SARNIA, ON — Eleven freshman pacing fillies will line up behind Hiawatha Horse Park’s starting gate this Thursday in one $107,798 Gold Elimination, and trainer Bob McIntosh is hoping All Accounted For can earn her twelfth straight top five finish in spite of being handicapped by Post 8 in the crowded field.

“If she can’t beat a couple of them, she doesn’t belong in the Final,” says McIntosh, who bred and owns the consistent filly in partnership with Paul Ysebaert of Mooretown, ON and C S X Stables of Liberty Center, OH. “Hopefully she’s saving her good post for the Final.”

The daughter of Camluck and Strike A Balance heads into the last Gold Elimination off a hard fought third-place finish in the Oct. 7 Gold Final at Rideau Carleton Raceway. The filly spent most of her time parked on the outside of the racetrack, circling three-wide at one point, before landing the third-place finisher’s share.

“I was in Lexington, but I watched it on the computer,” notes McIntosh. “She got quite a lot of shoving around there. I was happy with the way she raced.”

Through 11 starts All Accounted For has posted two wins, four seconds and three thirds, and has never finished worse than fifth. Her victories came in a non-winners contest at Hiawatha on July 26 and in her Shes A Great Lady elimination at Mohawk Racetrack on Aug. 25, where she recorded her personal best 1:54.2.

“She’s a nice little filly. She’s done some tough racing and she still looks good, so I’m pleased with that,” says the LaSalle resident, a Hall of Fame inductee and two-time winner of the Ontario Sires Stakes’s leading trainer award. “She’s got a little attitude in her stall. From the time we broke her, she was always a little snarly in her stall. That’s a bit of what makes her good.”

Mario Baillargeon will make the trip to Sarnia to pilot All Accounted For on Thursday, and McIntosh says the veteran reinsman has unlimited options once the gate swings away from the Gold Elimination contestants.

“She’s as good a drive as there is. She drives with two fingers,” he asserts. “You can leave with her or take her off, and she can race on any size of racetrack.”

All Accounted For and Baillargeon will need a top nine finish to earn a return ticket to Hiawatha Horse Park for the Oct. 25 Gold Final, but the filly’s connections would like to see her maintain her consistent form and hit the top five. With a total of 29 points earned in her first three Gold Series appearances, All Accounted For is currently 33 points shy of a berth in the $300,000 Super Final. The youngster needs a top finish in this week’s elimination, and again in next week’s Final, to extend her season through the Nov. 10 season finale.

Among the fillies All Accounted For will face in Thursday’s elimination are reigning Gold Final champion Shake That Junk from Post 5, and former Gold Final winners Maddam Luck and Chancey Lady from Posts 9 and 11.

Hiawatha Horse Park’s first race rolls in behind the starting gate at 7 pm on Thursday, with the spotlight shining on the two-year-old pacing fillies in Race 8.

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