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MILTON, ON - This Saturday, September 30, the Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots Championships will bring big harness racing fields of two and three-year-old trotting and pacing talent to Woodbine Mohawk Park for eight $75,000 finals. Post time is 7:10 p.m. and the two-year-old trotting fillies will kick off the championship action in race two. Race
The 2022 Ontario Sires Stakes season begins Sunday, May 22 at Flamboro Downs as part of the $458,300 Charles Juravinski Memorial Cup card.
Ontario’s world-class three-year-old pacing colts waged a pair of $99,800 Gold Series battles at Georgian Downs on Sunday (July 25) and it was Second Bruiser and Desperate Man who emerged victorious from the fray. Favourite Second Bruiser did the bulk of the work on the front in the first division, leading the field through fractions of :27.4, :55.3 and 1:22.4 before pulling away to a 2-3/4-length win in a personal best 1:50.2. Century Heineken finished second and Bettor Of The West was third. “He’s just a good horse, he’s been good since he come back this year and I wanted to drive h...
Grand River Raceway’s Ontario Sires Stakes season got off to a quick start on Friday, July 16 as Fuzzy Angel rocketed around the Elora oval to a 1:56.3 victory in the first $22,150 three-year-old trotting filly Grassroots division. Starting from Post 4, driver Jody Jamieson fired Fuzzy Angel away from the start and reached the quarter-pole in :28.1. The filly opened up a six length margin on the field by the :57.3 half and had extended her lead to 10 lengths by the 1:26.3 three-quarters. From there Jamieson shifted Fuzzy Angel into cruise and the fan favourites sailed home seven length win...
When Powertrain was injured in a freak paddock accident as a yearling, trainer Nick Gallucci and owner-breeder George Millar did not know if the pacing colt would survive, let alone go on to make a start in the Ontario Sires Stakes program. Thanks to the tireless efforts of Millar Farms broodmare manager Steven Samis, Powertrain made a full recovery and on June 17, 2021 he made his racing debut, recording a 1:51.2 victory against other novice pacers at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Eleven days later he made a second start and delivered an impressive 1:49.3 victory. As a result of those efforts, when ...