GLOUCESTER, ON — Over $345,000 in Ontario Sires Stakes purse money is on the line at Rideau Carleton Raceway on Sunday night as the two-year-old pacing fillies compete in a pair of $55,000 Gold Eliminations and the two-year-old pacing colts battle for $234,000 in their Gold Final.

“It would be a great night to get a lucky trip,” says trainer Bob McIntosh, who will start a filly in the first Gold Elimination and a colt in the Gold Final.

With only eight entries in last week’s Gold Elimination, the two-year-old pacing colts were given an extra week off and the purse money was added to Sunday’s final. The Mohegan Pan will start from Post 3 in the lucrative final, and McIntosh is expecting a solid effort from the son of No Pan Intended.

“He’s an awfully nice colt,” says the veteran horseman, who trains the youngster for Peter Pan Stables Inc. of Pepper Pike, OH. “He’s getting a little better all the time I believe. I think he’s as good as anybody in there.”

Since qualifying in early July The Mohegan Pan has accumulated one win and two seconds in seven starts. In his Gold Series debut, Aug. 12 and 19 at Flamboro Downs, the colt finished second to Deuce Seelster in the elimination round and then suffered interference in the final and finished well back in seventh. This month The Mohegan Pan posted a sixth behind the indomitable Somebeachsomewhere in a Simcoe division, and a fourth in his Nassagaweya split, both at Mohawk Racetrack.

“This is a big class relief from where he’s been racing,” notes McIntosh. “And it’s a heck of an opportunity to make his year in one swipe, if he races well.”

McIntosh admits that he was not sad to hear the news last week that Somebeachsomewhere was wrapping up his season after six undefeated starts, and that two-time Gold Final champion Deuce Seelster would be skipping the third Gold Series.

“As far as I’m concerned there’s Somebeachsomewhere, then Deuce Seelster, then there’s the rest of them,” explains the Hall of Fame horseman. “It was a good time to give that horse (Deuce Seelster) a couple of weeks off. It didn’t hurt my feelings at all.”

Mario Baillargeon will pilot both The Mohegan Pan and freshman pacing filly All Accounted For, who will make her second Gold Series start from Post 6 in the first $55,024 elimination. The filly’s first crack at the Gold Series came at Mohawk Racetrack on Sept. 14 where she finished fifth in her elimination over a racetrack rated three seconds slower than normal.

“The track was about four inches deep with mud, and she just got tired, like a lot of them did,” says McIntosh of the filly’s provincial debut. “If you throw that start out, she’s been pretty consistent.”

Even with that start, All Accounted For’s statistics are pretty impressive. Through nine starts the daughter of Camluck and Strike A Balance has recorded two wins, four seconds, one third and two fifths for earnings of $143,453. The first foal from $121,248 winner Strike A Balance, who is a full sister to former McIntosh trainee and $1.46 million winner Artiscape, All Accounted For’s success has been particularly gratifying for McIntosh and his fellow breeder Paul Ysebaert of Mooretown.

“I bought her mother as a yearling and raced her,” explains McIntosh. “My plan was always to keep her and breed her, and she’s off to a good start as a broodmare.”

McIntosh and Ysebaert share ownership on All Accounted For with C S X Stables of Liberty Center, OH, and the partners are looking for the filly to score a top four finish and earn a spot in next week’s Gold Final. Among the fillies she and Baillargeon will face are two elimination winners from the Mohawk event, Voelz Hanover and Style Semalu, who will start from Posts 2 and 4 respectively.

The other elimination features division point leader Shake That Junk from Post 1 and season opening Gold Final champion Maddam Luck from Post 3.

Post time for Rideau Carleton Raceway’s Sunday evening program is 6:30 pm and the two-year-old pacing fillies will battle in Races 6 and 9, while the two-year-old pacing colts aim for Gold Final glory in Race 11.

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