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ELORA, August 17 – Ontario’s top two-year-old pacing fillies travelled to Grand River Raceway tonight for a pair of $102,200 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold divisions. OSS action began in race four with Starlight Dancer emerging victorious from the eight-horse field. When the gate rolled Doug McNair drove No Soup Tonight to the lead from post

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ELORA, August 15 – Returning to the site of one of her rare defeats, Adare Castle was the class of the lone $156,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold division for sophomore trotting fillies tonight at Grand River Raceway. The bettors sent the daughter of Muscle Mass off as the 1-2 favourite, making that 14 times in

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MILTON, August 12, 2022 – Rookie trotting colts and geldings met up Friday evening at Woodbine Mohawk Park for the third Ontario Sires Stakes Gold leg of the season. Team McNair’s Osceola moved to the lead just after the opening-quarter and never looked back for a 1:56.1 victory in the $101,300 first division. Doug McNair

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MILTON, August 11 – Ontario Sires Stakes racing took over the card tonight at Woodbine Mohawk Park with two Gold trotting and five Grassroots pacing divisions for first-year fillies. The highlight of the night was Righteous Resolve winning her second straight Gold division in impressive fashion. In race 8, the second $102,200 Gold division, Paul

INNISFIL, August 7 – The glamour boys were at Georgian Downs tonight for a pair of Ontario Sires Stakes Gold divisions, and the father-son duo of Gregg and Doug McNair was victorious in each. Sport Secret started the night off earning his first stakes victory in the $102,200 division in race 1. Doug settled the

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Sophomore pacing fillies made their way to Grand River Raceway for the Industry Day festivities, competing in Ontario Sires Stakes Gold action. The pair of $100,400 divisions produced a first time Gold winner, and a return to the winner’s circle for a freshman superstar. I Love Ongait started the OSS action off with a bang

Story by Ray Cotolo / Grand River Raceway
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ELORA, Ont. (Aug. 1, 2022) — Team McNair added to their Grand River Raceway resume on Monday afternoon when their Bettors Delight gelding Sounds Good scored a 1:55.1 victory in the $204,000 Battle of Waterloo Final presented by Winbak Farm. Off the 8-5 favourite, Sounds Good grabbed the lead while Santana Hanover parked to his

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Aug 1, 2022 - (Dresden, Ont.) - Ontario Sire Stakes Two-Year-Old Trotting Fillies clashed in Grassroots action at Dresden Raceway and did not disappoint. The first dash of freshmen fillies saw Sister Twister take the lead at the half and never look back for the win in 2:06.1 with a last quarter kick of 29.3

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The average price for a yearling at the 2020 Harrisburg Sale was $38,215. Adare Castle was a $10,000 purchase for trainer Mark Etsell and his fellow owners. That $10,000 yearling has turned into the best horse Etsell has ever trained. “Everybody just feels fortunate that we have this filly,” said Etsell. “You can’t order them

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ELORA, Ont. — Grand River Raceway juggernauts Doug and Gregg McNair will try to continue their domination of the Battle of Waterloo following a sweep of the two $15,000 eliminations contested Monday night. First the McNairs scored with Sounds Good, who also looked good in romping to an open-length score in 1:56.3. Doug launched the