by Greg Blanchard, media/communications, Woodbine Entertainment Group

Campbellville, ON — Daughters of Striking Sahbra took two of the four C$40,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold eliminations for 2-year-old filly trotters on Monday night (July 28) at Mohawk Racetrack.

Cumin First was the fastest OSS Gold winner with a 1:58.3 score for Rick Zeron.

Cumin First took the first split for driver Rick Zeron and turned in the fastest clocking with a 1:58.3 effort. The daughter of Striking Sahbra-Look Whos Cumin was almost five lengths better than Daylon Mystique and Lookin Back At You.

Cumin First overcame post 10 to record her third consecutive victory for trainer Frank O’Reilly. She captured the first OSS Gold event of the season at Flamboro Downs on July 20 and now sits with $98,600 in seasonal earnings for owners Mary Anne Lauzon, Dr. Ruth Irving, Jim Fielding and John Jesson.

The other Striking Sahbra filly to emerge victorious was Magical Debut (out of Belville) in the final split for Trevor Ritchie in 1:59.4.

Other elimination winners included Easter Bonnet (Berndt Hanover-Gypsy’s Bonnie) for Guy Gagnon in 1:59.1 and I’ll Wait For You (Kadabra-Blue Cookie) for Paul MacDonell in 1:59.4.

The top two finishers automatically earned a birth into the C$120,000 final next Monday night at Mohawk while two third-place finishers were drawn by lot. The two lucky entrants who drew in were Serenas Genie and Elusive Desire.

Here is the entire field for next Monday’s C$120,000 OSS Gold Final:

1. Sos Respect
2. B Cor Tanya
3. Easter Bonnet
4. Daylon Mystique
5. Serenas Genie
6. Elusive Desire
7. Cumin First
8. Keep In Dutch
9. I’ll Wait For You
10. Magical Debut

Dream Maker sequel to Evening Job, Automatic Slims

Trainer Carl Jamieson was shut out in the second leg of the Dream Maker series for 2-year-old pacing colts, as Bob McIntosh pupil Evening Job and Erv Miller’s Automatic Slims took the two C$20,000 splits in a special non-wagering event prior to the main card at Mohawk.

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Evening Job and Randy Waples were 1:55 winners in their Dream Maker division.

A short field of six freshman lads went to the post in the first Dream Maker contest and it was Jamieson trainee Pence Hanover who set the early fractions. Randy Waples sent Evening Job, a son of Dream Work, out of the Presidential Ball mare Eve Of The Ball, out to overtake at the three-quarter pole and they quickly opened up a 2-1/2 length lead. Jody Jamieson gave chase in the stretch with Chief Of The Beach, but couldn’t catch Evening Job, who came to the wire 1-1/2 lengths ahead in 1:55. Bay Of Sharks, trained by Ben Wallace and driven by Mario Baillargeon, hung on for third.

This was the first career win in three starts for Evening Job, who is a homebred owned by the Robert McIntosh Stables.

Beaten last week by Artists Rally, Mark MacDonald and Automatic Slims got the job done in the series sequel, catching pacesetter Check On Jack (Jack Moiseyev) in the stretch and sailing home a length to the good in an identical clocking of 1:55. Jody Jamieson hustled Artists Rally up late to capture second, with Check On Jack hanging on for third in the short field of six.

Automatic Slims, a son of Bettor’s Delight-Natchitoches, was a $55,000 yearling purchase last year at Harrisburg for owner Domenic Chiaravalle. This was his second win in three starts and boosted his earnings to $17,550.

Carl Jamieson, who had a total of four entries in this series after Stampede Seelster was scratched sick on Monday night, ended up with two seconds (Chief Of The Beach and Artists Rally), a third (Check On Jack) and a fourth (Pence Hanover).

— Karen Briggs also contributed to this report