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MILTON, October 1, 2022 – The pair of $60,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots Championships for three-year-old pacers were thrilling affairs, with Chucky Hanover and Fade Out emerging victorious in matching times of 1:50.3, a new lifetime mark for both. Chucky Hanover won the boys finale in the ninth race of the evening, and his victory

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MILTON, October 1, 2022 – The $60,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots Championsip for two-year-old male pacers saw 1-5 favourite Reign Supreme make front before the first turn, but 36-1 longshot Thong Control and Sylvain Filion stole the crown in deep stretch. In a little early drama that foreshadowed a stunning stretch drive, James MacDonald lost

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MILTON, October 1, 2022 – The winners of the $60,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots Championships for sophomore trotting fillies and colts took totally different routes to the winner’s circle. One had a textbook pocket trip while the other was parked just about every step of the mile tonight at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Stormont Mabel was

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MILTON, October 1, 2022 – No Angel Like Me saved her best for last, getting up in the final strides to take the $60,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots Final for two-year-old trotting fillies, Saturday at Woodbine Mohawk Park. After hitting the podium in her first four starts, including a pair of seconds, No Angel Like Me,

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MILTON, October 1, 2022 – Nothingbutadreamer made a return to the winner’s circle on Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park, fending off a determined foe to take top prize in the $60,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots Final for two-year-old trotting colts and geldings The bay son of Muscle Mass-Myimpossibledream came into his latest engagement having gone

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MILTON, October 1 – Only one filly has bested standout two-year-old trotter Righteous Resolve this season, Patrick Lang trainee Sweet Determnation. Lang’s Lookslikeachpndale filly currently leads her OSS division and is gunning for her third top-level OSS victory of the season in one of four $100,000-plus divisions, as the final Gold Leg for female and male

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MILTON, September 30 – The Glamour Boys wrapped up their Ontario Sires Stakes Gold season tonight at Woodbine Mohawk Park with Cold Creek Queso punching his return ticket to the Milton oval for the Super Final on October 15 with an impressive three-length win in a $100,400 Gold division. Sitting eleventh in the season long

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LONDON, September 30 – Sauble Amber went off as a 1-9 favorite in her quest to repeat as Prospect Series Champion, and the three-year-old pacing filly did not disappoint her backers, cruising to victory in 1:58.0 to win one of eight $15,000 Prospect Series Finals at The Raceway at the Western Fair District. The daughter

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MILTON, September 29 – Merriam Webster dictionary defines homebred as “produced at home”. In racing, when a breeder produces and races a homebred, success with that horse means just a little bit more. Trainer Ashleigh Hensley, and her husband Ed, decided to breed their retired racemare Escuela to Archangel in 2019 and produce their first

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LONDON, September 29 – Ontario Racing’s Prospect Series Finals are set to go Friday at The Raceway at the Western Fair District, on the opening night of the 2022-23 racing calendar. Each Prospect Series Final has a purse of $15,000, beginning with two-year-old pacing fillies in race three, and ending with three-year-old pacing colts and geldings