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A full month of wet weather in November meant fairly regular cancellations at Red Shores Racetrack in Charlottetown. Drivers say keeping up with rescheduled races and driving on the wet track was ‘no fun,’ while management laid down 80 tonnes of new track surface. ‘We’re hoping December will be much kinder,’ says Lee Drake, Red Shores’ manager of racing and broadcast.
A much wetter than normal November in P.E.I. meant harness racing at Red Shores Racetrack in Charlottetown often had to be postponed or cancelled for safety reasons.
Six groups or “cards” of races had to be cancelled or postponed at the Charlottetown Driving Park in November, either before races began or partway through as track conditions deteriorated. A total of 155 millimetres of rain fell in a month that normally averages 93 millimetres.
“We’re glad to see it in the rear-view mirror,” Lee Drake, Red Shores’ manager of racing …
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