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2013-09-29T00:00:00-04:00September 29, 2013|

Bee A Magician repeats as Super Final champion

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Super Final Night 2013 kicked off with a pair of trotting filly showdowns and Ontario harness racing fans witnessed impressive performances by two-year-old prodigy Riveting Rosie and three-year-old megastar Bee A Magician. Starting from Post 7 in the first $200,000 Super Final, driver Paul MacDonell sent Riveting Rosie straight to the front

2013-09-27T00:00:00-04:00September 27, 2013|

Thankyoukessel gives Bruins fan a highlight reel season

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — During the winter of 2010-11 long time Boston Bruins fans Joe MacIsaac was watching his team play the Toronto Maple Leafs while thinking up names for the latest foal from partner Carolyn Williston's broodmare Chelemark Gizmo. As the Boston faithful chanted �Thank You Kessel' — referencing the 2009 trade deal that sent

2013-09-26T00:00:00-04:00September 26, 2013|

McNair hopes Super Final mounts keep him in hunt

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Doug McNair will steer eight talented horses during Saturday's $1.6 million Super Final Night at Mohawk Racetrack, and while the Guelph resident cannot catch the leaders in the Ontario Sires Stakes drivers' race a successful Super Final showing could move him closer to an even bigger goal. In the Ontario race McNair

2013-09-25T00:00:00-04:00September 25, 2013|

Bee A Magician and Co. ready for Super Final battles

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — While the harness racing industry's attention has been focused on trotting filly Bee A Magician's undefeated sophomore season and record setting miles, trainer Richard "Nifty" Norman has been quietly campaigning a number of other Ontario-sired youngsters hoping for Super Final success at Mohawk Racetrack on Saturday night. In addition to his stable

2013-09-24T00:00:00-04:00September 24, 2013|

Parsons prepping trio of Super Final hopefuls

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Ron Parsons started the season with four Ontario-sired trotters and landed all four in the post season, three of them in Saturday's $1.6 million Super Final Night at Mohawk Racetrack. The Cambridge resident will start Striking Serenade in the $200,000 two-year-old trotting filly Super Final, Seeuinthespring in the three-year-old trotting filly final

2013-09-22T00:00:00-04:00September 22, 2013|

Great White Way leaps into post season with victory

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — It took two trips to Campbellville, but the province's top two-year-old pacing and trotting colts wrapped up their Gold Series regular season at Mohawk Racetrack on Saturday evening. After a power outage forced the cancellation of the Friday, Sept. 20 program before all divisions of the last regular season leg could be

2013-09-22T00:00:00-04:00September 22, 2013|

Waples, McIntosh sweep freshman trotting finals

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Milton resident Randy Waples and Hall of Fame trainer Bob McIntosh dominated the freshman trotting divisions on the $400,000 Grassroots Championship program at Mohawk Racetrack on Saturday, Sept. 21. Kicking off the Championship action in the second race, Waples guided McIntosh trainee Pasadena Star to a commanding three and three-quarter length victory

2013-09-22T00:00:00-04:00September 22, 2013|

Miss Aultsville trots to record on second trip to Elora

ELORA, ON — Grand River Raceway fans were treated to three bonus races on Sunday evening as the two-year-old trotting and pacing fillies returned to the Elora oval to compete in the Gold Series divisions that were cancelled due to extreme weather on Friday. The trotting lasses got things off to a rousing start with

2013-09-20T00:00:00-04:00September 20, 2013|

Gold colts sizzle at Mohawk before the lights go out

CAMPBELLVILLE, ON — Weather brought Mohawk Racetrack's Friday, Sept. 20 program to an early halt, but not before fans got a taste of what they can expect when the top Gold Series horses return to the Campbellville oval for Super Final Night. Two Gold divisions for the three-year-old trotting colts, two for the two-year-old trotting

2013-09-20T00:00:00-04:00September 20, 2013|

Fillies impress on abbreviated night of racing

ELORA, ON — Buffeted by extreme weather, Grand River Raceway was forced to cancel its program of racing after just two Gold Series divisions had gone to the post on Friday, Sept. 20. One freshman pacing filly division and one freshman trotting filly division were completed before the severe thunderstorms arrived. The remaining divisions, two