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2026-08-18T10:26:33-04:00August 17, 2026|

Beaton trainees Waves Of Fortune and Twin B Copacabana sweep Golds for 2-year-old pacing fillies

Trainer Tony Beaton swept both $100,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Leg 3 events for 2-year-old pacing fillies on Monday (Aug. 17) at Woodbine Mohawk Park and, in the process, reached both 500 career wins and surpassed $15 million in earnings. Beaton pupils Waves Of Fortune and Twin B Copacabana provided the trainer with the golden

2026-08-16T22:17:30-04:00August 16, 2026|

Atlas Ross now perfect through four starts, takes Gold in lifetime best

Atlas Ross improved to a perfect four-for-four and set a 1:51.2 career best while winning the lone $150,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Leg 3 event for 2-year-old pacing colts on Sunday (Aug. 16) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. It was the third OSS victory of Atlas Ross’ career and the second straight Gold score. The

2026-08-15T23:44:05-04:00August 15, 2026|

Cher Hill posts 1:52.4 career-best victory in sophomore trotting fillies’ Gold.

Cher Hill posted her first Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) victory of the season, winning the lone $150,000 OSS Gold Leg 4 event for 3-year-old trotting fillies on Saturday (Aug. 15) at Woodbine Mohawk Park in a career-best 1:52.4 Sent off as the 7-2 third choice in the field of seven, the daughter of Muscle Mass

2026-08-15T23:15:19-04:00August 15, 2026|

Daya upsets A Clean Deal in sophomore pacing fillies’ Gold

Daya posted a 1:49.1 career-best mile and upset eight-time Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold champ A Clean Deal in the lone $150,000 OSS Gold Leg 4 event for 3-year-old pacing fillies on Saturday (Aug. 15) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The mile was one-fifth of a second off equalling the OSS record set by Boadicea in

2026-08-14T22:06:20-04:00August 14, 2026|

Rebel Moon equals OSS record, Verily takes other Gold division for 2-year-old trotting fillies

Rebel Moon equaled the 1:53.4 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) record and Verily won the other Gold Leg 3 division for 2-year-old trotting fillies on Friday (Aug. 14) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. In the second division (race 7), Rebel Moon (above), sent off as the 2-5 favourite in the field of seven, posted her second lifetime

2026-08-14T21:32:16-04:00August 14, 2026|

Freshman trotting colt Unstable Genius sets 1:53 OSS record, remains unbeaten

Unstable Genius set a 1:53 Ontario Sires Stakes record for 2-year-old trotting colts while winning the lone $150,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Leg 3 event for his division on Friday (Aug. 14) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The gelded son of Muscle Mass out of Pretty Crafty is now a perfect three-for-three in his career, all

2026-08-13T11:34:19-04:00August 13, 2026|

Dream For Peace posts 17-1 upset as favourites break in sophomore trotting colts’ Gold at Grand River

Dream For Peace posted the first Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) victory of his career, winning the lone $150,000 OSS Gold Leg 4 event for sophomore trotting colts on Wednesday (Aug. 12) at Grand River Raceway in a career-best 1:54.2. Sent off at 17-1 in the field of six, Mark MacDonald settled Dream For Peace along

2026-08-10T10:03:35-04:00August 10, 2026|

Wednesday’s OSS Grassroots at Grand River redrawn

Participants in this Wednesday’s (Aug. 12) Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Grassroots event for 2-year-old trotting fillies at Grand River Raceway are asked to review the entries following a redraw. A redraw was needed after the original draw had one of the OSS Grassroots divisions with multiple horses from the same connections. The new entries are

2026-08-05T10:03:07-04:00August 5, 2026|

Balanced Image moves to Aug. 22 and 29, OSS Grassroots for 2-year-old trotting colts moves to Sept. 4

The 2026 edition of the Balanced Image stake, for Ontario Sired 2-year-old trotters, will be held at Hanover Raceway on Saturday, Aug. 29, with eliminations held on Saturday, Aug. 22. The Balanced Image Final will be part of an action-packed Aug. 29 program that will also include the Dream Of Glory Trot Final and “Doc”

2026-08-13T11:35:15-04:00August 3, 2026|

Redland Rocket Man smashes track and OSS record with 1:48.2 Gold victory at Grand River

Redland Rocket Man set a 1:48.2 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) and Grand River Raceway track record winning the lone $150,000 OSS Gold Leg 3 event for sophomore pacing colts on Monday’s (Aug. 3) Battle of Waterloo afternoon card at the Elora track. The mile erased the 1:49 OSS and track record for 3-year-old male pacers