GLOUCESTER, ON — Last season's freshman Grassroots champion Fast Pay got a savvy steer from Paul MacDonell at Rideau Carleton Raceway on Sunday night to earn the first Gold Final title of the sophomore pacing colt campaign. Leaving from Post 3 in the nine horse field, MacDonell settled Fast Pay into sixth spot as local

ELORA, ON — Grand River Raceway opens its exciting 2009 Ontario Sires Stakes season on Monday, June 8 with six $24,000 Grassroots divisions for the province's talented three-year-old trotting fillies. Arthur resident Bruce Richardson will steer three fillies in their Grassroots season opener, two for trainer Susanne Kerwood, and one that he owns and trains.

GLOUCESTER, ON — Sunday's $130,000 Gold Final at Rideau Carleton Raceway will be the fourth time in the last month that OK Boromir and Stonebridge Terror have gone head to head in stakes action. Their first match-up, an elimination of the Upper Canada Cup at Georgian Downs on May 16, saw OK Boromir keep a

GLOUCESTER, ON — Last season's Grassroots Champion Fast Pay delivered an impressive effort in Gold Series action at Rideau Carleton Raceway on Sunday evening, capturing the second of three $40,000 Gold Eliminations. The three-year-old pacing colt and driver Paul MacDonell got away fourth from Post 3, but were driving hard up the outside well before

HANOVER, ON — Walkerton native Gregg McNair and his son Doug teamed up for a pair of Grassroots victories at Hanover Raceway on Saturday evening. Doug McNair piloted a starter in all eight Grassroots divisions, but he did not find his way to the winner's circle until the sixth race when he put Stonebridge Breeze

LONDON, ON — Sometimes virtue is rewarded, but at Western Fair Raceway on Friday night, Mark MacDonald's integrity cost him the lion's share of $130,000. The Cambridge resident piloted the winners of both three-year-old pacing filly Gold Eliminations last weekend, and chose Arts Star as his mount for Friday's lucrative final based on a commitment

GLOUCESTER, ON — Jack Darling has worked with a number of exceptional horses during his career, but the Cambridge resident admits that three-year-old pacing colt Stonebridge Terror is edging toward favoured status in spite of his relatively unheralded race record. "He might be my favourite horse of all time," muses Darling, who will harness Stonebridge

HANOVER, ON — Hanover Raceway plays host to the 2009 Grassroots season opener this Saturday evening, welcoming 63 talented pacing fillies to the sophomore ranks. With Grassroots purses guaranteed at $24,000 per division this season, a total of $192,000 is on the line at Hanover on Saturday, and Larry Hall is hoping to keep a

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Acton resident Trevor Ritchie coaxed a few impressive moves out of I Won't Dance at Mohawk Racetrack on Monday night, urging the three-year-old trotting gelding down the stretch to claim victory in the $130,000 Gold Final. Starting alongside the rail at Post 1, trotting specialist Ritchie hustled I Won't Dance away from

LONDON, ON — Not Enough made it a tough decision, but Mark MacDonald is a man of his word, so the Cambridge resident will be sitting behind Arts Star in Friday night's $130,000 Gold Final for three-year-old pacing fillies. "It was a tough decision. They are two very comparable fillies," admits MacDonald, who piloted both