Every spring, harness racing trainers converse, hope, and dream about their prospective 2-year-olds in training much in the same way breeders ponder about their stallion’s first crop of youngsters. What follows is an examination of the stallions who are first crop sires with statistics garnered from the US Trotting Association and some of the mares they were bred
Driver Montrell Teague won seven races Tuesday (April 9) at Harrington Raceway, headlined by George and Tina Dennis and Mark Stonesifer’s Grandeur Seelster ($12.80), who scored a 1:55.3 win in the featured $30,405 Mares Open.
Dresden Raceway closed out its 2023 season on Monday (Aug. 7) afternoon with the final card headlined by the third leg of the Ontario Sires Stakes Graassroots for two-year-old pacing fillies. Trainer Melissa Lamoureux swept the two $22,200 divisions with her trainees, Tribal Dancer and Tamara Hanover.
Luc Blais pupil Greatest Pleasure posted the fastest mile of the five Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) Grassroots divisions for two-year-old pacing fillies on Saturday night (July 22) at Hiawatha Horse Park.
The Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots dominated the harness racing card at Hiawatha Horse Park on Saturday (Jul. 22) as the second leg for two-year-old pacing fillies required five divisions worth a total of $110,200. Control The Fire (Control The Moment, Anthony Haughan) smoked her opponents in the first division, getting three-and-three-quarter lengths away down the