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Another Victory & Record For Cross Of Lorraine
Cross Of Lorraine was unstoppable as she kept some serious
rivals at bay to notch her fifth consecutive win and lower
another record in the $158,673 Canadian Breeders Championship
for three-year-old trotting fillies on Saturday night at Mohawk.
 Fresh off record-setting victories in an Ontario Sires Stakes
Gold elimination and final at Georgian Downs and a win in her
CBC elim, 6-5 co-favourite
Cross Of Lorraine and Jody Jamieson left from Post 4 and
reached the opening quarter in :27.1. Highland Strikes (Mario
Baillargeon) began to advance first up down the backstretch
flushing the other favoured filly, Poof Shes Gone (David
Miller), from the three-hole by the half in :56.3.
Poof Shes Gone laid the pressure on Cross Of Lorraine as they
raced past three-quarters in 1:25 and into the stretch, but
Cross Of Lorraine held off last year’s Two-Year-Old Trotting
Filly of the Year to score in a career-best 1:53.4, lowering the
stakes record held by tonight’s Armbro Flight contender Elusive
Desire. Poof Shes Gone finished second with elimination winner
Emmylou Who (Lyle MacArthur) third.
“She just did what she always does, she fights off everybody
on the front end,” said Jamieson in the winner’s circle. “I
wasn’t sure how the race was going to go. The five [First Avenue
and Donald Dupont] was leaving a little bit and I thought
Sylvain [Filion aboard Wilsonator] might leave a bit more but
when I could zip right to the lead I wasn’t going to let anybody
go and she fought hard right to the wire.”
“At one point halfway down the stretch, Poof Shes Gone dug
right in and got to my saddle pad but my filly was just really
good today,” he noted.
“I don’t know how much is left in the tank when they go
[1]:53.4, but she was very good,” said Jamieson of the Angus
Hall-Katya Hanover daughter, who is trained and owned in part by
his father Carl Jamieson. Toronto’s Thomas Kyron and London’s
Hope Johnson also share ownership.
Cross Of Lorraine paid $4.60 to win. The winner of seven
races in nine starts this year watched her seasonal earnings
pass the $200,000 mark.
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