DUNDAS, ON — Alastor Hanover captured his fourth straight victory with a 1:55.1 Gold Elimination triumph at Flamboro Downs on Saturday evening.

The Rustler Hanover son and Mario Baillargeon seized control of the race heading past the quarter pole and simply ran off on the field of two-year-old pacing colts, hitting the wire seven and three-quarter lengths ahead of Minus Twenty and Hunter Hylight.

Trained by Mark Ford for Vicki Fair of Bedford, PA, the win was the precocious colt’s fifth of the season and his fourth straight. Since making a break in the June 28 season opening Gold Elimination at Kawartha Downs Alastor Hanover has been flawless, coming back the following week to post a 1:55.2 victory in an overnight event at Mohawk Racetrack and then sweeping through the second Gold Series at Mohawk by winning margins of three and four lengths.

U Lucky Guy picked up his second Gold Elimination victory of the season with a 1:56.4 score in the sixth race. With Paul MacDonell in the race bike for trainer Timothy Pinske and owners Pinske Stables of Plato, MN and David Hoese of Glencoe, MN, U Lucky Guy cruised around the Flamboro Downs oval on the front end to record the three length victory. Battle Of Waterloo champion Button Up was second and Youretheluckyone rounded out the top three.

A Battle Of Waterloo elimination winner, and the runner-up to Alastor Hanover in the July 18 Gold Final, Spokesman logged his second win in six tries with an impressive come from behind effort in Race 4. Seventh at the quarter pole, driver Steve Condren moved the colt up the outside behind Impeccable heading toward the half and then made a bold three-wide move at the three-quarters when the leaders ran out of gas.

The fastest last quarter of the four eliminations sealed the win for Spokesman, propelling him under the wire in 1:56.1. Bets At Bigs, owned by John Fielding of Toronto, trainer Mark Harder of Greensville and Brian Zong of Downsview, finished second in the $29,506 battle and Bend It earned the third-place share.

Camluck son Spokesman is trained by Murray Preszcator for Dr. Paul Gatfield of Denfield.

Lookinforagrin captured the other Gold Elimination with a 1:56.4 effort for trainer Robert Don Fellows and owner Pamela Wagner of Fairfax, VA. The Grinfromeartoear colt ran down Presidential Alert and Im Huge in the stretch to earn the three-quarter length victory, his second of the season.

The top two colts from each elimination will be back at Flamboro Downs this Sunday, Aug. 21 for their third $130,000 Gold Final, part of the exciting Confederation Cup program. Post positions for the Gold Final are as follows:

Post 1 Bets At Bigs

Post 2 U Lucky Guy

Post 3 Lookinforagrin

Post 4 Alastor Hanover

Post 5 Presidential Alert

Post 6 Spokesman

Post 7 Button Up

Post 8 Minus Twenty

AE1 Im Huge

AE2 Youretheluckyone

AE3 Bend It

For complete results please go to:

http://www.standardbredcanada.ca/results/data/rflmdsa.html