Canadian Pacing Derby eligible Waffle Blue Chip headlined the Monday, May 4 qualifying session at Woodbine Mohawk Park with an impressive four-year-old season's debut from the Dave Menary stable. 

Waffle Blue Chip was the fastest winner of the morning as he powered through panels of :28.2, :56.3 and 1:23.2 during a big mile clocked in 1:51.1 while leaving three others 13 lengths behind.

Louis-Philippe Roy drove the four-year-old Sweet Lou-Vicinity stallion, a Pennsylvania stakes winner with just over $200,000 banked in earnings for owner Pollack Racing of Venetia, Pennsylvania. 

Menary also watched North America Cup eligible Scorpion Moon, a Harvest Series champion last year, win his sophomore qualifying debut in 1:55.3 with Roy driving the Bulldog Hanover-Soiree Seelster colt.

Grand Circuit stakes-placed Captain Code was the fastest winner on the trot during the Monday morning session, as the three-year-old Captain Corey-Stella Jane gelding went wire to wire in 1:56.3 for the father and son, training and driving team of Bob and Scott Young. 

Making his second qualifying start of the season, Captain Code clocked fractions of :29.3, :58.3 and 1:28.2, with a :28.1 final frame landing him two lengths in front of the Luc Blais-trained, Champlain Stakes-winning filly Shimmering Hanover (Roy). 

A Champlain runner-up himself at two, Captain Code is owned by his trainer along with Northover Brethour of Guelph, Ont., Glengate Farms of Erin, Ont., and Premier And Associates Farm of Howell, Michigan. He is eligible to next month's Goodtimes Trot at Mohawk.

Captain Code's stablemate Halton Hill, a Muscle Hill-Pandoras Box gelding who has also been staked to the Goodtimes, won his first qualifier of the season in 1:59.4 for the Youngs and company.

Trainer Luc Blais sent out three winning stakes-bound trotters on Monday morning, including 2025 O'Brien Award finalist Lasting Dream, who won her second straight qualifier in 1:58.2 with Roy in the bike. Other winning Blais trainees were sophomore gelding Tavern Onthe Green (Roy) in 1:58.2 and five-year-old stallion Private Access (James MacDonald) in 1:57.2.

Roy had a busy morning winning five of the nine qualifiers, also driving undefeated three-year-old pacing filly My Girl Friday, a Fan Hanover eligible, to a 1:55.3 score for the Anthony Beaton barn.

A replay of the video stream from Monday's qualifiers is available below.

For results from the qualifying session, click the following link: Monday Results - Woodbine Mohawk Park (Qualifiers).

(Standardbred Canada)