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GLOUCESTER, ON — When the three-year-old pacing fillies arrive at Rideau Carleton Raceway on Sunday evening for their first Gold Series event of the season, Glenn Bechtel is hoping his filly's brief commute will lend her an advantage in the talent laden fifth race. "It's a bit of a home field advantage that might help

REXDALE, ON — Woodbine Racetrack celebrates Victoria Day with an outstanding line up of racing that features the $130,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Final for three-year-old trotting fillies and three Gold Series Eliminations for three-year-old trotting colts. Leading the field into the trotting filly event are elimination winners Southern Senorita and Erotica, and Erotica gained

DRESDEN, ON — Dresden Raceway will celebrate Victoria Day in style Monday, welcoming the three-year-old trotting fillies for their first Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots event of the season. Many of the top fillies from last season are already geared up for another run at the provincial stakes circuit, including Bernies D Nile, a two-time Grassroots

BELLEVILLE, ON — When Stinging Force makes his 2005 Ontario Sires Stakes debut at Quinte Raceway on Friday evening, owner Glen Campbell will have to wait for a telephone call from his wife Carol to learn the results of the three-year-old trotting colt contest. The Kingston resident left Sunday to go back to Africa, where

REXDALE, ON — When D. R. Ackerman rolled into the Woodbine Racetrack winner's circle on Monday night with three-year-old trotting filly Erotica, the Michigan resident experienced a startling sense of d�j� vu. Ten months ago the pair captured an elimination of the Gold Series season opener for freshman trotting fillies, their only appearance in the

LONDON, ON — Grand Bend Turbo and driver Reg Gassien took full advantage of their post position and the soggy track conditions to capture the first Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Final of the season on Saturday evening. The pair fired off the Western Fair Raceway starting gate and had a one and three-quarter length margin

REXDALE, ON — Ontario's top three-year-old trotting fillies open their Sires Stakes season at Woodbine Racetrack on Monday evening with a pair of Gold Series Eliminations. Absent from the season premiere are all five of the top money earners from 2004, which should give fillies like Rene Laarman's Philhallmonic an opportunity to emerge from the

LONDON — Putnam Romeo impressed Western Fair Raceway fans with a track record effort in his Ontario Sires Stakes debut last weekend, but trainer Scott McEneny expects it will be tough for the three-year-old pacing colt to replicate that performance in Saturday's $130,000 Gold Final. "It's going to be really tough. There are lots of

LONDON — Putnam Romeo got a new bridle and a new driver for his Ontario Sires Stakes debut at Western Fair Raceway on Saturday night, but the three-year-old pacing colt used a tried and true formula to earn his sixth straight visit to the winner's circle. Owned by Martin Bardoel's Putnam Training Centre of Putnam,

LONDON — A group of 22 talented three-year-old pacing colts will do their best to warm up the temperature at Western Fair Raceway Saturday night when they square off in the first event of the 2005 Ontario Sires Stakes season. Among the colts hoping to make an impact in the $20 million provincial program this