Two-year-olds opened a short Monday morning qualifying session on June 30 at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
After a June 13 career debut race timed in 1:55.4 at Mohawk, the Rod Boyd-trained freshman pacing filly Regil Whitesocks landed back in qualifying action and won the first baby race in 1:58.1 over a pair of Nick Gallucci trainees, filly Could Be Queen and gelding Domineight. Looping to the lead around the latter Gallucci student after a :31.2 first quarter, Regil Whitesocks led the rest of the way through middle splits of 1:01 and 1:29.3 with a 28.3 final frame. She won by 3-1/2 lengths in rein to Doug McNair.
A daughter of Cattlewash out of the Sportswriter mare Regil Hurricane, Regil Whitesocks is a homebred owned by Dr. Reginald Westgarth of Amherstburg, Ont. Her dam is a half sister to the millionaire Ontario Sires Stakes champion Regil Elektra.
Trainer Blake MacIntosh's two-year-old trotting colt Beach Concert was on his best behaviour in the next baby race after three prior failed attempts behind the gate. James MacDonald guided him through fractions of :30.4, 1:01.1 and 1:31 en route to a 2:00.1 qualifying win, holding a half-length safe of the pocket-popping Commander Saul at the end.
Bred by Winbak Farm, the Green Manalishi S-Summer Sis colt was a $21,622 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale purchased by MacIntosh and partners Hutt Racing Stable of Malvern, Pennsylvania and Van Camp Trotting Corp. of Port Perry, Ont.
Among the older set, Goodtimes elimination winner Galen Erso got back on track after making breaks in the final of that Grand Circuit stakes event and an Ontario Sires Stakes Gold division with a 1:53.3 qualifying mile with Doug McNair driving the Green Manalishi S sophomore colt for his father, trainer Gregg McNair, and owner Brad Grant.
The full video stream from Monday's qualifying session is available below.
To view Monday's complete qualifying results, click the following link: Monday Results (Qualifiers) - Woodbine Mohawk Park.
(Standardbred Canada)