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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

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

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.

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,

FRASERVILLE, ON — One week after setting a track record at Georgian Downs, the two-year-old trotting fillies stormed into Fraserville and laid a beating on the Kawartha Downs track record and an Ontario Sires Stakes record that had not been bettered for nine years. Three eliminations went behind the starting gate at Kawartha on Tuesday

ELORA, ON — After barely missing an Ontario Sires Stakes record in their first Gold Series Final, the province's talented two-year-old pacing fillies matched the track record at Grand River Raceway on Monday evening in the second of two $56,524 Gold Eliminations. Setting sail from Post 3, Random Dreamer and driver Luc Ouellette went straight

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — O U Gus is royally bred, qualified well and gets his first chance to prove he belongs among a talented two-year-old trotting colt Gold Series division this Thursday, Aug. 2 at Mohawk Racetrack. "He's a nice looking horse, he does everything right — trots clean, is nice on the racetrack," says trainer

ELORA, ON — Ted Smith and Arthur Slack have been friends for 30 years, but on Monday, July 30 at Grand River Raceway the pair will be engaged in a bit of good-humoured rivalry. Monday night's program at the Elora oval features two Gold Eliminations and a trio of eliminations for the Battle of Waterloo.

FRASERVILLE, ON — Of the eight two-year-old trotting fillies John Bax trained all winter, five of them will compete at Kawartha Downs on Tuesday, July 31 in the second Ontario Sires Stakes Gold event. "The fillies have got there, and shown me more than the colts," says the Peterborough resident of his crop of freshman

INNISFIL, ON — For the second straight week, Ontario's gifted two-year-old trotting fillies have laid waste to a track record at Georgian Downs. Battling in their first $130,000 Gold Final, the young trotters delivered another outstanding performance that saw the top three finishers hit the wire faster than the 1:59 track record Torch set last