by Scott Waddell, publicity director, Exhibition Park

Saint, John, NB — Pacific Sonata, owned by Dr. Ian Moore of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island and William Shearer of Bedford, Nova Scotia, showed he will be a factor in this year’s Maritime free for all circuit as he toyed with his five rivals on Saturday afternoon at Exhibition Park, winning in 2:05⁴ on a track that was rated at least six seconds off.

Sonata carved out fractions of :29¹, 1:00³, and 1:33² before drawing away in the 2:05⁴ win over a sloppy track. Bev C Down stayed with the pacer for most of the mile, but in the end was no match. Come On Scoot was third.

In other news of the day, Wayne Watson was the only driver to record multiple wins as he scored two on the day. Charlie Burke, a Maine owned pacer had a great effort winning in 2:07² over the poor track. Wayne’s other win came with Goddess Sahbra, as the five-year-old daughter of Towner’s Big Guy wired the field in 2:08³.

Other winners on the day:

Dockriver Jo (Todd Tries) 2:13

Paris Dream (Earl Smith) 2:09²

Woodmere Domino (Steve Mason) 2:08²

Rocky Blue (Steve Mahar) 2:11²

Cocagne Joey (Gerard Gallant) 2:11²

Notch One Out (Mike Stevenson) 2:11³

Katahdin Country (Mark Haig) 2:10¹

Also worthy of mention was the win by Notch One Out was the 74th of the 12-year-old’s career, and he shows no signs of slowing down.