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Carl Jamieson has decades of experience preparing horses for the Ontario Sires Stakes post season and the trainer says three-year-old pacing filly Noone To Depend On is in peak form heading into Friday's Grassroots Semi-final at Mohawk Racetrack. "She should be shaping up real good," said Jamieson. "She's ready to rock and roll." Noone To

Thursday's Grassroots Semi-finals at Mohawk Racetrack will mark a rare first for brothers Sean and John Mehlenbacher. Members of a harness racing family that stretches back four generations, the Mehlenbachers will send out their first Ontario Sires Stakes post season contender on Thursday's program. Two-year-old pacing filly Daenerys Hanover heads into the $20,000 Semi-final ranked

Grassroots regular season action came to a close at Flamboro Downs on Thursday evening and driver Billy Davis Jr. finished up the campaign with a Grassroots double on a night he piloted four of his five mounts to victory. Both the two-year-old pacing colts and pacing fillies were in action on Thursday, and Davis was

Facing the end of his Ontario Sires Stakes career, three-year-old trotting gelding Windsun Missile came up with his first Grassroots win of the season at Grand River Raceway on Wednesday evening. Starting from Post 5, trainer-driver Per Henriksen dropped Windsun Missile onto the rail in fourth as fan favourite Wildwild Men stepped out to a

While the two-year-old pacing colts and fillies wage their last regular season Grassroots battles at Flamboro Downs on Thursday, Sept. 8, fans can enter the final Ontario Sires Stakes "Be A Winner" contest of the 2016 campaign. Ballot boxes for the seven two-year-old pacing fillies competing in Race 8 will be set up at the

Two-year-old trotting fillies were the stars of Mohawk Racetrack's Tuesday evening program, with the winners of all three Grassroots divisions delivering personal best efforts in the regular season finale. Jilona opened the evening's festivities with a confident steer from Trevor Henry that saw her blast off the starting gate from Post 9 to a :29

Driver Randy Waples and trainer Bob McIntosh teamed up to win two Grassroots trophies at Mohawk Racetrack on Monday evening. First to line up behind the Mohawk starting gate from the McIntosh barn was Many A Man, and Waples sent the two-year-old trotting colt away from Post 2 and landed third on the rail as

Flamboro Downs kicked off its 2016 Ontario Sires Stakes schedule on Sunday evening with the Grassroots regular season finale for the three-year-old trotting fillies. The first $18,000 Grassroots division rolled in behind the Flamboro Downs starting gate in the sixth race and Sunrise Avenue powered straight to the front from Post 3 and never looked

Clinton Raceway wrapped up its 2016 season with the 36th annual Driver's Challenge and the last regular season Grassroots event for the three-year-old pacing fillies. Although he did not win one of the four Grassroots divisions, driver Doug McNair earned the second Challenge title of his career, edging out rival Trevor Henry by three points.

Ontario's top three-year-old pacing colts kicked off Mohawk Racetrack's $2.4 million evening of stakes on Saturday and served up a preview of the lightning fast racing to come as both Gold Series divisions were clocked in 1:49.3. The colts opened the stakes action in the second race and fan favourite Sintra took control just past