Live racing returns to Fraser Downs

At 0h02, on March 17, 2021 • By FRASER DOWNS

Live harness racing will return to Fraser Downs Wednesday night, with 55 pacers set to compete on a ten-race program beginning at 10:00 p.m. Wednesday’s card marks the first race day at the BC oval after a nearly three-month hiatus and will be the first of two this week with as expected the return of perennial kingpins Jim Marino and Kelly Hoerdt.

In the evening’s featured event, an $8,500 optional claiming pace carded as the ninth race, Sporty Dragon, the 8-5 morning line favourite with Marino, will make his 2021 debut, and he does so after a 1:53.4 win on a Dec. 16.

Hoerdt has five starters on the program including Chazmichaelmichael, who has been installed the 2-1 favourite in the evening’s final race from post three. The four-year-old Custard The Dragon entire knocked heads with the tough Major Custard on the Alberta stakes circuit all season long in 2020.

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