While there’s more Friday night racing in East Van this week, local racing fans will also have eyes on Seattle, where two leading Hastings’ performers go for glory in Sunday’s $125,000 Longacres Mile at Emerald Downs. Article content

The Craig MacPherson-trained Masen, recent winner of a valuable Allowance contest at Hastings, will be ridden by his regular partner Kerron Khelawan and heads to Seattle, according to MacPherson, in the best shape he’s been since joining the barn over the winter. An impeccably bred son of a European champion miler, Masen was purchased out of an online horse sale last year for $80,000 by MacPherson’s owner, Nicole Droder, and joined the horse population in Vancouver as part of Droder’s desire to support horse racing here. Article content Article content

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