One two-year-old pacing filly will have their winning streak snapped tonight when the dust settles in Atlantic Sires Stakes action at Red Shores at the Charlottetown Driving Park. Race 9 has a pair of top fillies flaunting three-race win streaks as they battle to keep them alive. Scarlet Desire has Post 2 with Charlottetown’s leading driver, Marc Campbell while Royaltywestho has been undefeated so far in her young career and gets the services of Walter Cheverie in the bike again this week from Post 6. Post time is 7 p.m. wifor the 11 dashes.
The Blue Jays and Rays wrap up their four-game set at Rogers Centre this afternoon. Righty Chris Rowley is expected to make his second start for Toronto… Canadian pitcher Jameson Taillon gets the start as Pittsburgh begins a four-game series against St. Louis. Other match-ups see the Yankees taking on the Mets. while the White Sox visit the Texas Rangers.
The Edmonton Eskimos look to extend their winning streak in the C-F-L tonight as they visit the 5-and-2 Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The Eskimos are 7-and-0 this season. But the Bombers could be the team to end Edmonton’s run. They’ve won three in a row.
Canada suffered its first loss of the women’s rugby World Cup today. Second-ranked New Zealand hammered the No. 3 Canadians 48-5 in the preliminary round in Dublin.