Adding trotting hopples to Devils Advocate’s equipment bag paid immediate dividends for trainer Jack Darling and driver Ron Waples as the filly rocketed around Flamboro Downs to a Canadian record during the Dundas oval’s Ontario Sires Stakes Celebration on Sunday. In spite of a recall that delayed the start of the first $105,000 Gold division, […] Read more »
Ontario-Sired, Ella V Horse, Wins Saratoga Feature In 1.52.3
Ontario-sired Ella V Horse went coast to coast on Friday night at Saratoga Casino and Raceway to prevail in the local feature for fillies and mares for the first time. Stephane Bouchard piloted the Andy Sardella-trained Royal Mattjesty mare and, following a third-place finish in last week’s $15,000 Winners Over Pace for distaffers, moved the […] Read more »
Bee A Magician Headlines Centaur
Hoosier Park will offer arguably one of the best 14-race cards of its 2015 live racing season to date on Saturday, September 26. Grand Circuit racing action will make its way to Hoosier Park for the second time this season and with it, bring the top rated horses in North America to Hoosier Park as […] Read more »
Nocturnal Bluechip, And Nvestment Bluechip Win OSS Gold In Mohawk
Two-year-old pacing colts and geldings sparred in a rich set of OSS Gold Series divisions Tuesday evening at Mohawk Racetrack, and favourites went down to defeat in each of those $105,000 affairs. Nocturnal Bluechip, who was sent off at 5-2, steamrolled over seven foes to win the first division in a career-best clocking of 1:51. […] Read more »
Horsepeople Optimistic After Canadian Yearling Sale
Feedback on the 2015 Canadian Yearling Sale has been overwhelmingly positive in the wake of a nearly 70 percent sale increase and the highest overall yearling average in 15 years. Bob Ladouceur, owner and operator of St. Lad’s Farm, sold five yearlings with an average price of $24,200 and thought that Standardbred Canada put on […] Read more »
Ontario-Bred, Mach It So, Wins The $150,000 Bobby Quillen Memorial Pace
Mach It So defeated three-time Bobby Quillen Memorial Pace champion Foiled Again in the final strides to win the ninth edition of the $150,000 Invitational on Monday evening at Harrington Raceway. With the inside post advantage, 8-5 second choice Foiled Again (Yannick Gingras) kept Bandolito (Daryl Bier) parked out through opening fractions of :26.2 and […] Read more »
