DUNDAS, ON — After an accident marred their Gold Series debut last week, Ontario’s two-year-old pacing fillies will be looking to generate excitement of a different sort when they return to Flamboro Downs for their $120,000 Gold Final on Friday, July 18.

Trainer Carl Jamieson qualified two fillies for the Gold Final and was grateful not to have a starter in the elimination that saw two fillies fall and three drivers unseated. Initially declared a �No Contest’ by the presiding judges, that decision was overturned by the Ontario Racing Commission this week and the top three finishers from the disrupted elimination were admitted to the Gold Final, a decision Jamieson wholeheartedly supports.

“Definitely those horses deserved to be in there,” says the Princeton resident. “I’m glad they did it that way.

“It was not nice for their first start. It’s not a very good thing to happen in any race really, but especially for babies,” he adds, noting that it was fortunate driver Luc Ouellette’s fractured ulna was the worst injury sustained in the pile up.

Jamieson hopes the fillies will be able to put the experience behind them as they head out on the track for Friday’s Gold Final, and the $20,000 Consolation that will warm up the crowd for the main event.

With the advantageous Post 1 in the Final, Jamieson’s Windsong Filou is the early favourite to claim the first Gold crown of the season, and her trainer says she has the breeding and ability to get the job done.

“I think she’s the best one we’ve got in the Sires Stakes right now,” he explains. “She’s from a pretty nice family, she shows speed and she’s really game.”

The daughter of Astreos and Jasper Avenue, a Gold Final champion in her day who earned a total of $530,636, Windsong Filou delivered a classic come-from-behind effort from Post 6 to claim her Gold Elimination in 1:55.4. Jody Jamieson engineered the filly’s elimination win and will be back in the race bike for Friday’s skirmish.

Carl Jamieson purchased Windsong Filou for $39,000 out of last fall’s Canadian Open Yearling Sale and shares ownership on the youngster with Thomas Kyron of Toronto, breeder William Loyens of London and Harry Loyens of Ilderton.

While Rossridge Emotion also captured her elimination — going gate to wire in 1:57 — Jamieson expects she will compete in her stablemate’s shadow this summer.

“She’s not as good as the other one, but she got the job done,” says the trainer, who will steer the filly himself in Friday’s final, sending her after a share of the $120,000 from Post 4.

A daughter of Camotion and Whippet, who counts $371,186 winner Whippet Good among her siblings, Rossridge Emotion was a $19,500 purchase out of the Canadian Open Sale for Bonnie Rattray of Hamilton, Ross Ridge Stables of New Hamburg, and Douglas Good and Ken Houston of Chatham.

Topaz Seelster, who finished fourth in the ill fated elimination, is the early favourite for the $20,000 Consolation. A $60,000 yearling purchase, the daughter of Apaches Fame and former OSS stalwart The Patriot was the runner-up in a 1:56.4 mile at Mohawk Racetrack on June 30. Jim Wellwood trains the well-bred youngster for numbered company 1187422 Ontario Inc. of Gloucester and regular reinsman Paul MacDonell will handle the lines on Friday.

Flamboro Downs sends its first race into the hands of the starter at 6 pm on Friday, with the two-year-old pacing fillies hoping for smooth sailing for their Gold Consolation and Final in Races 5 and 6.

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