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CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Paul MacDonell qualified two Mike Keeling trained trotting fillies for Thursday night's $130,000 Gold Final at Mohawk Racetrack, but the reinsman had committed to Sugar Wheeler well before he engineered the results of last week's eliminations. The Guelph resident has driven the three-year-old trotting lass in all but two of her 20

ELORA, ON — When Ben Baillargeon was plotting Cool Creek Breeze's sophomore season he did not expect the filly to be competing in Friday's Grassroots event at Grand River Raceway, but he also did not expect her to land him in hospital in early May. On May 1 Cool Creek Breeze reared up and struck

OTTAWA, ON — Michaels Power moved into the millionaires circle on Sunday night at Rideau Carleton Raceway with a commanding track record performance in the three-year-old pacing colt Gold Final. With regular reinsman Scott Zeron in the race bike Michaels Power waged an early battle with I Found My Beach for control of the front

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Three-year-old trotting colt rivals Prestidigitator and Knows Nothing lined up beside each other at the start of Saturday night's $130,000 Gold Final and less than two minutes later they thundered across the Mohawk Racetrack finish line in the same formation. Cold Certified was quickest away, firing out from Post 1 to a

OTTAWA, ON — Ontario's talented young trotters put on another outstanding show in Gold Final action at Rideau Carleton Raceway on Friday night. The two-year-old trotting fillies stepped to centre stage in the Ottawa oval's eighth race and, starting from Post 1, Seeuinthespring fired out to the front just like she did in last week's

HANOVER, ON — Driver Keith Oliver and trainer Bob McIntosh teamed up to win a pair of two-year-old pacing filly Grassroots events at Hanover Raceway on Thursday evening. Their first victory came in the fifth $24,000 Grassroots division when Snowbird stuck a nose in front at the wire to edge out fan favourite Embassy Seelster.

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Murmur Hanover displayed the heart of a champion at Mohawk Racetrack on Thursday evening, battling back in the stretch to score a nose victory in an Ontario Sires Stakes record 1:55.2. Starting from Post 6, driver Mario Baillargeon sent Murmur Hanover after the early lead and the two-year-old trotting colt was comfortably

SARNIA, ON — Hiawatha Horse Park hosted an invasion of three-year-old trotting fillies on Thursday evening, giving away $168,000 in Grassroots purse money. Tymal Breezee kicked things off in the third race, charging out of the pocket to score a head victory over pacesetter Uncommon Grace and Kylie Hall. Tymal Breezee and driver David Dowling

OTTAWA, ON — Michaels Power arrives at Rideau Carleton Raceway for Sunday's Gold Final just $29,350 shy of $1 million in earnings. A win or a second in Sunday's $130,000 contest would put the three-year-old pacer into an elite category that trainer Casie Coleman never considered a possibility for the gelding prior to the start

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Trainer Eric Adams says Mindsweeper's elimination victory last week was a matter of the right trip on the right day and the Newmarket resident is hoping things work out just as well in Monday's $130,000 Gold Final at Mohawk Racetrack. "She got a real good trip, that's kind of what she needed,"