April 28, 2009
Live Racing Returns for 112th Season

FORT ERIE, April 28...The 112th season of live racing opens at Fort Erie on Saturday afternoon. The first of eight races will go to post at 1:10pm.

A total of 72 horses were entered to run on Saturday including 2008 Fort Erie Horse of the Year Bright N Golden. The six-year-old son of Dance Brightly will face eight rivals in the featured seventh race, a Five Furlong Allowance Optional Claiming event.

“It’s a pretty good opening day card,” said Racing Secretary Tom Gostlin. “The first two races on the card are light but the others filled well and the feature should be a good one.”

Fort Erie will open the season with racing this coming Saturday and Sunday. Beginning on Sunday, May 10 the track will race three days a week, Sunday through Tuesday. The 78 day meet wraps up on Tuesday, October 27.

Post time each racing day is 1:10pm.

The 74th edition of $500,000 Prince of Wales Stakes, second jewel in the Triple Crown of Canadian racing will be run on Sunday, July 12.

Daryl Wells
Media and Communications
1-800-295-3770 ext. 3204
e-mail: dwells@forterieracetrack.ca