DUNDAS, ON — When the three-year-old pacing colts arrive at Flamboro Downs on Wednesday, Aug. 8 for their third Grassroots event, trainer Gaetan Hebert is hoping Whitesand Raider can relax and deliver a solid effort over his hometown oval. "He's a funny nervous horse," explains the Waterdown resident. "But he likes Flamboro, that's where I

FRASERVILLE, ON — Ontario's remarkable two-year-old trotting fillies head back to Kawartha Downs on Tuesday, Aug. 7 and Peterborough fans are eagerly awaiting the encore performance to last Tuesday's record setting elimination round. "It's very tough," says trainer-driver Jason Gilchrist of this year's freshman trotting filly division. "I have three three-year-old trotting colts that can't

ELORA, ON — Looking at the post position draw for Grand River Raceway's Civic Holiday Monday matinee was a good news, bad news experience for trainer Carl Jamieson. On the up side, his two entrants in the $300,000 Battle of Waterloo Final, freshman pacing colts Keep In Control and Samurai Seelster, drew Posts 2 and

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Gary Kingshott would love to see Transcending capture his Gold Elimination at Mohawk Racetrack on Sunday, but after the roller coaster ride the three-year-old pacing colt has taken him on over the last six months, just watching the Grinfromeartoear son take his place on the starting gate among Ontario's best may be

DRESDEN, ON — Monday's Grassroots event at Dresden Raceway will be a homecoming for two-year-old trotting filly Windsong Erica, and Malcolm MacPhail hopes the filly's return is a profitable one. "I trained her in Dresden all winter and then took her up to Paul Walker as soon as he got home from Georgia," explains MacPhail.

CLINTON, ON — Clinton Raceway hosts the second Grassroots event for the two-year-old pacing fillies this Sunday, Aug. 5, and trainer Mark Horner is hoping his two Camluck fillies can translate a beneficial post position draw into a share of the $106,000 provincial purse. "Post position means everything on a half-mile track," says the St.

DUNDAS, ON — Two-year-old trotter Jack Man has two starts under his belt heading into Sunday's Grassroots contest at Flamboro Downs and trainer Wayne Langille says that, so far, the Angus Hall son is holding his own. "He's not a bad colt. He's been holding his own his first two starts," says the Harley resident,

FRASERVILLE, ON — One week after setting a track record at Georgian Downs, the two-year-old trotting fillies stormed into Fraserville and laid a beating on the Kawartha Downs track record and an Ontario Sires Stakes record that had not been bettered for nine years. Three eliminations went behind the starting gate at Kawartha on Tuesday

ELORA, ON — After barely missing an Ontario Sires Stakes record in their first Gold Series Final, the province's talented two-year-old pacing fillies matched the track record at Grand River Raceway on Monday evening in the second of two $56,524 Gold Eliminations. Setting sail from Post 3, Random Dreamer and driver Luc Ouellette went straight

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — O U Gus is royally bred, qualified well and gets his first chance to prove he belongs among a talented two-year-old trotting colt Gold Series division this Thursday, Aug. 2 at Mohawk Racetrack. "He's a nice looking horse, he does everything right — trots clean, is nice on the racetrack," says trainer