Cane Pace draws eight entrants; all go straight to $360,212 Final

Vegas Vacation wins EBC Final at Tioga

Tioga Downs held the draw for the Cane Pace eliminations on Wednesday morning (August 21) and when the box closed on the sophomore pacers at 9:00am sharp, only eight had declared. No eliminations will be necessary and all eight including sophomore standout Captaintreacherous will go straight to the final on Monday, September 2^nd (Labor Day) with a post time of 1:30pm.

Captaintreacherous (Tim Tetrick) will be joined by his entry mate, Wake Up Peter (Ron Pierce) listed as 1 and 1A and will face off against the Casie Coleman trained pair of Vegas Vacation (Brian Sears) and Lucan Hanover (David Miller). Vegas Vacation is coming off of two very impressive wins at Tioga Downs in the Empire Breeders' Classic where he was sent first over and drew clear of the field, the latter in world record time of 1:48.3. Also joining these four looking for Cane Pace glory will be: Someplace Special (Corey Callahan), Word Power (Jim Morrill Jr.), Twilight Bonfire (David Miller), and Varadero Hanover (Yannick Gingras).

Below is the field before final programs changes in post position order for the $360,212 Cane Pace Final at Tioga Downs:

$360,212 Cane Pace Final

#          PP        HORSE                                  DRIVER                    TRAINER

 1         2          Captaintreacherous                   Tim Tetrick                  Tony Alagna

1A       3          Wake Up Peter                        Ron Pierce                   Tony Alagna

2          4          Vegas Vacation                        Brian Sears                   Casie Coleman

2A       8          Lucan Hanover                        David Miller                 Casie Coleman

3          1          Someplace Special                  Corey Callahan            Mark Silva

4          5          Word Power                            Jim Morrill Jr.               Larry Remmen

5          6          Twilight Bonfire                        David Miller                 Danny Collins

6          7          Varadero Hanover                   Yannick Gingras           Ron Burke

Tioga Downs continues live racing action on Friday, August 23^rd with a post time of 6:50pm, for more information on Tioga Downs please visit us online at www.tiogadowns.com .