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SUMMERSIDE, PE – Woodmere Dougal rewrote the record book while Woodmere Rock It remained undefeated in P.E.I. Colt Stakes action for two-year-old pacing colts Thursday evening at Red Shores at the Summerside Raceway. Woodmere Dougal Woodmere Dougal ($3.70) captured the first $17,300 Gold division for two-year-old pacing colts in a new rookie track-record clocking of 1:55.1 for trainer-driver Corey MacPherson.

The Inter Dominion Championship Finals will be held at Albion Park on Saturday night. Here is our Albion Park preview, covering all 10 races on the card. Captains Mistress (Club Menangle Photo) A total of five Group 1 events will be staged on the final night of the Queensland Constellations. Leap To Fame clashes with Captains Mistress in the pacing final, while Gus remains a dominant favourite to take out the trotting final.

Plainville, MA — After going four for four at Vernon Downs since late May, Makorori N came to Massachusetts and won his fifth straight race after taking the featured $17,000 conditioned pace at Plainridge Park on Thursday (July 16) afternoon. Makorori N Makorori N (Shawn Gray) got away fifth and 12-½ lengths behind a speed battle on the point between Sunsational (Bruce Ranger) and Lyons Honeymonster (Brad Irvine), who went toe to toe to the quarter in :26 flat.

CUMBERLAND, ME – Leading conditioner Michelle Lefebvre sends Party At Seven into the $6,400 featured overnight race on Friday’s (July 17) 13-race card at Cumberland Raceway, looking for his second consecutive victory. The full harness racing program also carries two $15,000-plus divisions of the Maine Sire Stakes for 2-year-old trotters.

INTER Dominion plunge runner Dangerous will face one more precautionary vet check before being cleared to tackle tomorrow night’s $1 million Ladbrokes pacing final at Albion Park. Dangerous (The Creek Photo) QRIC chief steward Neil Finnigan said the remaining check was “just to be safe” after three vets, two from QRIC and an independent vet, cleared Dangerous on Thursday afternoon.

BRAD Hewitt is focusing on a positive out of the devastating setback to Australia’s best three-year-old pacer Hollywood Strip (Sweet Lou). Hollywood Strip (Club Menangle/Pacepix Photo) The NSW Derby winner, who was $1.50 favourite to add tomorrow night’s Group 1 Queensland Derby to his CV, fractured a pastern bone during pace work in preparation for the race yesterday (Thursday) morning. Hollywood Strip had surgery later that day and three screws inserted in the leg.

Gloucester Park hosts 10 races on Friday night, headlined by the Botra Cup Discretionary Handicap. Gloucester Park harness racing (Photo by Hamilton Content Creators) A standing start event that features a capacity field of 12 runners. The lone backmarker in the race is Luvbite off a 40m handicap. It is $6 the field, such is the open nature of this event.

LEAP To Fame has led the recent resurgence of harness racing in Queensland and now Gus joins him in the quest for a remarkably double tomorrow night. Chantal Turpin, Gus and Pete McMullan after the Dominion Handicap win (Race Images Photo) Only once in the past 47 years have horses trained in the host state won both the Inter Dominion pacing and trotting finals. That was two years ago in NSW when Don Hugo won the pacing and The Locomotive the trotting final at Menangle.

Enghien’s Prix des Halles(40,000€ purse, 2875 meters, three year old females) saw 1.7/1  odds favorite Note Rebelle (3f Follow You-Rebelle-Defi D’Aunou-Island Dream) score on the front for her third  victory in four starts for 33,525€. Note Rebelle (Aprh Photo) David Thomain teamed this Charley Thomain  trainee  for owner Nathalie Viel Pierre. Jean Pierre Dubous bred this mare from the family of Cuatro de Julio (from Clarabelle by Ready Cash).

AUSTRALIA’S top drivers are divided on this epic Ladbrokes Inter Dominion final clash between defending champion Leap To Fame and wonder mare Captains Mistress. Leap To Fame after winning the Miracle Mile (Pacepix Photo) Little separates the harness racing pair in betting after the barrier draw, which firmly favours Captains Mistress from the front row (gate six) compared to Leap To Fame’s wide back row draw (gate 11).