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TORONTO, ON — Voelz Hanover is at the top of her game heading into Monday's $140,000 Gold Final at Woodbine Racetrack, and trainer Ben Baillargeon says the key to the three-year-old pacing filly's recent success has been her new found friendship with stablemate Ingrid Hanover. "That mare has been the key to her turning around,"

WINDSOR, ON — Ontario's remarkably gifted three-year-old pacing colts make their final regular season appearance in a $180,000 Gold Final at Windsor Raceway on Tuesday evening. With only seven horses declaring into the regular season finale, an elimination was not necessary and all seven colts advanced directly to Tuesday's lucrative final. Roman Rocks makes just

DUNDAS, ON — Mark Steacy will start three fillies on Friday night's $480,000 Grassroots Championship program, one he always expected to vie for the Grassroots title, and two that have been pleasant late season surprises. With $185,981 earned in her two-year-old campaign, Steacy had hoped Dornello would rank among the top Gold fillies this season,

TORONTO, ON — Neither of the sophomore pacing fillies favoured in Monday evening's Gold Eliminations managed to deliver the anticipated result in their first appearance of the season over the Woodbine Racetrack oval. In the first $40,000 elimination, Voelz Hanover grabbed the early lead and took the field of eight fillies to a :27 opening

DUNDAS, ON — A total of $480,000 is on the line at Flamboro Downs on Friday night, and 64 of the province's top trotters and pacers will be honing their skills all week in the hopes of earning a Grassroots Championship crown. Three-year-old pacing gelding Giddy Up Lucky heads into the Championship undefeated in Grassroots

DUNDAS, ON — Two-year-old trotting colt Lukas Rossi extended his Grassroots win streak to three with an impressive victory in his $30,000 Semifinal at Flamboro Downs on Friday night. "He's all right this colt, he's got some high speed," said trainer Ron O'Neill of Cambridge. "He looks like he could be a really nice colt."

DUNDAS, ON — The margin of victory was smaller than he has become used to, and the time was well off the Ontario Sires Stakes record he set at Flamboro Downs in the summer, but three-year-old pacing colt Giddy Up Lucky maintained his perfect Grassroots record in the Semifinal round on Thursday night. "It was

TORONTO, ON — Ontario's talented three-year-old pacing fillies kick off Woodbine Racetrack's 2008 Sires Stakes season on Monday evening, and Toronto resident Randy Bennett is hoping that an inside post will help Changing Gears earn a top finish in the second of two $40,000 Gold Eliminations. "I'm knocking on the wood on my desk right

DUNDAS, ON — This Friday, on the second night of Grassroots Semifinal action at Flamboro Downs, sixty-four of the province's most talented two-year-olds will bring their �A' game to the Dundas oval in search of a berth in their Grassroots Championship. Trotting filly B Cor Tanya heads into her $30,000 Semifinal off a lacklustre performance

DUNDAS, ON — When Ontario's top three-year-old trotters and pacers line up behind the starting gate at Flamboro Downs on Thursday, all the hard work they did to get into the Grassroots Semifinals ceases to matter. All eight starters in each Semifinal are on equal footing, and they all share the same goal, a top