Rookie colts, trotters and pacers, will star in Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots action over the next two nights at Mohawk Racetrack and Georgian Downs. On Friday night Mohawk will host the pacing colts and the following night the action shifts for Georgian for the trotting rookies. A total of seven $18,000 divisions for the freshman

Harper Blue Chip made a triumphant return to the Ontario Sires Stakes tonight at Mohawk as he won the first of three $70,000 Gold divisions handily for Sylvain Filion. It marked the three-year-old trotting colt's first 2014 appearance in the OSS and his first start since finishing third in the prestigious Hambletonian on August 2.

Harper Blue Chip will make his first Ontario Sires Stakes start of 2014 tomorrow night in the first of three $70,000 Gold divisions for three-year-old trotting colts at Mohawk. It will also be the first start for the colt since the most lucrative outing of his career, in the $1,006,125 Hambletonian on August 2 at

Last year's two-year-old trotting filly of the year in Canada, Riveting Rosie, recorded her first 2014 victory in the second of two $105,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold divisions for three-year-old trotting fillies tonight at Grand River Raceway. A winner of $468,000 last year, the daughter of Muscle Mass had a rough start to her three-year-old

The three-year-old trotting fillies of the Ontario Sires Stakes are back in action in both Gold and Grassroots action over the next two days. Six $18,000 Grassroots divisions highlight tonight's night's card at Mohawk Racetrack. The following evening two $105,000 Gold divisions will be part of Grand River's Wednesday night program. Making her OSS debut

Tuesday night (August 12) marked the second straight card Mohawk Racetrack hosted six $18,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots Series races. This time it was the three-year-old trotting fillies who got to take a turn over the seven-eighths mile oval, and it was Mystical Wishes who led the way with a 1:55.1 performance. Competing in the

A sloppy racing surface did not deter Lady Shadow and My Secret Belle from recording convincing victories in the two $105,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold divisions for three-year-old pacing fillies tonight at Georigan Downs. Lady Shadow overcame the less than perfect racing conditions and pressure for almost a half mile to win the first division

Headlining Mohawk Racetrack's Monday night (August 11) program were six $18,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots Series events for two-year-old pacing fillies, and while she wasn't the swiftest winner, Wicked Speed's win in the fifth flight pushed her record to a perfect three-for-three with two of those victories coming in Grassroots action. With Scott Young handling

Three-year-old trotting colts bred and raised by Dr. Mike Wilson's Warrawee Farm of Rockwood, Ontario, captured two of the six $18,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots divisions tonight at Grand River Raceway. The fastest victory of the night was recorded by Warrawee Promesse who was on top through every fraction, :28.4, :58.4, 1:28.2, and was home

Rideau Carleton's track record for two-year-old trotting fillies took a beating tonight first by Danielle Hall then Stubborn Belle in two $105,000 Ontario Sires Stakes divisions, the track's first OSS events of the year. In the first division Railee Priti grabbed early control for Steve Byron but she was covered up before the :28.2 first