WOODSTOCK, ON — Ontario’s two-year-old pacing fillies face their first Grassroots test this Saturday afternoon at Woodstock Raceway, battling for a total of $102,000 in five divisions.

Among the fillies hoping to realise their potential are a pair trained by Thamesford resident Scott Barr. Olle Bolle makes her racing debut from Post 2 in the third race, while Qmotion will make her third start from Post 2 in Race 7.

“They both showed ability from the start. Whether it’s enough, you never know,” says Barr, who trains the fillies for Tony Aarts of Putnam. “They’ve both got a good attitude on the track.”

Olle Bolle heads into the first $20,289 division off a pair of qualifiers at Mohawk Racetrack, the most recent a fourth-place finish in 1:59.4 on July 3.

“She qualified yesterday. She was pretty green on the front end, obviously, she was ahead by six lengths at the half and gave it up,” says Barr. “She’s never seen a half-mile track before, never even trained on one, but if she behaves herself she should be all right.”

Stablemate Qmotion has a pair of races over Western Fair Raceway under her belt, finishing second in a 1:59.4 mile on June 21 and then running into trouble on the front end in her June 28 outing.

“She made breaks in the straight-aways,” explains Barr. “It wasn’t like her, she never made a break the whole time she was training down, but we were able to find the problem and I think we’ve rectified it. She trained good this morning.”

A $7,000 acquisition at last fall’s Forest City Yearling Sale, Qmotion has a pair of half-siblings, Total Impact and Yulovepebblebeach, who found success in the Grassroots program at two.

Both fillies are out of the first crop of Camotion, who earned $1.9 million for Aarts and his partner the Mottram Stable of Mississauga during his four year career from 1999 to 2002, so the Putnam resident would love to see the young pacers succeed in their first crack at the Ontario Sires Stakes program.

“I think they’ll be useful racehorses,” speculates Barr. “We just need a little bit of luck for Saturday.”

In addition to Olle Bolle and Qmotion, 36 other freshman pacing fillies will be looking for luck in Races 3, 5, 7, 8, and 9 at Woodstock Raceway on Saturday. The half-mile oval sends its first race into the starter’s hands at 1 pm.

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