ELORA, ON — Grand River Raceway wraps ups its exciting weekend of Ontario Sires Stakes action with three Trillium Series divisions for the sophomore pacing fillies on Monday evening.

Top Grassroots and Gold Series fillies will be joined by their American-sired peers for the $73,014 event and Mike Foerster hopes Hangin By A Moment can pick up a piece of the pie in the first division. The filly will start from Post 4, which should allow driver Jim Ritchie to engineer her preferred style of race.

“She likes to be in front, but it’s hard to get there,” says Elmira resident Foerster. “If she’s on the front she’s all right, but if she isn’t she seems to pout.”

Hangin By A Moment picked up a second-place finish in the Aug. 17 Grassroots event at Kawartha Downs, sitting in the pocket behind pacesetter Village Jangle, but could only pull out a seventh-place finish from Post 6 in an overnight event at Hanover Raceway on Aug. 25.

“She’s a female and she’s kind of moody,” says Foerster with a chuckle. “But she seems to be improving.”

Fergus resident Budd Thorne trains the temperamental filly for Foerster, who acquired Hangin By A Moment at the end of her two-year-old season. Through 16 starts this year the Rustler Hanover daughter has a record of two wins, one second and one third with her personal best 1:57.4 coming at Hanover Raceway on July 24.

“I bought her from (Carl) Jamieson in the fall at the sale,” recalls Foerster. “I thought I could make a few bucks with her. I had good luck when I bought another one from him three or four years ago.”

Monday will mark Hangin By A Moment’s first start in the Trillium Series this season and among the fillies driver Ritchie will have his eye on is Carl Jamieson trainee Lucys Fame from Post 2.

Lucys Fame heads into Monday’s event off a 1:55.3 victory in the Kawartha Downs Grassroots and the filly captured the other win on her three-year-old resume in the first Trillium Series event on July 1 at Rideau Carleton Raceway. Princeton resident Jamieson, Glengate Farms of Campbellville and Karl Ungerman of Toronto share ownership on the Apaches Fame daughter, who has earned $117,762 in her career.

Also stepping up to the starting gate in Race 6 are Grassroots division winners Tosexyforthedriver from Post 3 and Soutine Hanover from Post 6.

The final Trillium Series division features Illusionist, another Carl Jamieson trainee who has been banging heads with Ontario’s best in recent weeks. The Camluck daughter heads into the race off a fifth-place finish in a division of the Fan Hanover Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack where she hit the wire three lengths behind the winner in 1:52.2. Illusionist tackles the Trillium Series from Post 7 in the tenth race.

Racing begins at 7:30 pm at Grand River Raceway on Monday, with the three-year-old pacing fillies spotlighted in Races 6, 8 and 10.