WINDSOR, ON — In Trepid Water’s eight race win streak went up in smoke at Windsor Raceway last weekend and trainer Bob McIntosh is not sure whether the three-year-old pacing filly can jump back into the winner’s circle from Post 7 in Sunday’s $130,000 Gold Final.

“It shapes up to be a tough race because the speed drew Posts 1 and 2, and Windsor is a speed favouring track,” says the LaSalle resident, who will also harness Cameron D Art from Post 4. “I would like to have drawn further inside with the good mare.”

The speed horses McIntosh refers to are elimination winner Red Star Biggirl, who went gate to wire last week in 1:52.1 and will start from Post 1 on Sunday, and Zeglarska Street, the Linda Wallis trainee who regularly clocks sub 27 second opening quarters and will start from Post 2.

“I haven’t had very good luck drawing at my home track,” laments McIntosh. “I’ve haven’t had much luck drawing anywhere actually. The computer hasn’t been good to me.

“Hopefully it will even out over the year, but I’m ready for a change. I’d like to look down the inside of a sheet and see my name, instead of going to the outside,” he adds wryly.

McIntosh’s bad luck with post positions at Windsor started last week when both In Trepid Water and Cameron D Art drew Post 8 in a pair of 10 horse eliminations. In Trepid Water and Rick Zeron sat on the outside in their division, battling pacesetter Even Now through fractions of :26.4, :56.2 and 1:24, and were just headed by a pair of fast closing fillies at the wire. Cameron D Art and Zeron were forced out three-wide around stalled cover and crossed the wire sixth, but snuck into the Final when stablemate Stonebridge Prima was set back for failing to lose ground while on a break at the wire.

“In Trepid Water went a good trip. She had to go first up in a 10 horse field,” says McIntosh, who bred and shares ownership on the daughter of Intrepid Seelster and Water Spigot with C S X Stables of Liberty Center, OH. “And she lost her first race, so we got that monkey off our back. It didn’t feel good at the time, but it had to happen.

“Cameron D Art had to go three-wide,” he says of the daughter of Camluck and Lartesienne that he bred and owns with his cousin Al McIntosh of Leamington and C S X Stables. “She’s a good, honest filly. She’s not quite the calibre of the other one, but she’s not a bad filly.”

Zeron will be back in the race bike behind In Trepid Water on Sunday, while Peter Wrenn picks up the drive aboard Cameron D Art.

“All we can do is our best,” says the veteran horseman. “They trained up good so we’ll have to see what happens.”

“This little mare (In Trepid Water) is a lot like her daddy; she gives her all. She’s a real professional,” he adds. “And if Cameron D Art trips out she could get in there for a piece too.”

Post time for Windsor Raceway’s Sunday evening program is 7 pm and McIntosh’s fillies will do their best against the other Gold Final contenders in Race 8.

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