Track times continued to heat up during last weekend’s harness racing at the Bermuda Equestrian Centre.

Tyler Lopes was the top driver with five heat victories and one of four drivers posting multiple victories at Vesey Street, which included the first round of qualifiers for the Best Three Series. Lopes also posted the season’s fastest time of 1:03/3 with Whited Family’s mare, IC’s Overextended, competing in the four and five-year-old division in the Best Three qualifiers.

The driver got off to a flying start by posting two victories in the 1:10/1 & slower division with his new two-year-old filly, Google Me.

Things got even better as Lopes led Arnold Manders’s gelding, Cherokee’s Ironman, to victory in the aged division in the qualifiers and was back in the winner’s circle after steering gelding Pastor Paul, owned by his grandfather David Lopes, to victory in the 1:06/1 — 1:07/1 category. Lopes saved the best for last as he lowered the season track record with IC’s Overextended to cap another fruitful showing at the track.

Kiwon Waldron also had a night to remember after posting three heat wins with two different ponies. Two of his victories were achieved with Random Stables’ War Machine in the 1:10 & slower division while the other arrived competing in the faster 1:07/2 — 1:08/2 division with Aaron Sims’s mare, Skyway Majestic. Andrea Westerfield and Andy Stoneham, the Driving Horse and Pony Club vice-president, were the remaining multiple heat winners.

Westerfield had two wins in the 1:08/2 — 1:10 division with Edward Roque’s stallion, Park Ranger, while Stoneham’s two victories came in the 1:05 — 1:06 division with his stallion, Custard the Dragon.

Ryan Burrows posted the second fastest time of 1:04 with Inwood Stables’s Simsfield Hardtimes competing in the four and five-year-old division of the series, while Kirista Rabain had the third fastest with Graceland’s Stables’s ItsAllAboutMe in the aged division.

The top four ponies in the four and five-year-old aged divisions after the completion of three qualifying races will advance to the final of the series to be held in January.