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Ontario’s top three-year-old trotters wrapped up their Gold Series regular season at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Thursday evening and division stars Bright Eyes M and Forbidden Trade padded their division leading point totals....read on
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Race 7 -- Trot, purse $158,000 (EX, P3, SU, TR, Z4) ONTARIO SIRES STAKES - GOLD - 3 YEAR OLD COLTS & GELDINGS. STARTING FEE $800.00 Last Horse HV PP 1/4 1/2 3/4 Stretch Finish Time 1/4 Driver Odds Trainer 7 Forbidden Trade= 7 2@/T 1/1T 1/1T 1/2Q 1/1T 1:52.2 27.2 B Mcclure 0.75* L Blais 5 Manatlas=(L) 5 1/T 2/1T 2/1T 2/2Q 2/1T 1:52.4 27.2 J Jamieson 37.55 S Kerwood 4 Only For Justice 4 7/9H 7@/8H 7@/6Q 5/6 3/5H 1:53.2 27.1 C Christoforou 2.60 D Fontaine 1 Southwind Avenger(L) 1 3/2Q 3/4Q 4/3T 3/4T 4/5H 1:53.2 27.3 Trev Henry 9.85 R Norman 3 Cool Clifford= 3 5/5T 5/6T 6/5T 7/7T 5/7 1:53.4 27.3 J Drury 28.05 S Mceneny 2 Knight Angel= 2 6/7Q 6@/7 5@/4Q 6/6H 6/7Q 1:53.4 28 D Mcnair 34.80 S Arsenault 6 Fingals Wave= 6 8/11Q 8@/10H 9@/7T 8/9 7/7T 1:54 27.2 Ja Macdonald 47.70 R Jones 8 Jumpshot(L) 8 9/13H 9/10T 8/7Q 9/9 8/8H 1:54 27.3 M Baillargeon 142.15 J Maguire 9 All Wrapped Up= 9 4/4 4@/5 3@/2T 4/5Q 9/9 1:54.1 28.3 L Roy 5.95 R Fellows 10 Okeanos= 10 10/15Q 10@/12T 10@/9T 10/11T 10/10 1:54.2 27.2 R Mayotte 97.90 R Mayotte Time: 27.1, 56.2, 1:25, 1:52.2 (Temperature: 14, Condition: FAST, Variant: 0) 1st Forbidden Trade (br,c,3 - Kadabra-Pure Ivory-Striking Sahbra) Owner: Determination,Montreal,QC 2nd Manatlas (br,g,3 - E L Titan-Daylon Mystique-Amigo Hall) Owner: M And L Of Delaware LLC,Wilmington,DE 3rd Only For Justice (b,g,3 - Justice Hall-Intense America-Taurus Dream) Owner: Ecurie Gaetan Bono Inc,Montreal,QC
Ontario’s top three-year-old trotters wrapped up their Gold Series regular season at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Thursday evening and division stars Bright Eyes M and Forbidden Trade padded their division leading point totals.
Sophomore trotting colts and geldings paraded onto the racetrack for their $158,000 test and fans sent Hambletonian champion Forbidden Trade off as their top choice for the sixth time in his Ontario Sires Stakes career.
Starting from Post 7 Forbidden Trade and driver Bob McClure powered away from the gate and took command just past the :27.1 quarter. Through a :56.2 and 1:25 three-quarters the duo were unchallenged and a sharp :27.2 final quarter sealed the deal. Forbidden Trade hit the wire one and three-quarter lengths ahead of early leader Manatlas in 1:52.2. Only For Justice was five and one-half lengths back in third.
“He pretty well speaks for himself, he was bionic tonight,” said McClure. “I never asked him, he did it all on his own. He made us proud, like he always does.
“I’m glad he’s over whatever was bugging him last week,” the Rockwood, ON resident added, referring to the colt’s atypical outing in the Sept. 14 Canadian Trotting Classic where he was placed from third back to fifth for interfering with Only For Justice in the stretch.
McClure steers Forbidden Trade for trainer Luc Blais of Campbellville, ON and owner Determination of Montreal, QC. Prior to his Canadian Trotting Classic result Forbidden Trade had finished no worse than third and he now boasts a sophomore record of seven wins, three seconds and one third in 12 starts for earnings of $958,691. He leads the trotting colts into the Super Final with 175 points, 17 points ahead of Southwind Avenger.
Before the top Gold Series horses take centre stage in the Super Finals, the Grassroots stars will face off in Semi-Final action at Woodbine Mohawk Park this Friday, Sept. 27 and Saturday, Sept. 28. The two-year-olds will compete in Races 2, 3, and 5 through 10 on Friday’s 7:50 pm card, while the three-year-olds battle in Races 1, 3, 5 through 9, and 11 on the Saturday evening program, which gets under way at 7:10 p.m.
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