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2015-09-18T00:00:00-04:00September 18, 2015|

Mohawk fans treated to second night of spectacular Semi-Finals

Mohawk Racetrack fans got a second evening of outstanding Grassroots Semi-Final action on Friday, courtesy of the province's top three-year-old pacers and trotters. In the first of the $20,000 Semi-Finals, driver Chris Christoforou teamed trotting gelding Irish Scotch to a come from behind victory in a mile that saw the top five finishers separated by

2015-09-17T00:00:00-04:00September 17, 2015|

Freshmen impress Mohawk fans in Grassroots Semi-Finals

Ontario's talented two-year-olds put on an impressive show at Mohawk Racetrack on Thursday evening as the top 20 point earners in each division were whittled down to 10 in Grassroots Semi-Final action. Muscles For Life kicked off the Ontario Sires Stakes post season, sprinting down the stretch to a 1:57.3 personal best in the first

2015-09-16T00:00:00-04:00September 16, 2015|

Coleman and Budd hoping six is the lucky number Friday

Southwind Indy finished the Grassroots regular season atop the division standings and trainer Casie Coleman says everything looks positive for the three-year-old pacing gelding's bid for a top five finish in Friday's Semi-Final. "I like the way the draw come out; he's in the middle of the gate. The six-hole is like my favourite hole

2015-09-15T00:00:00-04:00September 15, 2015|

MacIntosh readying Sportswriter duo for Semi-Final battles

Ontario Sires Stakes post season action gets under way at Mohawk Racetrack on Thursday evening with eight Grassroots Semi-Finals for the two-year-old trotters and pacers. Trainer Blake MacIntosh won the two-year-old pacing colt Grassroots Championship in 2014 with Star Cover and the Cambridge, ON resident will send out two hopefuls on Thursday, including two-year-old pacing

2015-09-09T00:00:00-04:00September 9, 2015|

Henry wins two in Elora as fillies wrap up Grassroots season

Southwind Shania clocked the quickest mile in a quartet of Grassroots divisions for the two-year-old pacing fillies at Grand River Raceway on Wednesday evening. In rein to Arthur, ON resident Trevor Henry, favourite Southwind Shania fired straight to the front from Post 4 and sailed through fractions of :27.2, :56.3 and 1:26.3 on her way

2015-09-08T00:00:00-04:00September 8, 2015|

Magical Steph wraps up season with impressive win, flawless record

Magical Steph wrapped up the Grassroots regular season with a perfect record of four wins in four starts and heads into the Semi-finals off an impressive 1:56.4 score at Mohawk Racetrack on Tuesday evening. The two-year-old trotting filly and driver Steve Byron lined up behind Post 4 in the third Grassroots division and when the

2015-09-07T00:00:00-04:00September 7, 2015|

Coulter delivers in Grassroots season finale at Grand River

On Monday evening driver Scott Coulter stepped into the race bike behind a horse that needed a win to extend his Grassroots season and, for the third time in the last five days, the Grand River Raceway regular delivered the needed result. Starting from Post 2 in the first two-year-old pacing colt Grassroots division, Coulter

2015-09-07T00:00:00-04:00September 7, 2015|

These sophomore pacing fillies are more than okay

In the spring of 2012 three pacing fillies were born at Oak Knoll Stables in Campbellcroft, ON and named OK Heartbeat, OK Heavenly and OK Hallelujah by their breeders Ken Morden and Caroline Thornton. After spending the first 18 months of their lives frolicking at Oak Knoll, the fillies entered the care of trainer Mark

2015-09-06T00:00:00-04:00September 6, 2015|

Team McNair wins pair of Grassroots, Semi-final berths at Flamboro

Father and son team Gregg and Doug McNair sent a pair of two-year-old trotting colts out in the last regular season Grassroots event on Sunday evening and landed both colts in the Flamboro Downs winner's circle and the post season. Heading into the event Dynamic Edge and Muscles For Life were sitting twenty-fifth and thirty-seventh,

2015-09-05T00:00:00-04:00September 5, 2015|

Hanover victories advance fillies to Grassroots Semi-finals

Muscle Mass daughter Desis Dream arrived at Hanover Raceway on Saturday needing a win to keep her Ontario Sires Stakes season alive and the three-year-old trotting filly got the job done in thrilling fashion. Starting from Post 5, driver Ryan Holliday settled Desis Dream into fourth on the rail as Ill Stay Here rocketed out