The glamour boy division of the Ontario Sires Stakes, the three-year-old pacing colts, will contest their third Grassroots event tomorrow night at Georgian Downs in five $18,000 divisions.
Only two colts have been victorious in the first two Grassroots tests, both at Mohawk Racetrack, but they both won’t be able to keep their OSS winning streaks alive as they’ll square off against each other.
Regal Son and Atomic Million AM are the leading point earners among this division, each with 100 points thanks to wins in the first two events. On Saturday night they’ll face each other in the third division, race eight.
Regal Son will leave from post six with Scott Coulter at the lines. Bob McIntosh, who has captured the Johnston Cup as the leading trainer in the OSS a total of seven times, conditions the colt he also owns with fellow breeder and long time partner C S X Stable (brothers Keith, Kenneth and Michael Carpenter of Ohio) along with Gordon Wright of Michigan.
McIntosh is very familiar with this colt’s family. He trained his sire, millionaire Stonebridge Regal, his dam, On This Day, a winner of $150,000 in her career, and her sire, Camluck, who won more than a million dollars in his career before becoming the leading pacing sire in the country for many years.
Regal Son is On This Day’s fifth foal, her most successful to date is the $324,000 winner Day To Ponder. It’s the family of many top OSS performers over a number of years including Our Lucky Killean ($1.4 million), Paper Luck ($446,000), Firststariseetonight ($305,000), etc.
Atomic Million AM, the only other competitor with two 2014 OSS scores under his harness this year, will leave from post eight in the same division. Alain Martin of Gatineau, Que. bred, owns and trains the son of Million Dollar Cam, who has eight wins and a second in 10 starts this year.
The sophomore comes into the contest riding a three race winning streak, which includes the July 1 Grassroots win at Mohawk and then back-to-back wins at Trois Rivieres in Quebec. He had eight starts last year as a two-year-old, but none in the OSS.
Martin also trained the colt’s dam, the $137,000 winner Lady Rod Hustler, by Daylor Hustler.
The three-year-old pacing colts will face off in races two, four, eight, nine and 10 on Saturday night.
To view Saturday's harness racing entries, click on the following link: Saturday Entries - Georgian Downs.
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