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2025-08-29T20:24:17-04:00August 29, 2025|

Naughty Delight posts upset in Leg 4 Gold event for 2-year-old pacing fillies

Naughty Delight came from well off the pace and passed four horses in the stretch to post a 7-1 upset in the lone $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Leg 4 event for 2-year-old pacing fillies on Friday (Aug. 29) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Sitting last in the field of six until just before the three-quarter

2025-08-26T21:06:08-04:00August 26, 2025|

Connections trying to stay grounded as undefeated 2-year-old Beau Jangles dances ever higher

It’s too early to know how Beau Jangles will do once he dances with the greats in his division, but there’s no denying the legend of the precocious, undefeated Ontario-sired 2-year-old pacer is growing at a rate commensurate with the horse’s confidence. Through five perfect starts – all in Ontario – the imposing son of

2025-08-25T13:28:20-04:00August 24, 2025|

Outtathisworld Deo posts 18-1 upset in Ottawa

Outtathisworld Deo set a national season’s best 1:52 mile while posting an 18-1 upset on Sunday (Aug. 24) at Rideau Carleton Raceway in the lone $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Leg 4 event for 3-year-old pacing fillies. The career-best victory came at the expense of 2024 Canadian Horse of the Year Chantilly, who was sent

2025-08-22T20:07:26-04:00August 22, 2025|

LMC Wagon Wheel becomes fourth Gold winner of the year in the sophomore trotting colts’ division

With a late kick, LMC Wagon Wheel won a surprisingly competitive five-horse $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Leg 4 event for 3-year-old trotting colts on Friday (Aug. 22) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. It was the first Gold victory of the year for the gelded homebred son of Wheeling N Dealin-LMC Marshmellow, who edged two-time

2025-08-14T22:59:17-04:00August 14, 2025|

Beau Jangles dances on, pushes unbeaten streak to four with third OSS Gold victory

Beau Jangles pushed his undefeated streak to four and added his third Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Series victory of the year with a dominant performance in his $140,000 Leg 3 test for 2-year-old pacing colts on Thursday (Aug. 14) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Sent off as the overwhelming 1-9 favourite in a field of

2025-08-14T21:28:21-04:00August 14, 2025|

A Clean Deal remains perfect through four starts, wins third OSS Gold

A Clean Deal maintained her clean record by powering to a career-best 1:50 victory in the lone $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Leg 3 Gold Series event for 2-year-old pacing fillies on Thursday (Aug. 14) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The daughter of Cattlewash—Ideal Talker is now perfect through four career starts and three OSS Gold

2025-08-09T20:07:36-04:00August 9, 2025|

Bright Green equals Ontario Sires Stakes record with 1:52 Gold victory

Bright Green equaled the 1:52 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) record for 3-year-old trotting fillies while winning the lone $140,000 Gold Leg 4 event on Saturday (Aug. 9) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. It was Bright Green’s first career Gold victory. Driven by her part-owner Louis-Philippe Roy, the daughter of Green Manalishi S out of Shine Bright,

2025-08-07T22:56:38-04:00August 7, 2025|

Rookie trotting colts Crunchintheodds, Mike Me Up win first OSS Gold events

Another week, another group of new Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Series winners in the 2-year-old trotting colt division. Thursday night (Aug. 7) at Woodbine Mohawk Park, a pair of former Grassroots competitors, Crunchintheodds (above) and Mike Me Up, were winners in their respective $90,000 Gold events one week after Another Great Mass won the

2025-08-04T22:11:19-04:00August 4, 2025|

Bingo Night equals 1:53.4 OSS record for rookie trotting fillies

Bingo Night and Tyler Jones equalled the 1:53.4 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) record for 2-year-old trotting fillies in the first of two $90,000 Gold events in the division on Monday night (Aug. 4) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Cher Hill emerged victorious in the second division. In the first Gold test, Bingo Night (above) posted a

2025-08-04T21:04:20-04:00August 4, 2025|

Allstar Maniac smashes Grand River all-age track record with 1:49 OSS Gold win

Control Rocks posted the first sub-1:50 mile in Grand River Raceway history, winning the first of two $90,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Leg 3 divisions in 1:49.4 on Monday afternoon (Aug. 4) during the Elora, ON track’s Industry Day / Battle of Waterloo card. Then, Allstar Maniac (above) did one better and followed that