Aug. 15, 2024
Three Straight For Woodmere Flojo In Sires Stakes
By Nicholas Oakes For Red Shores
CHARLOTTETOWN, PE – The wins keep on rolling for Woodmere Flojo as she wired her third straight Atlantic Sires Stakes division on Thursday evening during Old Home Week at Red Shores Racetrack and Casino at the Charlottetown Driving Park.
Racing in a $15,540 Atlantic Sires Stakes A-division for two-year-old pacing fillies, Woodmere Flojo protected the rail all the way to a 1:57.4 score for driver Adam Merner, trainer Jamie Smith and owner Gowiththeflo Racing of Charlottetown. Muchtooyoungforyou (Driven by David Dowling) nabbed second ahead of Tobins Dream (Marc Campbell).
Saulsbrook Inferno controlled her destiny in the second $15,540 A-division stopping the clock in 2:00.1 as part of a Earl Watts training double over Jafetica (Myles Heffernan Sr.) and Ruthless Diva (Merner). Dowling drove the winning daughter of Flameproof Hanover for owners Windemere Farms, Hollis Newson, Sterling Buchanan and Jack Quinn.
The $6,000 B-divisions for two-year-old pacing fillies went to Windemere Classie (Campbell) for trainer Watts, Fern Hill Jubilee (Ken Murphy) from the Joe Baxter barn in 2:01.4, Lady Llamrei (Merner) in 1:59 for trainer Melissa Rennie and Elm Grove Talia in 2:00.4 for trainer-driver Dowling.