While eight of Canada s top drivers will square off in London, Ont., in Sunday s (Dec. 20) inaugural Drivers Holiday Challenge at The Raceway at the Western Fair District, the big winners won t be any of the participants on the track.
The Challenge serves as a pre-Christmas fundraiser for Toys for Tots, and horsepeople not just the eight drivers taking part, either have proven not just willing, but enthusiastic when it comes to helping share the holiday spirit and giving Ontario children something to look forward to in a year that has largely been, in a word, bleak. I was the one running around the grandstand as a kid, driver Scott Wray told the
The Jackpot Hi-5 carryover sits at $335,940.32 heading into the mandatory payout.
An overflow field of 11 overnight pacers will clash in the Jackpot Hi-5 race, which is set as race 11 (post time approximately 11:10 p.m.) The field for the non-winners of $5,200 last five or $10,000 last 10 starts event is a collection of the “weekly warriors” that can be seen regularly at the Campbellville, Ont., oval.
Eight-year-old Rockin In Heaven has been installed as the 3-1 morning line choice in the $18,000 race. The Teesha Symes trainee is nearing $1 million in career earnings and comes in off a narrow defeat. J Harris will drive.
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Odds-on favourites Bee Two Bee and Cold Creek Cabo dominated the opening round of the Valedictory Pacing Series, which kicked off with a pair of $17,000 divisions on Friday night (December 11) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
The series is for three-year-old colts and geldings that were non-winners of $60,000 lifetime as of October 31.
ICR Racing s homebred colt Bee Two Bee buzzed to a career-best 1:51.2 victory in the first and fastest division of the night, with Scott Coulter driving for trainer Craig Gilmour.
Outsider Big Sir (Trevor Henry) fired across the track to establish the early lead heading to the first turn, but even-money favourite Bee Two Bee looped around that foe after the :26.4 quarter and reached the half in :55.1.
With a little more than a year to go before his mandatory retirement date rolls around, veteran trotter Zeus Lightning still proved he has plenty of fight left in him.
The 13-year-old son of Pegasus Spur-Graceful Action rallied to a 1:58 triumph versus claiming foes Thursday evening at Woodbine Mohawk Park, and in doing so he nabbed the 37th victory of his career.
With Trevor Henry in tow, Zeus Lightning floated off the gate and dropped into an early four-hole while Monopoly rolled along on the lead through fractions of :28.1, :58 and 1:26.3. Zeus Lightning was third at the mid-way point, and then second at the three-quarter pole. He used a :30.2 final frame to sweep to the one-length triumph over Explosive Jet.