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DUNDAS, ON — Reach Higher earned his second Gold Elimination trophy with a 2:00.1 victory at Flamboro Downs on Sunday evening. The two-year-old trotting colt and driver Steve Condren cruised along behind pacesetter Protege Seelster through fractions of :28.4, :59.1 and 1:30.1, then stepped out in the stretch and accelerated away to a two length

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Harness racing fans who made the effort to get to Mohawk Racetrack early on Monday witnessed the fastest mile in the thirty-six year history of the Ontario Sires Stakes program. Thwarted in their efforts to compete on Sunday night by an electrical storm, the three-year-old pacing colts lined up behind the Mohawk

WOODSTOCK, ON — Magical Debut revived her floundering sophomore career on Saturday afternoon with a 2:03.2 Grassroots victory over a soggy Woodstock Raceway oval rated one second slower than normal. Driver Paul Mackenzie eased the sophomore trotting filly away from the starting gate into fourth spot on the rail, but was soon taking aim on

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Equity cruised to his eighth straight victory at Mohawk Racetrack on Saturday evening, rolling around a sloppy oval rated one second slower than normal to a 1:55.2 Gold Final triumph. With Jack Moiseyev back in the race bike, Equity took control of the race heading for the halfway marker and never looked

HANOVER, ON — Hanover Raceway cancelled its Saturday, Aug. 8 program due to the wet weather and poor track conditions. As a result, the eight Grassroots divisions originally scheduled for Hanover's Saturday evening program will now be contested as special card on Wednesday, Aug. 12 at 4 pm. Post positions for the two-year-old pacing filly

SUDBURY, ON — When Oaklea Rico races, owner Jocelyne Menard likes to be in the grandstand, so the Chelmsford resident is delighted that the three-year-old trotter's second Grassroots start will occur on Wednesday, Aug. 12 at Sudbury Downs. "I can't miss a race; it's not acceptable," says Menard with a laugh. For the gelding's July

DUNDAS, ON — Flamboro Downs fans are in for a treat on Sunday evening as 59 of the province's most talented freshman trotters and pacers converge on the Dundas oval for Gold Elimination action. A total of 22 pacing colts will battle in three $40,000 eliminations, with the top three finishers from each elimination advancing

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Monday's Gold Final at Mohawk Racetrack will only be Wilsonator's fourth lifetime start, but the two-year-old trotting filly has already delivered a full season's worth of thrills to owner Ted Wilson. "It's just a dream come true to have something like her," says Wilson, who bought his first Standardbred in 1963. In

GLOUCESTER, ON — Brad Forward reunited with last year's Grassroots champion Tomorrowpan at Rideau Carleton Raceway on Thursday evening, and engineered the first Ontario Sires Stakes win of the season for the three-year-old pacing filly. Starting from Post 7 in the second $24,000 Grassroots division, Forward put the No Pan Intended daughter on the front

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Casie Coleman's level of satisfaction with the eight-hole Primary Purpose drew for this Sunday's $130,000 Gold Final is a reflection of the rotten post position luck the three-year-old pacer has had in every final since mid-May. "The eight-hole is pretty good for him in a final. I was actually happy with it,"