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OTTAWA, ON — Rideau Carleton Raceway handicappers have assigned Majestic Mountains the longest odds of the competitors in the second two-year-old trotting filly Grassroots event on Friday evening, but facing down overwhelming odds is something the youngster has been doing since birth. "She was very disappointing at birth," says breeder Catherine Stewart of Carp, ON.

SARNIA, ON — Ontario's high speed three-year-old pacing colts are headed to Hiawatha Horse Park on Thursday, July 29 for the third Grassroots event of their season, and Ailsa Craig, ON resident Dan Morrissey is hoping Daylon Hot Rod finds a little more success over the Sarnia oval than he did in his Ontario Sires

FRASERVILLE, ON — Driver Robert Shepherd brought the winning touch to Kawartha Downs on Saturday evening, capturing two Grassroots events and the Kawartha Downs 38th Anniversary Pace. Shepherd opened his productive evening in the second $24,000 Grassroots division, piloting three-year-old pacing filly Heavenly Ash to her third straight provincial victory. Starting from Post 5, Shepherd

DUNDAS, ON — As in the fable of the tortoise and the hare, sometimes steady is what you need to win the race, and steady is what two-year-old trotting filly Extraordinaire delivered at Flamboro Downs on Friday evening in $130,000 Gold Final action. Starting from Post 2 with trainer-driver Wayne Henry in the race bike,

ELORA, ON — Geoff Maltby does not expect two-year-old trotter Wedgewood to be among the favourites in his $40,000 Gold Elimination at Grand River Raceway on Wednesday, July 28, but the trainer does expect the diminutive gelding to look like he belongs in the big leagues. "If we want to tackle the Gold colts, this

FRASERVILLE, ON — Kawartha Downs presents a full card of stakes races on Saturday night, playing host to 10 Grassroots divisions for the three-year-old pacing fillies as well as the Kawartha Downs 38th Anniversary Pace. Local filly Lets Go Get Em will make her Ontario Sires Stakes debut at the Fraserville oval on Saturday, and

DUNDAS, ON — In an online poll conducted in March, only 6 per cent of respondents said they were looking forward to seeing Here Comes Herbie's first crop appear on racetracks this summer, so it is fair to say that the trotting stallion far exceeded expectations when three of his daughters qualified for Friday night's

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Luck of the draw landed last week's elimination winners on the outer half of the Mohawk Racetrack starting gate for Monday's $130,000 Gold Final, but the two-year-old trotting colts proved bad luck can be overcome by talent and hard work. Elimination winners Holy Kadabra, Buckhams Bay and Plato lined up at Posts

CLINTON, ON — Three weeks ago Bruce Gilkinson's girlfriend thought he had gone slightly crazy, purchasing a horse he had never seen off the internet, but on Sunday afternoon when two-year-old pacing colt Just Asign To Me captured a $24,000 Grassroots division at Clinton Raceway, crazy started to look an awful lot like smart. "In

HANOVER, ON — Ontario's talented three-year-old pacing colts set the Hanover Raceway surface ablaze on Saturday night with a host of lightning fast Grassroots divisions, three of them engineered by Arthur, ON resident Trevor Henry. A two-time winner of the Lampman Cup as the leading driver in the Ontario Sires Stakes program, Henry kicked off