FRASERVILLE, ON — How fast can they go? That is the question Ontario Sires Stakes fans are asking after watching the two-year-old trotting fillies lower the Ontario Sires Stakes record for the second straight week at Kawartha Downs.

Heading into Tuesday’s $130,000 Gold Final, trainer Carl Jamieson said Torch had loafed through the later stages of her 1:57.4 elimination victory and speculated that a mile in 1:56 and change was well within the Kadabra daughter’s reach. The gifted young trotter made a soothsayer out of her trainer with an outstanding first over performance that saw her hit the finish in 1:57.1, stripping two-fifths of a second off the track, Ontario Sires Stakes and Canadian record set by Windsun Magical and Dornello in last week’s elimination.

From Post 1, Torch and driver Jody Jamieson were well beaten in the :28.3 sprint away from the starting gate, landing eight lengths behind early leader Dornello. Driver Trevor Ritchie took his foot off the accelerator in the second quarter and Dornello hit the half in :58, while Jamieson tipped Torch to the outside in what is becoming her trademark move.

At the 1:27.1 three-quarters fan favourite Dornello was still in control of the race, but Torch had moved up to third and was just one and three-quarter lengths behind the leader. Turning for home Torch had narrowed Dornello’s lead to less than a length, and when Jamieson asked the filly for full power she accelerated away from the reigning Gold Final champion to a one and one-quarter length victory.

Its My Time and trainer-driver Jimmy Takter followed Torch and Jamieson up the outside to land the third-place finisher’s share.

The win was Torch’s fourth of the season. A winner of her July 1 Flamboro Breeders Stake division, her July 17 Gold Elimination at Georgian Downs and last week’s Gold Elimination, the only time Torch has been bested was in the July 24 Gold Final at Georgian Downs where she finished third behind Dornello and Windsun Magical.

Princeton resident Carl Jamieson trains the talented daughter of Kadabra and Red Hot And Blue for his partner Ken Henwood of Mississauga. The pair acquired Torch at last fall’s Canadian Open Yearling Sale for $50,000. Through her first five starts the filly has already returned $134,622.

Torch will begin defence of her Gold Final title on Aug. 20 at Mohawk Racetrack. The Ontario Sires Stakes record for two-year-old trotting fillies on a seven-eighths mile track, held jointly by provincial superstars Peaceful Way and Pure Ivory, is 1:57, just one-fifth of a second faster than Torch circled Kawartha Downs’s five-eighths mile oval.

Kawartha Downs fans have already witnessed three Ontario Sires Stakes record setting performances this season, and the excitement continues on Tuesday, Sept. 18 with Gold Elimination action for the talented three-year-old pacing colts.

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