Two-year-old trotting fillies slugged it out in a pair of OSS Gold Series eliminations at Windsor Raceway on Tuesday evening, with Angostura and Random Destiny
taking home top prize in their respective $40,000 assignments.
Heavily favoured Angostura wasted no time marching to the top from her post seven starting spot for Trevor Ritchie, who went gate-to-wire with the Dan Creighton pupil. The Angus Hall-Peluso miss whacked out splits of :28.2, :59.1 and 1:30 en route to posting the 2:00 decision. Rebelious Royalty rallied late to grab the runner-up spot and Warrawee Lassie was third.
It was the fifth win of the season in seven starts for Angostura, who is owned by Danterra Racing Stable of Strathroy, ON. The $20,000 payday bumped her bankroll to $186,664.
A perfect pocket trip helped Random Destiny turn in a career-best clocking of 1:58.1 in the second elimination. The Ken Warkentin-Front Porch Swing miss was plugged into the pocket by trainer/driver Riina Rekila, who was quite content to stalk pacesetter Wilsonator through fractions of :29.1, :57.4 and 1:27.2. Rekila tipped Random Destiny out in the late stages of the mile and filly drew away to win by more than two lengths over a rallying Isthatallyagot and Windcross.
Esa Lahtinen of Campbellville, ON owns the freshman, who has put together a 3-2-0 record in her first eight starts. She lifted her lifetime earnings to $104,900 with the win.
The top four finishers from each elimination and one of the fifth-place finishers will return to Windsor for next Tuesday’s final. Here’s how they’ll line up on the starting gate:
$130,000 OSS Gold Series Final
1. Isthatallyagot
2. Warrawee Lassie
3. Wilsonator
4. Random Destiny
5. Sooner Than Later
6. Magic Treasure
7. Windcross
8. Rebelious Royalty
9. Angostura
To view Tuesday’s harness racing results, click here.