DUNDAS, ON — Flamboro Downs fans will be treated to some of the finest racing in the province over the next two weeks, and this Sunday’s Gold Eliminations for the three-year-old trotting fillies and two-year-old pacing colts are among the highlights.

Hoping to earn her second Gold Elimination trophy in Sunday’s tenth race is sophomore trotting filly Movin Over, who will line up from Post 5 in the field of six.

“I like the five-hole,” says the filly’s trainer Stacy Ann Beckley. “They’re two short fields so it should be just a nice easy race floating around there. There shouldn’t be too many hiccups.”

The Cambridge resident and her husband Bill Beckley own Movin Over, and the couple has been pleased with the Royal Ballad daughter’s efforts through the first half of the Ontario Sires Stakes season. In her provincial debut at Georgian Downs on June 23, Movin Over captured her elimination with a 1:59 effort and then finished sixth in the June 30 Gold Final. She then delivered a runner-up performance in the July 6 elimination at Mohawk Racetrack, but was interfered with in the Final and finished tenth.

“We’ve had decent luck in the eliminations, we just need some luck in the Finals,” laments Beckley, who picked the filly out of the 2005 Canadian Open Yearling Sale for just $5,000.

Movin Over heads into Sunday’s contest off an Aug. 2 overnight at Mohawk Racetrack where she made an uncharacteristic break at the start. Beckley attributes the error to a touch of over-enthusiasm, and doesn’t expect to see a repeat on Sunday.

“Really, the only thing we thought happened was that she was wanting to leave out of there pretty good,” explains the trainer. “Trevor (Ritchie) was set on racing her in a hole and I think she got a little mad. She’s done that training.”

Just to be sure, Beckley trained the filly on Wednesday and she says Movin Over was at the top of her game. The easy going filly will be looking for a top four finish in the second $53,195 Gold Elimination in order to land a spot in the Aug. 19 Gold Final, part of Flamboro Downs’s rich Confederation Cup program.

The top three finishers from the trio of two-year-old pacing colt Gold Eliminations will also return to the Dundas oval on Aug. 19. Among the hopefuls looking to step up to the Gold Final plate is Jack Darling trainee Card Dealer, who heads into the ninth race off a fourth-place finish in the Aug. 6 Battle Of Waterloo Consolation.

An $85,000 US yearling purchase from last fall’s Lexington Select Sale, Card Dealer looked like a champion all winter, but has yet to deliver the kind of race performance Darling was expecting of him.

“He trained down great. He trained down as nice as any colt I’ve ever had,” says Darling, whose former trainees include $900,000 winner Northern Luck. “But since he qualified he’s just been so-so. We’re hoping he’ll keep improving.

“He’s got a big pedigree, we’re waiting for it to kick in,” adds the Cambridge resident. Two of Card Dealer’s siblings have topped the $250,000 mark in earnings, and his dam Affluence is a half-sister to $3 million winner Art Major.

Card Dealer qualified twice at Mohawk Racetrack, the first a 2:02.1 effort on June 30 and the second a 1:59.1 mile on July 7. He debuted in the July 15 Gold Elimination at Mohawk and finished fifth in a 1:55.1 mile, hitting the wire two and a quarter lengths behind the winner. Then the Camluck son delivered what Darling calls a clunker in the Battle Of Waterloo Eliminations at Grand River Raceway on July 30.

“He didn’t get around the track very good,” notes Darling. But I was encouraged with the way he raced the other day (Aug. 6). He showed real good pace in the straight-aways.”

Darling intends to make several equipment changes to facilitate the colt’s tour around the Flamboro Downs half-mile, and may even head to the Dundas oval on Friday for a little test run.

Card Dealer faces a tough field in the third $38,000 elimination, including former Gold Elimination winner and Battle Of Waterloo runner-up Fun Of The Game from Post 4.

The two-year-old pacing colts square off in Races 3, 4, and 9 on Sunday’s program, while the three-year-old trotting fillies battle in the second and tenth race. Post time for Flamboro Downs’s Sunday evening program is 6 pm.

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