DUNDAS, ON — Three Gold Finals, the Signature Pacing Series Final, three preferred class races and the highly anticipated Confederation Cup — worth a record $698,500 — will lure harness racing fans from across Ontario to Flamboro Downs this Sunday afternoon.

Trainer Carl Jamieson will harness one starter in the three-year-old trotting filly Gold Final and two in the two-year-old pacing colt Gold Final, and the Princeton resident is hoping all three can earn a share of the more than $1.2 million up for grabs at the Dundas oval Sunday. Trotting filly J M Aggie will start from Post 5 in the second race, and Jamieson thinks the Angus Hall miss is heading into the $130,000 contest off her strongest start of the year.

“She seemed to race better last week, she finished stronger,” says Jamieson. “She’s been getting cheques all the time, but she’s not as strong as I thought she’d be.”

J M Aggie finished third in her elimination last Sunday, two and a half lengths behind winner Carolyn AS, to improve her record to one win, one second and four thirds in 12 starts. The number five filly on the Gold Series circuit at two, J M Aggie has qualified for every final this season and only missed a cheque in one race, but she has not produced the kind of power Jamieson expected.

“I thought she was one of the best after her two-year-old year,” says the trainer, who shares ownership on J M Aggie with his son Jody Jamieson’s 1140545 Ontario Ltd. of Cambridge. “She hasn’t missed any cheques, but she’s not winning any races.”

Like their stablemate, Keep In Control and Samurai Seelster have not stepped into the Gold Series winner’s circle yet this season, but both colts have been knocking at the door. Samurai Seelster has not finished worse than fourth in six starts and Keep In Control has only missed one cheque in five starts.

“They drew inside, they should be able to get cheques,” says Jamieson of his freshman pacing colt duo — Keep In Control will start from Post 1 and Samurai Seelster from Post 3. “You never know what will happen in a race, and on a half-mile track anything can happen, so we’ll hope for the best.”

Keep In Control heads into his first Gold Final off a third-place finish behind Romantic Thriller in last week’s elimination round, and Samurai Seelster was second to Keystone Horatio. Both colts are capable of a sharp move off the starting gate and their trainer expects to see them near the front early in the Final, slated as Race 11 on Sunday’s program.

“Both them horses can leave pretty good off the gate. I think they’ll get away 1, 2, 3, or 4, something like that,” he speculates. �They should get a good chunk.”

Jamieson, Edward Smith of Rockwood, Brian Paquet of Quebec, QC and Jocelyn Faucher of Beaupre, QC own Grinfromeartoear colt Keep In Control, and the trainer shares ownership on Camluck son Samurai Seelster with Fred Brayford of Alliston, George Arthur Stable of Rockwood and Andrew Sayer of Cumbria, ENG.

Like Jamieson, trainer Jimmy Takter will harness multiple entries on Sunday’s rich program, sending out Australian Stock in the three-year-old trotting colt Gold Final and Ideal Vintage in the Confederation Cup.

After struggling in his first six sophomore starts, Australian Stock stepped up and delivered a 1:58 victory in last week’s Gold Elimination, and Takter was very pleased with the Angus Hall son’s performance.

“He raced really good actually. I was really happy with him,” says the East Windsor, NJ resident. “I thought he raced really well, and he hasn’t raced that good.”

The only cloud on Australian Stock’s improved performance was the result of the post position draw for the final, which will see the colt start from the outside Post 8 in the fourth race.

“I think it will be very hard for him. He’ll have to be extremely lucky from that post,” says Takter, who will steer Australian Stock in the final. “He came out of the race well and we expect him to race slightly better than last week, so maybe he can come from behind.”

Breeder Charalambos Christoforou of Campbellville, Banjo Farms of Toronto and Alvin Stein of Ottawa share ownership on Australian Stock, who was the number two colt on the Gold Series circuit last season.

Post time at Flamboro Downs on Sunday, Aug. 19 is 1:30 pm. The three-year-old trotting filly Gold Final goes postward in Race 2, the three-year-old trotting colts step up to the plate in Race 4 and the two-year-old pacing colts square off in Race 11. The three Confederation Cup eliminations are Races 8, 9, and 10, and the rich final will wrap things up in Race 12.

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