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DUNDAS, ON — This Sunday at 6:20 pm Flamboro Downs presents an outstanding card of harness racing, featuring eliminations and the final of the $600,000 Confederation Cup for three-year-old pacing colts as well as $130,000 Gold Finals for the two-year-old pacing colts and three-year-old trotting colts. The sophomore trotting colts kick off the stakes parade

HANOVER, ON — Ontario Sires Stakes excitement returns to Hanover Raceway on Saturday night with five Grassroots divisions for the three-year-old trotting colts. After three events Willing And Abel sits atop the division standings with 125 points earned through two wins and one second-place effort. The Incredible Abe son will attempt to pad his lead

GLOUCESTER, ON — Ontario Sires Stakes action returns to Rideau Carleton Raceway on Sunday evening with four Grassroots divisions for the two-year-old trotting colts. Bob McIntosh, last year's Johnston Cup winner as the leading trainer in the Ontario Sires Stakes, starts a trio of colts in the third Grassroots event of the season including a

SARNIA, ON — After winning their eliminations in track record time last weekend, stablemates Natashas Kiss and Pepi Lavec have been ranked the early favourites for the $130,000 Gold Final at Hiawatha Horse Park on Saturday night. The John Bax trainees dazzled Sarnia fans on Aug. 10 when Natashas Kiss lowered the three-year-old trotting filly

FRASERVILLE, ON — Ontario's exciting two-year-old pacing colts are back in action on Saturday night at Kawartha Downs, racing for a total of $135,000 in the third Grassroots event of their six-race season. A total of 74 colts will line up behind the Kawartha Downs starting gate in nine divisions and four of them will

ELMIRA, ON — When the three-year-old trotting fillies parade onto Elmira Raceway's half-mile oval for the last of six Grassroots divisions on Friday night, trainer Budd Thorne hopes to find the old adage "slow and steady wins the race" applies to more than just tortoises. Thorne's filly Royal Waltz has not set any speed records

DUNDAS, ON — In a fitting finale to a remarkable weekend of Ontario Sires Stakes racing at Flamboro Downs, two-year-old pacing colt Sir Luck scorched around the half-mile oval Sunday night in a track and OSS record 1:53.4. After making a break in the first turn of the Battle of Waterloo Final last weekend driver

DUNDAS, ON — Ontario Sires Stakes competitors shattered track and provincial speed barriers for the second straight night at Flamboro Downs on Saturday. Competing in Gold Series Elimination action, three-year-old trotting colt Semper Fi Hall stopped the clock in 1:57.1 to shave one-fifth of a second off the former record set by Arva Crest Ago

SARNIA, ON — Hiawatha Horse Park's three-year-old trotting filly track record fell victim to Ontario Sires Stakes competitors on Saturday night for the second time in the 2002 season. One month ago Crown Lavec trotted to a 1:58.1 record in Grassroots action and on Saturday night a pair of John Bax trained fillies lowered again

REXDALE, ON — Armbro Wallflower leapt up the three-year-old pacing filly division standings with a victory in the $130,000 Gold Final at Woodbine Racetrack on Friday evening. The Village Jasper daughter and driver Paul MacDonell scored the 1:51.3 victory using a radically different strategy than they did for last week's elimination win. Rather than laying