WINDSOR, ON — Two-year-old fillies step into the spotlight at Windsor Raceway on Saturday evening as the five-eighths mile oval plays host to Gold Eliminations for both pacers and trotters.

Kevin Wallis will pilot a starter in all four eliminations, including Zeglarska Street, a recent addition to his wife Linda Wallis’s barn. The pacing miss will make her second Ontario Sires Stakes start for the couple on Saturday and Wallis is hoping Zeglarska Street brings her �A’ game to her local oval.

“She’s been a little bit of a disappointment so far,” admits Wallis. “She got sick shortly after we got her, so for a couple starts she wasn’t up to par. Come Saturday night hopefully she has a little better run to her. I think she’s healthy now.”

Bred by Maidstone resident Randi Biederman, Zeglarska Street was purchased by the Cuzzins Stable of Delray Beach, FL in mid-September. In her first start for her new connections, a Sept. 15 conditioned event at Hiawatha Horse Park, the Twin B Champ daughter faded to fifth after carving all the fractions. Then, in Gold Elimination action at Mohawk Racetrack on Sept. 23 the filly finished sixth and failed to advance to the $130,000 Final.

The Wallis’s opted for an Oct. 5 conditioned event at Windsor for Zeglarska Street’s next start and she delivered a half length victory in 1:56.4. In with older horses at the Windsor oval on Oct. 16, she posted a seventh-place finish but peeled two-fifths of a second off her time from the week before.

Zeglarska Street will start from Post 3 in the first pacing filly elimination Saturday and Wallis hopes the inside starting position and the track size will work in the petite filly’s favour.

“Post position matters quite a lot at Windsor and she has pretty good gate speed. That’s to her advantage,” says the Maidstone resident. “And I think it (five-eighths track) should be beneficial for her, since she is on the smaller side.”

Heading into the event off a two-week break, Zeglarska Street will get a stiff work-out on Wednesday to prepare for Saturday’s $54,525 contest, where she will face a tough field including top ranked fillies Draconian Promise and Stunning Beauty from Posts 1 and 4.

Post time at Windsor Raceway on Sunday evening is 7 pm, and the pacing fillies are featured in Races 6 and 11, while the trotting lasses take centre stage in Races 5 and 9. The top four fillies from each elimination, plus a pair of fifth-place finishers selected by random draw, will return to Windsor Raceway next Saturday, Nov. 5 for their last $130,000 Gold Finals.

For a complete list of entries please go to:

http://www.standardbredcanada.ca/entries/data/ewrfsa.html