Page 17 - Shadow Play News Today

Kathy Cecchin trainee Crazy World, off the 8-5 favourite, powered first over to an open-length victory in the lone $8,800 division of Prospect Series for three-year-old pacing colts and geldings on Sunday afternoon (July 9) at Dresden Raceway.

After three weeks of preliminary round action, there will be three $30,000 harness racing finals of the Quebec-Bred Series for older pacers and trotters at the Hippodrome 3R Sunday (July 9). The trotters are in the limelight first on the 11-race card on Sunday. The 4th race features two unique challengers in Frido PV (Muscle

The third and final preliminary round of the Québec-Bred Series for pacers four-years-old and up, will take place on Sunday (July 2) at Hippodrome 3R after unacceptable air quality last Sunday forced the cancellation of the original planned date for the event. 

The early bird ticket pricing option ends Friday, July 7 for this year’s Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame (CHRHF) Induction Gala, which will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 9 at the Mississauga Convention Centre.

Driver Tyler Moore and trainer Ian Moore teamed up for a gate-to-wire victory with bettors' choice Lawless Shadow in the $11,000 Preferred 2 for Horses and Geldings on Monday (June 26) evening at Grand River Raceway.

Lawless Shadow (Shadow Play), winner of the 2021 Meadowlands Pace, won his first non-OSS harness racing start at an Ontario B-track on Monday (Jun. 26), going wire-to-wire at Grand River Raceway. The stallion flashed his authority and claimed the lead for Tyler Moore from post seven with :26.3 first-quarter speed. He cruised through the middle

Odds-on choice Cold Creek Guerero uncorked the faster mile of the two $8,700 Prospect Series divisions for three-year-old pacing colts and geldings on Sunday night (June 25) at Georgian Downs.

Burnham harness racing trainer Mark Jones wasn’t sure whether Deny Everything (A Rocknroll Dance) would ever return to winning form after returning to the racetrack. The now seven year old gelding had leg issues and a number of wind operations but he resumed his career at Addington earlier this month, having last raced in December

Euchred and Windemere Best Man played tug of war throughout the feature race and it came down to the wire as Euchred won the Winners Over Pace by a head in 2:00.1 at Inverness Raceway on Sunday (June 18) afternoon.

“I still wake up wondering if it actually did happen. It’s still very surreal to me.”