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News - August 2007

2007-08-05T00:00:00-04:00August 5, 2007|

Taylor picks up win and second in Grassroots action

CLINTON, ON — Clinton resident Paul Taylor had a successful afternoon at the office on Sunday, winning one two-year-old pacing filly Grassroots division at Clinton Raceway and finishing second in another. Taylor harnessed Tennessee Starlit in the sixth of seven $15,168 Grassroots divisions on the Sunday matinee and the Mach Three daughter delivered a gritty

2007-08-03T00:00:00-04:00August 3, 2007|

Freshman trotting colts shake things up at Mohawk

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Front end control was the ticket to the winner's circle for Ontario's top two-year-old trotting colts on Thursday evening, as all three Gold Elimination winners employed front end tactics to sail around the Mohawk Racetrack oval and into next week's $130,000 Gold Final. Pizzazzed posted the quickest of the three $38,182 eliminations,

2007-08-03T00:00:00-04:00August 3, 2007|

Colts hope opportunity knocks at Flamboro Wednesday

DUNDAS, ON — When the three-year-old pacing colts arrive at Flamboro Downs on Wednesday, Aug. 8 for their third Grassroots event, trainer Gaetan Hebert is hoping Whitesand Raider can relax and deliver a solid effort over his hometown oval. "He's a funny nervous horse," explains the Waterdown resident. "But he likes Flamboro, that's where I

2007-08-02T00:00:00-04:00August 2, 2007|

Record keepers on high alert as fillies return to Kawartha

FRASERVILLE, ON — Ontario's remarkable two-year-old trotting fillies head back to Kawartha Downs on Tuesday, Aug. 7 and Peterborough fans are eagerly awaiting the encore performance to last Tuesday's record setting elimination round. "It's very tough," says trainer-driver Jason Gilchrist of this year's freshman trotting filly division. "I have three three-year-old trotting colts that can't

2007-08-02T00:00:00-04:00August 2, 2007|

Jamieson wins some, loses some in post position draw

ELORA, ON — Looking at the post position draw for Grand River Raceway's Civic Holiday Monday matinee was a good news, bad news experience for trainer Carl Jamieson. On the up side, his two entrants in the $300,000 Battle of Waterloo Final, freshman pacing colts Keep In Control and Samurai Seelster, drew Posts 2 and

2007-08-02T00:00:00-04:00August 2, 2007|

Hard luck colt makes his Sires Stakes debut this Sunday

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Gary Kingshott would love to see Transcending capture his Gold Elimination at Mohawk Racetrack on Sunday, but after the roller coaster ride the three-year-old pacing colt has taken him on over the last six months, just watching the Grinfromeartoear son take his place on the starting gate among Ontario's best may be

2007-08-02T00:00:00-04:00August 2, 2007|

Windsong Erica returns to Dresden for Grassroots debut

DRESDEN, ON — Monday's Grassroots event at Dresden Raceway will be a homecoming for two-year-old trotting filly Windsong Erica, and Malcolm MacPhail hopes the filly's return is a profitable one. "I trained her in Dresden all winter and then took her up to Paul Walker as soon as he got home from Georgia," explains MacPhail.

2007-08-01T00:00:00-04:00August 1, 2007|

Horner’s Camluck fillies luck out in post position draw

CLINTON, ON — Clinton Raceway hosts the second Grassroots event for the two-year-old pacing fillies this Sunday, Aug. 5, and trainer Mark Horner is hoping his two Camluck fillies can translate a beneficial post position draw into a share of the $106,000 provincial purse. "Post position means everything on a half-mile track," says the St.

2007-08-01T00:00:00-04:00August 1, 2007|

Steady young trotter ready for Grassroots action Sunday

DUNDAS, ON — Two-year-old trotter Jack Man has two starts under his belt heading into Sunday's Grassroots contest at Flamboro Downs and trainer Wayne Langille says that, so far, the Angus Hall son is holding his own. "He's not a bad colt. He's been holding his own his first two starts," says the Harley resident,