CAMPBELLVILLE, OCT. 30, 2001 — The Liberty Balance fan club has grown so large that owner Thomas Rankin feels like he ought to charter a bus to Mohawk Racetrack for the remainder of the three-year-old trotter's starts. It seems that no matter where he goes in and around St. Catharines everyone has been following Liberty

LONDON, OCT. 30, 2001 — London's Western Fair Raceway brings its 2001 Ontario Sires Stakes racing season to a close with a rich night of racing this Friday, Nov. 2. Starting at 7:30 pm the half-mile oval will showcase two OSS Gold Series Finals worth $100,000 each. The first battle for Gold Series glory will

SARNIA, OCT. 29, 2001 — Dale Hunter likens the Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots Championship to the Stanley Cup of harness racing, and the former NHL star is hoping to find himself in the Hiawatha Horse Park winner's circle hoisting a crystal trophy over his head after the fourth race on Thursday night. Hunter's filly Lady

WINDSOR, OCT. 26, 2001 — Natashas Kiss delivered the fastest mile in Gold Series Elimination action at Windsor Raceway on Friday night. Sent off as the favourite by Windsor fans the two-year-old trotting filly and local reinsman Kevin Wallis stopped the clock at 2:03.1. Wallis sent the John Bax trainee straight to the front from

WINDSOR, OCT. 27, 2001 — Doug McIntosh trainees swept both Grassroots Semifinals for the two-year-old trotting colts at Windsor Raceway on Saturday evening. The Wheatley resident appeared in the winner's circle following Races 1 and 7 with a pair of Balanced Image colts owned by Walnut Hall Limited of Lexington, KY. Ryan Hall opening the

LONDON, OCT. 26, 2001 — The track was good at Western Fair Raceway in London Friday night, but with temperatures at a nippy 2 degrees and rain mixed with slush falling from the skies it was a chilly time track-side for Ontario Sires Stakes fans. However, in a pair of $50,454 Gold Series Eliminations, ten

DUNDAS, OCT. 27, 2001 — There were some familiar faces in the winner's circle Saturday at Flamboro Downs when the half-mile track played hosted to a pair of Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series Elimination races for the three-year-old pacing colts. In Race 2 Daylon Trooper captured first-place and $27,758 with a 1:56 effort. Coming out

CAMPBELLVILLE, OCT. 26, 2001 — In spite of a rain soaked track rated three second slower than normal, three-year-old trotting colt Liberty Balance made short work of a field of his Ontario-sired peers on Friday night. Regular driver Randy Waples sent the Breeder's Crown champion to the front from Post 7 and sailed around the

CAMPBELLVILLE, OCT. 27, 2001 — The final pair of Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series Eliminations for three-year-old pacing fillies provided two surprise winners for OSS race fans at Mohawk Racetrack on Saturday night. Always exciting this season, the sophomore pacing fillies did not disappoint at the Campbellville oval as a total of sixteen starters vied

LONDON, OCT. 27, 2001 — The two-year-old trotting colts added some spice to an October Saturday night as they took to the track at London's Western Fair Raceway for a pair of $44,534 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series Elimination races. Races 5 and 9 on London's busy Saturday evening program, the OSS Eliminations featured a