CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — When the three-year-old trotting colts return to Mohawk Racetrack on Friday evening for their last Gold Series event, Canadian Trotting Classic champion Majestic Son will be the well deserved centre of attention.

Making their bid for a fourth Gold Elimination trophy from Post 2 in the first race, Majestic Son and Trevor Ritchie will be the heavy favourites in the six colt field. Two races later the second group of trotters will battle for a berth in the Oct. 6 Gold Final and trainer Anders Wolden is hoping Dr Robert Johns is ready to reclaim the number two spot in the division.

“I hope he is getting good and can step up and be second best again behind Majestic Son, like he was last year,” says Wolden. “He looks like he’s getting good again.”

The cause for Wolden’s optimism is a runner-up finish Dr Robert Johns delivered at Mohawk on Sept. 22. The Balanced Image son finished a neck behind Here Comes Herbie in the 1:56 mile, over a track rated one second slower than normal, and clocked an impressive ::27.2 last quarter in the process. It marked the colt’s best performance since the July 22 Canadian Breeders Championship eliminations where he was placed ahead from second to first.

“He’s had a little bad luck, but the main problem has been that it’s taking him a long time to get healthy,” says the Moffat resident. “His white blood count has been high and he hasn’t been racing well. He hasn’t had any finish to his miles.”

A Gold Final winner at two, and the runner-up to Majestic Son in last year’s Super Final, Dr Robert Johns has only a trio of third-place finishes to his credit in five Gold Series starts this season. With 36 points the colt is currently 30 points shy of a berth in this year’s Super Final and Wolden would love to see the young trotter step up with a strong performance on Friday and earn a berth in the Oct. 14 season finale.

“I’m hoping he could win the elimination and get enough points for the Super Final,” says the horseman, who shares ownership on the colt with Kathrine Moi of Moffat, Arnfinn AB Bye of Klaebu, NOR and Bjorn Ulstad of Sandefiord, NOR. “But we’ll see what happens.”

Wolden will also harness MVS Grand Ballad in Friday’s contest, sending the first time Gold starter out from Post 6 in the first elimination.

“He’s a nice horse, he just needs to race a little more,” says Wolden, who conditions the Royal Ballad son for Craig Chadwick of Grand Valley. “He needs to learn more.”

The gifted three-year-old trotting colts will open Mohawk Racetrack’s Friday evening program at 7:20 pm and wrap up their last Gold Eliminations in Race 3. The top five finishers from each elimination will return to the Campbellville oval on Friday, Oct. 6 for their last $130,000 Gold Final.

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