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By Woodbine Communications MILTON, September 26, 2024 – It wasn’t a holiday, but the final Ontario Sires Stakes Gold event for three-year-old pacers provided fireworks on Thursday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Both the three-year-old pacing colts and geldings and three-year-old pacing fillies had a single $140,000 division contested Thursday to cap off the regular

MILTON, SEPT. 24, 2024 – The draws for the eight Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots Series Consolation and Finals races this Friday and Saturday at Woodbine Mohawk Park are set. The Consolation races will be held Friday while the Grassroots Finals go Saturday. Friday’s 12-race Mohawk card will be led off by Consolation action that will

By Chris Lomon/Woodbine Communications MILTON, September 21, 2024 – Maryland powered home to take all the spoils in the Mohawk Million, putting an exclamation point on a picture-perfect Saturday night for driver Dexter Dunn. After taking the inside track, literally, to impressive victories in the $347,000 Elegantimage (with French Champagne) and $713,000 Canadian Trotting Classic

By Woodbine Communications MILTON, September 21, 2024— Despite a post-10 draw, Amazing Catch barreled forward and sat a snug pocket trip to burst through an inside seam and win at double-digit odds in the $713,000 Canadian Trotting Classic on Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Amazing Catch crossed from the grandstand to the pylons alongside

By Woodbine Communications MILTON, September 21, 2024— Millar Farms homebred Chantilly stayed unbeaten from seven starts with a 1:50.2 crowning in the $532,000 Shes A Great Lady final on Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Chantilly raced unhurried in fifth to a :27 first quarter carved by a headstrong The Last Martini, who stayed to

By Woodbine Communications MILTON, September 21, 2024— Elimination winner Fallout forged first-over glory in the $1,000,000 Metro Pace final, delivering as the 8-5 second choice to equal the stakes and track record on Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Blue Onyx blasted out of post 9 for the front and cleared after the first eighth,

By Chris Lomon/Woodbine Communications MILTON, September 21, 2024 – French Champagne found an opening in the final moments to win a thrilling edition of the $347,000 Elegantimage Stakes on Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Trained by Ake Svanstedt and driven by Dexter Dunn, the daughter of Muscle Hill-French Cafe crossed over from post eight

MILTON, SEPT. 20, 2024 – With the Grassroots Series regular season complete, the top point earners are gearing up for the season-ending Consolations and Championships at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The eight $25,000 Consolations will go postward on Friday, Sept. 27, while the $75,000 Championships take place Saturday, Sept. 28. The box closes Tuesday, Sept. 24

By Woodbine Communications MILTON, September 19, 2024— Upon its inauguration in 2020, the Mohawk Million, and it’s elder, yet equally renowned companion contest the Metro Pace (first run in 1988), have worked in tandem to spotlight Standardbred racing’s next wave of superstars. The prestigious pair of million-dollar tilts for 2-year-old trotters and pacers, respectively, returns

By Woodbine Communications MILTON, September 14, 2024 – Saturday night’s stakes-filled card at Woodbine Mohawk Park was all about setting the table for next Saturday’s (September 21) richest night in Canadian racing. The eliminations for the Metro Pace, Canadian Trotting Classic, Shes A Great Lady and Elegantimage all took place. Metro Pace – Recap Captain