A Clean Deal and Daya were victorious on Saturday (May 23) in the two $90,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Series divisions for sophomore pacing fillies on a cold, rainy and windy night at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Both divisions featured six-horse fields.
In the first division (Race 2), Doug McNair piloted overwhelming 1-9 favourite A Clean Deal (above) – Canada’s 2025 Two-Year-Old Pacing Filly of the Year – to a wire-to-wire 1:52.1 victory for trainer Kyle Fellows and owners Yolanda Fellows of Rockwood, ON, Blair Corbeil of Leduc, AB, Windermere Stable LLC of New York, NY and James Ross of Wingham, ON.
Sent off at 1-9, A Clean Deal posted fractions of :26.3, :56.4, 1:25.1 and came home in :26.3 to win by 1 ¾ lengths over Shes A Bulldog (Bob McClure) and 3 ½ lengths over Lavender Seelster (Louis-Phillippe Roy).
Given the weather conditions, McNair said A Clean Deal was particularly impressive.
“That’s a big mile,” McNair told WEG broadcaster Greg Blanchard.
“It’s probably the worst conditions you can race in. It’s just about freezing – three or four degrees above freezing – and we’ve got probably 40-50 kilometer-an-hour winds coming from the east shoving us home, with rain on top of that. So, it’s tough for the horses and for the drivers to see.”
McNair said the fact that A Clean Deal handily put away a late challenge from Shes A Bulldog proves the former is “pretty special… She gives you quite a thrill.”
The victory improved the daughter of Cattlewash out of Ideal Talker to a perfect 3-for-3 in 2026 and 9-0-1 in 10 career starts. She upped her seasonal bankroll to $125,862 and her career total to $581,326 with the win.
A Clean Deal was bred by Winbak Farm and was sold for $20,000 U.S. at the 2024 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale.
In the second division, trainer Jack Darling’s homebred Daya scored a 1:52.4 victory with a late charge orchestrated by driver Jody Jamieson.
Sent off at 6-5, Daya defeated Jen Tilly (McClure) by two lengths. TH Check Me Out (Tyler Borth) was third, Pownal Bay Robbi (Mark MacDonald) was fourth and P N G Shadow (Roy) grabbed the final cheque.
Daya, a daughter of Darling’s trainee Bulldog Hanover out of Beach Of A Time, posted her first victory of 2026 in her third start. She is now 6-5-1 in 15 career starts for career earnings of $544,100.
“I didn’t know how the race was going to go,” Jamieson told Blanchard. “I thought maybe I would go up front, or maybe sit in the two hole. As it turned out, there was lots of action and lots and lots of pace going on. She’s never really been tired in her life. It was just a matter of me putting her in the right spot so that she could have a full run. We started at the five-eighths pole and kept going for the last three-eighths pretty good, and she just cruised under the line. I’m just really happy with the result of her now, in her third start, getting the win.”
Daya (Jody Jamieson) winning the second Gold for sophomore pacing fillies.