Ron Burke trainees took top honours in the pair of $35,000 eliminations for the Charles Juravinski Memorial Cup, a race for pacing four-year-olds, on Sunday night (May 14) at Flamboro Downs with Birthday and Bythemissal taking victories.
With qualifying action shifting to one day a week on Tuesdays at Woodbine Mohawk Park, the Campbellville, Ont. oval hosted a seven-race session this morning (July 26).
The four-year-old Shadow Play-BJs Squall stallion Bulldog Hanover proved himself the top dog at the aged pacing ranks by doing most of the work on the front to clock a stakes-record and track- and world-record-equaling 1:46 mile in the $99,500 second of two divisions for the Roll With Joe on Saturday (July 2) at The Meadowlands.
Odds-on favourite Pebble Beach sailed for the lead midrace and soared to shore to post a 1:50 tour of force in winning the 39th edition of the $1-million Pepsi North America Cup on Saturday (June 18) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.