ELORA, ON — On Friday, July 13 Grand River Raceway raises the curtain on an exceptional month of Ontario Sires Stakes action with eight Grassroots divisions for the gifted three-year-old pacing fillies.

With one second and one third in the first two Grassroots events of the season, Yankee Butter currently sits sixteenth in the race toward a post season berth. The Grinfromeartoear filly will be looking to boost her 37 point total from Post 5 in the second Grassroots division at Grand River, and trainer Rob Fellows says she is ready for the test.

“She’s only finished off the board once, touch wood,” says the Rockwood resident. “She tries a lot, she’s a nice filly.”

Fellows says the half-mile track is not Yankee Butter’s preferred platform, but her third-place performance in the June 27 Grassroots event at Flamboro Downs convinced him to give her a shot over the Grand River oval.

“She did race very good at Flamboro, so I thought I’d give it one more try, because Grand River is such a nice track,” says the horseman. “She left out at Flamboro, came first up and still hung tough in the stretch.”

Owned by Yolanda Fellows of Rockwood, Bruce Robertson and Douglas Seabrook of Brampton and Richard Stewart of Toronto, Yankee Butter has posted a consistent record of one win, five seconds and four thirds through 11 starts this season. The leggy filly did not race at two, but Fellows says she has been a quick study in all areas of her competitive education.

“She’s just a nice filly. She learned everything right. We’d be blessed if they were all that easy,” he says. “She’s the first yearling these owners have had, and they are having a lot of fun with her.”

Fellows adds all four owners will be on hand for the filly’s third Grassroots start on Friday, and the horseman hopes Yankee Butter can continue to tread the consistent path she has followed through the first three months of her racing career.

“They won’t miss it,” says Fellows. “I just hope we can get some money, have some fun, and come back again.”

Yankee Butter faces a field of seven Grassroots regulars in Race 2, the second of eight $15,000 Grassroots divisions on Grand River Raceway’s Friday evening program. The three-year-old pacing fillies will step onto the track for the first race at 7:15 pm, and continue to show off their skills in Races 2, 4, and 6 through 10.

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