A maiden no more, sophomore pacing colt No Waitlist finally broke through for his first career win after posting a six-figure freshman campaign last year.

Chasing the likes of eventual Horse of the Year Beau Jangles and O'Brien Award finalists Tilthecowscomehome and Windor in stakes action all season long, No Waitlist earned $124,983 from 14 starts in Ontario in 2025 for owner Tim Dickieson of Holland Centre, Ont. Among O'Brien eligible horses for his division last year, he ranked sixth in earnings yet did not win a race.

The Blake MacIntosh trainee entered his first race of 2026 as one of just five maidens with more than $100,000 in earnings in North America that has raced in the past year and the only active non-winner with a six-figure bankroll racing in Canada. 

In Friday night's $18,000 eighth race for non-winners of one race or $9,000 lifetime at Woodbine Mohawk Park, driver Doug McNair moved the experienced maiden to the lead after a :28.1 first quarter and the 1-5 favourite held a comfortable margin the rest of the way through the driving rain, setting middle splits of :58.4 and 1:27.3 en route to the 1:54.3 triumph over the "good" track. No Waitlist won his 15th career start by 1-1/2 lengths over early leader Panic Ray (Louis-Philippe Roy), with American Road Trip (James MacDonald) rallying into third more than five lengths behind.

No Waitlist, whose top finish as a rookie was a second-place effort chasing Beau Jangles home in :26.3 (race timed in 1:51) in a $140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold division on Sept. 30, is eligible to this year's North America Cup. The Cattlewash-Walk On Air colt is among the top 25 ranked sophomores, assessed at odds of 63-1, in TROT Magazine's Pepsi North America Cup Spring Book.

The remaining $100,000+ earners that will be searching for a win when they start their three-year-old campaigns this year are Pennsylvania stakes trotting filly Maya Patel Hanover ($162,434), Ohio stakes trotting gelding Eleven Bang Bang ($135,116), New York stakes trotting colt Chapter Geo J ($130,182) and New York stakes pacing colt Lakewood Nick ($125,285).

No Waitlist was part of a driving triple for McNair and gave MacIntosh back-to-back wins on Mohawk's 11-race card, following a victory by the season-debuting Grand Circuit stakes winner TH Check Me Out with Tyler Borth guiding that sophomore Cattlewash-Sports Check filly to a 1:53.2 triumph.

The Friday card marked the start of another Pop-Up Series for trotters that raced for a purse of $10,000 or less in 2026 with winners over $75,000 in 2025-26 ineligible. Optional $12,500 claimers were also eligible. The two $14,000 divisions in the opening leg were won by Eternally Hanover (J.R. Plante) in 1:56.2 for trainer Kyle Ruhl and Double Dippin (Tyler Borth) in a career-best 1:54.3 for Sara Baillargeon.

To view Friday's harness racing results, click the following link: Friday Results - Woodbine Mohawk Park.

(Standardbred Canada)