearling sale took place on September 9th, and
resulted in a record for a Maritime sale. “ Brackleys Ada (Earl Smith) 2:14.1
Owner: Bradford Murray, Brackley
Sale Highlights
Forty-five sold for $2,000 average. Sale topper Jamies Delight (Keith Waples) 2:16.2
was Glengyle Flash, bought by Walthen Piers Owner: Vera Dexter, Moncton, NB
for $11,600. Consigned by James MacGregor.
Rae Bell Edna (Ralph Frizzell) 2:21.1
Race Highlights Owner: Ralph Frizzell, Winsloe
Stone Heart (Alyre Pineau) 2:23.3
Rae Bell Edna won the faster of the two Owners: Allie and John Carr, Charlottetown
divisions of the two-year-old fillies with Ralph
Frizzell as owner and driver. The other 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $1,490
Good Yuntif (Doug Walsh) 2:16.2
division was won by Stone Heart to give Allie
Owner: Grubco Stable, Lwr Sackville, NS
Carr his first Colt Stakes win.
Carolyn D took home the first Colt Stakes

trophy for long time director Richie MacPhee.
It was also a first stakes win for his son Alex
as driver. The other three-year-old filly
division was won by Robbis Brite Eyes, a
filly bred by Club Secretary Dr A B Kelly.
Brackleys Ada became a two time stakes

winner as she took the three-year-old trot for Richie and Carolyn D
owner and breeder Brad Murray.
Personalities
Richard MacPhee known and beloved by all

as Richie, was a respected member of the
racing community for many years and the
founder of a racing family that now extends
into its fourth generation. A small man in
stature he might have been, but his presence
was large, as was his influence on those around Carolyn D driven by Angus MacPhee.for his father
him. His first love in life was family, and then
horses. This was evident in the way he
entwined his two loves by naming his horses
after family members. He bred the Colt Stakes
winning filly Carolyn D who would go on to a
berth in the Gold Cup and Saucer when she
was only four years old. Richie was named PEI
Horseman Of The Year the same year that
Carolyn D was named PEI Horse Of The Year
in 1979. He will be remembered as a
gentleman who lived by the motto. “ A job
worth doing is worth doing well ”.
Richie and Clara MacPhee
RAISE A COLT
1978
The President’s View – Ron MacArthur – President
“I wish to thank everyone connected with our September 1978 - Charlottetown
initial sale especially those who volunteered
their time. I suggest we present a plaque to
Crafty Larry (Galen Dempsey) 2:08.2
those who made the sale possible by donating Owner: G Dempsey & A Donovan, Moncton, NB
their time including Ed Watters, Freddie
MacDonald, Bob Connelly, George Riley 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $1,730
Collins Wood, Jim MacGregor, Angus Just Like Chum (Jody Hennessey) 2:09.2
MacPhee, Brad Murray, and Alyre Pineau. I Owner: George Murphy, Augustine Cove
also want to thank the CDP for their
cooperation. It was the opinion of all that the 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $1,270
Exit Smiling (Elwood Shaw) 2:13.3
sale was a success but that the sale entries
Owner: Dr George Bishop, Charlottetown
should be limited to sixty to make it a Select
sale. The next sale will be called The Maritime 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $2,075
Select Yearling Sale and will be held on P H Time (Bernie Charlton) 2:14
September 9th, the same day as the PEI Colt Owner: Bernie Charlton, Lower Sackville, NS
Stakes races.
Amazing Treasure (Jean Belliveau) 2:14.1
Sale Highlights Owner: A St Pierre, Moncton, NB
Sixty-two sold for $2,400 average. Sale topper 2 Year Old Trot – Purse - $1,405
was Brackleys Star bought by H B Willis for Dotty Greenwood (Lloyd Palmer) 2:21
$8,200. Consigned by Brad Murray. Owner: Lloyd Palmer, Southport
Race Highlights
Just Like Chum was the winner in the three-

year-old pacing filly class for owner George
Murphy’s first Colt Stake win.
Exit Smiling upset the three-year-old trotters

with another win for the combination of
Elwood Shaw driving and owner/breeder Dr
George Bishop.
Dotty Greenwood was driven to a win in the

two-year-old trot by her owner/breeder Lloyd Blu Meadow Eve suckles one of her nine foals that
Palmer in his first PEI Colt Stakes win. collectively have won over $350,000 with 7 winners
Personalities
Ralph Frizzell, a former director of the

Association, keeps a small broodmare band at
his Blu Meadow farm in Winsloe that has
made him one of the most successful small
breeders in our recent history. It all began with
Rae Bell Edna, a Colt Stakes winner in 1977.
She produced the Colt stakes winner Blu
Meadow Major, a winner of over $170,000,
and also the Colt Stakes winning Blu Meadow
Eve. She in turn produced another Colt Stakes
winner in Blu Meadow Magic, as well as Blu
Meadow Sue, and another daughter that
produced a fourth generation winner in Blu
Meadow Tara. Rae Bell Edna is the most
prolific mare in Colt Stakes history with eight
Colt stakes wins in four generations and a
family that has produced the winners of almost
a million dollars. Ralph, in total, has fifteen
winning credits including two as a driver and Ralph Frizzell, master of Blu Meadow Farm
five as an owner.
RAISE A COLT
1979
The President’s View – Ron MacArthur – President
“Congratulations to our new President, Richard September 1979 - Charlottetown
MacPhee. I regret that I could not be in
attendance for our annual meeting but I have
Ego Trip (Phil Pinkney) Stakes record 2:05.3
relocated to Florida to train a stable of horses.” Owner: Phil Pinkney, Truro, NS
Vice President Brad Murray reported on the 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $1,800
1978 sale, which netted a profit of over $4,500 Macban Alice (Alyre Pineau) Stakes record 2:07.1
to go towards the purses in 1979. Discussion Owner: Allie Carr, J Carr & K Jones, Charlottetown
was held on changing the PEI Colt Stakes from
an early closer to a yearling stake to be 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $1,430
Flaming Luck (Keith Doyle) 2:13.2
consistent with other stakes programs in the
Owner: Dr George Bishop, Charlottetown
Maritimes and to avoid unnecessary paper
work and confusion for the horsemen paying 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $2,100
in. It was left to the directors to draw up the Glengyle Express (James MacGregor) 2:08.2
necessary changes and implement them. Owner: Glengyle Farm, Milton
Sale Highlights 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $1,885

Radiant Star (Lee Taylor) Stakes record 2:11.3
Owner: Lee Taylor, Nine Mile Creek
Fifty-seven sold for $2,450 average. Sale
topper Janet Grace bought by H B Willis for 2 Year Old Trot – Purse - $1,385
$8,700. Consigned by William Roloson. Hootwinkle (John Campbell) 2:17.3
Owner: Hilliard Graves, Dartmouth, NS
Race Highlights
Total purses for the PEI Colt Stakes were
$10,705, a record high, split over six races.
Ego Trip lopped almost two seconds off the

three-year-old pacing colt standard set in 1971
by That’s My David, with a 2:05.3 win for
owner/driver Phil Pinkney.
Macban Alice broke the three-year-old filly

pacing mark with a 2:07.1 effort that smashed
Bermac Norma’s record of 2:10.
Radiant Star captured the two-year-old filly

pace in record time besting Miramichi Dot’s
Macban Alice driven and trained by Alyre Pineau, owned
record by almost five seconds with a 2:11.3 by Allie Carr and Keir Jones.
mark. She was driven by owner/breeder Lee
Taylor and went on to win Horse of the Year
honours on PEI.
Personalities
Ewen Taylor learned his skills as a breeder of

fine yearlings from his father Lee and his first
PEI Colt Stakes winner was a record breaker in
Ego Trip on the same night as his father also
set a stakes record with Radiant Star. From his
small breeding operation in Hunter River he
had numerous stakes winners including Darn
Good Rose, Enersave, Hungry Ego, Whose To
Care, Whose To Question, Burden Of Freedom
and many more. In all he has eight PEI Colt
Stakes winners as a breeder and three Maritime
Champions to make him one of the most
successful small breeders and sale consignors
in recent history on Prince Edward Island. He
served as a director of the PEI Colt Stakes. Ewen Taylor
RAISE A COLT
1980
From The Minutes – Erwin Andrew – Secretary
“There was a conflict between the PEI yearling September 1980 - Charlottetown
sale and the Atlantic Sires sale date on
September 5th. It was suggested that we switch
Bayside Katfish (Roger Smith) 2:09
to Friday for the sale since many horsemen Owner: Elgin Veno, Miscouche
have conflicts with races on the Saturday. A Sunrise Cagney (Phil Pinkney) 2:06
joint meeting was held between the committees Owner: Walthen Piers, Pugwash, NS
of both sales and an agreement to rotate dates
was arrived at holding the sales two weeks 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $2,250
apart and taking turns being first. The date Radiant Star (Lee Taylor) Stakes record tied 2:07.1
chosen for the PEI sale was Friday September Owner: Lee Taylor, Nine Mile Creek
19th with the races to be held on Thursday 18th.
Questions arose on the selection criteria for the Rustico Breeze (Alyre Pineau) 2:13
sale and there were suggestions to increase the Owner: John Pineau, South Rustico
number accepted. There are, however, not
enough stalls to accommodate more yearlings 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $2,690
so a selection process will be necessary.” Moldaus Boy (Vince Poulton) 2:08
Owner: Shane Doyle, Charlottetown
W P Countess (Phil Pinkney) Stakes record 2:10.3
Sixty-two sold for $2,500 average. Sale topper Owner: Walthen Piers, Pugwash, NS
was Glengyle Joey bought by Harold Stead Jr
for $25,000. Consigned by James MacGregor. 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $2,025
Hasty Girl (Cyril MacDonald) 2:16.1
Race Highlights Owner: Charles MacLennan, Charlottetown
Radiant Star repeated as a PEI Colt Stakes

winner by winning the three-year-old filly pace
and tying the previous year’s record of 2:07.1.
W P Countess broke the two-year-old filly

record and provided Walthen Piers his first
stakes win as a breeder/owner. He also owned
the winner of one of the three-year-old stake
divisions, Sunrise Cagney. The other colt
division was won by Bayside Katfish, trained
by J Alan Smith and driven by his son Roger Moldaus Boy, with Vince Poulton driving. Owner Shane
Doyle holds the trophy and is next to his father Wilbur.
for owner Elgin Veno. It was a first Colt Stake Moldaus Boy was a double winner in PEI Colt Stakes action
win all around for the three of them. including a stakes record in 1981
Personalities
Dr A Blair Kelly is part of a long tradition of

family involvement in the PEI Colt Stakes
since his uncle, Willard Kelly, was one of the
founding members and a Past President of the
original Harness Racing Club. His father Lorne
was a director and Blair has served as a
director, secretary and President, on two
occasions, in addition to being named an
Honorary Director of the PEI Colt Stakes for
his many years of service. Dr Kelly has bred
and owned several stakes winners including
Rivervue Skye who set the four-year-old
pacing mare record in the 1995 edition of the
PEI Colt Stakes. He was also the breeder of
1977 winner Robbis Brite Eyes and most
recently won in 2005 with the three-year-old
pacing colt Sounding. He was also a co-owner
of the stakes winning Lookaway in 1970 with
former USTA director Don Simmonds. Dr A Blair Kelly
RAISE A COLT
1981
From The Minutes – Erwin Andrew – Secretary
“Dr Blair Kelly’s annual report as President September 1981 - Charlottetown
included a tribute to retiring director Richard
MacPhee. Richie was thanked for his many
Moldaus Boy (Vince Poulton) Stakes record 2:04.4
years of service to the Association and to the Owner: Shane Doyle, Charlottetown
sport in general and accorded a standing
ovation. A motion was passed to hire a part 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $1,780
time Secretary. The question of agreement on Race Time Robbi (Alan Poulton) St. record 2:06.3
sale dates was discussed again and a date of Owner: Harvey MacDonald, Covehead
Friday, September 11th was approved. Wally Arrive In Style (Dave Carey) 2:07
Wood suggested we have the sale on the third Owner: Ken Thompson, Sherwood
Friday of September on a regular basis and
have the stakes on the evening before. The sale Pack Truce (Danny Romo) Stakes record 2:11.2
commission was increased to 7% from 5%.” Owner: Ralph Melanson, NS
Sale Highlights 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $3,825

P H George (Doug Walsh) Stakes record 2:04.4
Fifty-eight sold for $2,490 average. Sale topper Owner: James Shive, Shubenacadie, NS
was Island Drummer bought by Edward
MacLeod for $7,900. Consigned by Robert P H Scooter (Doug Walsh) Stakes record 2:06.3
Webster of Hollylaine Island Farm. Owner: James Shive, Shubenacadie, NS
Race Highlights 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $2,130

Pack Baron (George Irvine Jr) Stakes record 2:10.2
Moldaus Boy repeated as a PEI Colt Stakes Owner: George Irvine, Moncton, NB
winner in the three-year-old colt pace with a
record busting 2:04.4, the first three-year-old
to beat 2:05 in the colt stakes.
Race Time Robbi dropped the three-year-old

filly record to 2:06.3 just after Arrive In Style
had tied the previous record in an earlier filly
pace division.
P H George smashed the two-year-old pacing

colt record with an amazing 2:04.4 mile to be
the first sub 2:05 two-year-old for Doug Walsh
and breeder/owner James Shive. They came
right back in the two-year-old filly pace with
P H Scooter for another record.
Arrive In Style is greeted in the Colt Stakes winners circle
by President Blair Kelly. Others are Dave Carey (driver),
Pack Truce and Pack Baron set records in the Ken Thompson (owner) and his father, Colt Stakes secretary
two-year-old and three-year-old trot classes for Erwin Andrew and breeder Roddie Macleod.
breeder Dr George Bishop as he added to his
long list of Colt Stakes stakes victories, which
would total fifteen as a breeder and eight as an
owner over a period of 30 years.
Personalities
Dr Donald Ling was a PEI Colt Stakes

director for several years and ran a boutique
breeding operation that produced several
stakes winners in a short period of time,
including Harborvue Anne and double winner
Harborvue Bunter. A student of pedigrees, he
was the pedigree reader in several of the early
yearling sales. Dr Ling was active also in the
Atlantic Sires organization as President as well
as serving as president of the Charlottetown Dr Donald Ling, master of Harborvue Farm
Driving Park.
RAISE A COLT
1982
The President’s View – Dr A B Kelly – President
“I am pleased to report that we have a new September 1982 - Charlottetown
manager/secretary in Norman Hall who will
need all the assistance and cooperation of our
directors and members to ensure that the PEI B J Amigo (Marcel Barrieau) 2:09.2
Colt Stakes continues to grow and prosper. Our Owner: Charles Willis, O’Leary
priorities must be to put the stake payment B J Andy (Gary MacDonald) 2:11.3
process and the handling of the sale on a sound Owner: Bert Honkoop, Montague
financial basis in view of the decision taken at
our annual meeting to have an annual audit of 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $3,095
our records. Our manager is to receive $1,200
Island Cindy (Alex MacPhee) 2:12
per year, which will cover any related travel,
Owner: Robert and Nina Webster, Brookfield
phone or business expenses. Mr Hall has P H Scooter (Doug Walsh) 2:06.4
already managed to have the annual grant from Owner: James Shive, Shubenacadie, NS
Government increased by $1,000 and believes
that once we have our business affairs in order 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $2,585
more will be forthcoming.”
Scarlet Victory (Gordon MacLean) 2:15.3
Owner: Gordon MacLean, Winsloe
Sale Highlights
Sixty-six sold for $2,540 average. Sale topper
was Whos To Blame bought by Phil Pinkney Tags Last Byrd (Winston Campbell) 2:10.1
for $12,000. Consigned by Ewen Taylor. Owner: William Lanigan, Cambridge
Race Highlights 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $4,376
Island Dust (Doug Walsh) 2:11.3

P H Scooter made it two years in a row as a Timothy Shive, Shubenacadie, NS
Colt Stakes winner, this time in a division of
the three-year-old fillies. The other division 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $2,182
was won by Island Cindy bred by Hollylaine
Farms. That famous Island standardbred Kings Derby (George Irvine) 2:16.3
nursery also produced Island Dust, winner of Owner: George Irvine, Moncton, NB
the two-year-old filly class.
B J Amigo and B J Andy won their respective

divisions of the three-year-old pacing colts for
breeder Bert Honkoop’s first Colt Stakes
trophies.
Kings Derby made it two years in a row for

owner George Irvine, winning the two-year-old
trot class.
Personalities Island Cindy retirement presided over by Bob Dewar
Dr. Jim Shive set up shop as a veterinarian in

Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia and shortly
afterwards began breeding horses at his Penn
Hills Farm. His astute purchase of the stallion
Tarport Ervin soon returned big dividends. He
produced several standouts in his first crop in
1976, including stakes champion Kilkerran
Ella and Colt Stakes winner P H Tim. His Penn
Hills youngsters have set several records in
Colt Stakes action, with P H George and P H
Scooter setting two-year-old records in 1981, P
H Keyta the three-year-old filly record in 1989,
and most recently the three-year-old colt
record of 1:55.4 by P H Jimmy in 2005. He is
one of only two breeders to claim all four
pacing records in PEI Colt Stakes history. Dr Jim Shive with his favorite stallion Tarport Ervin
RAISE A COLT
1983
The President’s View – Wallace Wood – President
“Our stakes program continues to grow with September 1983 - Charlottetown
nine divisions racing this year. Your executive 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $2,860
has decided to charge a membership fee of $5 Noon Byrd (Marcel Barrieau) 2:06.1
for each person that pays a colt into the PEI Owner: Jim MacGregor & Orville Wllis
Tags Last Byrd (Winston Campbell) 2:05.3
Colt Stakes program. This will assist with the
Owner: William Lanigan, Cambridge
growing costs of administration, one of which 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $5,291
is the printing and mailing of an annual Opinions Fae (Gary MacDonald) St. record 2:04
newsletter called “On Gait”, which will be sent Owner: Charles Rennison, Truro, NS
to over four hundred members this year 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $2,427
throughout the Maritimes. The newsletter will Babe Treasure (Bernie Doucette) 2:13.1
be prepared by our manager and will contain Owner: John Pineau, South Rustico
lists of the horses eligible to our two and three- 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $3,809
Wind Warning (Richard Gallant) 2:05.1
year-old races as well as news of upcoming
Owner: Angus and Richard Gallant, Riverview, NB
events such as our yearling sale or other Glengyle Meteor (James MacGregor) 2:06
activities. The first publication will be in Owner: James MacGregor, Milton
August in time for Old Home Week.” 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $3,492
Moldaus Girl (Wally Hennessey) 2:08
Sale Highlights Owner: Joe MacDonald, Souris
P H Bagnall (Doug Walsh) 2:08
Owner: James Shive, Shubenacadie,NS
Fifty-four sold for $3,169 average. Sale topper
was Whos To Bless bought by Skip Lewis for Maple Leaf Arnett (Ralph Annear) 2:12.4
$12,700. Consigned by Ewen Taylor. Owner: Ralph Annear, Montague
Race Highlights
Opinions Fae set a new Stakes record of 2:04

in the three-year-old filly class. Charles
Rennison owned the filly bred by George
Canning of Pugwash.
Wind Warning gave Richard Gallant of

Moncton his first Stakes trophy as he drove the
son of AC’s Dandy to a win in the two-year-
old colt class.
Tags Last Byrd and Bill Lanigan
Tags Last Byrd repeated as a Colt Stakes
winner by taking a division of the three-year-
old pacing colts for owner and breeder Bill
Lanigan’s second of four victories to date..
Maple Leaf Arnett joined the long list of

stakes winners for Ralph Annear who bred,
owned, trained and drove the two-year-old.
Personalities
Ron Kennedy was President of the PEI Colt

Stakes from 1986 to 1988. The former Fire
Marshall of Prince Edward Island lit up the
track with several stakes winners with
trainer/driver Albert Bernard. He preferred the
trotting gait and Albert was one of the best in
the business when it came to developing young
trotters as attested to by a Colt Stakes win with
Lucktows Flame in record time in 1984 and
also with Island Kaptain at three. There was
also success on the pace with Dandy Gal, a
winner in 1987, and Boston Fenway in 1990. Ron Kennedy
RAISE A COLT
1984
“An increase in the sustaining fees resulted in a September 1984 - Charlottetown
significant increase in total purses which 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $6,162
reached $48,214 this year. Looking back we Dunachton Dandy (R. Gallant) St record 1:59.3
see that this is over 450% higher than the Owner: Angus and Richard Gallant, Riverview, NB
Shalom Arly (Wally Hennessey) 2:03.1
purses were five years ago when the total was
Owner: Willard Jenkins, Saint John, NB
just $10,705. The PEI Colt Stakes have grown 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $5,295
in this our 50th anniversary year and now with St Catherines (Dale Sobey) Stakes record 2:03.3
the introduction of the Maritime Breeders Owner: William Arnett, Summerside
Futurity and the growth of the Atlantic Sires Harbourvue Anne (Joe Smallwood) 2:06.1
Stakes, we have truly come a long way in Owner: Dr Donald Ling, Keppock
supporting Maritime bred colts and fillies.” 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $3,850
Lucktows Flame (Albert Bernard) 2:08
Owner: Ron Kennedy, Kensington
Maple Grove Triton (W Hennessey) St record 2:02.2
Sixty-eight sold for $2,972 average. Sale Owner: Maple Grove Farm, Murray River
topper was Island Gambler bought by Phil Harborvue Bunter (Mike MacDonald) 2:05.3
Pinkney for $10,700. Consigned by Robert Owner: Mike O’Brien, Sherwood
Webster of Hollylaine Farm. 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $8,425
Glengyle Promise (Boyd MacDonald) 2:08.4
Owner: Boyd MacDonald, Crapaud
Maple Leaf Bramble (R Annear) St record 2:10.2
Maple Grove Triton cut over two seconds off Owner: Ralph Annear, Montague
the two-year-old pacing colt record for Wally
Hennessey, who set another record in a
division of the three-year-old pacing colts with
Shalom Arly. That record was short lived as
Dunachton Dandy later became the first
three-year-old colt to break the 2:00 barrier
with his 1:59.3 win for Richard Gallant.
Lucktows Flame set a new mark for three-

year-old trotters as PEI Colt Stakes director
Ron Kennedy got his first Colt Stakes win.
Maple Leaf Bramble and Ralph Annear
Maple Leaf Bramble broke the two-year-old

trot record - yet another in the long list of
stakes winners bred, owned, trained and driven
by Ralph Annear.
Harborvue Anne and Harborvue Bunter

made their breeder, Dr Donald Ling, doubly
proud in winning divisions of the three-year-
old filly and two-year-old colt pacers.
Personalities Harborvue Bunter with Mike MacDonald and Mike O’Brien
Richard Gallant was born on the family farm

in Oyster Bed Bridge where his father Angus
had horses that he raced for fun at Covehead
and on the ice. Richard was an engineer by
trade and settled in Moncton just down the
road from the track in Dieppe. Among his
many stakes winners as an owner, trainer and
driver, was Dunachton Dandy, the first sub
2:00 Colt Stakes winner as well as Colt Stakes
Richard Gallant with Dunachton Dandy after becoming the
events with Wind Warning, Island Hustler and first horse to break 2:00 in the Colt Stakes. Joined by father
Atlantic Champion Island Governess in a Colt Angus Gallant on left with breeder Don Smith and groom
Stakes record for two-year-old filly pacers Jean Louis Arsenault.
driven by Wally Hennessey.
RAISE A COLT
1985
“Purses went over $48,000 this year as a September 1985 - Charlottetown
record twelve divisions of the PEI Colt Stakes 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $4,463
were raced. Three records were set as the colts Star Cover (Doug Walsh) 2:04
and fillies get better each year.” Owner: Mackay, Shive and Dickie, NS
Harborvue Bunter (Paul MacDonald) 2:02.3
Owner: Mike O’Brien, Sherwood
Sale Highlights Glengyle Major (Jody Hennessey) 2:04.2
Owner: Clarence Reid, Charlottetown
Sixty-two sold for $2,600 average. Sale topper 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $5,562
was Naked Emotion bought by Alan Kelly Dean (Vince Poulton) 2:04.2
MacDonald for $5,600. Consigned by Ewen Owner: Charles Mackie, NS
Taylor. No Bourbon (William Hicken) St record 2:03.2
Owner: Betty Hicken, Montague
Race Highlights Maple Leaf Bramble (R Annear) St record 2:05
Owner: Ralph Annear, Montague
Maple Leaf Bramble repeated with another 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $2,828
stakes record in the three-year-old trot for Kilkerran Direct (Gordon MacLean) 2:05
Ralph Annear. Owner: Gordon MacLean, Winsloe
Dawkerry Benghazi (Jody Hennessey) 2:03.2
Owner: Vernon MacLeod, Charlottetown
Island Governess set a stakes record of 2:05
Bayside Quinton (Albert Bernard) 2:05
for the two-year-old filly pacers for Wally Owner: Gordon Ford, Charlottetown
Hennessey’s third stakes record in two years. 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $3,729
Island Governess (W Hennessey) St record 2:05
No Bourbon dropped the record for the three- Owner: Richard Gallant, Moncton, NB
year-old fillies for driver Bill Hicken’s first Utas Elsie (Willliam Hicken) 2:08.1
stakes win and he followed it up with a win Owner: C and J Hicken, Montague, PEI
with Utas Elsie in the two-year-old filly class. 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $3,322
Dunmore Tweed (Marcel Barrieau) 2:11
Owner: C F Willis and Sons, O’Leary
Harborvue Bunter repeated as a PEI Colt
stakes winner this time in the three-year-old
colt division with Paul MacDonald driving.
Dunmore Tweed came close to the two-year-

old trot record in taking his class for Charlie
Willis and Sons as Marcel Barrieau struck for
his third Colt Stakes win in four years.
Personalities
Hollylaine Island Farm owned by Robert and

Nina Webster has been in the forefront of Dunmore Tweed
Island breeding for the last thirty-two years.
Standing such sires as A Cs Dandy, Sultros
Rainbow, Maxwell Almahurst, Curtis
Hanover, This Cams For You, Force Of Life
and others, coupled with their own broodmare
band, they have produced many stakes
performers and Maritime Champions. As a
veterinarian he once worked for the prestigious
Armstrong Brothers farm in Ontario, and has a
wealth of experience in how to put up great
looking yearlings that have stakes potential.
Island Governess was one of the first but then
there was the great Island Storm, Invader,
Kaptain, Missile, Panther, Reba, Ribbon,
Tradition and many more. In the past three
crops of Hollylaine yearlings all of them have
raced at two or three. In total Hollylaine Island
Farm has bred twenty-nine PEI Colt Stakes
winners. The farm ranks as the top breeding
farm in the Maritimes in this category. Dr Bob Webster
RAISE A COLT
1986
The President’s View – Ronald Kennedy – President
“There were twelve PEI Colt Stakes divisions September 1986 - Charlottetown
and three new stakes records in 1986. The 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $4,046
trotting divisions were raced in a special Another Thor (William Hicken) 2:04.4
Trotfest program on the Saturday, which Owner: W Hicken & L O’Shea, Montague
F G Charles (Alex MacPhee)) 2:03.4
featured an eight-race program completely
Owner: Albert MacDonald, Belle River
devoted to the trotting breed. In addition to the Maple Grove Shadow (Winston Campbell) 2:01
stakes there were several races at different Owner: Maple Grove Farm, Murray River
distances including a two-mile race. A trotting 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $3,670
bred section of the yearling sale was also Isle Of Time (Earl Smith) 2:04.3
conducted for the first time on the same day.” Owner: Roland Larkin, New Glasgow
Some Nice (Mike Downey) Stakes record 2:03
Owner: David Kileel, Fredericton, NB
Sale Highlights P H Liz (Dave Pinkney) 2:04
Owner: James Shive, Shubenacadie, NS
Seventy-two sold for $2,100 average. Sale 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $4,347
topper was Lubricant bought by Bert Haneveld Dunmore Tweed (Marcel Barrieau) 2:06.2
for $6,700. Consigned by Lee Taylor. Owner: Orville Willis, O’Leary
Race Highlights Utas Smokey (Steve Mahar) Stakes record 2:02.2
Owner: Willard Jenkins, Saint John, NB
Pineway Cadet (Vince Poulton) 2:06
Utas Smokey set a new two-year-old pacing Owner: Desmond Rice, Charlottetown
colt record of 2:02.2 for Steve Mahar’s first 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $4,067
Colt Stakes win. Shalom Xs (Joe Smallwood) 2:07
Owner: Ian Smith, Montague
Precious Jigtime (Marcel Barrieau) 2:05.2
Oh That Treasure became the first 2:10 two-
Owner: Thundering Stable, Moncton, NB
year-old trotter in the history of the Colt Stakes 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $3,322
for perennial stakes winner Ralph Annear. Oh That Treasure (Ralph Annear) St record 2:10
Some Nice broke the three-year-old pacing
filly record with a 2:03 clocking for Mike
Downey and breeder/owner David Kileel.
Dunmore Tweed repeated his previous year’s

PEI Stakes win in the trotting ranks as he won
easily for Marcel Barrieau, who also won a
two-year-old pacing filly division with
Precious Jigtime.
Personalities
Maple Grove Shadow takes the fastest three-year-old colt
Ralph McCully, the personable master of division for driver Winston Campbell.
Dunmore Farm in Antigonish, has an enviable
record in producing Colt Stakes winning
trotters. He has bred ten winners, including
three in which he retained ownership. His
favorite was the Maritime Champion Dunmore
Skye who won in 1996 with Clare MacDonald
driving. That combination would produce two
more winners but most recently, Edward
“Teddy” Smallwood has been the one to take
the Dunmore trotters to the Colt Stakes winner
circle with Dunmore TKO, Dunmore Alpha
and, in 2008, with the two-year-old winner
Dunmore Chip. Ralph had the unique
experience of having three of his two-year-old
trotters finish 1-2-3 in The Globetrotter stake
in 2008. His secret ? “Improve your stock to
improve your chances.” Ralph currently stands
the top producing trotting sire in the Maritimes
named Black River, a son of Donerail. Ralph McCully and Black River
RAISE A COLT
1987
“A record thirteen PEI Colt Stakes divisions September 1987 - Charlottetown

were raced in 1987 in very poor weather. Once 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $3,441
again the trotters raced as part of the Trotfest Courtney Bay (Steve Mahar) 2:00.1
program on Saturday afternoon after the Owner: Shannon Boomer, Saint John, NB
Overnight Storm (Doug Walsh) 2:01.1
trotting yearling sale in the morning. Trotfest is
Owner: Burt Hayman, New London
a unique program of its kind in North America Island Hustler (Richard Gallant) 2:03
as it features a full program devoted to the Owner: Richard Gallant, Dieppe, NB
trotting breed with races for all ages and at 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $3,793
different distances.” D Js Amy (Paul MacDonald) 2:03.4
Owner: Bert Haneveld, Montague
Sale Highlights Solar Knight (Paul MacDonald) 2:04.2
O Happy Knight (Earl Smith) 2:03.4
63 sold for $3,360 average. Sale topper was Owner: Charles Mackie, NS
Elusive Dream bought by Russell Vassalo for 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $2,092
$15,500. Consigned by Ewen Taylor. Bill Be Sure (Albert Bernard) 2:10.3
Owner: Emmett Bernard, Hunter River
Race Highlights Crown N Anchor (Doug MacGregor) 2:12.2
Owner: Ira Kaufman, ON
D Js Amy and Solar Knight, both daughters
Kilkerran Fury (Emmons MacKay) 2:12
of Knightly Blue Chip, each won divisions of Owner: Walthen Piers, Pugwash
the three-year-old filly pace for driver Paul Oil Can (Carl Jamieson) 2:09.3
MacDonald and proud owner Bert Haneveld. Owner: Carl Jamieson, Pugwash, NS
Lubricant, also owned by Haneveld, won a 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $2,994
division of the two-year-old filly pace. Dusty Lane Dawn (Gary MacDonald) 2:11
Owner: Ron Gass, Cornwall
Dunmore Able captured the two-year-old trot Lubricant (William Hicken) 2:10
driven by Claire MacDonald in what was her
first of thirty-one PEI Colt Stakes wins and Dunmore Able (Claire MacDonald) 2:14.3
still counting. Owner: Ralph McCully, Antigonish
Kilkerran Fury capped a sensational two-

year-old season, winning his division of the
colt pacers with ease for owner Walthen Piers.
Another son of Oil Count, Oil Can, took the
other division winning for owner/trainer Carl
Jamieson in his only Colt Stakes win..
Bill Be Sure and Crown N Anchor swept the

three-year-old trot divisions adding two more
trophies to Dr George Bishop’s record
Tom Boy Knight by Knightly Blue Chip was a winner in
collection as a breeder. 1990 for owners Leith and Wayne Clarke
Personalities
George Riley is a long time member of the

PEI Colt Stakes, serving on two occasions as a
director. He is currently the breeder director
for PEI on the Standardbred Canada board.
Riley Farms had a string of stakes successes
following the acquisition of Knightly Blue
Chip. George had a reputation for putting
beautiful yearlings through the ring at the
annual sale and Knightly Blue Chip was the
perfect sire to support that reputation at the
sales and on the racetrack. His favorite filly
was $135,000 winner Mighty Sassy, a
homebred stakes winner in 2000 that he
retained as a broodmare to produce another
stakes winner in 2008 in Larshegoes by Largo,
another of his sires.
George Riley, master of Riley Farms
RAISE A COLT
1988
“Centennial year at the CDP was cause for September 1988 - Charlottetown
some special occasions and the PEI Colt 4 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $3,000
Courtney Bay (Steve Mahar) Stakes record 1:59.4
Stakes celebrated it with a full week of Owner: Shannon Boomer, Saint John, NB
activities around the stakes and the sale in 4 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $3,000
September. The week was called “The Main Solar Knight (Paul MacDonald) Stakes record 2:01.4
Event” and manager Norman Hall put together Owner: Bert Haneveld, Montague
four nights of racing including a revival of the Rustico Hotshot (John Pineau) Stakes record 2:04
four-year-old classes, a special sale on Owner:John Pineau, South Rustico
Saturday of trotters only with 28 entries, and a 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $5,650
Kilkerran Fury (Emmons MacKay) 2:02
mixed sale, all in addition to our regular select Owner: Walthen Piers, Pugwash
sale on Friday evening. With a big increase in Double Blest (Claire MacDonald) 2:02.3
the Government purse support the purses set an Owner: Claire MacDonald, Antigonish, NS
all time record of $76,400. As part of the new Island Invader (Joe Smallwood) 2:02
Owner: Joe Smallwood, Charlottetown
funding agreement we will race a program of 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $5,425
early closing stakes in Summerside including Woodmere Jilly (Earl Smith) 2:05.1
the Callbeck stakes for two-year-olds and the Owner: Collins Wood, Southport
Dandy Gal (Albert Bernard) 2:03.4
Bob Dewar and Ruby Chappell Memorials and Owner: Ron Kennedy, Kensington
the Maple Leaf Trot, all for three-year-olds.” Whose To care (Phil Pinkney) 2:04.4
Owner: Phil Pinkney, Truro, NS
Sale Highlights Scarlet Nite (Gordon MacLean) 2:03.2
Owner: Gordon Maclean, Winsloe
Seventy-two sold for $2,450 average. Sale 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $4,900
topper was O Happy Day bought by Russell Rust Remover (Danny Romo) 2:04
Owner: Reg Pittipas, Burco & Torbay Stable, Moncton
Vassalo of New Jersey for $13,100. Consigned Woodmere Jinx (Frank Fagan) 2:02.4
by Tom MacPhee of Cornwall. Owner: East River Farm, Marshfield
Acton Stinger (Joe Smallwood) Stakes record 2:01.2
Owner: Ron MacLean, Cornwall
Kilkerran Gem (Emmons MacKay) 2:07
Owner: Walthen Piers, Pugwash, NS
Kilkerran Fury became a repeat Colt Stakes Dawn Down (Steve Mason) Stakes record 2:03.2
winner as he won a division of the three-year- Owner: Milton Downey, Saint John, NB
old colts. Island Invader won in another 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $4,900
J K Crown (Joe Smallwood) Stakes record 2:06.2
division for Joe Smallwood who added two Owner: Joe Smallwood, Charlottetown
more winners with stakes records in the two-
year-old colt pace with Acton Stinger, and in
the three-year-old trot with J K Crown.
Dawn Down broke the two-year-old filly pace

record for owner/breeder Milton Downey.
Courtney Bay, Solar Knight and Rustico

Hotshot all made the record book in the four-
year-old classes as they were raced for the first
time since 1974.
Rustico Hotshot sets a track trotting record of 2:01.4 during
Old Home Week 1988
Personalities
Joe Smallwood (The Fox, as he is better

known) has a remarkable and unique record in
Colt Stakes action as a breeder, owner and
driver, not only because of the number of
victories he has claimed but also the record
number of Colt Stakes record miles he has
produced with both pacers and trotters. At one
time he held four separate class records and
has equalled or broken the record in all classes
at one time or other. His forty wins, as either a
breeder with eight, owner with thirteen or
driver with nineteen, and many times all three
at once, rank him among the most successful
all-around participants in our history.
Joe Smallwood, third in all around Colt Stakes wins
RAISE A COLT
1989
The President’s View – Allison Carr – President
“The four-year-old races were conducted in September 1989 - S’side and Ch’town
Summerside this year, as construction of the 4 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $4,600
Kilkerran Fury (Emmons MacKay) Stakes record 1:59
new Canada Games Centre forced the Owner: Walthen Piers, Pugwash, NS
relocation of our yearling sale to Summerside 4 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $3,200
also. The PEI Colt Stakes was pleased to host a Lubricanr (Paul MacDonald) 204
reception for Stan Bergstein, Executive Owner: Bert Haneveld, Montague
Director of Harness Tracks of America, who Majaian Speed (Jim Ripley) 2:05.2
later participated in a panel discussion on the Owner: Jim Ripley, Amherst, NS
future of standardbred racing in North 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $6,000
D Ds Beauty (Steven Trites) 2:03
America. He was joined by several other Owner: Roy Goodine, Fredericton, NB
personalities and an attendance of almost 200 Selkirk (Emmons MacKay) 2:01.4
interested horse people. Mr Bergstein also took Owner: B Briggs & D Burns, NS
a turn as pedigree reader at the sale and P H Terminator (Danny Romo) 2:02.1
Owner: Lyle Carter & Ken Wood, Charlottetown
presented coolers for the four-year-old races.” 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $5,650
P H Keyta (Claire MacDonald) 2:02
Sale Highlights Owner: Ralph Annear, Montague
Glencove Belle (Kevin Doyle) 2:03.4
Owner: Carl Bagnall, Southport
Fifty-nine sold for $3,160 average. Sale topper Some Nice Friday (Russell Burgoyne) 2:03.3
was Paris Escapade bought by Lee Blaikie for Owner: Alexander Fraser, Dartmouth, NS
$13,000. Consigned by Ewen Taylor. J K Classic (Joe Smallwood) 2:09.1
Owner: Joe Smallwood, Keppock
Race Highlights J K Crown (Joe Smallwood) Stakes record 2:03
Kilkerran Fury repeated again and joined a Lamborghinis Pride (Emmons MacKay) 2:05
select few horses to win a Colt Stakes race at Owner: Dixie MacKay, Truro, NS
2, 3, and 4 years old, setting a Colt Stakes Seltzer Blue (Steve Mahar) 2:02.2
Owner: D Scharf & H Baird, Hampton, NB
record for the four-year-olds in the process. 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $5,600
Driver Emmons Mackay had earlier in the J K Beauty (Joe Smallwood) Stakes record 2:03
week won two other Colt Stakes events with Owner: Joe Smallwood, Keppock
Diplomat Katie (Russell Burgoyne) 2:05
Lambourghinis Pride for wife Dixie in a two- Owner: Alexander Fraser, Dartmouth, NS
year-old colt division, then with Selkirk in a 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $4,125
three-year-old colt division. Island Kaptain (Albert Bernard) 2:10.4
Miss Autumn Time (Graham Chappell) 2:09.3
J K Beauty set a stakes record for two-year- Duncan MacKay, Breadalbane
old fillies for Joe Smallwood who returned for
another stakes record, his fourth in two years,
with a win by J K Crown in the three-year-old
trot. He then won the other division of the trot
with J K Classic to complete a rare driving
triple in Colt Stakes action.
P H Keyta shaved a second off the three-year-

old filly record with Clare MacDonald driving Holding Island Kaptain is Emmett with Albert driving.
for owner Ralph Annear. Jennie Bernard and grandson Shane are on the right.
Personalities
Allison Carr remembers his first drive at

Covehead Raceway, in fact he remembers the
names of horses and their owners from way
back in the forties and fifties. He first joined
the old PEI Harness Racing Club in 1953, and
is still active today as a director for the PEI
Colt Stakes. He also served as President in
1989-90. Allie has won three Colt Stakes races
along the way, with Stone Heart in 1977,
MacBan Alice as co-owner with his son John,
then in 2000 with his best horse Charlottes
Den, co-owned by his long time trainer and
friend John Davies of Saint John. Allie Carr
RAISE A COLT
1990
The President’s View – Allison Carr – President
“With 18 races spread over three programs and September 1990 - Charlottetown
purses at a record $84,000 total the annual Colt 4 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $4,550
Boston Fenway (Albert Bernard) 2:03.2
Stakes was again a special event with both Owner: Ron Kennedy, Kensington
three-year-old pacing races tying or setting sub 4 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $4,250
2:00 records. The week was dubbed as Horse Blu Meadow Eve (Ralph Frizzell) 2:06
Industry Week as events included seminars on Owner: Ralph Frizzell, Winsloe
hoof care and reproduction and an Open House Flickas Chance (Robert Craig) 2:07
at the Atlantic Vet College in addition to the Owner: Flickas Memory Farm, Covehead
three days of races and the yearling sale.” 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $6,200
Charlottes Buddy (David Ratchford) Stakes record 1:59.3
Owner: Dave Ratchford, North Sydney, NS
Sale Highlights Burden Of Freedom (Steve Mahar) 2:02.4
Owner: Milton Downet, Saint John, NB
Ternicjo Ranger (John Davies) 2:03
Seventy-two sold for a Maritime record Owner: John Davies, Saint John, NB
average of $3,480. Sale topper was Dutch 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $7,300
Lightning bought by Boyd MacDonald for J K Beauty (Joe Smallwood) Stakes record 2:00.3
$12,500. Consigned by Ewen Taylor. Owner: Joe Smallwood, Keppock
Brite Jennifer (Steve Mahar) Stakes record 1:59.3
Owner: Joniliske Stable, Saint John, NB
Island Kaptain (Albert Bernard) 2:03.2
Owner: Ron Kennedy, Kensington
Charlottes Buddy tied the three-year-old colt Rustico Hedge (Glydon Willis) 2:05
record of 1:59.3 and was driven by his owner Owner: Orville Willis, O’Leary
David Ratchford to the victory. 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $4,075
Philip Down (Steve Mason) 2:05
Owner: Milton Downey, Saint John, NB
Brite Jennifer set a stakes record for three- Oldham Buster (Mike Worthen) 2:06.1
year-old pacing fillies of 1:59.4 in one division Owner: Edward Worthen, Enfield, NS
while J K Beauty also broke the previous Vics Sample (Steven Trites) 2:03.2
Owner: Ron Goodine, Fredericton, NB
record for Joe Smallwood. Grampys Winner (Earl Smith) 2:04.4
Owner: Ronald MacDonald, Souris
Philip Down won a division of the two-year- 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $4,850
Mynahs Accolade (Earl Smith) 2:05.1
old pacing colts for owner Milton Downey Owner: Leigh O’Brien, Alberton
who also had a winner in Burden Of Freedom Tom Boy Knight (Dale Sobey) 2:03.1
in a three-year-old colt division. Leith and Wayne Clark, Summerside
Kin O Classic (Joe Smallwood) 2:07.1
Island Kaptain repeated as a PEI Colt Stake Owner: Hugh Murphy, Augustine Cove
winner in the three-year-old trot for owner and Elmwood Galaxy (John Pineau) 2:09.4
previous Colt Stakes President Ron Kennedy, Owner: John Pineau, South Rustico
who also owned the winner of the four-year-
old colt pace in Boston Fenway.
Personalities
Emmett Bernard was from the harness racing

hotbed of Hunter River and was part of an
extended family of excellent horsemen.
Emmett got the name “Cowboy” for his
fearless ability to take on any and every bad
actor that no-one else would drive. Son Albert JK Beauty and Joe Smallwood with director Bill Roloson
became a top trainer of young horses, with
several Colt Stakes credits for owner and
former Club President Ron Kennedy. Albert
trained and drove a number of PEI Colt stakes
winners for his father including Bill Be Sure,
Island Kaptain at two, Island Panther, and
Island Minstrel. Between them they drove
thirteen Colt Stakes winners. Albert’s son
Shane also won a Colt Stakes race with Scarlet
Hussy in 1996 for owner Norman Hall, and
with Miss Lori in 1998 to complete a rare three
generation record of stakes wins for a family.
Emmett Bernard holds Yankee Blaze and is joined by son
Albert and grandson Shane in the winners circle
RAISE A COLT
1991
The President’s View – Lee Taylor– President
Horse Industry Week was again a big success. 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $6,750
Apohaqui (Vaughn Doyle) 2:08.4
The full week of activities sponsored by the Owner: Edwin Moase, North River
PEI Colt Stakes drew many visitors from Kilkerran Ingle (Emmons MacKay) 2:05
around the Maritimes. Our special guest this Owner: Walthen Piers, Pugwash
year was Jack McNiven of Killean Acres in Grampys Winner (Earl Smith) 2:04.3
Ontario, who put on a seminar for over 50 of 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $7,490
our breeders on yearling preparation. A vote of Tom Boy Knight (Dale Sobey) 2:07.1
thanks is due to our manager who puts a lot of Owner: Leith and Wayne Clark, Summerside
Glenora Fearn (Claire MacDonald) 2:07.3
time and effort into organizing the PEI Colt Owner: Erika Du Bois, Fredericton, NB
Stakes activities. 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $6,430
Elmwood Galaxy (John Pineau) 2:03.2
Owner: John Pineau, South Rustico
Dusty Lane Gopher (Frank Hansen) 2:07
Sixty-nine sold for an average of $3,280. Sale Owner: Ron Gass, Cornwall
topper was bought for $12,500. Dunachton Dexter (Earl Smith) 2:06.1
Owner: Shawn Murphy
Rouge Baron (Paul MacDonald) 2:05.2
Race Highlights Owner: Cecil Ladner & Ken Hughes, Southport
Some Nice Ketch (Russell Burgoyne) 2:07
Diplomat Katie in the four-year-old pacing Owner: Alexander Fraser, Dartmouth, NS
filly class, Grampys Winner in the three- Edgewater Wave (Steven Trites) 2:07
year-old colt, and Tom Boy Knight in the Owner: Mel Land, Saint John, NB
three-year-old filly were all repeat winners Ladys Classic (Len McGuigan) 2:10.4
Owner: Ralph Cole, Kensington
Scarlet Dusk won the four-year-old trot for Scarlet Midnight (Daryl MacLean) 2:08
driver Daryl MacLean with his father, Gordon, Owner: Gordon MacLean, Winsloe
owning and they combined for another win
with Scarlet Midnight in the two-year-old trot
Some Nice Ketch was the second winner of

the week for driver Russell Burgoyne and for
owner Alexander Fraser.
Personalities
Ron and Shelley Gass, a father and daughter

team from Cornwall, have been breeding
horses with the Dusty Lane prefix for the last
twenty-five years and along the way they have
been the proud breeders, owners or in the case
of Ron, the driver, of a number of Colt Stakes
winners. Their breeding credits total seven and
include the trotting colts Dusty Lane Dillon
Ron Gass
and Demon. In 1998 they swept the two-year-
old trot divisions with Dusty Lane Cody bred
by Ron, and Tasha with Shelley as the breeder,
both driven by Ron. Dusty Lane Diva, a two-
year-old winner in 2006 continued their
winning tradition as breeders and gave owner
Earl Watts his first Colt Stakes win.
September 1991 - Charlottetown

Esker Hillhurst (Ken Arsenault) 2:01.2
Owner: Joe Arsenault, Parkdale
Nikway Nikromancer ) Paul MacDonald) 2:02.3
Owner: Desmond Sherry, Parkdale
Diplomat Katie (Russell Burgoyne) 2:03
Owner: Alexander Fraser, Dartmouth
Scarlet Dusk (Daryl MacLean) 2:07
Shelley Gass
RAISE A COLT
1992
The President’s View – Lee Taylor – President
“Not enough entries into our four-year-old September 1992 – Charlottetown and
stakes has resulted in them being dropped for Summerside
this year. Also due to the increasingly crowded 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $6,050
Winners Stinger (Joe Smallwood) 2:00.2
stakes schedule we had to move our trotting Owner: Charles MacDonald, Summerside
stakes to Summerside. Our pacing stakes this Mattski (Danny Romo) 2:00.4
year had a historic first with Actons Heritage Owner: Art Mercer & Robert Skinner, NS
becoming the first sub 2:00 two-year-old Blue Time Harrods (Gary MacDonald) 2:00.3
setting a stakes and track record. Our first 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $5,350
winning two-year-old colt pacer was C Harry Dexters Wine (Earl Smith) 2:00
Budlong whose record in 1944 was 2:27 ¾. Owner: Russ Doyle, Sydney, NS
Glengyle Seeker (Doug MacGregor) 2:03.1
We have indeed come a long way in Owner: Doug MacGregor, Milton
developing our breed in the Maritimes. Shalom Sham (Joe Smallwood) 2:01.2
Congratulations to breeder Roddy MacLeod on Owner: Joe Smallwood, Keppock
raising this great colt.” 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $3,900
Scarlet Midnight (Daryl MacLean) 2:06.4
Sale Highlights Island Minstrel (Albert Bernard) 2:05
Sixty-seven sold for an average of $3,050. Sale Nikway Rafferty (Ken Arsenault) 2:04.1
topper CLs Social Whirl was bought by Brent Ken Arsenault, Charlottetown
Drake for $7,700. Consigned by Collins Wood. Royal Acton (Bill Roloson) 2:01.2
Owner: Bill Roloson, Belfast
Actons Heritage (Danny Romo) 1:59.4
Race Highlights Owner: Louis Clark, Sydney, NS
2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse $4,360
Kildare Lil (Ron Gass) 2:08.3
Actons Heritage became the first sub 2:00 Owner: Walter Whelan, ON
two-year-old in Colt Stakes history, winning Wispering Abe (Danny Romo) 2:02.4
Owner: Lee Taylor, Nine Mile Creek
for owner Louis Clark and breeder Roddie Molzan (Donnie MacDougal) 2:05.1
MacLeod in 1:59.4. Owner: Louis McIsaac, Cornwall
2 Year Old Trot Purse $4,230
Scarlet Midnight repeated as a Colt Stakes Maple Leaf Again (Ralph Annear) 2:06.4
winner to take the three-year-old trot in a race
held in Summerside.
Wispering Abe set a stakes record for two-

year-old fillies with Danny Romo catch driving
for owner Lee Taylor.
Shalom Sham in the three-year-old filly class

and Winners Stinger in the three-year-old
Colt stake gave Joe Smallwood two Stakes
wins on the day.
Danny Romo holds Acton Heritage for owner Louis Clark.
Nikway Rafferty, a bargain priced yearling at Joined by Duck Acorn and CDP President Dr Donald Ling
the Truro sale, gave Alfred “Apps” Arsenault
his only Colt Stakes winner and was driven by
son Kenny, now one of the top five drivers in
wins in the Colt Stakes.
Personalities
Danny Romo is one of the winningest Colt

Stakes drivers in recent history. Not only has
the Nova Scotia native won twenty-eight
individual races but along the way, he has set
or equaled five Colt Stakes records. He drove
the first sub 2:00 two-year-old in Acton’s
Heritage and holds the current three-year-old
of 1:55.2 set by Flaming Moe, breaking his
own previous record set by Firm’s Phantom.
His first win in Colt Stakes action was also a
record with Pack Truce. Danny Romo of Shubenacadie
RAISE A COLT
1993
The President’s View – Lee Taylor – President
Six divisions of three-year-old colts, the most September 1993 - Charlottetown
divisions ever, showed up to contest the pacing 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $4,310
Cashunderthetable (Gilles Barrieau) 2:01.2
colt stakes. There were eighteen divisions in Owner: David Lund, Moncton, NB
total, another record, and once again the Escorts Abe (Phil Pinkney) 2:00.1
trotters were raced in Summerside. In order to Owner: Eric Whebby, Dartmouth, NS
speed up the sale and hopefully improve the Dynamite Treasure (Gilles Barrieau) 2:02.1
Owner : Calixte Cormier, Shediac, NB
quality of the yearlings, a minimum start up West River Diesel (Clare MacDonald) 2:01.2
bid of $1,500 was introduced. Of the 76 entries Owner: Claire MacDonald, Antigonish, NS
23 did not meet the minimum bid and were Jaguar Knight (Gary MacDonald) 2:01.1
Owner: Wayne Hill, Fredericton, NB
passed from the ring unsold, Most were sold, Paris Model (Emmons MacKay) 2:03
however, before they left the sale building. Owner: Desmond Sherry, Summerside
Molzan (Donnie MacDougal) 2:02
Sale Highlights Owner: Louis McIsaac, Cornwall
Cindyella (Gary MacDonald) 2:03
Fifty-three sold for an average of $3,950. Sale Owner: Boyde White, Charlottetown
topper Abes Magic bought by Burco Stable for 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $3,900
Touch N Gone (Jack Bernard) 2:07
$12,000. Consigned by Ewen Taylor. Owner: Philip Andrew, Charlottetown
Island Missile (Joe Smallwood) 2:03.4
Race Highlights Owner: Joe Smallwood, Keppock
Dusty Lane Dillon (Ron Gass) 2:05.2
Owner: Shelley Gass, Cornwall
Dexters Jane produced the only new record 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $4,280
with a 2:02.2 win in the two-year-old pacing Forest Hill Rebel (Cyril MacDonald) 2:01.1
Owner: Boyd MacKenzie, NS
filly stake with Earl Smith driving for Cape Rum Toddy (Danny Romo) 2:03.4
Breton owner Russ Doyle. Owner: Art Mercer & Don Skinner, Sydney and Truro, NS
Swift Risk (Danny O’Brian) 2:02.4
Molzan repeated as a Colt Stakes winner to Owner: Gemini Hill Stable, Saint John, NB
take one of the three-year-old pacing filly First Quest (Lonnie Stokes) 2:04.4
divisions for owner/breeder Louis McIsaac. Owner: Earl Fram, Sussex, NB
Dexters Jane (Earl Smith) Stakes record 2:02.2
Owner: Russ Doyle, Sydney, NS
Cashunderthetable and Dynamite Treasure Magic Dexter (Ralph Annear) 2:04.4
each won a division of the three-year-old colts Owner: Ralph Annear, Montague
with Gilles Barrieau driving in his first Colt 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $2,925
Stakes wins. Buster Hill (Paul MacDonald) 2:08.1
Owner: Shaun MacIsaac, Cornwall
Jaguar Knight was also a New Brunswick

based winner in another of the record six colt
divisions for Gary MacDonald who also had a
winner in the three-year-old filly pace with
Cindyella, a first for owner Boyde White.
Island Missile gave Joe Smallwood yet

another driving win in Colt Stakes action.
Jack Bernard and Touch N Gone
Personalities
J Alan and Earl Smith come from a family,

and an area, Hunter River, that is steeped in
harness racing tradition. Alan was a director
and President of the PEI Colt Stakes in 1996
and although he never won a Colt Stakes race,
his son Earl has more than made up for it with
twenty-nine wins as a driver including a
double win with his own filly Charlottes Blues.
Earl has been one of the top conditioners of
young horses at the Charlottetown track for
over twenty years and continues today with
two more wins in the 2008 edition of the PEI
Colt Stakes with the two year old pacing colts
Big Oster and Woodmere Fastball. Another
son, Roger, won with Bayside Katfish in 1980.
Earl and Alan Smith
RAISE A COLT
1994
The President’s View – Ronald McInnis – President
“This was our sixtieth anniversary year and a September 1994 - Charlottetown
celebration was held at Norman Hall’s 4 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $2,200
West River Diesel (Clare MacDonald) St. record 1:58.1
property to which all the directors as well as Owner: Clare MacDonald, Antigonish, NS
living past Presidents were invited. Also Island Nukes (Walter Cheverie) 2:00
attending were honorary directors Norah Owner : Jenny Biggar, Summerside
Longworth, Dr Blair Kelly, Lee Taylor, and 4 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $3,900
CLs Beauty (David O’Brien) 2:02.4
Hollis Jenkins. The Colt Stakes had a record Owner : Elwood Lawton, Keppock
year to mark the anniversary with nineteen 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $6,100
races and a purse total of over $86,000 to go J K Senator (Joe Smallwood) Stakes record 1:59.2
with three new racing records and at the sale Guy On The Go (Russell Burgoyne) Stakes record 1:59.2
the overall average was the highest ever.” Owner: Alexander Fraser, Dartmouth, NS
Whata Hi Hope (Steve Mahar) 2:01.4
Owner : Clarence Leblanc, Moncton, NB
Magic Dexter (Clare MacDonald) 2:02.1
Sixty-seven sold for an average of $4,067. Sale Owner: Ralph Annear, Montague
topper R F Conrad was bought by Randy Taft CLs Social Whirl (Claire MacDonald) 2:00
Owner: Collins Wood, Southport
for $18,500. Consigned by Riley Farms. Daveys Lady (D Jackson) 2:02.2
Owner : David Jackson, Great Village, NS
West River Exotic (Clare MacDonald) 2:03.3
Owner: Clare MacDonald, Antigonish, NS
West River Diesel became one of only a Buster Hill (Paul MacDonald) 2:06.3
handful of horses to win three consecutive Colt Owner: Shaun MacIsaac, Cornwall
Stakes races and set a four-year-old record Acton Amigo (Joe Smallwood) 2:05.1
doing it in 1:58.1. It was also one of a record Owner: Joe Smallwood, Keppock
four winners on the week for driver Claire Call It Tar (Emmons MacKay) 2:06
MacDonald as she also won with Magic Owner: Dixie MacKay, Truro, NS
Calgary Flutie (Gordon Hennessey) 2:06.3
Dexter, a repeat winner, CLs Social Whirl, Owner: Hugh Baird, Hampton, NB
and her own West River Exotic. 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $4,505
Charlottes Ivory (Walter Cheverie) 2:09
Owner: Leith Clark, Summerside
J K Senator set another record for Joe Dexters Crown (Dave Carey) 2:07.4
Smallwood in the three-year-old pacing colts Owner: Collins Stable, Morell
class. That record was tied by Guy On The Go Hillview Kelly (Ron Matheson) 2:08.1
in a division of the same class for owner Sandy Owner: Roddie Matheson, Charlottetown
2 Year Old Trot Purse -$3,230
Fraser. Smallwood also won a two-year-old Island Panther (Albert Bernard) 2:16.3
pacing colt division with Acton Amigo. Owner: Emmett Bernard, Hunter River
Senator L B (Ken Arsenault) 2:17
Owner: Fred Acorn, Murray River
Buster Hill repeated as a Colt Stakes winner
by winning a three-year-old trot division for
owner Shaun MacIsaac.
Personalities
Collins Lea Wood was a livestock dealer and

a horse trader from an early age. He also took
up harness racing as a boy and remembers his
Guy On The Go with Russell Burgoyne
first race on the ice of Charlottetown harbour.
His interest in horses led him to breed his own
under the CL’s name and he did so with
considerable success. In 1994 he had two wins
as a breeder with CL’s Social Whirl and CL’s
Beauty and he was also the breeder of record
and owner of Colt Stakes winner Woodmere
Jilly. His greatest impact on the breeding
industry on PEI, however, has been as a result
of the many mares that he brought in from
sales in the United States. There were many
stakes winners raised from such mares
including Dunachton Dandy, the first sub 2:00
two-year-old Colt Stakes winner. He was
named PEI Horseman Of The Year in 2002.
Collins Wood
RAISE A COLT
1995
The President’s View – Ronald McInnis – President
“In order to fill the classes, the four-year-old September 1995 – Charlottetown
stakes were opened up to four years and older. 4 Year Old and Up Horse Pace Purse - $2,200
West River Diesel (Clare MacDonald) 1:59.1
Together with the four-year-old classes there Owner: Clare MacDonald, Antigonish, NS
were twenty-four races in total, another record. Dunachton Nukes (Jason Hughes) 2:02.2
West River Diesel raced in the PEI Colt Stakes Owner : Cecil Ladner, Charlottetown
as a five-year-old this year and won his third 4 Year Old and Up Mare Pace Purse - $2,650
Rivervue Skye (Ron Matheson) 1:59.1
consecutive stake and second time at four or Owner : Dr A Blair Kelly, Southport
older. This is a record that will probably never 4 Year Old and Up Trot Purse – $1,650
be broken. The yearling sale average dropped Scarlet Eve (Todd MacLean) 2:08.2
back this year to $3,485, which was still, 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $4,615
however, the third best average since the sale Calgary Flutie (Gary MacDonald) 2:00.2
started. Only six horses did not meet the Owner: Robert Hume, Hampton, NB
starting bid of $1,500”. Costa (Darren Crowe) 2:01.2
Owner: Peter Foy, Dartmouth, NS
Fictional First (Earl Smith) 2:02
Sale Highlights Owner : Trudy MacPherson, Glace Bay, NS
Jasper Moon (Paul Rogerson) 2:01.4
Owner: Paul Rogerson, Westville, NS
Sixty-five sold for an average of $3,485. Sale 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $4,615
topper Hes A Knight was bought by Doug Hill Charlottes Britt (Earl Smith) 2:05
for $12,700. Consigned by George and Arthur Owner: Tom MacPherson, Glace Bay, NS
Gemini Gazelle (Paul MacDonald) 2:02.3
Millar of Tyne Valley. Owner: Clonmel and Gemini Stables, Saint John, NB
Hagus (Todd Trites) 2:02.3
Race Highlights Owner: Melvin Land, Sussex, NB
Island Pusuit (Lea Bell) 2:05.1
West River Diesel added another history Owner: Lea Bell, Kensington
Miss Kay Mac (Len McGuigan) Stakes record 2:01.3
making mile with his third consecutive PEI Owner: Duncan MacKay, Breadalbane
Colt Stakes victory and his second Four-year- 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $3,275
old and up victory, the only horse to do so. Dexters Dude (Earl Smith) 2:02.1
Owner: Russ Doyle, Sydnet, NS
Easy Manner (Gary MacDonald) 2:03.3
Rustico Bullet and Rustico Bay won the two- Owner: John McNeill, Sydney, NS
year-old trot divisions, both owned and driven Southview Roach (Brian MacPhee) 2:05.3
by Joe Smallwood who purchased both in the Owner: Elwood Lawton, Keppock
Could Be Magic (Earl Smith) 2:03.3
PEI Select sale from consignor and breeder Owner: Shawn Murphy, Charlottetown
John Pineau. Alfred Alfred (Steve Mahar) 2:02.4
Owner : Earl Fram, Saint John, NB
Miss Kay Mac smashed the three-year-old 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $3,450
Sassy Will (Mike Campbell) 2:05.4
trotting record with a 2:01.3 mile for Len Owner: Gerald Goodine, Fredericton, NB
McGuigan and her owner and breeder Duncan Renaissant (Walter Cheverie) 2:04
MacKay who was also a winner with Miss Owner: Thomas Cobb, Kensington
Charlottes Blues (Earl Smith) 2:04.2
Autumn Time in 1989. Owner: Earl Smith, Hunter River
Royal Situation (Brian MacPhee) 2:03.3
Rivervue Skye was a winner for owner and Owner: Louis McIsaac, Fairview
breeder Dr A B Kelly in the four-year-old filly. 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $2,825
Rustico Bullet (Joe Smallwood) 2:11.3
It was Blair’s third winning connection. Owner: Joe Smallwood, Keppock
Rustico Bay (Joe Smallwood) 2:08.2
Personalities Owner: Joe Smallwood, Keppock
Ronald McInnis has been a long time member

of the PEI Colt Stakes. He served as a director
for several years and was President of the PEI
Colt Stakes for 1993-1995. He kept a small
breeding operation in Earnscliffe where he
raised yearlings with the Edgewater name.
Edgewater Wave was a Colt Stakes winner for
Ron as breeder in 1999 and another PEI Colt
Stakes win came with Brendons Gal pacing in
2:00, a filly he bred in partnership with Jim
Quinn of Belfast. One of his favorite and most
successful foals was Edgewater Rb with a
record of 1:54 and approaching $100,000 in
earnings racing in the Maritimes.
Ron McInnis
RAISE A COLT
1996
The President’s View – J Alan Smith – President
“This year was a pivotal one for the future of September 1996 - Charlottetown
harness racing and the PEI Colt Stakes. The 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $4,975
Island Quentin (Jody Hennessey) Stakes record 1:58.3
PEI Government, at the urging of our Owner: Roland Larkin, New Glasgow, PE
organization and the Charlottetown Driving Unconditional (Clare MacDonald) 2:00.4
Park, has commissioned a study by Smith Owner: Clare MacDonald, Antigonish, NS
Green Associates on the future of the racing Woodmere Bunkins (Ralph Annear) 2:00.2
Owner : Ralph Annear, Montague
industry on PEI. The coming of VLT’s to the Lets Travel (Rod Jamieson) 1:59.3
Island has impacted the wager considerably Owner: Kansas Snow, Cape Breton, NS
and there is a need to identify what, if 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $5,430
Charlottes Blues (Earl Smith) 2:01.3
anything, can be done to offset the effect of Owner: Earl Smith, Hunter River
Government sponsored competition. Norman Royal Situation (Brian MacPhee) 2:00.2
Hall appeared at a standing committee of the Owner: Louis McIsaac, Fairview
legislature on our behalf to argue for a share of Scarlet Hussy (Shane Bernard) 2:00
Owner: Norman Hall, Charlottetown
lottery profits to be granted to the tracks and 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $3,775
stakes programs”. Dusty Lane Demon (Ron Gass) 2:05
Owner: Paul MacDonald and Dave Tierney, Cornwall
Rustico Van (John Pineau) 2:03.4
Sale Highlights Owner: John Pineau, South Rustico
Sixty-five sold for an average of $4,012. Sale Woodmere Topcat (Gordon Hennessey) 2:06.2
Owner: Lloyd Denton, Fredericton, NB
topper Woodmere Bruiser was bought by Hung Jury (Ken Arsenault) 2:07.3
Kansas Snow for $14,500. Consigned by Owner: Donna MacKay, Summerside
Woodmere Farms of Marshfield. Blu Meadow Major (Paul MacDonald) 2:07.3
Owner: Ralph Frizzell, Winsloe
Woodmere Windrop (Gilles Barrieau) 2:06
Race Highlights Owner:David Lund, Moncton, NB
Woodmere Jet (Ron Matheson) 2:07
Woodmere Topcat won a two-year-old pacing Owner : R Matheson, V Mulligan & W Simmons
class for breeder Wally Wood as did two other Flaming Beauty (Daryll MacLean) 2:07.1
colts Woodmere Windrop and Woodmere Owner: Gordon MacLean, Winsloe,
Jet, while three-year-old winners, Woodmere Maybe Ella (Clifford Murphy) 2:08.1
Owner: Boyde White, Charlottetown
Bunkins and Lets Travel, were also raised at Fussys Girl Grace (Danny Romo) 2:08.3
Woodmere Farms. Owner: Ernest Gilhen , Halifax, NS
Blu Meadow Magic (Paul MacDonald) 2:09.3
Island Quentin set a new stakes record of Owner: Ralph Frizzell, Winsloe
Island Reba (Danny O’Brian) 2:09.2
1:58.3 for the three-year-old pacing colts as Owners: Clonmel & Gemini Stables, Saint John, NB
owner Rollie Larkin claimed his first trophy. 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $2,800
Dunmore Skye (Clare MacDonald) 2:05.3
Owner: Ralph McCully, Antigonish, NS
Scarlet Hussy came within a tick of a stakes Scarlet Sunset (Daryll MacLean) 2:05.2
record in a three-year-old filly pace division Owner: Gordon MacLean, Winsloe
for a first win for owner Norman Hall and
driver Shane Bernard.
Charlottes Blues repeated in the Colt Stakes

with a victory in a three-year-old filly race.
Personalities
Wallace (Wally) Wood started off as a

breeder under his East River Farm, a noted
dairy farm with top pedigreed cattle. He has
been active in Colt Stakes business as a
director and as President in 1983-85, and has
served in several industry organizations. He
retired from farming and moved across the
road in Marshfield to set up Woodmere Farms
and his breeding operation stood Harrods, a
full brother to Abercrombie, as well as Drop
Off, arguably one of the greatest sires ever to
stand in the Maritimes. Woodmere yearlings
are eagerly sought in the yearling sales because
of their pedigrees and physical excellence. Wally Wood
RAISE A COLT
1997
The President’s View – Heath Cobb – President
“In a follow up to the Smith Green report on September 1997 - Charlottetown
the future of harness racing on PEI, an industry 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $4,500
Hes A Knight (Earl Smith) 2:00.2
committee was formed to review the study and Owner: Doug Hill, Charlottetown
make specific proposals to Government. Our Clonmel Patterson (Paul MacDonald) 1:59.4
Colt Stakes representative on the committee Owner: Clonmel and Loomcroft Stabes, Saint John,NB
was Norman Hall and he and Dr Ian Moore co- Woodmere Jet (Ron Matheson) 1:57.3
Owner : R Matheson, V Mulligan & W Simmonds, Ch’town
authored the final report which recommended, Grampys Accolade (Earl Smith) 2:01
among other things, the establishment of a Owner: Ronald MacDonald, Souris
permanent position within government to 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $4,400
Blu Meadow Magic (Paul MacDonald) 2:06.1
handle industry issues, a role for Atlantic Lotto Owner: Ralph Frizzell, Winsloe
in promoting harness racing, establishment of Island Reba (Walter Cheverie 2:06.2
an industry group to provide input to Owners: Clonmel & Gemini Stables, Saint John, NB
government, and increased funding for purses Island Ribbon (Albert Bernard) 2:06.4
Owner: Robert Craswell, Charlottetown
based on a share of lottery and VLT revenues. J K Daisy (Joe Smallwood) 2:08.1
This was submitted in April 1997”. Owner: Joe Smallwood, Keppock
J K Pride (Joe Smallwood) 2:10.2
Sale Highlights Owner: Joe Smallwood, Keppock
Rustico Bayelbay (John Pineau) 2:07.4
Sixty-four sold for an average of $3,609. Sale Owner: John Pineau, South Rustico
topper Close Knit Family bought by Hubert Woodmere Bruiser (Rod Jamieson) 2:00
Leslie for $12,500. Consigned by Riley Farms. Owner: K Snow, W Ivany, NS
Forest Hill J T (Cyril MacDonald) 2:01.2
Owner: Boyd MacKinnon, Montague
Race Highlights Rums Victory (Walter Cheverie) 2:02
Owner: Leigh Jewell, Albany
Island Storm won a two-year-old division on Island Storm (Gilles Barrieau) 2:02.2
his way to a Mariime Championship for Owner: Melvin Willis, Guelph, ON
breeder Hollylaine Farm who had two other Miss Flamingo Two (Danny Romo) 2:11.2
stakes winners in Island Reba and Island Owner: John Ratchford, Nth Sydney, NS
Ribbon in the three-year-old filly class. Kilkerran Princess (Claire MacDonald) 2:07.3
Owner: Doug Ferguson, Tatamagouche, NS
Lyndale Okay (Earl Smith) 2:09.1
Woodmere Bruiser, the sale topper from Owner: Dan and Shaun MacIsaac, Charlottetown
1996, proved his worth with a 2:00 score for 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $3,000
Kansas Snow and partners. Brookridge Goldstar (Jack Bernard) 2:12.4
Owner: Louise Beaton, Brookfield
Scarlet Eclipse (Daryll MacLean) 2:07.1
Rustico Bayelbay made it two years in a row Owner: Gordon MacLean, Winsloe
that breeder/owner/driver John Pineau won a
two-year-old trot division.
Woodmere Jet repeated as a Colt Stakes

winner and this time did it in stakes record
time for a three-year-old colt of 1:57.3 for co-
owners Ron Matheson, Vince Mulligan and
Walter Simmons.
Personalities
Woodmere Jet and co-owner/driver Ron Matheson
Heath Cobb was President of the PEI Colt
Stakes from 1997-1998. His Colt Stakes
winning connection was Renaissant in 1995,
bred by his father Tom Cobb of Kensington
and a Maritime Champion and Colt Stakes
winner at three. Renaissant produced a very
good filly in H Cs Renaissant for Heath as the
breeder and she just missed a Colt Stakes win
on her way to almost $100,000 in earnings and
a record of 1:57.2f. She also produced a stakes
placed trotting filly called Meliss B, by
accident rather than by design, when the local
Veterinarian got his semen vials mixed up.
Heath Cobb
RAISE A COLT
1998
The President’s View – Heath Cobb – President
“We were pleased to see the government September 1998 - Charlottetown
respond to the Task Force recommendations to 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $5,900
Island Storm (Gilles Barrieau) 2:00
establish a position in Government to liaise Owner: Melvin Willis, Guelph, ON
with the industry and welcome the This Dons For You (Phil Pinkney) 2:01.2
appointment of Kent Oakes, son of a former Owner: Blaikie & Smith, NS
Colt Stakes member and stakes winner Charles Island Sampson (David Rose) 2:01.2
Owner : David Rose, Mount Stewart
Oakes of North Wiltshire. The arrangement to 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $6,600
have Atlantic Lotto take over responsibility for Miss Lori (Shane Bernard) 2:04
promotion of racing at Maritime tracks is also Owner: Eldon Green & J Irvine, Charlottetown
Miss Flamingo Too (Phil Pinkney) Stakes record 1:59.1
welcomed. A proposal was made by Norman Owners: John Ratchford, Nth Sydney, NS
Hall at our annual meeting in February to 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $3,500
combine our Island stakes programs into an Dusty Lane Cody (Ron Gass) 2:06.2
Island Breeders Series with championship Owner: Ron Gass, Cornwall
Dusty Lane Tasha (Ron Gass) 2:06
finals at year-end. A committee was formed to Owner: Shelley Gass, Cornwall
meet with the Island tracks to set a format and 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $4,300
schedule”. P H Happy (Clare MacDonald) 2:03.3
Turbo Man (Emmons MacKay) 2:03
Sale Highlights Owner: Dixie MacKay, Truro, NS
Sunset Josh (Rod Jamieson) 2:02.3
Owner: Ron Gass & C MacDougal, Cornwall
Fifty-four sold for an average of $3,855. Sale 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $4,300
topper Charlottes Titan bought by Doug Hill Island Tradition (Clare MacDonald) 2:04.4
for $17,000. Consigned by Charlotte Ranch. Owner: C MacDonald & M Kerr, NS
Smilin Wine (Ken Arsenault) 2:06.1
Owner: Cynthia Cody, Charlottetown
Race Highlights Woodmere Mattie (Vaughn Doyle) 2:03.3
Owner: Linda Austin, Halifax, NS
Island Storm was a repeat Colt Stakes winner 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $3,500
Trademark Crown (Earl Smith) 2:11.2
for Gilles Barrieau this time in the three-year- Owner: Tom MacPherson, Glace Bay, NS
old pacing colt ranks. Tough Revenge (Ron Gass) 2:15.3
Owner: Ron Gass & D Tierney, Cornwall
Dusty Lane Tasha and Dusty Lane Cody,
won the two-year-old trot divisions for driver
Ron Gass and he would return to the winners
circle later on the program for a win in the
three-year-old trot with Tough Revenge. Two
of the three were bred by Ron and the other by
his daughter Shelley.
Miss Flamingo Too set a stakes record for

three-year-old pacing fillies for Phil Pinkney
who had another winner in This Dons For You Island Storm
in a three-year-old pacing colt division.
Personalities
Hugh Baird operates a veterinary practice in

Hampton, New Brunswick, and has had a very
successful other career in breeding quality
standardbreds. He stood Quality Blue Chip and
currently stands the stallion Quick Comeback.
He has made his mark in the Colt Stakes
record books with nine wins and three stakes
records with such horses as double winner
Calgary Flutie by Quality Blue Chip, his half
brother Argo Flutie by Quick Comeback,
record breaking Le Win Skied, the first sub
2:00 two-year-old filly, current three-year-old
record holder Flaming Moe, and one of the
richest earning Maritime breds in Clinton
Debriefed, a winner of almost $450,000
lifetime, all also by Quick Comeback. Dr Hugh Baird and Clinton Debriefed
RAISE A COLT
1999
The President’s View – Pat McHugh – President
“Options for changing the sale were discussed. September 1999 - Charlottetown
It was decided that we should establish a sale 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $6,450
Sunset Josh (R Jamieson) 2:11.2
committee of the consignors with a view to the Owner: Carl MacDougal, NS
sale becoming independent of the PEI Colt Argo Flutie (Gilles Barrieau) 2:08.4
Stakes. Kent Oakes reported that the Provincial Owner: Dr Hugh Baird, Hampton, NB
Government was reviewing the situation with a Eds Echo (Cyril MacDonald) 2:12
Owner : Ed McMurrer, Soutgport
view to increasing support for breeders. Just 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $5,320
prior to the sale an increase of $30,000 in the Island Tradition (Clare MacDonald) 2:11.2
Government grant was announced. During Old Owner: C MacDonald and M Kerr, Antigonish and Truro
Woodmere Lofty (Ron Matheson) 2:12
Home Week we convened a meeting of Owners: Ron Matheson & W Simmons, Ch’town and S’side
Maritime industry representatives to discuss P H Happy Cat (Todd Trites) 2:12.4
what could be done to establish better Owner: James Shive, Shubenacadie, NS
cooperation within the industry. The meeting Glengyle Marj (Ken Arsenault) 2:08.4
Owner: James MacGregor, Milton
supported the idea of a Regional Industry 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $3,590
Council with Provincial Chapters.” Maple Leaf Gem (Ralph Annear) 2:14.1
Maple Leaf Gentry (Ralph Annear) 2:15.1
Sale Highlights Owner: Ralph Annear, Montague
Saulsbrook Lighting (Alyre Pineau) 2:12.2
Fifty sold for a record average of $4,824. Sale Owner: A Pineau and R Kennedy, Rustico and Kensington
topper Woodmere Fastroute bought by Mel Maple Grove Loki (Phil Pinkney) 2:10
Willis for $19,000. Consigned by Woodmere Owner: Greenoaks Farms, ON
Farm Big O (Earl Smith) 2:12.3
Owner: E Miller and V Paugh, Tyne Valley
Last Of Bella (Ken Arsenault) 2:11.1
Race Highlights Owner: A Mercer and B Skinner, Sydney, NS
Dakota Express (C MacQuarrie) 2:12.2
Last Of Bella won for the first of three wins Owner: Calvin MacQuarrie, Winsloe
for driver Ken Arsenault. His other winners Al Dusty (Earl Smith) 2:13.2
came with the two-year-old trotter called Owner: Leith Waite, Summerside
Buddywhatshisname and the three-year-old Lotto Money (R Jamieson) 2:11.3
Owner: Carl MacDougal, NS
pacing filly Glengyle Marj. Hannah Oneill (Gary MacDonald) 2:13.4
Owner: William Blakeney, NB
Maple Leaf Gem was the first of two winners 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $3,300
for Ralph Annear in the three-year-old trot Buddywhatshisname (Ken Arsenault) 2:14
Owner: George Irvine, Moncton, NB
class. His other win was with another of his Dusty Lane Nipper (Ron Gass) 2:17.1
own Maple Leaf Gentry. Owner: Lowell Campbell, Cornwall
Argo Flutie took the fastest three-year-old colt

pace over a wet track in 2:08.4. Owned by
Hugh Baird he repeated the effort of his half
brother Calgary Flutie four years earlier.
Personalities
Dunachton Farms has the honour of breeding

the first Maritime bred three-year-old colt to Maritime Champion Dunachton Gale and Phil Pinkney
pace under 2:00 on Prince Edward Island and it
was in a PEI Colt Stakes race. Dunachton
Dandy, owned and driven by Richard Gallant,
set the record of 1:59.3 in 1984 and it was ten
more years before it was broken. Don Smith,
owner of the farm, was a gracious host for
several years of an Old Home Week breakfast
event which gave everyone a chance to see his
usual fine group of yearlings including a filly
that was one of the best of her day, renamed
Glengyle Marj, and a horse that became a
Maritime pacing legend in Dunachton Gale,
both of which were Colt Stakes winners. He
also bred Colt Stakes winners in Dunachton
Nukes, Dunachton Dexter and Eye Emma Star.
Donald Smith, master of Dunachton Farms
RAISE A COLT
2000
“We are pleased to see that our initiative of last September 2000 - Charlottetown
summer has resulted in the establishment of a 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $6,900
Maple Grove Lars (Gary MacDonald) 2:04.1
PEI Harness Racing Industry Association Owner: James MacDonald
which will have representation from our Awesome Again (Ken Arsenault) 2:05
Directors. Manager Norman Hall was part of Owner: Romeo Boucher, Moncton, NB
the advisory committee that has drawn up the Charlottes Den (Brian Moore) 2:04.4
Owner : A Carr, J Davies, K Jones, Ch’town and Saint John
constitution and rules of operation. We have 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $6,700
recommended to the new Association that an Island United (Clare MacDonald) 2:08.2
arrangement be made for centralizing the Owner: Robert Webster, Brookfield
Mighty Sassy (Paul MacDonald) 2:06.3
stakes payment process perhaps through Owners: Riley Farms, Kensington
Standardbred Canada and that we also wish to Dustylane Connie (Ron Gass) 2:06
pass the responsibility for the sale to a Owner: R Gass and B MacDonald, Cornwall & Crapaud
consignor based group. This will reduce our 3 Year Old Trot – Purse - $6,400
Buddywhatshisname (Ken Arsenault) St. record 2:03
administration efforts and costs greatly in light Owner: George Irvine, Moncton, NB
of the pending retirement of our manager 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $3,600
Norman Hall.” Firms Phantom (Norris Rogers) 2:10.4
Owner: J Kennedy and Hardy Hill St., Truro, NS
Manawar (Danny Romo) 2:06.4
Sale Highlights Owner: Gary Ross, Baddeck, NS
Woodmere Fastroute (Clare MacDonald) 2:07.4
Owner: Mel Willis, ON
Sixty-two sold for an average of $4,810, the Youre Going Down (Steve Mason) 2:07.1
second best ever. Sale topper Thomas was Owner: Downey Stable, Saint John, NB
bought by Greenoaks Farm for $22,000. 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $3,500
Consigned by Riley Farms. Cookies Lightning (Gilles Barrieau) 2:03.1
Owner: Mel Land, Sussex, NB
Light A Candle (Gary Chappell) 2:04.2
Race Highlights Owner: E Howatt & J Montgomery, Kensington and S’Side
Seawind Alpha (Ken Arsenault) Stakes record 2:00.3
Owner: Doug Hill, Stratford
Seawind Alpha, Pinch Of Nutmeg and Island Vanessa (Danny Romo) Stakes record 2:00.2
Island Vanessa all broke the previous record Owner: David Ratchford, North Sydney, NS
for two-year-old pacing fillies with the latter Pinch Of Nutmeg (Phil Pinkney) Stakes record 2:00.2
Owner: Blaikie & Smith, Truro, NS
two sharing the new record of 2:00.2 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $3,300
Balance Of Money (Ken Arsenault) Stakes record 2:05.4
Balance Of Money set a new record for two- Owner: John Ratchford, North Sydney, NS
year-old trotters for owner John Ratchford. It Scarlet Horizon (Daryll MacLean) 2:07.2
was the fourth Colt stakes win in the week for
driver Ken Arsenault after winning three the
year before.
Buddywhatshisname repeated as a Colt

Stakes winner and took advantage of a fast
track to break the three-year-old trot record
Personalities
Pat McHugh held the office of President of Buddywhatshisname and Kenny Arsenault
the PEI Colt Stakes in 1999-2001. Unlike most
past Presidents he was not involved in
breeding or owning race horses to any great
degree but worked for Hollylaine Island Farms
on a casual basis. A strong-minded individual,
it was he who spurred on the process, while
President, that resulted in the creation of the
PEI Harness Racing Industry Association in
2000. It was at a meeting he chaired during
Old Home Week in 1999, that the invited
representatives of various tracks and stakes
organizations first seriously considered the
formation of a Maritime Industry group with
three Provincial chapters. It was a turning point
for the industry for Prince Edward Island and
eventually the Maritimes generally Pat McHugh
RAISE A COLT
2001
“A number of significant changes have taken September 2001 - Charlottetown
place this past year. These include a new 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $6,200
Firms Phantom (Danny Romo) Stakes record 1:56.2
stakes format that combines all Island stakes Owner: J Kennedy and Hardy Hill St., Truro, NS
into an Island Breeders Series, stakes payments Mitchell Paul (Earl Smith) 1:58.1
to be managed by Standardbred Canada, and Owner: Russ Doyle, Sydney, NS
an arrangement with the PEI Harness Racing Saulsbrook (Todd Trites) 1:59.1
Owner : Saulsbrook Stables, Windsor, NS
Industry Association to conduct the yearling 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $6,200
sale as The Atlantic Classic in 2002 are the First Paysak (Steve Mason) 2:02
most significant. As these changes take effect Owner: Downey Stables, Saint John, NB
Island Vanessa (Gilles Barrieau) 2:01.2
the role of the PEI Colt Stakes will change Owners: David Ratchford, North Sydney
significantly and we must redefine our role for N S Haley (C MacDonald) 2:01.2
the future based on supporting the breeding Owner : William Turner, Windsor, NS
industry and continuing to operate Colt Stakes 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $4,550
Onehorseshea (Clare MacDonald) 2:04.3
racing under the new Island Breeders format. Owner: Harvey Holme, Alberton
Nonnas Treasure (Peter Lanigan) 2:04.1
Sale Highlights Owner: William Lanigan, Cambridge
Quick Flow (Gilles Barrieau) 2:02.1
Sixty yearlings sold for an average of $4,552. Owner: William Flowers, Saint John, NB
Sales topper Woodmere Fastcat was bought by Rhondas Son (Danny Romo) 2:01.2
Owner: Burco Stable, Dartmouth, NS
Morah Kerr for $20,500. Consigned by No Apology (Mike Downey) 2:00.4
Woodmere Farms. Owner: Downey Stables, Saint John, NB
Clonmel Warrior (Gary Chappell) 2:00.1
Owner: James MacDonald, Belfast
Money Don’t Matter (Barry Craswell) 2:01.3
For the first year in a long time the weather Owner: Robert Craswell, Charlottetown
cooperated and the resulting fast track Eye Emma Star (Gilles Barrieau) 2:02.4
Owner: Daniel Belliveau, Halifax, NS
produced three new stakes records. Le Win Skied (Gilles Barrieau) Stakes record 1:59.4
Owner: Hugh Baird, Hampton, NB
Firms Phantom led the speed parade with a Fern Hill Nancy (B MacCallum) 2:04
Owner: Brian MacLeod, Truro, NS
1:56.2 record against three-year-old colts as he 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $4,440
became a repeat winner in the Colt Stakes. Rustico Ben (Brian MacPhee) 2:03.3
Owner: John Pineau, South Rustico
Rustico Ben broke the two-year-old trot record
set the year before with a new standard of
2:03.3 for owner/breeder John Pineau.
Le Win Skied became the first two-year-old

filly to break 2:00 in the Colt Stakes. She was
driven by Gilles Barrieau for owner/breeder
Hugh Baird. Barrieau had three other winners
during the week winning also with Eye Emma
Star, Quick Flow and repeat winner Island
Vanessa.
Firms Phantom with owner Joe Kennedy and Gilles Barrieau
Personalities
Bill McNeill is the owner of Saulsbrook Farm,

a standardbred nursery in Windsor, Nova
Scotia, that has the honour of breeding the
fastest two-year-old trotting colt in PEI Colt
Stakes history by the name of Saulsbrook
Balance. The colt, owned by Russell Newman
of Cape Breton, and bought at the Atlantic
Classic sale in 2006, set the record at 2:02.2.
Bill and Joan McNeill and son Alan, are also
the breeders of Saulsbrook Lighting, an
Atlantic Sires trotting champion, and
Saulsbrook, a Colt Stakes winner in 1991.
Alan was also the buyer, and trainer as a
yearling, of the great Lis Mara. Bill McNeill of Saulsbrook Farm in Windsor
RAISE A COLT
2002
The President’s View – Blair Campbell – President
“The Atlantic Classic sale went off quiet September 2002 - Charlottetown
smoothly in its first year thanks to the support 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $6,500
Quick Flow (Gilles Barrieau) 1:57.1
of Norman Hall and four of our directors who Owner: William Flowers, Saint John, NB
were involved in the Sale committee and the Chief Happysak (Gary Chappell) 1:59.4
operation of the sale. A portion of the profits Owner: Leo MacDonald, NS
from the sale will be used to augment the Woodmere Fulatrix (Emmons MacKay) 1:58
Owner : Emmons MacKay, Truro, NS
purses for the Island Breeders Finals. The 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $6,500
Island Breeders Series was also successful and Woodmere Bj (Danny Romo) 2:02.4
the Finals well attended. Our purses for the Owner: Lloyd Denton, Fredericton, NB
Dropelle (Gilles Barrieau) 2:01.1
PEI Colt Stakes set a new record with over Owners: William Lanigan, Cambridge
$92,000, with the two filly divisions of the Elm Grove Noelle (Ken Arsenault) 2:01.1
two-year-olds going for a record $9,100 each. Owner: Horne & Robertson, NS
For the second year in a row all the three-year- 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $3,900
Rustico Ben (Brian MacPhee) 2:03.3
old colt pacing divisions went faster than 2:00. Owner: Myron Ford & John Pineau, Winsloe & Sth Rustico
Dunmore Shadow (Clare MacDonald) 2:04.1
During the year a committee was set up to Owner: C MacDonald & G Moulins, Truro and S’Side
review our constitution in light of the changes Lyndale Spud (David O’Brien) 2:00.4
to our organization. Owner: Dan MacIsaac, Charlottetown
West River Neldie (Clare MacDonald) St record 1:58.3
Owner: Clare MacDonald, Tatamagouche, NS
Race Highlights. Clinton Debreifed (Gilles Barrieau) Stakes record 1:58.3
Owner: Hugh Baird, Hampton, NB
Quick Flow was a repeat winner for driver 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $9,100
Gilles Barrieau winning a three-year-old Royal Cane (Earl Smith) 2:00.4
Owner: David Ratchford, North Sydney,NS
pacing division. Blu Meadow Sue (Danny Romo) 2:00.2
Owner: Ted Hawco & D Romo, Truro, NS
Clinton Debriefed, who set a stakes record in 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $3,500
Mystery Balance (Gary Chappell) 2:10.1
a two-year-old pacing colt division saw it tied Owner: Wayne Bell, Wood Islands
by West River Neldie and Clare MacDonald. Pedro (Harold Shepherd) 2:07.2
Owner : Peter Buchanan, Emyvale
Rustico Ben repeated as a Colt Stakes winner
in a three-year-old trot contest for new owner
Myron Ford and co-owner John Pineau.
Royal Cane took one of the rich two-year-old

filly races for owner David Ratchford who was
winning his third consecutive Colt Stake
trophy in three years.
Pedro was a winner in the two-year-old trot

giving driver Harold Shepherd, Owner Peter
Buchanan and breeder George Boswall their
first Colt Stakes wins.
Rustico Ben and John Pineau
Personalities
Blair Campbell served the Colt Stakes as a

director for several years and as President in
2002-2003. He is a successful breeder with
several stakes winners, with the farm prefix of
Camco, such as PEI Colt stakes winners
Camco Kyle who won twice, and Camco
Lueann. He currently stands the Life Sign sire
Signyourlifeaway.
Blair is one of an active group of breeders and

owners in the North Wiltshire area and
currently serves on the PEI Harness Racing
Industry Association board as well as being a
director for the Maritime Breeders.
Blair Campbell
RAISE A COLT
2003
The President’s View – Blair Campbell – President
“A new constitution was approved for the PEI September 2003 - Charlottetown
Colt Stakes which reflects our current role of 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $7,700
Clinton Debreifed (Todd Trites) 1:57.1
supporting the breeding industry through our Owner: Hugh Baird, Hampton, NB
Colt Stakes racing program. The past year has Porthill Alf (Ken Arsenault) 1:58.2
been one of adjustment as we continue to Owner: Marvyn Webster, Port Hill
reduce our administrative requirements. The 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $5,500
Blu Meadow Sue (Danny Romo) 2:01
retirement of Norman Hall as manager and the Owner: Ted Hawco & D Romo, Truro, NS
reduction of the number of directors from nine Margarita Rita (Ken Arsenault) 1:59.3
to six will allow our organization to operate on Owners: Heather Hawkins, Port Hood, NS
Bettim Amanda (Danny O’Brien) 2:01
a fully volunteer basis. I am pleased that Owner : David Purcell, NB
Norman has decided to remain as a director 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $3,750
and he will continue to oversee the operation Dunmore Topaz (Ralph Annear) 2:03.2
of our stakes program for the foreseeable Owner: Ralph Annear, Montague
Mystery Balance (Gary Chappell) 2:05.4
future. Our program has grown to one that Owner: Wayne Bell, Wood Islands
provided over $235,000 in purses this past year 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $6,400
and much of this growth has occurred during Lotta Speed (Sam Hodgson) 1:59.3
Owner: David Bishop, Saint John, NB
the past twenty years that Norman has been our Mr Domi (Calvin Isenor) 2:01.3
manager”. Owner: Calvin Isenor, Truro, NS
Falstaff (Ken Arsenault) 2:03
Owner: Frank Robertson, Halifax, NS
Race Highlights. 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $8,500
Woodmere Coaldust (Ron Matheson) 2:03
Maple Leaf Legacy and Dunmore Topaz Owner: Stanley & MacKenzie, NS
brought owner/driver Ralph Annear back to the West River Ontop (Clare MacDonald) 2:03.4
winners circle in the two and three-year-old 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $4,400
trot respectively. his first wins since his double Maple Leaf Legacy (Ralph Annear) 2:10
win in 1999. Owner: Ralph Annear, Montague
Donmar Joey (Peter Lanigan) 2:06.3
Owner: William Lanigan, Cambridge
Lotta Speed, who set a stakes record in a two-
year-old pacing division won the fastest of the
three divisions for two-year-old pacing colts
for breeder Roddy MacLeod. The other two
divisions were taken by Mr Domi and Falstaff
in an Island bred sweep.
West River Ontop took a two-year-old filly

division for Clare MacDonald who also took
the lead in overall driver/owner/breeder wins Mr Domi was bred by Eldred Nicholson and became the
in the Colt Stakes with the victory. fastest Maritime bred in history at the time in 2004.
Blu Meadow Sue was a repeat winner as were

Mystery Balance and Clinton Debriefed.
Personalities
J Roderick “Roddy” MacLeod operates a

farm in Hartsville where his small band of
broodmares has produced stakes champions
both trotting and pacing. He got his first
broodmare in 1970 called Fluid Drive. He
stood Sherwood Abe, Smooth George, and the
trotting sires Hedgerow Hill and Balance Of
Trade, the latter being the top trotting sire of
winners in recent PEI Colt Stakes history. He
bred the first sub 2:00 two-year-old in Stakes
history in Acton’s Heritage as well as the
double winner Lotta Speed, 2:00 filly Scarlet
Hussy, and trot stake winners Mystery Balance
and Kin O Classic among many other stakes
performers. He has served as a Colt Stakes
Roddy MacLeod
director several times.
RAISE A COLT
2004
The President’s View – John Clarey – President
“Plans for our 70th anniversary were disrupted September 2004 - Charlottetown
with the demolition of the grandstand due to 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $4,700
Lotta Speed (Sam Hodgson) 1:58.2
Hurricane Juan although we did manage to Owner: David Bishop, Saint John, NB
hold a reception for directors, past and present, Dunachton Gale (Phil Pinkney) 1:57.4
in the historic Judges Stand in center field Owner: D & M Fillmore, NS
during the Colt Stakes races. With a new Mr Domi (Danny Romo) 1:57.4
agreement in place to cover racing at the Fairly Mitch (Danny Romo) 2:00.4
Charlottetown track, and the proposed increase Owner : John and Linda Ratchford, Nth Sydney, NS
in purses from the revenues of the proposed 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $4,700
Blu Meadow Tara (Danny Romo) 2:00
racino, we can expect bigger and better days Owner: Macsimm Stable, Charlottetown
ahead for racing on PEI, including our Colt Parallax (Danny Romo) 2:00.4
Stakes racing program. Nominations to the Owners: Paul Gray, Halifax, NS
Colt Stakes have also increased by almost 20% Doctor S (Danny Romo) 2:01
Owner : Robert Haines, NB
since the joint nomination process was Binies Bismark J (Brian MacPhee) 2:01.1
established through Standardbred Canada”. Owner : Cecil Stewart, Elmsdale
Maple Leaf Legacy (Ralph Annear) 2:04
Race Highlights. Owner: Ralph Annear, Montague
Final Balance (Ken Arsenault) 2:07.1
Mr Domi repeated as a Colt Stakes winner as Owner: One Black Horse Stable, Moncton, NB
he won the fastest of four divisions of three- Woodmere Sonicboom (Steve Mason) 2:00
year-old pacing colts for Danny Romo and Owner: Downey Stables, Saint John, NB
new owner Wayne Hill. Romo won another Camco Kyle (Mike Stevenson) 2:05
four stakes during the week, tying him for the Owner : John Davies, Saint John, NB
Flaming Moe (Gilles Barrieau) 2:02.2
record of five wins in any one year. Owner: A Baird & H Russell, NB
Blu Meadow Tara won the fastest of four Howmacs Dragon (Earl Smith) 2:01.3
Owner: Howmac Stable, North Wiltshire
divisions of the three-year-old fillies with Admirals First Lady (Gilles Barrieau) 2:02
driver Danny Romo who also won two of the Owner: William Flowers, Saint John, NB
other filly divisions, another stakes record. Heshe Gal (Ken Arsenault) 2:04
Owner : Paul Doyle, Charlottetown,
Island Zsa Zsa (David O’Brien) 2:03
Woodmere Sonicboom topped the two-year- Owner: Harris Johnston, Charlottetown
old divisions with a 2:00 trip in less than ideal 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $5,300
conditions. He was owned by the Downey Dunmore Tcb (Clare MacDonald) 2:08
Stables, now a five time stakes winning owner.
Howmacs Dragon became the first non-

Maritime sired filly to win a Colt Stakes race
although she was foaled on PEI and met the
Maritime foaled stake conditions. She was
driven by Earl Smith for first time winning
owner the Howmac Stable.
Personalities
Flaming Moe and Gilles Barrieau
Eldred Nicholson is like a lot of Island
breeders in that he keeps two or three mares,
but few can claim the kind of success he has
had in producing a horse like Mr Domi and
others with names tied to his beloved Toronto
Maple Leafs. A Colt Stakes winner at two and
three, he was a dominant horse in the Maritime
stakes before going to Ontario. There he raced
competitively and took a three-year-old record
of 1:50.3, earning almost $250,000, and
making him the fastest Maritime bred in
history at the time. In addition to his breeding
activities, Eldred is an active volunteer with
several industry groups including the Atlantic
Sires, the PEISHOA and the PEI Harness
Racing Industry Association.
Eldred Nicholson
RAISE A COLT
2005
“At the request of the PEI Department of September 2005 - Charlottetown
Agriculture we have submitted a number of 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $6,100
Camco Kyle (Todd Trites) 1:57.3
proposals for initiatives to assist the breeding Owner : John Davies, Saint John, NB
sector of the harness racing industry. The Flaming Moe (Danny Romo)Stakes record 1:55.2
proposals include incentives for Island bred Owner: A Baird & H Russell, NB
horses, purchase of broodmares, education P H Jimmy (Todd Trites) Stakes record 1:55.4
programs, research and infrastructure needs. Sounding (Ron Matheson) 1:59.3
Owner : Dr A B Kelly, Stratford
The doubling of our Government support for 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $6,200
Muzzysaprilshowers (Walter Cheverie) St. record 1:59.1
purses resulted in a purse total for the PEI Colt Owner: Muzzy Ridge Stable, Chester, NS
Stakes over $100,000 for the first time Iin fact Incoming Storm (Danny Romo) Stakes record 1:59.1
the purses rose to almost $120,000 and the Owners: Avery & Diakoloukus, PA
total for the Island Breeders Series overall was Howmacs Dragon (Earl Smith) Stakes record 1:57.3
Owner: Howmac Stable, North Wiltshire
close to $300,000. There was a record total of Heshe Gal (Ken Arsenault) 1:59.3
twenty divisions raced over three race dates”. Owner: Paul Doyle, Charlottetown
Rustico Logic (Brian MacPhee) 2:04.2
Race Highlights. Owner: RalpJohn Pineau, South Rustico
Hopedale Jive (Joey Pineau) 2:07.1
A welcome break from bad track conditions Owner: Ken MacInnis, Charlottetown
resulted in seven new stakes records including Super Sidney C (Clare MacDonald) 2:01.1
three in the three-year-old pacing filly Owner: Clare MacDonald, Antigonish, NS
divisions in consecutive races. P H Super Dave (Todd Trites) 1:59.3
Elm Grove Action (Todd Trites) Stakes record 1:57.4
Howmacs Dragon led the record parade in the Owner: MacNeil and Lavric, NB
three-year-old filly divisions with a 1:57.2 Southview Sam (Walter Cheverie) 2:00.2
record after Muzzysaprilshowers and Owner: Gerald Kelly, Charlottetown
Incoming Storm both beat the previous record Justa Secret (Clare MacDonald) 2:02.1
with identical times of 1:59.1. Owner: J Sutherland, NS
Camco Lueann (Gilles Barrieau) 2:00
B G Bluefin broke the two-year-old filly Owner: James Henderson, NS
Miss Domi (Gilles Barrieau) 2:02.3
record for Jason Hughes driving for the Owner: B MacDonald & D Ross, Crapaud & Belfast
Bluefin Stable. B G Bluefin (Jason Hughes) Stakes record 1:59.3
Owner: Bluefin Stable, Stratford
Flaming Moe repeated as a Colt Stakes winner Dunmore Alpha (Edward Smallwood) 2:09
and smashed the three-year-old record in the Owner: Edward Smallwood, Stratford
process with a 1:55.2 time for driver Danny Maple Leaf Noble (Ralph Annear) 2:08
Romo just after P H Jimmy had set the record Owner: Ralph Annear, Montague
of 1:55.4 in another division.
Elm Grove Action took almost a second off

the two-year-old colt record for the first Colt
Stakes winner bred by Elm Grove Farm.
Personalities
Elwood Lawton is the master of Southview

Farms, a picturesque breeding and training Howmacs Dragon and Marc Campbell
operation overlooking Pownal Bay. In a few
short years he has produced some very special
stakes winners including the current two and
three-year-old filly record holder, 1:58 at two
and 1:56.2 at three, appropriately named
Southview Special. It is only the second time
in the history of the Colt Stakes that one horse
has held two records at the same time. He is
also the breeder of Maritime record holder
Oceanview Kitty who set the two-year-old filly
record of 1:57.1 in 2008. Elwood has been
active in the industry as a director and Vice
President of the Charlottetown Driving Park.
Elwood Lawton
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2006
“As a result of the new arrangement for stakes September 2006 - Charlottetown
payments with Standardbred Canada we no 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $5,700
Super Sidney C (Clare MacDonald) 1:57.2
longer have a way of collecting a membership Owner: Clare MacDonald, Antigonish, NS
fee and our membership has essentially ceased. Southview Sam (Vince Poulton) 1:58.2
This has created problems in sustaining interest Owner: Gerald Kelly, Charlottetown
in our annual meetings with only the directors Flashy Boy (Darren Crowe) 1:58.2
Owner: Wes Patriquin, Debert, NS
and a handful of others attending. For the time The Butter Man (Ken Arsenault) 1:58.2
being all persons nominating to the program Owner : Barton Boswall, North Wiltshire
are deemed to be members although no fee is 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $4,650
West River Quota (Clare MacDonald) St. record 1:57.3
required”. Owner: Clare MacDonald, Antigonish, NS
Kilkerran Xoanon (Andrew Banks) 1:59.1
Race Highlights. Owners: Doug Ferguson, Tatamagouche, NS
Educated (Ken Arsenault) 1:59
Owner: Jamie Hachey, Saint John, NB
Force Ore Finesse broke the two-year-old Woodmere Lonesome (Gilles Barrieau) 1:59.3
record with a 1:57.4 score for Phil Pinkney and Owner : Paul Johnstone, NS
breeder Donald Porter. Downeast Liz (Walter Cheverie) 2:00.2
Owner : Sandra Stead, Montague
Cruising Thunder (Terry Gallant) 2:00.2
Southview Special smashed the record for Owners: E Doucette, T Mann, Kensington
two-year-old fillies winning in 1:58 with 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $5,150
Saulsbrook Juan (Brian MacPhee) 2:06.3
Walter Cheverie driving for owner Elwood Owner: Ocean Breeze Stable & B MacPhee, Cornwall
Lawton. Special Guest had earlier beaten the Maple Leaf Noble (Ralph Annear) Stakes record 2:01.1
previous record also with a 1:59.2 score. All of Owner : Ralph Annear, Montague
the two-year-old colt and filly divisions were 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $6,000
Casual Motion (Joey Pineau) 1:59.3
timed in 2:00 or better for the first time in Colt Owner: Joey Pineau, South Rustico
Stakes history. Force Ore Finesse (Phil Pinkney) Stakes record 1:57.4
Owner: KDP Standardbreds, Truro, NS
Elm Grove Buddy (Gilles Barrieau) 1:58.2
West River Quota set a new record for three- Owner: Wayne Hill, Fredericton, NB
year-old fillies as Clare MacDonald drove to The Little Munster (Danny Romo) 1:58
her second stakes record of the week this time Owner: John Ratchford, Nth Sydney, NS
with her own homebred. 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $5,100
Island Galeforce (Gilles Barrieau) 2:00
Owner: Robert Webster, Brookfield
Special Guest (Clare MacDonald) Stakes record 1:59.2
Owner: C MacDonald & M Kerr, Antigonish & Truro, NS
Brendons Gal (Gilles Barrieau) 2:00
Owner: Jean Belliveau, Moncton, NB
Southview Special (Walter Cheverie) St. record 1:58
Owner: Elwood Lawton, Stratford
Northie T (Ernie Laffin) 1:59.4
Owner: Lloyd Nelson and D Watt, NS
Dunmore Tko (Edward Smallwood) 2:06.4
Owner: Edward Smallwood, Stratford
Dusty Lane Diva (Mark Campbell) 2:06
Owner: Earl Watts, North Wiltshire
Maple Leaf Noble dropped the three-year-old trot record by
almost two seconds as he completed an unbeaten season for
Ralph Annear with a repeat Colt Stakes win.
Personalities
Donald Porter has a long time reputation as a

breeder of exceptional colts and fillies.
Operating from his farm not far from Truro, he
has produced several Maritime champions
including his most recent in Deep Finesse, the
top two-year-old pacing colt of 2008. He also
bred the current PEI Colt Stakes two-year-old
pacing colt record holder in Force Ore Finesse
who won at two and at three.. That colt was
from a mare he raised by his own stallion
Waveore as was another top two-year-old in
Dube Finesse. He also stood Sherwood Abe
who was the sire of Escorts Abe, his first Colt
Donald Porter
Stakes winner as a breeder.
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2007
“Changes to our stakes conditions last year September 2007 - Charlottetown
included an increase in starting fees. This was 3 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $5,700
Force Ore Finesse (Phil Pinkney) 1:56
expected to increase purses and perhaps result Owner: KDP Standardbreds, Truro, NS
in fewer divisions. With twenty or more Jags Raisin (Brian MacPhee) 1:59
divisions it is becoming increasingly more Owner: Mel Land, Sussex, NB
difficult to accommodate the stakes along with Beer Drinkin Drip (Darren Crowe) 1:59.2
Owner: Blair Laffin, Shubenacadie, NS
the demand for overnight races as the horse Country Estate (Darren Crowe) 1:56.4
population continues to grow. The number of Owner: Blair Laffin, Shubenacadie, NS
divisions this past year dropped from twenty- 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $7,200
Southview Special (Walter Cheverie) St. record 1:56.2
three to twenty and the average purse per Owner: Elwood Lawton, Stratford
division increased accordingly with total Forceful Hope (Marc Campbell) 1:57.1
purses of around $120,000 staying the same”. Owners: Cirillo and Gaum, ON
Northie T (Ernie Laffin) 1:59.1
Owner: Nelson and Watt, NS
Scarlet Sensation (Darryl MacLean) 2:04.4
Force Ore Finesse repeated as a Colt Stakes Owner: Gordon MacLean, Winsloe
Maple Leaf Opal (Ralph Annear) 2:05.1
winner taking a three-year-old division for Phil Owner: Ralph Annear, Montague
Pinkney. 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $6,700
Imps Finesse (Bernie MacCallum) 1:58.2
Owner: Morah Kerr, Truro, NS
Southview Special added another stakes Ride The Lightning (Walter Cheverie) 1:58.4
record to her resume, this time for three-year- Owner: A & W Walker, NS
old fillies, as she set a new record at 1:56.2 Hushs Last Money (Henry Smallwood) 1:59.4
making her only the second double record Owner: Lowther & Francis, NS
Accelerated Force (Gilles Barrieau) 1:59
holder in Colt Stakes history. Forceful Hope Owner: Barrieau and Clinton, NB
also beat the previous record with a mile of 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $5,200
1:57.1 for Marc Campbell. Beer Drinkin Doll (Ernie Laffin) 2:01.2
Owner: Blair Laffin, Shubenacadie, NS
Come Back Quick (Marc Campbell) 2:00
Saulsbrook Balance trotted the fastest ever for Owners: R & T MacDonald, M Campbell, Charlottetown
a two-year-old trotter in the Colt Stakes with a Milliondollarjen (Clare MacDonald) 2:00.3
mile of 2:02.2 for owner Russell Newman and Owner: Phonse MacEachern, Port Hood, NS
Southview Spring (Walter Cheverie) 2:00.2
breeder Saulsbrook Farm. Owner: Elwood Lawton, Stratford
Diplomate Girl (Todd Trites) 2:01.1
Scarlet Sensation won yet another stake for Owner: Roger Aucoin, Magdalene Isl., PQ
the father/son combination of Gordon and Saulsbrook Balance (Clare MacDonald) St. record 2:02.2
Darryl MacLean and it was a third generation Owner: Russell Newman, Nth Sydney, NS
stakes winner from their foundation mare Demasadio Tequila (Ivan Jamieson) 2:08.3
Scarlet Dawn. Owner: Ivan Jamieson, Wentworth, NS
Imps Finesse led the speed parade in the two-

year-old pacing colt divisions as they all broke
2:00 for the second year in a row.
Personalities
Gordon Maclean and son Darryl form a father

and son combination to contend with in PEI
Colt Stakes action. Gordon got his first
breeder/owner/driver win in 1982 with Scarlet Imps Finesse with Walter Cheverie
Victory and since then he has claimed eleven
more victories with nine of them driven by son
Darryl. They took the Colt Stakes record for
three-year-old trotters with Scarlet Nite in
1988. Another son, Todd, won a four-year-old
Colt Stakes event with Scarlet Eve to set yet
another record, this time for family
performance. Their foundation mare Scarlet
Dawn produced a record four Colt Stakes
winners and they in turn have produced three
more. A fourth generation colt was stakes
placed in 2008.
Gordon MacLean
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2008
“Purses for the PEI Colt Stakes jumped to September 2008 - Charlottetown
$139,600 with a record number of twenty-four 3 Year Old Colt Pace – Purse - $5,750
Ride The Lightning (Danny Romo) 1:58.4
divisions. Although there were no individual Owner : A & W Walker, NS
stakes records set, the pacing divisions saw Plea Bargain (Gilles Barrieau) 1:58.2
fourteen of the twenty races timed in 2:00 or Owner: M & B Blanchard, NB
better, a first for the Colt Stakes. Riccaras Sun (Ken Arsenault) 1:58.4
Owner: Ken MacInnis, Charlottetown
Island Jazzystar (Marc Campbell) 2:00.1
Plans are under way for our 75th Anniversary Owner: J Dean & A MacDonald, ON
in 2009 and a committee of over twenty Absolom (Phil Pinkney) 1:57.3
Owner: Caneast Standardbreds, Halifax, NS
volunteers is involved in the planning chaired 3 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $5,700
by Norman Hall”. For The Luv Abunny (Bernie MacCallum) 2:00.1
Owner: Jody Campbell, NS
Emily J Down (Danny Romo) 2:00
Race Highlights Owners: Downey Stables, Saint John, NB
Beer Drinkin Doll (Ernie Laffin) 1:59.2
Deep Finesse continued his long win streak Owner: Blair Laffin, Shubenacadie, NS
with a dominant win in a two-year-old colt Island Idol (Terry Gallant) 2:02
Owner: Terry Gallant, Summerside
division for driver and owner Phil Pinkney. Porthill Friendly (Walter Cheverie) 1:59.4
Owner: Jean Beliveau, Moncton, NB
Island Quick Cash gave Walter Simmons 3 Year Old Trot Purse - $4,300
Saulsbrook Balance (Clare MacDonald) 2:03.3
another Colt Stakes victory fifty-two years Owner: Russell Newman, Nth Sydney, NS
after his first victory in 1956. The filly was Demasadio Tequila (Ivan Jamieson) 2:02.3
bred by Hollylaine Island Farms, and they also Owner: Ivan Jamieson, Wentworth, NS
produced two other winners this year in Island Super S Crosby (K MacDonald) 2:03.1
Owner: C MacDonald & M Kerr, Antigonish and Truro, NS
Idol and Island Jazzystar. 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $5,900
Deep Finesse (Phil Pinkney) 1:59.2
Owner: Phil Pinkney, Truro, NS
Haggis MacBagpipe (Paul MacDonald) 1:58.3
Owner: Greenoaks Farm, ON
Woodmere Fastball (Earl Smith) 1:59
Owner: David Lund, NB
P H Cyril (Bernie MacCallum) 1:58.4
Owner: J Henderson, NS
Big Oster (Earl Smith) 2:00.1
Owner: Vernon Paugh, Tyne Valley
Solana M (Darren Crowe) 2:02.1
Owner: Kickin Horse Stable, Charlottetown
Saulsbrook Balance repeated as a Colt Stakes winner by
Semjac Legacy (Darren Crowe) 1:59.2
winning the three-year-old trot
Owners: Smith & Crowe, Truro, NS
Oceanview Kitty (Brian MacPhee) 1:59.2
Darko, Saulsbrook Balance, Ricarras Sun, Owner: Claude Poirier, Magdalene Isl. PQ
and Firedance Ridge gave Ken Arsenault four Island Quick Cash (Gilles Barrieau) 2:02.2
Owner: W Simmons & W Sorrie, S’Side
winners on the week boosting him in to fifth Darko (Ken Arsenault) 1:59.4
place in driver wins behind Clair MacDonald, Owner: Ralph Annear, Montague
Earl Smith, Danny Romo and Gilles Barrieau. 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $4,150
Dunmore Chip (Edward Smallwood) 2:12.1
Owner: Edward Smallwood, Stratford
Personalities Muzzys Dumpling (John Montgomery) 2:07.1
Owner: Muzzy Ridge Stable, NS
Firedance Ridge (Ken Arsenault) 2:09
Phil Pinkney, one of the top trainers of young Owner: Donald Dunsford, Charlottetown
horses in the Maritimes, won his first PEI Colt
Stakes in 1975 with Glowing Wayvue. Four
years later he was back setting a Stakes record
with Ego Trip, a colt he had bought in the first
PEI yearling sale. He would return to the same
venue to purchase Whos To Care and Whos To
Bless, both Colt Stakes winners. In total he has
won fifteen Colt Stakes races as a driver and
five as an owner including his most recent
victory in 2008 with the Maritimes top two-
year-old pacing colt, Deep Finesse, and with
the three-year-old colt Absolom. He also has
set five stakes records over his thirty-four
years of racing in the PEI Colt Stakes.
Phil Pinkney
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2009
75th Anniversary of Colt Stakes racing on Prince Edward Island
We welcome all past participants in the Island I want to thank all of the volunteers and
Colt Stakes to join us for our 75th Anniversary. sponsors who have made our Anniversary
The Anniversary committee has organized a possible and special.
program of activities, which will make this a
very special year in our history. John Clarey, President
On May 15th, the date in 1934 of the first

meeting of the PEI Harness Racing Club, we
will hold a fund raising dinner in Summerside
to commemorate that event. The dinner will
include a stallion fee auction and a silent
auction. Proceeds from the auctions will be
split between the Anniversary committee and
the Island Matinee Track program that
supports the summer camp activities for
children. These camps provide an opportunity
for children to learn about harness racing and
how to handle the wonderful horses that our
sport depends upon. We hope, also, to provide
support for other programs that involve retired
standardbreds such as equine programs for
children with disabilities and troubled youth.
During the summer we will sponsor a series of

races at the matinee tracks for young horses
that are non-winners of a parimutuel race. The
Goodwill Racing Series will visit seven tracks
and hold a final event at the CDPEC on the John Clarey is the current President of the PEI
Colt Stakes, holding that office since 2004. He farms
Sunday afternoon of Colt Stakes weekend. on the Whim Road in Montague where he stands the
stallions Ameripan Grafitti, Quick Comeback, Full
A special anniversary project is the publication Scholarship and Nukamickie.
of this book, which has been compiled by our
longtime manager and director, Norman Hall.
This book, and the historical exhibit that will
travel to the matinee tracks and finally be
dedicated as a permanent exhibit at the
CDPEC, would never have been completed
without his participation.
Our Colt Stakes races this year will go for the

highest purses in our history and will feature
sponsored awards for all races as well as for
the breeders of the winners. They will also
feature a return of the four-year-old races on
the Sunday afternoon when we will host a
special family program in matinee style.
The Presidents’ Brunch to be held on Sunday,

September 20th, will be the grand finale to our
Anniversary year and will be held on the same
date, September 20th., that our very first race
program was contested at the Charlottetown
Driving Park. This event will feature awards to
honour the persons and horses that have a Norman Hall has been involved with the PEI Colt
Stakes since 1982, first as the secretary/manager and
special place in our history and will be then as a director. He has served as President and
preceded on Thursday evening with the volunteer Manager of the Charlottetown Driving
dedication of a permanent historical exhibit at Park in 1999, as secretary treasurer of the PEISHOA
the CDPEC. The Past Presidents committee for several years and as a board and founding
has been charged with drawing up the list of member of the PEIHRIA
award winners.
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CHAPTER THREE

SINGLE DASH DIVISION RACING 1976 – Present Day

Ride The Lightning won twice in 2007 and 2008

The first races under the new format took place

2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $1,800

Slapshot Genessee doubled up as a Colt

Brackleys Ada set a record for two-year-old

Rae Bell Dan broke the two-year-old pacing

Carolyn D took home the first Colt Stakes

Brackleys Ada became a two time stakes

Richard MacPhee known and beloved by all

Just Like Chum was the winner in the three-

Exit Smiling upset the three-year-old trotters

Dotty Greenwood was driven to a win in the

Ralph Frizzell, a former director of the

Sale Highlights 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $1,885

Ego Trip lopped almost two seconds off the

Macban Alice broke the three-year-old filly

Radiant Star captured the two-year-old filly

Ewen Taylor learned his skills as a breeder of

Radiant Star repeated as a PEI Colt Stakes

W P Countess broke the two-year-old filly

Dr A Blair Kelly is part of a long tradition of

Sale Highlights 2 Year Old Colt Pace Purse - $3,825

Race Highlights 2 Year Old Trot Purse - $2,130

Race Time Robbi dropped the three-year-old

P H George smashed the two-year-old pacing

Dr Donald Ling was a PEI Colt Stakes

Race Highlights 2 Year Old Filly Pace Purse - $4,376

Island Dust (Doug Walsh) 2:11.3

B J Amigo and B J Andy won their respective

Kings Derby made it two years in a row for

Personalities Island Cindy retirement presided over by Bob Dewar

Dr. Jim Shive set up shop as a veterinarian in

Opinions Fae set a new Stakes record of 2:04

Wind Warning gave Richard Gallant of

Maple Leaf Arnett joined the long list of

Ron Kennedy was President of the PEI Colt

Lucktows Flame set a new mark for three-

Maple Leaf Bramble broke the two-year-old

Harborvue Anne and Harborvue Bunter

Personalities Harborvue Bunter with Mike MacDonald and Mike O’Brien

Richard Gallant was born on the family farm

Dunmore Tweed came close to the two-year-

Hollylaine Island Farm owned by Robert and

Dunmore Tweed repeated his previous year’s

“A record thirteen PEI Colt Stakes divisions September 1987 - Charlottetown

Kilkerran Fury capped a sensational two-

Bill Be Sure and Crown N Anchor swept the

George Riley is a long time member of the

Dawn Down broke the two-year-old filly pace

Courtney Bay, Solar Knight and Rustico

Joe Smallwood (The Fox, as he is better

P H Keyta shaved a second off the three-year-

Allison Carr remembers his first drive at

Emmett Bernard was from the harness racing

Some Nice Ketch was the second winner of

Ron and Shelley Gass, a father and daughter

September 1991 - Charlottetown

Wispering Abe set a stakes record for two-

Shalom Sham in the three-year-old filly class

Danny Romo is one of the winningest Colt