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It’s too early to know how Beau Jangles will do once he dances with the greats in his division, but there’s no denying the legend of the precocious, undefeated Ontario-sired 2-year-old pacer is growing at a rate commensurate with the horse’s confidence. Through five perfect starts – all in Ontario – the imposing son of

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Outtathisworld Deo set a national season’s best 1:52 mile while posting an 18-1 upset on Sunday (Aug. 24) at Rideau Carleton Raceway in the lone $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Leg 4 event for 3-year-old pacing fillies. The career-best victory came at the expense of 2024 Canadian Horse of the Year Chantilly, who was sent

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With a late kick, LMC Wagon Wheel won a surprisingly competitive five-horse $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Leg 4 event for 3-year-old trotting colts on Friday (Aug. 22) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. It was the first Gold victory of the year for the gelded homebred son of Wheeling N Dealin-LMC Marshmellow, who edged two-time

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A Clean Deal maintained her clean record by powering to a career-best 1:50 victory in the lone $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Leg 3 Gold Series event for 2-year-old pacing fillies on Thursday (Aug. 14) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The daughter of Cattlewash—Ideal Talker is now perfect through four career starts and three OSS Gold

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Bright Green equaled the 1:52 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) record for 3-year-old trotting fillies while winning the lone $140,000 Gold Leg 4 event on Saturday (Aug. 9) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. It was Bright Green’s first career Gold victory. Driven by her part-owner Louis-Philippe Roy, the daughter of Green Manalishi S out of Shine Bright,

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Another week, another group of new Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Series winners in the 2-year-old trotting colt division. Thursday night (Aug. 7) at Woodbine Mohawk Park, a pair of former Grassroots competitors, Crunchintheodds (above) and Mike Me Up, were winners in their respective $90,000 Gold events one week after Another Great Mass won the

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Bingo Night and Tyler Jones equalled the 1:53.4 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) record for 2-year-old trotting fillies in the first of two $90,000 Gold events in the division on Monday night (Aug. 4) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Cher Hill emerged victorious in the second division. In the first Gold test, Bingo Night (above) posted a

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Control Rocks posted the first sub-1:50 mile in Grand River Raceway history, winning the first of two $90,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Leg 3 divisions in 1:49.4 on Monday afternoon (Aug. 4) during the Elora, ON track’s Industry Day / Battle of Waterloo card. Then, Allstar Maniac (above) did one better and followed that

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Another Great Mass won the action-packed $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Leg 2 Gold Series event for 2-year-old trotting colts on Thursday (July 31) at Woodbine Mohawk Park one week after severe weather forced the postponement of the original date for the race. The homebred son of Muscle Mass out of Incredibility, driven by Trevor