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2015-09-06T00:00:00-04:00September 6, 2015|

Team McNair wins pair of Grassroots, Semi-final berths at Flamboro

Father and son team Gregg and Doug McNair sent a pair of two-year-old trotting colts out in the last regular season Grassroots event on Sunday evening and landed both colts in the Flamboro Downs winner's circle and the post season. Heading into the event Dynamic Edge and Muscles For Life were sitting twenty-fifth and thirty-seventh,

2015-09-05T00:00:00-04:00September 5, 2015|

Hanover victories advance fillies to Grassroots Semi-finals

Muscle Mass daughter Desis Dream arrived at Hanover Raceway on Saturday needing a win to keep her Ontario Sires Stakes season alive and the three-year-old trotting filly got the job done in thrilling fashion. Starting from Post 5, driver Ryan Holliday settled Desis Dream into fourth on the rail as Ill Stay Here rocketed out

2015-09-03T00:00:00-04:00September 3, 2015|

Grassroots double for Arsenault and triple for Coulter at Flamboro

Driver Scott Coulter and trainer Shane Arsenault teamed up to claim two of five three-year-old trotting colt Grassroots divisions at Flamboro Downs on Thursday evening. The pair made their first trip to the winner's circle with Irish Scotch, who earned his first-ever Grassroots trophy in the third division. Starting from Post 6, Coulter settled Irish

2015-09-03T00:00:00-04:00September 3, 2015|

Hanover Raceway celebrates fans and Grassroots racing Saturday

Saturday night Hanover Raceway wraps up its 2015 Ontario Sires Stakes season with a Fan Celebration featuring a host of giveaways and five $18,000 Grassroots divisions for the three-year-old trotting fillies. Early arriving fans will have their choice of an Ontario Sires Stakes t-shirt or ball cap when they purchase a program at the Kiosk,

2015-09-02T00:00:00-04:00September 2, 2015|

Sophomore pacing colts wage fierce battles in season finale

Grand River Raceway fans got more than their money's worth from Ontario's talented three-year-old pacing colts and geldings on Wednesday evening as they wrapped up their Grassroots regular season. Deetzy set the tempo for the event in the first $18,000 division, sprinting from sixth to first in the stretch to post his second Grassroots win

2015-09-01T00:00:00-04:00September 1, 2015|

After rough start, Sports Expert on top of Grassroots standings

Her season has not unfolded quite the way Blake MacIntosh imagined it would, but the trainer has been encouraged by the steady forward progress being made by his two-year-old pacing filly Sports Expert. The filly captured her third Grassroots trophy at Mohawk Racetrack on Tuesday evening, sprinting from fifth to first through the stretch in

2015-08-31T00:00:00-04:00August 31, 2015|

Encore performance for Jamieson and Darling

For the second straight week driver Jody Jamieson and trainer Jack Darling teamed up to win a pair of two-year-old pacing colt Grassroots divisions with St Lads Moonwalk and Continual Hanover. The duo first achieved the freshman pacing colt Grassroots double at Georgian Downs on August 23 and they reprised the effort at Mohawk Racetrack

2015-08-30T00:00:00-04:00August 30, 2015|

Favourites shine in Grassroots at Georgian Downs

Georgian Downs wrapped up their 2015 Ontario Sires Stakes season on Saturday evening with four impressive Grassroots performances from the three-year-old pacing fillies. Stonebridge Quest paced the quickest mile of the four $18,000 divisions, rocketing around the Georgian Downs oval to a one and one-half length victory in 1:51.4. The Camluck daughter and driver Trevor

2015-08-28T00:00:00-04:00August 28, 2015|

Solar Sister battles to her fourth straight Gold win

A few strides from the wire in Thursday's ninth race it looked as though Solar Sister's perfect Gold Series season would come to an end at Mohawk Racetrack, but the gritty three-year-old pacing filly fought to the end and extended her Ontario Sires Stakes win streak to four. "I think he backed her off a

2015-08-25T00:00:00-04:00August 25, 2015|

Mr Carrotts triumphs in front of hometown fans

After coming close in each of his previous Gold Series starts, three-year-old pacing gelding Mr Carrotts scored a narrow victory in front of a hometown crowd at Georgian Downs on Tuesday evening. Owned and bred by Melvyn Varcoe of Thornton, Mr Carrotts trailed fan favourite Go Daddy Go in the outer lane for much of