Pundits playing the favourites in Monday’s Preferred events at Western Fair Raceway took one on the chin
when all four of the post time choices failed to find the winner’s circle.
The longest of today’s longshot winners proved to be Grogan, who went coast-to-coast at odds of 41-1 in the $18,400 Preferred Trot for trainer/driver Lorne House. The five-year-old son of Angus Hall laid down fractions of :29.2, 1:00 and 1:29.2 en route to the 2:00.1 score over Suited and Stonebridge Diablo.
Emerson Gill of Grand Bend and Graeme Harvey of Ingersoll, ON share ownership on the homebred, who has put together a 2-0-1 record in his first four starts of the 2009 campaign. The $9,200 payday bumped his lifetime bankroll to $112,518.
For the second week-in-a-row it was Oakley Seelster returning to victory lane following a rallying win in the $18,400 Preferred Pace. Bruce Richardson engineered the off-the-pace score with the John Kennedy-trained five-year-old son of Western Maverick. Bobnoxious was second and Button Up finished third.
Kennedy of Woodstock shares ownership on the gelding with partner Clayton Walmsely of Walkerton, ON. The win was the second consecutive tally in the class for Oakley Seelster, who owns a 2-4-0 record in his first starts of the season. His bankroll stands at $169,175 to date.
A Windsor shipper named Tennessee Starlit clicked for a 16-1 surprise in the $15,200 Fillies & Mares Preferred Pace for the team of trainer Randy Fulmer and driver Mark Williams. The four-year-old Mach Three miss turned a two-hole trip into a 1:57.4 win over Trace Of Luck and Dangerous Years for owner Terry Young of Windsor, ON.
It was the third win of the year in just seven starts for Tennessee Starlit, who bumped her lifetime cash stash to $91,252 in the process.
Brad Forward guided Mcrileymac to a mild upset in the $12,800 Preferred-2 Pace for trainer Jeff Mayhew and owner Ellie Mayhew of Windsor, ON. The free-legged, seven-year-old son of Bo Knows Jate rallied to post the 1:58.4 score over Front Nine and Resistol.
The gelding, who bumped his lifetime earnings to $169,100 with the win, now owns a 2-1-1 record in 2009.
To view Monday’s results, click here.