Montague's Corey MacPherson and his horse Miki Shan N won the 66th Gold Cup and Saucer race on Saturday night in Charlottetown.

This is the first Gold Cup and Saucer victory for MacPherson. The race carries a $100,000 prize purse.

He said he was thinking of his late grandfather Glenn Taylor, a noted horseman who died in 2013. Taylor got him into the sport.

"Oh yeah, he followed me the whole time," he said.

"When I was a little kid he always had horses around and I was at his place all the time. I c…