Four Wheelin scored his third Grassroots win at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Monday, Sept. 14 and wrapped up the regular season atop the two-year-old trotting colt standings with a perfect total of 150 points. “I like the way he’s coming on. He seems like he’s getting stronger every start,” said trainer Marcel Barrieau. “Talking to

Mikey Mass found the Grassroots winner’s circle for the second time this season on Thursday, Sept. 10 at Woodbine Mohawk Park and trainer Nick Gallucci is hoping the three-year-old trotting gelding is shaping up for a big finish to the season. “He’s really coming around, he’s really starting to mature now and come into his

Two-year-old pacing colts took their turn in the spotlight at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Tuesday, Sept. 8, competing for a total of $117,500 in five Grassroots divisions. Stonebridge Rex and driver Doug McNair captured the first $23,500 division with a bold move at the five-eighths marker that saw them sail to the front and power

With less than one month remaining in the regular season, the three-year-old pacing colts were on their toes in Grassroots action at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Monday, Sept. 7. The talented sophomore kicked things off with a thrilling performance in the first race, which saw the top three finishers hit the wire together, separated by

What would it be like to own a Standardbred racehorse? To visit the barn, watch them race and, hopefully, join them in the winner’s circle? Last fall Shannon Henderson was the winning entrant in the 2019 ‘Win a Share in a Racehorse’ contest sponsored by the Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) and Standardbred Canada, and so

Bob McClure did not have much luck in the Charity Driver’s Challenge that kicked off a record-setting closing day at Clinton Raceway on Sunday, Sept. 6, but Canada’s leading reinsman finished things up with a natural hat trick in the last three $22,000 Grassroots events. “When the first four horses you drive in a driver’s

Saturday, Sept. 5 was another big night of stakes action at Woodbine Mohawk Park and Ontario’s top two-year-old pacing colts and three-year-old pacing fillies shared the limelight in a quartet of $104,000-plus Gold Series divisions. In the $105,600 two-year-old pacing colt divisions, Shadow Play sons Lawless Shadow and Bulldog Hanover delivered impressive victories with personal

Hanover Raceway wrapped up its 2020 Ontario Sires Stakes season on Saturday, Sept. 5, hosting a quartet of $22,000 Grassroots divisions for the three-year-old pacing fillies. Queso Relleno and driver Jody Jamieson kicked off the stakes action in the second race, controlling the tempo from Post 1 on their way to a five length victory

Yannick Gingras had a perfect night in Ontario Sires Stakes action at Grand River Raceway on Friday, Sept. 4, steering the winners of all three $72,267 Gold Series divisions for the two-year-old pacing fillies. Gingras kicked off his driving hat trick with Twin B Sunkissed. Starting from Post 3, Twin B Sunkissed left smartly and

Dr. Ian Moore will make his first visit to Leamington Raceway this Sunday, Sept. 6, sending out two-year-old pacing colts Marlboro Seelster and Dietrich Seelster and three-year-old pacing colt Usurper in their respective $7,000 Prospect Series divisions. “I grew up around those kind of tracks, that’s what I used to race on all my life.