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15% Purse Increase For Flamboro Meet
March 11, 2023 - Flamboro Downs has increased its purses by 15 per
cent, effective Saturday, March 11, 2023.
This increase will
continue until the end of the current meet on May 28, 2023. This
increase is due to a number of weather-related cancelled race dates and
less than expected number of races per card.
Brett MacDonald Hits $10-Million Milestone
January 21, 2023 - In his first drive of the night and the first race of the card on Saturday (Jan. 21) at Flamboro Downs, Brett MacDonald nabbed a victory which sent him to the seven-digit stratosphere.
Leaving from post 7 in the $8,400 event, Brett MacDonald motored Richard Moreau trainee Got Charlie to the point and cleared after a :28.3 first quarter. Facing nothing but respect on the front through a :58 half and 1:29.1 three-quarters, Got Charlie just had to withstand the live charge of Rock On Harriett in the lane and did so by three-quarter lengths in 2:00.3. The winning share of the purse by the four-year-old Sportswriter mare just landed MacDonald over $10 million in career earnings.
J Bradley Harris Wins No. 2000
December 28, 2022 - J Bradley Harris had four drives coming into the
Wednesday night (Dec. 28) card at Flamboro Downs and sat four wins away
from the 2,000-win milestone. Scoring a grand slam with his lone
assignments, J Harris entered the 2,000-win club.
Harris opened the
evening swiftly with a 1:59 win by Senior Advisor. Later, he steered
odds-on favourite Rock N Row to a coast-to-coast victory in 1:56.1 and
followed with a 1:55.2 post-to-pillar win by favoured Ponderance. In the
last race on the card, Harris slid off a pocket trip with Ship Disturber
to his 2,000th victory to wrap the night batting a thousand.
This
season is Harris's first year with over 100 wins and a $1 million in
purses since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Harris,
having driven since 2005, has earned $12 million in purses and sits tied
for seventh on the Flamboro Downs driving leaderboard.
Travis Henry Notches 2,000th Driving Win
October 26, 2022 - Driver Travis Henry celebrated a career milestone on
the Wednesday evening (Oct. 26) card at Flamboro Downs.
Henry
earned his 2,000th career victory with Blake MacIntosh trainee Sports Fan
in the eighth race on the Flamboro card. The pair got away fifth off the
car and after a :28 first quarter, followed cover on the outside behind
Ifudontchewbigred (Travis Cullen). Unchanged, they continued in the outer
flow through the :58.2 half. At the 1:27.3 third quarter, Henry pulled
Sports Fan three-wide, meeting the leading Premier Nacho (Jason Ryan)
eye-to-eye in the turn for home. Henry and Sports Fan continued surging
forward on to a 2-1/4-length victory in 1:57.4. Premier Nacho finished
second and Counter Offer (Michael Whelan) finished third.
After his
win with the three-year-old colt by Sportswriter out of the Western Ideal
mare My Ideal, Henry upgraded his season win total to 265, ranking him in
the top five drivers in Canada by wins.
Moment Is Here Sets OSS & Track Record
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October 2, 2022 - The Ontario Sires Stakes Gold preliminary season for
two-year-old pacing colts and geldings wrapped Sunday night (Oct. 2) at
Flamboro Downs with Moment Is Here earning his breakthrough victory at the
top level of the provincial program in the lone $156,300 division.
The victory was the second overall of Moment Is Here’s freshman
campaign as he increased his career earnings to over $188,000 with the
win. He also solidified his spot in the $225,000 Ontario Sires Stakes
Super Final on Oct. 15 at Woodbine Mohawk Park, where he will go up
against freshman pacing star Stockade Seelster, and the rest of Ontario’s
top two-year-old male pacers.
Scott McEneny of Puslinch, Ont. trains
the Big Jim gelding who now has a record of 2-4-1 from nine starts this
year for Hamilton, Ont. owner Domenic Chiaravalle.
DWs Point Man Breaks Track Record
September 4, 2022 - DWs Point Man stole the show as the province's top
trotting freshmen clashed in four $100,000-plus Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS)
Gold divisions on what became opening night at Flamboro Downs on Sunday
(Sept. 4).
The nine-race card featured two OSS divisions for colts
and geldings and two divisions for fillies. Driver Louis-Philippe Roy
swept the male half of the OSS quartet.
Race 5 opened the OSS
action and DWs Point Man established a lifetime mark and a track, OSS and
Canadian record of 1:57 to extend his winning streak to four races. The
time beats the previous record for two-year-old trotting geldings of
1:57.1 set by Twin B Archie last year.
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