HANOVER, ON — Driver Keith Oliver and trainer Bob McIntosh teamed up to win a pair of two-year-old pacing filly Grassroots events at Hanover Raceway on Thursday evening. Their first victory came in the fifth $24,000 Grassroots division when Snowbird stuck a nose in front at the wire to edge out fan favourite Embassy Seelster.

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Murmur Hanover displayed the heart of a champion at Mohawk Racetrack on Thursday evening, battling back in the stretch to score a nose victory in an Ontario Sires Stakes record 1:55.2. Starting from Post 6, driver Mario Baillargeon sent Murmur Hanover after the early lead and the two-year-old trotting colt was comfortably

SARNIA, ON — Hiawatha Horse Park hosted an invasion of three-year-old trotting fillies on Thursday evening, giving away $168,000 in Grassroots purse money. Tymal Breezee kicked things off in the third race, charging out of the pocket to score a head victory over pacesetter Uncommon Grace and Kylie Hall. Tymal Breezee and driver David Dowling

OTTAWA, ON — Michaels Power arrives at Rideau Carleton Raceway for Sunday's Gold Final just $29,350 shy of $1 million in earnings. A win or a second in Sunday's $130,000 contest would put the three-year-old pacer into an elite category that trainer Casie Coleman never considered a possibility for the gelding prior to the start

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Trainer Eric Adams says Mindsweeper's elimination victory last week was a matter of the right trip on the right day and the Newmarket resident is hoping things work out just as well in Monday's $130,000 Gold Final at Mohawk Racetrack. "She got a real good trip, that's kind of what she needed,"

SUDBURY, ON — Ontario's two-year-old pacing colts and geldings arrived at Sudbury Downs on Wednesday evening, took a look at the record books and proceeded to feed them through the shredder. Southwind Amazon and driver Doug McNair set the tone for the evening by peeling one-fifth of a second off the former freshman pacing colt

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — After a disappointing result in the Hambletonian Final, three-year-old trotting colt Knows Nothing returned to the Ontario Sires Stakes program last week and captured his first Gold Elimination trophy in trademark sharp-finishing style. "It was a bit disappointing, but that happens," says owner Mac Nichol of the colt's fifth-place result in the

OTTAWA, ON — The cream of the two-year-old trotting filly division returns to Rideau Carleton Raceway on Friday evening to compete in their fourth $130,000 Gold Final, and the fillies will be joined by 56 freshman trotting colts heading to the Ottawa oval for seven $24,000 Grassroots divisions. Charmed Life logged the quickest of the

HANOVER, ON — Steve Charlton will arrive at Hanover Raceway on Thursday evening with a trio of two-year-old pacing fillies hoping to take home a share of the $192,000 in Grassroots purse money up for grabs at the half-mile oval. Mademoiselle Paris will be first out of the paddock for Charlton and the young pacer

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Two-year-old trotting colt Majestized heads back to Mohawk Racetrack for Thursday's Gold Final off an impressive result in his Gold Elimination last week, but trainer Linda Duncan is making no predictions of success. "He hasn't behaved in any of the Finals, but hopefully he's maturing. I hope," says the Stoney Creek resident