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They had to battle over a sloppy, rain-soaked track, but the three-year-old pacing colts were still sizzling at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday, July 23 in a quartet of $22,500 Grassroots divisions. Saltwater Savage scored the fastest mile of the night, powering through the rain to a 1:50.4 victory in the last division. The State

Ontario’s top three-year-old pacing fillies mixed it up at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday, July 23 and Dabarndawgswatchin and Western Wish sent the favourites home empty-handed. In the first $101,400 Gold division, driver Jody Jamieson had Dabarndawgswatchin on the move from Post 2 as soon as the wings folded and the filly led the field

Drivers James MacDonald and Doug McNair of Guelph, ON split the three-year-old pacing filly Grassroots divisions down the middle at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Thursday, July 22. MacDonald, who currently sits atop the Ontario Sires Stakes driver standings, won the first two divisions with Good Night Moon and Sweet Pink and McNair, currently sixth in

Examining where Ontario stacks up against the likes of Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Indiana and others. By Dave Briggs Read the story here: Wire to Wire Download the entire Harness Racing Update issue here: HRU Issue Subscribe (for free) to HRU here: HRU Subscribe

Drivers Jody Jamieson and Trevor Henry each won a trio of races on the Tuesday, July 20 program at Woodbine Mohawk Park, and two of their wins came in two-year-old pacing filly Grassroots action. Jamieson opened the program with an effortless score behind Motovation in the first $22,500 Grassroots division. Starting from Post 1 with

Stews Watching got his second straight Grassroots win on Monday, July 19 and Grand River Raceway fans may get a second look at the two-year-old pacing colt next Monday in the Battle Of Waterloo eliminations. “I’ll talk to Mr. Ratchford and I would say there’s probably a good possibility that we’ll try him in the

Driver James MacDonald, trainer Nick Gallucci and owner-breeder George Millar teamed up to win two of three Gold Series divisions for the two-year-old pacing fillies at Georgian Downs on Sunday, July 18. Their first victory came with Silver Label in the first $69,733 division. Starting from Post 5, Silver Label left smartly and settled in

Imextraspecial and HP Mama B sprinted around Georgian Downs on Saturday, July 17 to claim the winner’s share of $101,400 in their respective three-year-old trotting filly Gold Series divisions. Imextraspecial opened Saturday’s program with a stalking trip behind pacesetter Dashing Muscle. Starting from Post 3, driver Trevor Henry tucked the fan favourite in behind Dashing

Professional, easy-going, strong, willing — trainers Nick Gallucci and John Pentland called on similar adjectives Friday night to describe their two-year-old pacing colt Gold Series winners Betterhavemymoney and Stonebridge Helios. The pacers took very different trips around the Woodbine Mohawk Park oval to get to the winner’s circle, but they tripped the teletimer in identical

Grand River Raceway’s Ontario Sires Stakes season got off to a quick start on Friday, July 16 as Fuzzy Angel rocketed around the Elora oval to a 1:56.3 victory in the first $22,150 three-year-old trotting filly Grassroots division. Starting from Post 4, driver Jody Jamieson fired Fuzzy Angel away from the start and reached the