Run The World Deo (Stay Hungry), a $90,000 yearling purchase, made her Canadian harness racing debut and her first career appearance in the winner’s circle at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Thursday (Aug. 17). Phil Hudon guided the filly to a front-end victory. They paced the first three panels unbothered, throwing up fractions of :28, :57.2,
Eight of the 13 races carded on Saturday night, Aug. 19 at Woodbine Mohawk Park are for freshmen as three $69,000+ Ontario Sires Stakes Gold divisions for pacing colts and geldings go postward alongside $30,000 eliminations for the $640,000 William Wellwood Memorial and $400,000 Peaceful Way stakes for trotters.
MILTON, ON - AUGUST 17, 2023 – Eight of the thirteen races carded Saturday night (Aug. 19) at Woodbine Mohawk Park are for freshman as three $70,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold divisions for harness racing pacing colts and geldings go postward alongside $30,000 eliminations for the $640,000 William Wellwood and $400,000 Peaceful Way. Through two
Ron Burke does not often enter horses in the William Wellwood Memorial for two-year-old trotters, but the trainer has enjoyed success in his limited trips to the event, winning in 2014 with Habitat and 2015 with Southwind Frank.
Bettors Wish is off to a great start as a sire, as his first-crop offspring Better Is Nice and Pulp Fiction both put up impressive victories in a pair of $240,000 New Jersey Sire Stakes finals for two-year-olds on the pace at The Meadowlands on Friday night (Aug. 4).