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There were buoyant hugs, joyful tears and no fewer than seven first-time post season winners as the top Grassroots pacers and trotters gathered at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday night for their $480,000 season finale. “In this business you get lots of sad and disappointing things, but when you have nights like tonight, when a

James MacDonald is riding a career-best year into the Ontario Sires Stakes post season. He will drive in all eight Grassroots Championship races at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday, Oct. 9 and is the regular reinsman for five top three point earners headed towards next weekend’s Super Finals. “Geez, it’s been such a good year.

Ancaster resident Pat Lang has worked with a long list of superstar horses, but the trainer puts three-year-old trotting gelding Sweet Soul David — who makes his bid for the 2021 Grassroots Championship this Saturday, Oct. 9 at Woodbine Mohawk Park — in a category of his own. “He’s a very special horse. I always

The Gold Series regular season came to a close at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Monday, Oct. 4 with two Gold Series divisions for the two-year-old trotting fillies and one for the three-year-old trotting colts. Dabra Day kicked things off in the first $99,800 trotting filly division, notching her third Gold Series win with an effortless

Flamboro Downs fans were treated to Gold Series action for both the two-year-old trotting colts and pacing colts on Sunday, Oct. 3 and, in spite of thick fog and heavy rain, the track records for both divisions had been rewritten by the night’s end. Twin B Archie and driver James MacDonald kicked off the speed

Prohibition Legal maintained her perfect record in Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series action with an impressive victory in the lone $157,200 two-year-old pacing filly division at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday, Oct. 2. Starting from Post 3, driver James MacDonald settled Prohibition Legal in fifth, tucked in behind stablemate Silver Label, as I Love Ongait

Woodbine Mohawk Park turned the spotlight onto the top three-year-olds in the Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots program on Friday, Oct. 1, with the trotters and pacers battling for a top five finish in eight $20,000 Semi-Finals. Three-year-old filly trot Midnight Miracle kicked things off in the first three-year-old trotting filly Semi-Final, doing most of the

The curtain went up on the Ontario Sires Stakes post season Thursday evening, as the top two-year-old trotters and pacers from the Grassroots program gathered at Woodbine Mohawk Park for eight $20,000 Semi-Finals. Two-year-old filly trot Favourite Lovin Julie made an impressive recovery from an error behind the starting gate to take the first two-year-old

On Friday, Oct. 1 the top three-year-old Grassroots horses will square off in eight $20,000 Grassroots Semi-Finals at Woodbine Mohawk Park, and trainers Carl Jamieson and Brian Lee are hoping their horses can advance out of the Ontario Sires Stakes program’s toughest divisions. Jamieson will send No Plan Intended out from Post 7 in the

You Will Be Queen scored her first win of 2021 and driver Tyler Jones got his first-ever Gold Series win in the last regular season event on the three-year-old trotting filly calendar Tuesday night (Sept. 28) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The pair started from Post 6 in the field of seven top trotting fillies and