SHAKOPEE, MN—JULY 5, 2015—The $50,000 Canterbury Park Derby resulted in a dead heat for the first in its 28 editions. Fortune In A Wagon and Feature a Runaway broke from the two outside posts and out-finished favored Bp Cartels Policy, the eventual fourth-place finisher, and Honeymoon Candy who was third, winning by a 1 and 1/4 lengths in :20.500 seconds for 350 yards.

Fortune In A Wagon, ridden by Cody Smith, trained by Stacy Charette-Hill and owned by Terry and Mary Louise Pursel, paid $13.20 to win. Feature A Runaway, $25.00 to win, is trained by Edward Ross Hardy, owned by Reliance Ranches, and was ridden by David Pinon.

Feature A Runaway was the slowest of the ten qualifiers from the trials and entered the derby as a maiden. Following two scratches, eight went to post.

“I thought about scratching him and finding a maiden race,” Hardy said. “But I remembered my clients once won the All-American Derby with the tenth fastest qualifier. It turned out well today.”

Fortune In A Wagon is a homebred daughter of Pyc Paint Your Wagon for Terry and Mary Pursel. A winner of three of five career starts the black filly used her half of the $17,500 winner's purse to boost her career earnings total to $37,774. She is out of the Fredricksburg mare Fortune Six Hundred.

Feature A Runway is an Ocean Runaway gelding bred in North Dakota by David Wisdom. It was his first win in 12 starts and the $17,500 winner's purse brings his lifetime total to $32,648. Feature A Runway is out of the Feature Mr Jess mare Feature Dreamgirl.

Charette-Hill also saddled the third place finisher Honeymoon Candy, a Pyc Paint Your Wagon filly co-owned by Martin Stacy and Stacy Hill. Bred in Oklahoma by Michael Pohl, Honeymoon Candy is out of the Mr Jess Perry mare Jess Send Candy. Jorge Torres had the riding assignment.

Completing the field were Bp Cartels Policy, My Girls Toasted, Coronas Concierge, Your Just Jesse and Racing Down A Dream. Cakato Cartel and No Greater Lover were both scratched.