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With a break in action between Ontario Sires Stakes Gold events for three-year-old pacing colts, several of the regular competitors stepped up to compete with the upper echelons of this division in Grand Circuit action over the past few weeks. Among those was Boomboom Ballykeel, the winner of last year's $683,000 Metro final at Mohawk

Earlier this week driver James MacDonald notched his 1,000th career victory and he hasn't taken long to add to that total including two wins in the six $18,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots divisions for three-year-old trotting colts tonight at Mohawk. His first win was courtesy of Razor Ramone who overcame post ten to go wire

When Meadowview Cliffy scored his first lifetime victory at Georgian Downs on June 14, it helped brighten a rather dismal week for his owner and breeder Charlie Reid of Meadowview Farms in Orono, Ontario. Just two days earlier, Reid was forced to have Cliffy's mother, Meadowviewprincess, put to sleep due to a tumour on her

Jitterbug and P L Hercules overcame the sloppy racing conditions tonight at Mohawk to capture their respective $105,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold divisions for three-year-old trotting colts. In the first division it last year's leading money winner among this group, Muscle Matters, making his first 2014 start, who grabbed early control for Mario Baillargeon and

Last year Chris Christoforou schooled the young trotting colt Ole Jack Magic for trainer Jerry Duford and owner/breeder Joanne Wray and when he stepped off the bike he told the pair "I think you guys have another good one." Longtime partners Wray and Duford of Campbellville, Ontario, have campaigned several good trotters over the years

Joe Hudon, Canada's O'Brien Award winner as Horseman of the Year two decades ago, showed he still has the touch tonight at Mohawk, winning the second and fastest of two $105,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold divisions for three-year-old pacing fillies with a filly he trains, owns and bred. In that division longshot Jokes Jet was

When the three-year-old pacing fillies kick off their 2014 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold season on Monday night at Mohawk, one sire is predominant among the two $105,000 divisions. Shadow Play is the sire of seven of the elite fillies, which isn't surprising considering he absolutely dominated this division last year with his starters earning a

It certainly proved a worthwhile trip from Bowmanville to Mohawk Racetrack tonight for trainer/owner Dave Snowden. He had a pair of his homebred filies competing in two of the seven $18,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots divisions for three-year-old pacing fillies and they finished first and second in their respective events, the first of the season

Long time horseman Dave Snowden of Bowmanville, Ontario, has a pair of fillies entered into the first Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots event for three-year-old filly pacers at Mohawk this Thursday. What makes his entry unusual is the fact that not only did he breed both Kiss Me Or Not and An Angel Shes Not, he

The combination of owner Kjell Andersen of Norway, trainer Dave Menary and driver James MacDonald are on a roll. Last night their Muscle Babe was a dominant winner in her Ontario Sires Stakes Gold division at Mohawk, winning by more than five lengths in 1:53.3. Tonight her stablemate Quadrophenia was just as impressive in the