The red carpet will be out this weekend for horseman Peter Wrenn in Florida both off and on the track. Preceding his induction into the Florida Hall Of Fame by the State's chapter of the United States Harness Writers Association (USHWA) at Sunday's banquet, Wrenn has an busy evening awaiting on the Saturday evening doubleheader program at the Isle Casino Racing Pompano Park.
Trainer Mike Deters, also being into inducted into the Florida Hall Of Fame this weekend, has named Wrenn for bike duty on nine entrants at the Isle on March 6th. In the 7:05 p.m. Saturday twi-night card, Wrenn has four drives scheduled which include a pair in the $15,000 top classes including Baseball Express in the Open Handicap Trot and I'm In Luck in the Open Handicap Pace. In the 9:45 p.m. late evening card, Wrenn has five more drives scheduled for starters from the Deters outfit.
Wrenn, 47, was a dominant driver in South Florida seasonally in the latter years of the 1980s decade and at the start of the 1990s in many of the same years he was dominating the driver colony at Hazel Park in his birth state of Michigan. He's amassed more than 8,100 lifetime winning drives for almost $47 million in purses, in addition to his impressive training statistics of 943 winners to date for over $6.6 million.
In addition to Wrenn and Deters, Aime Choquette and Florida bred pacer Swingin Glory will be inducted into the USHWA Florida Hall Of Fame at the Sunday evening function. (Pompano Park)
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