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Guelph, Ontario resident Anthony MacDonald took his brother’s advice about an equipment change on two-year-old trotting filly Onatopp, and it paid off with a Grassroots victory at Grand River Raceway on Wednesday evening....read on
2-åriga ston 1.609 m auto Purse: CA$25 000
Race 1 Trot, purse $18,000 (DD, EX, SF, TR) O.S.S. GRASSROOTS #2 - 2 YEAR OLD FILLY TROT Last Horse HV PP 1/4 1/2 3/4 Stretch Finish Time 1/4 Driver Odds Trainer 8 Mariana 6 5/5 4/4 4@/2H 4/2 1/T 2:04 30.1 R Rekila 6.10 R Rekila 2 Shezastrikin Loral 2 1/1H 1/1H 1/H 1/H 2/T 2:04.1 30.4 Br Richardson 13.30 J Pedden 1 Tala Seelster 1 2/1H 2/1H 3/1H 3/1H 3/1H 2:04.1 30.3 R Jones 0.55* R Jones 4 Y S Suzanne= 3 3/3 3/2H 2@/H 2/H 4/2H 2:04.2 31 S Filion 2.85 R Moreau 5 Marsy= 4 4X/4 5/DIS 5/DIS 5/DIS 5/DIS D Bowins 14.10 D Bowins 7 Highfield= 5X 6/DIS 6/DIS 6/DIS 6/DIS 6/DIS A Green 32.80 A Green 6 Pina Colada As SCRATCHED - VET(SICK) 3 Royal Charm= SCRATCHED - VET(SICK) Time: 30.2, 1:01.3, 1:33.2, 2:04 (Temperature: 21, Condition: FAST, Variant: 0) Judges List: Marsy-BREAKS, Pina Colada As-VET//BREAKS, Royal Charm-VET//2 CONSECUTIVE SCRATCHES//MUST QUALIFY 1st Mariana (b,f,2 - Manofmanymissions-Catch Dream-American Winner) Owner: Overseas Farms Ltd,Campbellville,ON 2nd Shezastrikin Loral (b,f,2 - Striking Sahbra-Outback Michelle-Conway Hall) Owner: Allister Webster,Wyoming-J A Pedden,Watford,ON 3rd Tala Seelster (br,f,2 - Muscle Mass-Travelin Lavec-Mr Lavec) Owner: John D Fielding,Toronto-Domenic Chiaravalle,Hamilton,ON
2-åriga ston 1.609 m auto Purse: CA$25 000
Race 2 Trot, purse $18,000 (EX, SF, TR) O.S.S. GRASSROOTS #2 - 2 YEAR OLD FILLY TROT Last Horse HV PP 1/4 1/2 3/4 Stretch Finish Time 1/4 Driver Odds Trainer 2 Malia= 2 5/6H 3@/2 2@/1 1/H 1/H 2:03 31.2 A Green 3.90 A Green 6 Tymal Tempest 6 6/8H 5@/4 3/2H 2/H 2/H 2:03 31.1 Ph Hudon 7.40 E Abdulov 7 Early Decision= 7 2/2 4/3 4/3H 4/3 4P3/7Q 2:04.2 32.2 Trev Henry 66.20 Colin Johnson 8 First Mission= 8 4@/5 1/1 1/1 3/2 X3P4/6H 2:04.1 32.4 S Mahar 12.20 S Mahar 5 Favourite Mission= 5 3/4H 6/5 5/5H 5/6 5/13 2:05.3 33.1 P Macdonell 0.55* M Keeling 1 Erja 1X 7/18 7/20 7/16 7/17 6/27 2:08.2 33.4 R Rekila 18.90 R Rekila 3 Legionsofangels= 3 1/2 2/1 6/6H 6/14 7/32T 2:09.3 37 M Baillargeon 13.25 P Caswell 4 Crystal Girl X4 8/DIS 8/DIS 8/DIS 8/DIS 8/DIS L Ouellette 32.80 L Ouellette Time: 29.4, 1:00.3, 1:31.2, 2:03 (Temperature: 21, Condition: FAST, Variant: 0) Judges List: Crystal Girl-BREAKS 1st Malia (b,f,2 - Cornaro Dasolo-Mary Irena-Angus Hall) Owner: Kristine J Green,Ohsweken,ON 2nd Tymal Tempest (b,f,2 - Deweycheatumnhowe-Balance Bar-Conway Hall) Owner: Tymal Farms,Oldcastle,ON 3rd Early Decision (b,f,2 - Majestic Son-Muscles Lady Ann-Muscles Yankee) Owner: Colin Johnson,Repentigny,QC-Thomas Kyron,Toronto,ON
2-åriga ston 1.609 m auto Purse: CA$25 000
Race 3 Trot, purse $18,000 (EX, SF, TR) O.S.S. GRASSROOTS #2 - 2 YEAR OLD FILLY TROT Last Horse HV PP 1/4 1/2 3/4 Stretch Finish Time 1/4 Driver Odds Trainer 3 Toss It Back 3 1/2 1/2 1/1 1/1H 1/4 2:03.2 29.3 Ph Hudon 0.50* P Hunt 5 Chapel Hall= 5 2/2 2/2 2/1 2/1H 2/4 2:04.1 30.1 D Boughton 6.20 C Beaver 6 Talbotcreek Jetta 6 4/6 4/5H 3@/2 4/3H 3/9T 2:05.2 31.1 R Holliday 19.25 D Holliday 7 Teasing Temptress= 7 3/4 3/4 4/3 3/3 4/9T 2:05.2 31 Ja Macdonald 15.00 J Mckinnon 8 Females Rule 8 5/8 5@/6H 5@/4 5/4 5/12 2:05.4 31.1 S Byron 44.10 J Bax 2 Life Strikes 2X 7/13 7@/8 6/5 6X/5 6/17T 2:07 32.1 M Baillargeon 19.20 M Robitaille 1 Crazy Wild Desire 1X 8/18 8/13 X8/16 7/15 7/35 2:10.2 33.2 P Macdonell 7.25 M Keeling 4 Absolut Seelster 4 6/11 6/7H X7/15 8/16 8/DIS Trev Henry 8.95 B Shakes Time: 30.3, 1:02.3, 1:33.4, 2:03.2 (Temperature: 21, Condition: FAST, Variant: 0) 1st Toss It Back (b,f,2 - Majestic Son-Backflip-Cantab Hall) Owner: Leo V Fleming,Campbellville-Patrick J Hunt,Cambridge,ON 2nd Chapel Hall (b,f,2 - Deweycheatumnhowe-Chelsea Hall-Andover Image) Owner: Christopher F Beaver,Delaware,OH-Synerco Ventures Inc,Toronto,ON 3rd Talbotcreek Jetta (b,f,2 - Angus Hall-Green Machine-Muscles Yankee) Owner: Caroline Holliday,Mount Forest-Dennis C Hannath,Harriston,ON
2-åriga ston 1.609 m auto Purse: CA$25 000
Race 5 Trot, purse $18,000 (EX, SF, TR) O.S.S. GRASSROOTS #2 - 2 YEAR OLD FILLY TROT Last Horse HV PP 1/4 1/2 3/4 Stretch Finish Time 1/4 Driver Odds Trainer 8 Magical Steph 8 3/2H 3/4 2@/1 2/H 1/Q 2:02.1 30 S Byron 2.90 G Lance 4 Shes In Gear 4 1/1 1/2 1/1 1/H 2/Q 2:02.1 30.1 D Dupont 1.95* M Dupont 3 Major Muscle 3 4/3H 4/5 4@/2H 4/2 3/1Q 2:02.2 30 M Etsell 3.25 M Etsell 1 Massmade 1 2/1 2/2 3/2 3/1H 4/2T 2:02.4 30.2 M Baillargeon 14.35 N Jones 5 Dayliner 5 5/6 5/6H 5/4H 5/4 5/3 2:02.4 30 P Walker 17.45 P Walker 7 True Muscle 7 6@/7 6@/7 6/6 6/5 6/5T 2:03.2 30.1 S Filion 24.00 K Jones 6 Attitude To Burn 6 7/8 7/9H 7/8H 7/10 7/16 2:05.2 31.4 S Coulter 26.25 H Toll 2 Windsong Chance= 2X 8/18 8/11 8/9H 8/11 8/16Q 2:05.2 31.3 Ja Macdonald 4.40 C Beaver Time: 30.1, 1:01.2, 1:32, 2:02.1 (Temperature: 21, Condition: FAST, Variant: 0) 1st Magical Steph (b,f,2 - Kadabra-I Like Stephanie-Ilooklikemymom) Owner: GL Racing Inc,Port Perry,ON 2nd Shes In Gear (b,f,2 - Muscle Mass-Running Gear-Turbonator) Owner: Roy D Dobbins,Bryant,AL 3rd Major Muscle (b,f,2 - Muscle Mass-Oaklea Rae-Angus Hall) Owner: Mark G Etsell,Rockwod-Robert C Newton,Walkerton-Chuan C Tan,Cambridge,ON
2-åriga ston 1.609 m auto Purse: CA$25 000
Race 6 Trot, purse $18,000 (EX, SF, TR) O.S.S. GRASSROOTS #2 - 2 YEAR OLD FILLY TROT Last Horse HV PP 1/4 1/2 3/4 Stretch Finish Time 1/4 Driver Odds Trainer 3 Dewdle All Day 3 1@/1 1/1H 1/2 1/2 1/3H 2:03.3 29.3 R Jones 1.65* R Jones 2 Windsongmusclelady 2 3/2 3/2H 4/4 3/3 2/3H 2:04.1 29.2 S Byron 5.80 J Bax 7 Herbe A Loral 6 5/5 6@/4 5@/4H 2/2 3/3H 2:04.1 29.2 Br Richardson 71.20 J Pedden 9 Cerise Hall= 9 7/9 7@/6H 7@/7H 5/6 4/12 2:06 30.3 D Mcnair 33.35 R Mcnair 5 The Muscle Touch 4 2/1 2/1H 2/2 X6/8 5/18 2:07.1 32.4 C Steacy 18.20 M Steacy 1 Pocket Popper 1 4/3H 5/4 6/7 4X/4 6/19 2:07.2 32 D Dupont 3.90 M Dupont 6 The Power Of Many X5 8/15 8/10 8/14 7/12 7/23 2:08.1 31.2 D Boughton 9.55 C Beaver 8 Jangone X7 6/7 4@/3 3@/2H X8/17 8/28 2:09.1 34.4 R Rekila 2.40 R Rekila 4 Bahama Mama As SCRATCHED - VET(SICK) Time: 31.2, 1:03, 1:34, 2:03.3 (Temperature: 21, Condition: FAST, Variant: 0) Judges List: Pocket Popper-BREAKS, Bahama Mama As-VET//BREAKS 1st Dewdle All Day (b,f,2 - Deweycheatumnhowe-Winnie The Who-Emile Angus) Owner: Dustin Jones Stables Inc,Waterdown,ON-9177 8720 Quebec Inc,Saint-Sauveur,QC-Greg L Judson,Athens,ON 2nd Windsongmusclelady (b,f,2 - Muscle Mass-Windsong Fashion-Mr Lavec) Owner: Bax Stable,Campbellville-The Brabant Stable,London,ON 3rd Herbe A Loral (br,f,2 - Striking Sahbra-Here Comes Gold D-Here Comes Herbie) Owner: Allister & Loretta M Webster,Wyoming,ON
2-åriga ston 1.609 m auto Purse: CA$25 000
Race 7 Trot, purse $18,000 (EX, SF, TR) O.S.S. GRASSROOTS #2 - 2 YEAR OLD FILLY TROT Last Horse HV PP 1/4 1/2 3/4 Stretch Finish Time 1/4 Driver Odds Trainer 9 Onatopp= 9 4/4H 4/4 3@@/1 1/1 1/2H 2:05.1 29 A Macdonald 2.50 A Macdonald 2 Ballykeel Rocket= 2 1@/1 1/1H 1/H 2/1 2/2H 2:05.3 29.3 A Carroll 1.35* R Moreau 4 Sweet With Heat= 4 2/1 2/1H 4/2 3/3 3/4 2:06 29.3 P Macdonell 55.15 M Johnson 7 Newtown Flex 7 5/6H 5/5 5@/3 4/5 4/6Q 2:06.2 29.4 Tra Henry 11.70 Tra Henry 1 Jagersro 1X 7/23 7/7 6@/4H 6/8 5/12H 2:07.3 30.4 D Henriksen 12.75 D Henriksen 3 Favorite Tweet= 3 3/3H 3/3 2@/H 5/6 6/13H 2:07.4 31.4 Trev Henry 14.60 S Henry 5 Flavored Water 5 6/8 6/6 7/8H 7/13 7/23 2:09.4 32.1 S Coulter 57.50 J Smith 6 Shes All Muscle 6X 8/30 8/22 8/23 8/28 8/37 2:12.3 32 M Baillargeon 3.05 B Baillargeon 8 Carrie The Torch= SCRATCHED - VET(SICK) Time: 31.4, 1:04.3, 1:36, 2:05.1 (Temperature: 21, Condition: FAST, Variant: 0) Judges List: Carrie The Torch-VET//BREAKS 1st Onatopp (br,f,2 - Manofmanymissions-Trophy Bass-Supergill) Owner: Rene M Allard,Milford,PA-Anthony A Macdonald,Guelph,ON 2nd Ballykeel Rocket (b,f,2 - Majestic Son-Bullet Dream-Taurus Dream) Owner: Ballykeel Racing Inc,Tillsonburg,ON 3rd Sweet With Heat (br,f,2 - Kadabra-Featured Image-Balanced Image) Owner: Denise Ball,Bailieboro,ON
2-åriga ston 1.609 m auto Purse: CA$25 000
Race 8 Trot, purse $18,000 (EX, P4, SF, TR) O.S.S. GRASSROOTS #2 - 2 YEAR OLD FILLY TROT Last Horse HV PP 1/4 1/2 3/4 Stretch Finish Time 1/4 Driver Odds Trainer 2 Myretirementticket= 2 1/1 1/1 1/1H 1/1 1/2T 2:01.1 29.3 E Wagler 5.05 E Wagler 5 Very Classy 5 3/2 3/2 2/1H 3/2 2/2T 2:01.4 30 S Byron 10.65 J Bax 4 Cadillac Sally= 4 5/7 5/6 3@@/3 2/1 3/2T 2:01.4 29.3 D Mcnair 0.70* R Mcnair 3 Darling Diva 3 4/4H 4/4 5/4 4/3 4/5 2:02.1 29.4 P Mackenzie 26.20 R Laarman 6 Latest Mission X6 6/14 6/14 6/6 5/7 5/12 2:03.3 30.4 A Macdonald 4.65 P Reid 8 Anneli Hanover 7 2@/1 2@/1 4@/3H 6/9 6/18 2:04.4 32.3 C Steacy 6.65 M Steacy 1 Withinyourrights= 1 X7/24 7/DIS 7/DIS 7/DIS 7/DIS R Jones 31.20 R Jones 7 Traviata SCRATCHED - VET(SICK) Time: 30.2, 1:00.3, 1:31.3, 2:01.1 (Temperature: 21, Condition: FAST, Variant: 0) Judges List: Latest Mission-BREAKS, Withinyourrights-BREAKS, Traviata-VET//BREAKS 1st Myretirementticket (b,f,2 - Cornaro Dasolo-Shine Again-Angus Hall) Owner: Eli A Wagler,Ingersoll,ON 2nd Very Classy (b,f,2 - Manofmanymissions-Ruling Class-Angus Hall) Owner: Bax Stable-Glengate Farms,Campbellville-Happy Trails Stables,London-Kenneth J Andrews,Peterborough,ON 3rd Cadillac Sally (b,f,2 - Muscle Mass-The Lady Money-Credit Winner) Owner: Jarold B Hawks,Jeddo,MI
Guelph, Ontario resident Anthony MacDonald took his brother’s advice about an equipment change on two-year-old trotting filly Onatopp, and it paid off with a Grassroots victory at Grand River Raceway on Wednesday evening.
“I was stubborn; I didn’t want to put the hopples on her. I felt that, the few times that I put them on her, I didn’t feel that she was as strong or as fast with them on, and I felt that I could keep her trotting, at least on the bigger track, without them,” said MacDonald, who co-owns, trains and drives Onatopp. “And James had schooled her for me when I was away and he said, you know, I think she needs the hopples. And, you know, he was right. I put them on her and she was really, really good.”
Making her debut with trotting hopples from post nine in Wednesday’s sixth Grassroots division, Onatopp was able to secure a spot on the rail in fourth as favourite Ballykeel Rocket led the field to a :31.4 opening quarter. MacDonald was content to sit fourth through the 1:04.3 half, but when Favourite Tweet stepped into the outer lane from third, he followed suit.
Rolling by the 1:36 three-quarters, MacDonald tipped Onatopp out three-wide and she sailed effortlessly past the leaders to the front, pulling away to a two and one-half length lead in the stretch and stopping the clock at 2:05.1. Ballykeel Rocket settled for second and pocket sitter Sweet With Heat was third.
“I know she only went in 2:05.1 tonight, but she can go as fast as any Grassroots filly out there, there’s no end to her speed,” said MacDonald. “I mean she came a last half in :59 or something tonight and I never pulled the ear plugs, never even asked her, I just moved her out in position where she could do her work, and she was more than happy to do it.”
MacDonald and his partner Rene Allard of Milford, Pennsylvania purchased Onatopp out of the Canadian Yearling Sale for $11,000. The filly is a Manofmanymissions half-sister to $529,825 winner Sim Brown, and the partners had high hopes for her all winter. Onatopp made her Ontario Sires Stakes debut in the July 12 Gold Series opener at Georgian Downs, but made a break and finished eighth, a result that prompted MacDonald to take his brother, James MacDonald’s, advice.
In addition to his brother, the horseman said a great deal of credit for Onatopp’s victory falls to his wife Amy, who works alongside him in their 11-horse stable.
“She works really, really hard on them and she deserves a lot of the credit, a lot of the credit,” he emphasized.
In addition to Onatopp, six other fillies went home from Grand River Raceway with Grassroots trophies on Wednesday, with four of them also stepping down from the Gold Series for their second Ontario Sires Stakes start.
Mariana and trainer/driver Riina Rekila kicked things off in the first race with a 2:04 clocking, reeling in pacesetter Shezastrikin Loral and pocket-sitter Tala Seelster in the stretch. Rekila and Esa Lahtinen bred and own Mariana through their Overseas Farms Ltd. of Campbellville, Ont. Rekila piloted the daughter of Manofmanymissions to a runner-up result in the Grassroots season opener at Georgian Downs on July 7.
Trainer/driver Eddie Green piloted Malia to a 2:03 win in the second $18,000 division. The Cornaro Dasolo daughter bested Tymal Tempest and Early Decision by one-half length. Green conditions Malia for Kristine Green of Ohsweken, Ont. and, like MacDonald, sent her to the Gold Series for her first provincial appearance, where she finished sixth.
Guelph resident Phil Hudon crafted a gate-to-wire victory for Toss It Back in the third division. The Majestic Son filly cruised across the wire four lengths ahead of Chapel Hall and Talbotcreek Jetta. Trainer Pat Hunt of Cambridge, Ont. shares ownership of Toss It Back with Leo Fleming of Campbellville, Ont. The win gives the filly one victory and one fourth-place result through the first two Grassroots events.
Magical Steph was the second filly of the evening to step down from the Gold Series and find success, capturing the fourth Grassroots division with a late sprint past pacesetter and favourite Shes In Gear. Major Muscle rounded out the top three in the 2:02.1 mile. Steve Byron engineered the Kadabra filly’s first victory for trainer Gary Lance and owner GL Racing Inc. of Port Perry, Ont.
In the fifth division, Deweycheatumnhowe daughter Dewdle All Day hit the wire three and one-half lengths up on Windsongmusclelady and Herbe A Loral in 2:03.3. Dustin Jones of Waterdown, Ont. drives, trains and co-owns Dewdle All Day with partners 9177 8720 Quebec Inc. of Saint-Sauveur, Que. and Greg Judson of Athens, Ont. Dewdle All Day came into the test off a sixth-place result in the July 12 Gold Series event.
The final Grassroots trophy of the evening went home with Myretirementticket, the fifth competitor shifting from Gold to Grassroots competition. The Cornaro Dasolo daughter and owner/trainer/driver Eli Wagler of Ingersoll, Ont. cruised along on the front end to a 2:01.1 victory, crossing the wire two and three-quarter lengths ahead of Very Classy and Cadillac Sally.
The two-year-old trotting fillies make their third Grassroots start at Mohawk Racetrack on July 30.
Grand River Raceway’s next Ontario Sires Stakes event will come during the highly anticipated Industry Day program on Monday, Aug. 3. The Elora oval will host the third Gold leg for the three-year-old pacing fillies in addition to the finals for its signature races, the Battle of the Belles for two-year-old pacing fillies and Battle of Waterloo for two-year-old pacing colts.
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