Sweetest Belle (Sportswriter) denied Twin Delight a perfect Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots campaign in the final preliminary leg of the harness racing series at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday (Sep. 8). Sweetest Belle, driven by Doug McNair, traveled fifth as Twin Delight (Bob McClure), winner of all four starts in the Grassroots this year, cut
Velvet Stinger (Bettors Delight) righted the ship of her four-year-old campaign as she returned to harness racing action after two months off on Friday (Aug. 18) with a victory at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The mare, who won the Simcoe Stakes, Kin Pace and two Ontario Sires Stakes Golds last year, finished no better than seventh
Run The World Deo (Stay Hungry), a $90,000 yearling purchase, made her Canadian harness racing debut and her first career appearance in the winner’s circle at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Thursday (Aug. 17). Phil Hudon guided the filly to a front-end victory. They paced the first three panels unbothered, throwing up fractions of :28, :57.2,
In addition to one condition class at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Thursday (Aug. 17), the evening card was taken over by freshman trotters and pacers, each competing for a $17,000 purse in their respective classes, and by the Pop Up Claiming Series as part of the undercard.
Legendary Hanover (Huntsville) added an emphatic stakes final harness racing victory to his perfect career record as he crushed his two-year-old pacing colt opponents in the $84,500 Dream Maker on Saturday (Aug. 12) at Woobdine Mohawk Park. Bob McClure sat the colt third for the opening quarter of :27 and ordered him to the front