A live video stream will be available here for the first night of the 2022 Breeders Crown championship finals as Woodbine Mohawk Park hosts harness racing's best two-year-olds on Friday (Oct. 28).
Racing begins at 7 p.m. (EDT) on Friday with the Crown fields going behind the gate in races six through nine. The finals for horses three and up are Saturday, also starting at 7 p.m.
To view the complete entries for this weekend's Breeders Crown finals, click one of the following links:
- Friday, Oct. 28 — Entries / Program Pages (courtesy TrackIT)
- Saturday, Oct. 29 — Entries / Program Pages (courtesy TrackIT)
Brief recaps and the post draws for Friday's finals are available below. For replays and reactions from last Friday's elims, check out the SC's Breeders Crown coverage from last Friday.
Two-Year-Old Trotting Colts & Geldings
Gaines Hanover and driver Louis-Philippe Roy took control of the pace at the quarter pole and then went on to a powerful track record-setting performance in capturing the first of two $33,750 eliminations for the Breeders Crown two-year-old colt and gelding trot division at Woodbine Mohawk Park on Friday night.
The altered son of Cantab Hall scored in a personal-best 1:53 clocking, which is a new track record for two-year-old trotting geldings.
Celebrity Bambino and driver Yannick Gingras overcame post nine and posted a minor upset defeating 2-5 favourite and Mohawk Million winner Oh Well in the second $33,750 Crown elimination winning in 1:53.2.
The field for the final is listed below in post position order.
$600,000 Breeders Crown Two-Year-Old Colt & Gelding Trot
Post - Horse
1. Gaines Hanover
2. The Gruffalo
3. Kierkegaard K
4. Celebrity Bambino
5. Kilmister
6. Spitfire Oversees
7. Osceola
8. Winners Bet
9. Oh Well
10. Dire Straits
AE. Buckhead Ridge
Two-Year-Old Trotting Fillies
Special Way extended her winning streak to six with an impressive victory in the lone $33,750 Breeders Crown elimination for two-year-old trotting fillies.
The top eight finishers from Friday's elimination will be joined by the two talented trotters who received byes into the final. Righteous Resolve, the only Ontario-sired filly in the mix, earned the bye as the highest money earner of the group with well over a half a million on her card from nine starts to date. The Chapter Seven daughter Instagram Model garnered the other spot direct to the final as the winner of the Jim Doherty Memorial.
The field for Friday’s final is listed below in post position order.
$600,000 Breeders Crown Two-Year-Old Filly Trot
Post - Horse
1. Silly Me Hanover
2. Tactical Planner
3. Instagram Model
4. Special Way
5. Mambacita
6. Walner Payton
7. Righteous Resolve
8. Life Itself
9. Blonde Bombshell
10. Secret Volo
AE. Shesundertheradar
Two-Year-Old Pacing Fillies
The first and second-place finishers in the Shes A Great Lady Stakes last month at Woodbine Mohawk Park are set to spar again over the Campbellville, Ont. oval after Sylvia Hanover and Charleston took their respective $33,750 eliminations for the Breeders Crown Two-Year-Old Filly Pace on Friday night.
Charleston, second to Sylvia Hanover in the Shes A Great Lady, posted the faster mile of the two eliminations when she outdueled Strong Poison in the stretch to a 1:50.4 victory. Sylvia Hanover won the first elim in 1:51.4.
The field is listed below in post position order.
$600,000 Breeders Crown Two-Year-Old Filly Pace
Post - Horse
1. Charleston
2. Strong Poison
3. Horizontal
4. McSeaside
5. Sylvia Hanover
6. Light And Tight
7. Proud Mary
8. Sweet Amira
9. Bellisima Hanover
10. Zanatta
AE. Caviart Davia
Two-Year-Old Pacing Colts & Geldings
Two rookie pacing colts, Confederate and Handlelikeaporsche, made their first Canadian starts winning ones in two $33,750 Breeders Crown eliminations. Confederate won his elim in 1:50.2, while Handlelikeaporsche delivered for his connections in 1:51.4.
The field for the final is listed below in post position order.
$600,000 Breeders Crown Two-Year-Old Colt & Gelding Pace
Post - Horse
1. Tip Top Cat
2. Handlelikeaporsche
3. Confederate
4. Christchurch
5. Huntinthelastdolar
6. Combustion
7. Stockade Seelster
8. Act Fast
9. Ammo
10. Ervin Hanover
AE. Save America