MILTON, Ont., Sept. 28, 2024 – Collusion Hanover soared around the oval from beginning to end in a rousing victory of the $75,000 Three-Year-Old Filly Pace OSS Grassroots Final on Saturday night at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
The time for the mile was 1:50.1 on the good-rated track.
From the moment she left the gate, Collusion Hanover, the overwhelming 1-9 public choice, was in total control of the other nine fillies. Driver Louis-Phillippe Roy steered her with ease around the first turn and floated around the first turn. The duo produced a fiery :26 first quarter. The public’s second choice, How Much (All Bets Off), took third with Pasta Delight (Bettors Delight) in second.
In full flight heading for the :54.3 half, Doug McNair urged his charge, How Much, to take on Collusion Hanover. McNair pulled the pocket to create a duel between the two public choices.
They rumbled along in tandem, a duo noses apart with a score of lengths between Pasta Delight, who led the rest of the field, including Ann (Hes Watching), who broke off the gate and galloped out of contention.
The dueling pair scorched three quarters in 1:21.4. That was too much for How Much as Pasta Delight stepped lively late to earn best-of-the-rest finisher to Collusion Hanover’s four-length win. How Much held on for third.
“We were going good fractions,” said Roy, who was not surprised with the result. “It was a two-filly race and I was confident from the start and in the duel. She made my job look easy.”
Luc Blais trains Collusion Hanover and Roy said the trainer’s horses “were getting better” as the season ensued.
Collusion Hanover is a daughter of Bettors Delight out of the Somebeachsomewhere mare Covfefe. She has now earned $172,469 after this Grassroots final, which was her fifth win of the season and seventh in her career.
Determination owns the filly, who will likely come back in the OSS Super Final.
FEATURED PHOTO: Collusion Hanover scoring a win in the $75,000 Three-Year-Old Filly Pace OSS Grassroots Final on Sept. 28, 2024 at Woodbine Mohawk Park (Clive Cohen/New Image Media)
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