After a near miss in last week’s elimination, HP Royal Theo parlayed a perfect trip from second over en route to capturing Saturday’s $370,000 final of the William Wellwood Memorial for two-year-old trotting colts. Beyond Kronos flew to the front from Post 9 and proceeded to knife out fractions of :27.2, :56.1 and 1:25.1 with […] Read more »
Ontario-Sired, Tall Dark Stranger, Wins Metro Pace Elimination
The talent pool in this year’s two-year-old pacing colt and gelding division is incredibly deep, and as a result fans will be in for quite a treat when next week’s final of the Metro Pace rolls around. Two eliminations were contested Saturday evening at Woodbine Mohawk Park for this year’s Metro Pace, with Tall Dark […] Read more »
Five Straight, Under 1:50, For Ontario-Sired, Backstreet Shadow
Since arriving in the Ron Burke stable in early July, Backstreet Shadow has been on an absolute tear. The four-year-old Shadow Play gelding ran his winning streak to five with a measured 1:49.1 victory in Sunday afternoon’s (Aug. 25) $30,000 Great Northeast Open Series pacing event at Harrah’s Philadelphia, which was also his first appearance […] Read more »
Ontario-Sired, Powerful Chris, Crushes Track Record
Rideau Carleton Raceway hosted a battle of the three-year-old pacing filly heavyweights on Sunday evening and fans were treated to a championship display in the $158,000 Gold Series division on Sunday, Aug. 25. Division leaders Boadicea, Powerful Chris and Sunny Dee were sent as the top choices in the 10-filly field, with Powerful Chris getting […] Read more »
$56,600 Balanced Image To Ontario-Sired, Aphrodite Duke
Driver Mike Saftic piloted three freshman pacing fillies to victory in Grassroots action at Hanover Raceway on Saturday evening. The fillies were serving as the opening act on Balanced Image Final night and Saftic kicked off the festivities in the first race with Preeminence. Starting from Post 4 the filly made a brief break in […] Read more »
Ontario-Sired, Alicorn, Takes $112,239 Eternal Camnation-1st Division
The betting public was all over Alicorn in her rich assignment, and the speedball wowed the crowd with a 1:51 performance for the duo of driver Louis Philippe Roy and conditioner Chantal Mitchell. The daughter of Bettors Delight-Mythical parked to the opening quarter in :27 before securing the lead. She went on to post the half in […] Read more »
