Walter Case Jr., who was last year’s third leading dash winning driver at Cumberland, was first across the wire on four occasions during the day’s qualifying races. Case scored with Empereurthebest FR (2:05.2) in the opening trot for trainer James Dunn, and Miki De Vie (1:59.1), Nagle (2:01.1) and Buerger (2:03) who were all trained by Michelle Lefebvre.