DUNDAS, ON — Ontario’s talented three-year-old trotting fillies wrap up their regular season Grassroots schedule at Flamboro Downs on Monday, Oct. 6, and trainer William Daniel Ray is hoping that Greater Good will be making a return trip to the Dundas oval 10 days later.

Flamboro Downs will host the Grassroots Semifinals for the sophomore pacers and trotters on Oct. 16 and Greater Good currently sits seventh in the standings with a total of 117 points earned through two wins, one third and one fifth. The King Conch filly will make her bid for another point deposit from Post 6 in the tenth race Monday.

“I see I drew the six-hole. She never really draws too good in the Sires Stakes,” says Ray, who shares ownership on the filly with Scott Maracle of Hagersville. “And John Bax has got a nice filly in there (Grammy Hall); that’s a nice group of fillies we’re racing against.”

In addition to Bax’s Grammy Hall (Post 4), currently ranked twelfth in the standings, Greater Good and driver Don McElroy will also face former Gold Series competitors Torch and Thy Worthys Jwl from Posts 2 and 3.

“Donny can leave if he wants too, or sit in a hole with her. He gets along good with her,” notes the Freelton resident. “He kind of clicks with this filly. She gets a little too hot with me sitting behind her. When Donny gets behind her, she just relaxes.”

Ray adds that he and McElroy have been nursing Greater Good along though most of her Ontario Sires Stakes season. After winning five straight, including a division of the Grassroots season opener at Western Fair Raceway, Greater Good and McElroy were involved in an accident at Western Fair on June 6 that left the filly without major injury, but with a few nagging aches and pains and some mental ticks.

“If it wasn’t for the wreck, she would have been a lot better horse,” says Ray. “She had whiplash in her back and neck. She’s kind of tough to keep racing good.”

Ray treats the filly to regular sessions with an equine acupuncturist and chiropractor, and she has carried on through the season to a record of six wins, three seconds and one third in 18 starts, for earnings of $48,225. Both of her Grassroots victories came on half-mile tracks, which is where Ray feels she excels.

“I think she’s better on a half, she’s tough on a half,” notes the horseman. “She’s a pretty nice horse, I like her.”

Although Ray uses the word ‘nice’, he admits that it does not always apply to the filly’s personality in the barn or on the racetrack.

“She’s more like a Thoroughbred — goofy. The King Conch and Worthy Bowl come out in her,” he explains. “She tests me every day. You either put up with it or get away from her.”

So far Ray has been able to put up with the fractious trotter, and figures the job will get easier if Greater Good can advance through to the Oct. 16 Semifinal, and then on to the Oct.. 24 Grassroots Championship.

Post time at Flamboro Downs on Monday, Oct. 6 is 6 pm and the three-year-old trotting fillies will wage their last regular season Grassroots battles in Races 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 and 11.

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