Marcel Barrieau pupil Grandeur Seelster paid the highest win mutuel and travelled the fastest mile of the four Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots divisions for two-year-old pacing fillies at Grand River Raceway on Wednesday night (Sept. 14).
Odds-on favourite Desperate Man decided to dictate affairs in the $52,000 Open Handicap Pace, but got caught at the finish by a game Codename Cigar Box in a 1:49.1 mile on Saturday night (Sept. 10) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
Grand River hosted sophomore trotting fillies in a pair of $22,200 Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots divisions on Wednesday night (Sept. 7) with Socks N Crocs and Resolving both exiting victorious.
Driver Travis Cullen cleared the lead with Clever Character and refused to relinquish it in progress to a 1:53.3 mile to take the $11,000 Horses & Geldings Preferred Pace at Grand River Raceway on Wednesday night (Aug. 31).
The five-year-old Tellitlikeitis gelding Clever Character protected position from the pylons and never looked back to take the $11,000 Preferred Pace at Grand River Raceway on Wednesday night (Aug. 10).