Following up a night freshman photo finishes on Thursday, the three-year-olds took their turn in the Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots semi-finals on Friday, Sept. 22 at Woodbine Mohawk Park and the favourites ran the show.
In the fifth and final Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots leg of the year for three-year-old trotting fillies, favourites delivered on Saturday, Sept. 9 at Hanover Raceway and stamped themselves as contenders for the year-end championship coming up later this month.
James MacDonald took home five victories during the 10-race card at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Thursday (July 24) evening, with two of the wins coming from the second leg of the Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Leg for freshman trotters. In fact, MacDonald was in the top three in all four of the OSS Gold Divisions and was in the top four for nine of his ten drives of the evening.
Prohibitive 1-9 favourite Righteous Resolve, Canada’s fastest trotting two-year-old of 2022, once again showed her class in taking her division's $225,000 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Gold Super Final on Saturday night (Oct. 15) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
Terrific trotting two-year-olds, a tongue twister that doubles as the 2022 slogan for John Bax’s stable. Heading into the Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Super Finals at Woodbine Mohawk Park, Bax has a five-pack of freshman trotters taking aim at the winner’s share of the $225,000 purses they are competing for.