Driver Tyler Borth racked up five wins at The Raceway at the Western Fair District on Tuesday, May 12, headlined by a victory with French Bulldog in an $8,000 first-leg division of the London Classic Sale Series for pacing males.
Borth gave the gelding a steer befitting a 1-9 favourite, sending him quickly to the front from post four in a :29.1 first panel before giving him a soft second quarter to the half of 1:00.1. Big Rooster (Garrett Rooney), advancing steadily from sixth through the middle half, arrived at the leader’s wheel nearing three-quarters in 1:29.4 but was unable to sustain the bid as French Bulldog upped the tempo into the last turn. French Bulldog then powered down the lane to a 1:58.2 victory by 3-1/4 lengths over a closing Writeline (Mike Horner). Outrun The Odds (Travis Cullen) was third.
French Bulldog earned his second win of the year in six starts and is now four-for-nine lifetime with $25,340 in earnings for owners Yolanda Fellows of Rockwood, Ont., Blair Corbeil of Leduc, Alta., Windermere Stable LLC of New York, N.Y. and Irene Carey of Belgrave, Ont. Kyle Fellows trains the sophomore son of Bulldog Hanover-I Need Hotstuff. The win price was $2.20.
Borth won five of his seven starts on the 12-race card, starting with Buzz Lightyear ($2.90) in the second dash. He then got 1-9 favourite Moonlover Bovino ($2.10) home in the fifth, moving that gelding to two-for-two on the year, and won three straight starting in the ninth. After winning with Summer Dancer ($2.20), he kept Walters Nip ($2.10) undefeated in three career starts in the 10th and closed his account with French Bulldog. Borth, who won the Ontario Regional Driving Championship a week ago at London, has 77 wins in 2026 from 607 starts.
Skip The Honey ($2.80) captured the other London Classic Sale Series split for male pacers for driver Garrett Rooney and trainer Greg Drew. The four-year-old son of All Bets Off-Homegrown Honey left hard from post three, put up the panels of :27.4, :58 and 1:25.4, and was left with a big gap as pocket-sitter Twin B Betonit (Travis Cullen) and first-over Rip The Page (Brady Galliers) hooked wheels going into the last turn and scattered the field. The gelding then coasted home a 1:54.3 winner by eight lengths over Sauble Ambush (Austin Sorrie). End Of The Trail (Scott Young) finished third. Skip The Honey, owned and bred by Drew, is now three-for-three this year and four-for-five lifetime.
Switch ($4.60), the trotting con of Cattlewash-Party In Rome, broke his maiden in a wire-to-wire score in the sole $8,000 division for his gait of the London Classic Sale Series. In a race in which three of the seven entrants trotted throughout, Switch inherited the lead on the first turn, cut the fractions of :30, 1:00.2 and 1:30.3, and came home a 3-1/2-length winner in 1:59.1. Southern Cowboy (Austin Sorrie) was second, followed by High Value (Damian MacLellan). Travis Cullen piloted the gelding to his first win in 17 career starts and 10 this year for trainer Terry Gallant and owner-breeders Bill Manes and Steven Papillon of Rockwood and William Cripps of Acton, Ont.
The London Classic Sale Series is for Ontario-sired horses four years old and younger that were non-winners of $10,000 lifetime as of March 1. There will be another round of preliminary legs on May 18 and 19 before the $40,000 (guaranteed) finals on May 29, Camluck Classic night.
To view Tuesday’s harness racing results, click the following link: Tuesday Results - Western Fair Raceway.
(Standardbred Canada)