Top Royal ($11.00) circled three-wide through the final five-sixteenths of a 1:54.3 mile to capture her thirteenth career win in Wednesday night’s (August 23) featured $10,000 Preferred 2-3 Handicap for distaff pacers at Grand River Raceway. J Harris settled the four-year-old Royal Mattjesty mare in mid-division early on while Cracklin Rosie (J. R. Plante) blazed […] Read more »
Grand River Hosts OSS Two-Year-Old Pacing Fillies
Just one week after they faced off in the Battle of the Belles Final, Grand River Raceway welcomed back the two-year-old pacing fillies on Monday night for five Grassroots divisions worth a total of $93,650. Five of the fillies that qualified for the Battle of the Belles Final made the return trip to the Elora […] Read more »
Battle Of Waterloo, And Battle Of The Belles, Elimination Races In The Books
Elimination night for ‘The Battles’ is now in the books at Grand River Raceway in Elora, Ont. as the half-mile oval now prepares for next Monday afternoon’s Industry Day matinee. Two-year-old pacing colts and geldings locked horns in a trio of $15,000 Battle Of Waterloo elims, while two-year-old pacing fillies sparred in a pair of […] Read more »
Hilarious Honey, Jilona, Stritch, Millers Song, And Delcrest Magicstar Win Their OSS Divisions In Grand River
Driver Trevor Henry guided a pair of three-year-old trotting fillies to Grassroots glory at Grand River Raceway on Wednesday evening (July 19), capturing the second and third of five $15,600 divisions. Climbing onto the race bike behind Hilarious Honey for the third time this season, Henry was immediately impressed by the improvement in the filly’s gait since […] Read more »
Ontario-Sired, Windsong Leo, Victorious In Grand River’s Preferred
Windsong Leo came away victorious in assignment Monday evening at Grand River Raceway, and used ‘catch me if you can’ tactics. It was a gate-to-wire triumph in the first of two $7,500 Preferred 3 events for horse and geldings pacers as Windsong Leo went the distance for trainer/driver Dan O’Brian. The five-year-old son of Jeremes Jet-Windsong Goldie […] Read more »
Ontario-Sired, Dewar N Soda and Heels On The Beach, Earn Top Two Spots In Preferred
Richard Moreau trainees Dewar N Soda and Heels On The Beach swept the top two spots in Wednesday evening’s featured $10,000 Fillies & Mares Preferred 2 Pace at Grand River Raceway. With the inner advantage leaving from post two, Dixie Lullaby (Scott Coulter) secured the early lead ahead of her Kyle Fellows stablemate Maxim Seelster […] Read more »
