April 29 , 2008
Fort Erie Opens Saturday

FORT ERIE, April 29... A total of 75 horses will take part in Saturday’s opening day eight-race card at Fort Erie Race Track.

“We officially opened the entry box at 8am.” said Racing Secretary Tom Gostlin. “ It took awhile before the entries started rolling in but we closed the entry box on time with a pretty good opening day card.”

Trainer C. R. Johnston made the first entry of the year. Johnston entered King Konstantine in a four and one half furlong Maiden Allowance event for three-year-olds. Apprentice jockey Richard Morrow has the mount.

Fort Erie will race on Saturday and Sunday of this week to kick off the 80-day season. Starting on Sunday, May 11 the track will begin racing three days a week, Sunday through Tuesday.

Post time each day is 1:05pm.

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