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Yacht Seelster set sail off the final turn to catch the popular pacesetter Lets Get Pickled at the wire in the featured $11,000 Preferred 2 & 3 Handicap Pace on Friday night (June 10) at Grand River Raceway.

Three longshots - Semi Tough, Poseidon Seelster, and Funatthebeach N - and two favourites - Leonidas A and Nicholas Beach - were victorious in the five $50,000 divisions of the third leg of the MGM Borgata Pacing Series on Monday night at Yonkers Raceway.

Poseidon Seelster made a splash one week ago with a return to the racetrack in qualifying action, and the speedy five-year-old sharpened for pari-mutuel action with a second solid qualifier on Friday (Jan. 14) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

For the second straight year, a Rideau Carleton Raceway track record has fallen during Ontario Sires Stakes competition. In the second of two $99,800 Gold Series divisions at the Ottawa oval on Sunday, July 11, three-year-old trotting colt Logan Park sprinted down the stretch to reel in pacesetter Highland Mowgli and trip the teletimer at 1:52.4. Highland Mowgli settled for second, a half length behind the favourite, and Macho Martini was three lengths behind in third. The mile lowered the form...

Driver Dexter Dunn employed a methodical first-over grind for the six-year-old mare Manchego and survived late pressure from a game pacesetter and a surging closer to win the $141,250 Arthur J. Cutler Memorial in 1:51.1 on Saturday (May 15) at The Meadowlands. In her first start of the season, Dunn floated the Nancy Takter trainee into fifth as Guardian Angel As gunned for the lead to a :26.3 opening quarter. Felicityshagwell S, also flaunting early foot but from an outside post, raced parked a...