CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — If you conducted a straw poll around the backstretch of a harness racetrack, most trainers would take an inside post over an outside position any day. However, when two-year-old pacing filly Style lines up to defend her Gold Final title at Mohawk Racetrack on Friday evening, trainer John Kopas wishes she were

ELORA, ON — Grand River Raceway caps off an exciting Ontario Sires Stakes season with six Grassroots divisions for the two-year-old pacing fillies on Friday evening. With the Grassroots Semifinals just one week away, competition will be fierce among the fillies hovering near the cut off for a berth in the post season, and trainer

DUNDAS, ON — Upsets were the rule rather than the exception in Gold Elimination action at Flamboro Downs on Sunday evening as the talented two-year-old trotting fillies demonstrated their skill over the half-mile oval. In the first $49,663 elimination Spirit Of The Law employed come-from-behind tactics to land her second straight victory, and her first

WINDSOR, ON — Neither the rain soaked track or the five week lull in Ontario Sires Stakes action did anything to obscure Alastor Hanover's map to the winner's circle on Sunday evening as the two-year-old pacing colt picked up his seventh straight victory in Gold Elimination action at Windsor Raceway. Leaving from Post 7 the

GLOUCESTER, ON — When Ryan Seelster lines up alongside the other three-year-old pacing colts in the second Grassroots division at Rideau Carleton Raceway on Thursday it will mark the first time that Perth resident Judith Hogan has harnessed an Ontario Sires Stakes starter. "I actually just got my trainer's license last October. My husband always

DRESDEN, ON — Youthful Seelster jumped to the top of the three-year-old pacing filly Grassroots standings with a wire-to-wire 1:57.3 victory at Dresden Raceway on Sunday afternoon. The Island Fantasy daughter and trainer-driver Ross Battin accelerated out from Post 3, fought off challenger Lady Lola at the three-quarters and hit the wire one-quarter length ahead

ELORA, ON — Celsius Hanover kicked off an exciting evening of Grassroots action at Grand River Raceway on Friday with an impressive gate-to-wire triumph in the first of seven $15,000 divisions. Owned by William Bryden of Orangeville, Glengate Farms of Campbellville and driver Stephen Byron of Thornton, the two-year-old trotting filly took quick command of

FRASERVILLE, SEPT. 23, 2005 — Ontario's talented three-year-old trotting fillies wrap up their Grassroots season at Kawartha Downs on Tuesday afternoon and Clare �Chuck' Thompson is hoping Chuckalo Beckster can lock up a berth in the Grassroots Semifinal with a strong performance in the second division. "She's been fairly consistent all year. She's got good

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Let's Talk Turkey rocked to her first lifetime victory in Gold Elimination action at Mohawk Racetrack on Friday evening, halting the teletimer at 1:52.4 , just one-fifth of a second off the Ontario Sires Stakes record for two-year-old pacing fillies. With Luc Ouellette in the race bike for the first time, Let's

SARNIA, ON — Poor track conditions caused by the afternoon thunder showers forced Hiawatha Horse Park to cancel its race program on Thursday. As a result, the three-year-old trotting colt Grassroots event originally scheduled for last night's program will be contested next Thursday, Sept. 29 at the Sarnia oval. The Grassroots races will not be