Flowing Tribute (above) set a 1:55.2 track record and HP Crystaline broke her maiden in their respective $90,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Leg 4 events for 2-year-old trotting fillies on Wednesday (Sept. 3) at Grand River Raceway.
Flowing Tribute’s record mile came in the second division with Bob McClure at the reins. Sent off as the 1-5 favourite, Flowing Tribute led the field through fractions of :27.2, :57.3 and 1:27.1 and defeated two-time Gold champ Bingo Night (Tyler Jones) by 2 ¼ lengths. Barbara May (Doug McNair) was third in the field of seven, followed by Lo And Behold (Louis-Philippe Roy) and A Splash Of Green (James MacDonald).
Flowing Tribute paid $2.60 to win. Her mile was just two-fifths-of-a-second off the Canadian and OSS record for a 2-year-old trotting filly of 1:55 set by Hall of Fame mare Bee A Magician at Georgian Downs in 2012.
It was the third Gold Series victory of the year for Flowing Tribute, a daughter of Green Manalishi S out of Watch The Show trained by Paul Reid for owners Patrick Dillon of Port Hope, ON, Laurie Rooney of Deleon Springs, FL, Brian Kleinberg of Madison, NJ and Richard Beinhauer of Venetia, PA.
The victory improved Flowing Tribute to 4-1-0 in five career starts and upped her bankroll to $165,600. She previously had won her Gold events on July 11 and July 25, both at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Bingo Night and Cher Hill won the Gold events on Aug. 4 at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
Bred by Diane Ingham of Mount Pleasant, ON and Brenda Barnim of St. George Brant, ON, Flowing Tribute was purchased for $30,000 at the 2024 London Classic Yearling Sale.
HP Crystaline (Louis-Philippe Roy) broke her maiden with a 1:58.2 score in her Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Leg 4 event for 2-year-old trotting fillies on Sept. 3 at Grand River Raceway.
In the first division, HP Crystaline (Louis-Philippe Roy) posted her first career victory, notching a 1:58.2 triumph in the five-horse field that was 2 ¼ lengths better than Timeless (Todd Ratchford). Social Wizard (Tyler Borth) was third, Figuratively (Tyler Jones) was fourth and 3-5 favourite Cher Hill (Doug McNair), the only previous Gold winner in the field, made a break in the last turn and finished last.
HP Crystaline, sent off at 4-1, led from gate to wire through fractions of :27.4, :56.2 and 1:27.4. The homebred daughter of Alarm Detector out of HP Bruxelles – owned by Claude Hamel and Jean Denis Pelletier of Shefford, QC and trained by Chantal Mitchell – improved to 1-2-1 in five career starts and increased her bankroll to $69,848.
The trotting filly paid $10.10 to win.