from the Ontario Sires Stakes

Elora, ON — Her Own Land concluded the regular season atop the Ontario Sires Stakes Grassroots leaderboard in points with a convincing seven length victory Friday afternoon (Sept. 12) at Grand River Raceway in the first of four C$18,000 divisions for 3-year-old pacing fillies.

These races were slated to be raced last Wednesday evening but when the card of racing was cancelled due to poor track conditions they were rescheduled to Friday.

In the first split James MacDonald sent Her Own Land directly to the top and she never looked back through fractions of :28.2, :57.3 and 1:26.2 and widened her margin to more than seven lengths by the time she hit the wire in 1:54.2. Kyles Secret was second followed by Always Sunday.

A daughter of Blissfull Hall trained by Dave Menary for owner Hutt Racing Stable, Her Own Land now has four OSS victories from six tries this year.

Born To Dream also went gate-to-wire in her division for Doug McNair to win by a head over a fast closing Nefertiti Blue Chip. Medowland Lindeylou was third.

Lomangino Standardbreds bred and own the winner, a daughter of Camluck, who was recording her third OSS win of the season.

Trevor Henry guided Shadows Wonder to a front end effort in the third division to win by more than five lengths in 1:56.4 over Double Joy and Can Art.

Trainer Dr. Ian Moore co-owns the winner, a daughter of Shadow Play, with R G McGroup Ltd. and Serge Savard.

The final division also saw the front end hold up as Jack Moiseyev drove the Royal Mattjesty daughter Royal Mama to a gate-to-wire, 1:57 score. Murrayfield battled the winner down the stretch and was a nose short at the wire. Momara was third.

Also owned by Hutt Racing Stable, Royal Mama is trained by John Kopas.

This was the final regular season Grassroots event for this group of the 2014 season. The top point earners will face off in the Semi-Finals on Sept. 20 at Mohawk. The full results from Friday’s special card at Grand River are available through this link.