Don Beatson’s veteran mare So Much More once again trounced the opposite sex, this time with a game first-over push to take the $32,000 Preferred 2 Pace at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Saturday night (April 29). Leaving from post four, driver James MacDonald floated the seven-year-old Big Jim mare to sit third while The Longest […] Read more »
Adare Castle, Silver Label Star In Ontario Graduate Series
Ontario Sired Graduate Series stars Adare Castle and Silver Label won their respective $25,000 third-round divisions featured on another rainy Friday night (April 28) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. James MacDonald, two-time Driver of the Year, worked out the winning trips for both four-year-old mares who have graduated to consecutive series scores off O’Brien Award-winning sophomore […] Read more »
No Control Completes Spring Series Sweep
Ontario-sired competitors of ages three and four were the main attraction on Saturday night (April 22) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. A quartet of Ontario Sired Spring Series finals for three-year-olds (non-winners of $30,000 in 2022) were contested along with the second leg of the Ontario Graduate for four-year-old pacers. Rain rolled in following the second […] Read more »
O’Brien Award Winners Headline Ontario Graduate Series
O’Brien Award winners Silver Label and Adare Castle, both driven by James MacDonald, headlined the second leg of the Ontario Graduate Series for Ontario-sired four-year-olds on a rainy Friday night (April 21) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. Silver Label overcame the outside post position to earn the first victory of her four-year-old campaign in the second leg […] Read more »
Adare Castle Reigns In Ontario Graduate Series
The star-studded Ontario Sired Graduate Series for four-year-olds kicked off on Friday night (April 14) at Woodbine Mohawk Park featuring the successful return of O’Brien Award winner Adare Castle. The Mark Etsell-trained mare Adare Castle topped the $25,000 open trotting division in her first start of the season, winning in 1:53.2 in rein to James MacDonald. Adare […] Read more »
Backstreet Shadow Equals Track Record In Borgata Romp
Backstreet Shadow’s 1:49.3 triumph in the first of three $50,000 flights of the fourth round of the MGM Borgata Pacing Series on Monday (April 10) night at MGM Yonkers Raceway gave the venerable campaigner a share of the all-age track record. In that contest, 1-2 favourite Jimmy Freight (Scott Zeron) pressed on two-wide after leaving […] Read more »
