Category: Grand Circuit Results

As Bella Bellini bounded to the lead in the closing stages of the mile, she had a swiftly surging challenge from Refined she could not turn away, leaving the Virgil Morgan Jr. trainee to land a 7-1 upset in the C$210,000 Armbro Flight final on Saturday (June 17) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

Driver Doug McNair found his way back to the winner’s circle with Grace Hill, who powered to a stakes, track and Canadian record 1:47.4 mile in the C$305,000 Roses Are Red final on Saturday night (June 17) at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

Abuckabett Hanover, in rein to Andy McCarthy, took the top prize in the C$100,000 Mohawk Gold Cup, a race that saw a two-horse spill early in the homestretch.

Jiggy Jog S lived up to her resume – as well as the 1-5 odds on the tote board – during an easy score in the $75,000 second leg of the Graduate Series for 4-year-old trotters at the Meadowlands Friday night (June 16).

Many storylines were in play leading to Saturday’s (June 10) Battle of Lake Erie. The most significant storyline of the week happened to be Lauren Tritton, as she would try to become not only the first female to participate in Northfield’s storied event but the first to win it. Tritton proved naysayers of her talent wrong with a heart-stopping performance, scoring an impressive win with Lochinvar Art A.

Judging by the performances of the fillies and mares competing in Saturday night’s eliminations for the Armbro Flight and Fan Hanover stakes at Woodbine Mohawk Park, their finals on the undercard of North America Cup night next Saturday should be very impressive.

Christchurch, Fulton, It’s My Show and Confederate will arrive at next Saturday’s C$1 million Pepsi North America Cup for 3-year-old male pacers at Woodbine Mohawk Park in winning form after taking their respective C$50,000 eliminations on Saturday night (June 10).

A pair of undercard stakes events for next Saturday’s cavalcade card, headlined by the C$1 million Pepsi North America Cup, now have their finalists determined. The Roses Are Red, for older pacing mares, and the Goodtimes, for trotting sophomores, each had two eliminations contested at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday night (June 9).

On a card where many glamour boys got their tightening miles ahead of the $1-million Pepsi North America Cup, aged horses sparred in their own stakes as Woodbine Mohawk Park hosted the kickoff to the Graduate Series and the second leg of the Miss Versatility on Saturday (June 3) night.

Last year’s two-year-old pacing colt of the year, Stockade Seelster, and two colts from the first crop of Stay Hungry, Redwood Hanover and Annapolis Hanover, captured the three C$75,000 divisions of the Somebeachsomewhere stakes Saturday (June 3) evening at Woodbine Mohawk Park.