CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Trainer Anders Wolden figures there are six or seven Ontario-sired freshman trotting fillies who will rank among the best in North America by the end of the season, and the Moffat resident is hoping that Sugar Coated Lindy is among them.

“I’ve always thought this filly was very special,” Wolden explains. “But there are six or seven fillies that are, for sure, Grand Circuit fillies.”

Exquisitely bred and loaded with talent, the two-year-old trotting fillies will make their second appearance at Mohawk Racetrack on Monday, Aug. 27, competing in their third $130,000 Gold Final. Sugar Coated Lindy will be making her first start in a Gold Final, but the Angus Hall miss heads into the race off an impressive 1:58.1 victory in her elimination.

With Chris Christoforou in the race bike, Sugar Coated Lindy tailed reigning Gold Final champion Torch throughout the mile and then laid down an outstanding :27.3 last quarter to steal the victory by a head.

“We got to follow her around the last turn,” points out Wolden, who trains Sugar Coated Lindy for Ely Iversen of Moffat. “Maybe if Jody (Jamieson) had followed us, he would have won.”

Sugar Coated Lindy and Christoforou will start from Post 6 in Monday’s final, and Wolden expects the reinsman will employ a similar strategy.

“I’m sure Chris is not going to over drive her. He’ll probably try to get her spotted, hopefully she can get second or third over, and then he’ll let her trot home. If everything works out, I’m sure she’s right there,” says the horseman. “Race them down the lane, that will probably be the strategy for the whole year. She’s really fast for about half a mile.

“Hopefully she behaves and stays flat,” he adds.

Wolden has just cause for the last comment. Sugar Coated Lindy was anything but a treat to break. Her hot temper and stubborn streak put her several weeks behind her peers and up until early spring Wolden wondered if she would even see a racetrack this season. Although the filly has finally settled down in the last few months, Wolden says she still requires careful handling.

“I remember her mother racing at The Meadowlands. She was fast, but kind of crazy,” he recalls. “I think if I start to fight her too much it would turn her like her mother.”

The filly’s mother, A Girl Named Sugar, is a full-sister to $1.2 million winner Civil Action and earned just over $61,000 in her racing career. It was her pedigree that attracted Wolden to Sugar Coated Lindy at last fall’s Lexington Select Yearling Sale, where she was hammered down to Iversen for $65,000 US.

That sale price is just average among the impeccably bred group that will gather at Mohawk on Monday. Sexy Siren, the second foal of $1.7 million winner Syrinx Hanover, was the highest priced yearling of the bunch, at $120,000 US. Dornello, a daughter of $743,350 winner Me Maggie, sold for $75,000 US at Lexington, and Torch was a $50,000 acquisition from the Canadian Open Yearling Sale.

The homebreds in the field also sport illustrious pedigrees; Bella Dolce is the first foal from $668,824 winner Pizza Dolce and Ms Naughty’s mother is a full sister to $1.2 million winner Lookout Victory.

Post time at Mohawk Racetrack on Monday, Aug. 27 is 7:20 pm and the glow from the brilliant two-year-old trotting fillies will light up the Campbellville oval in Race 5.

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