Bright Green equaled the 1:52 Ontario Sires Stakes (OSS) record for 3-year-old trotting fillies while winning the lone C$140,000 Gold Series event on Saturday (Aug. 9) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. It was Bright Green's first career Gold victory.
Driven by her part-owner Louis-Philippe Roy, the daughter of Green Manalishi S-Shine Bright, trained by Eric Nadeau, won gate-to-wire in the field of six, posting fractions of 27 1/5, 55 and 1:22 3/5 to win by 1 1/2 lengths over Foxy Amee (Doug McNair) in a career-best mile. Bright Green was sent off at 11-1 and paid $24.90.
Two-time 2025 Gold winner Sprite Seelster (Tyler Borth) was third, followed by 4-5 favorite Stormont Beautiful (Bob McClure) and Roxie Hart (Travis Cullen).
Roy told Woodbine Mohawk Park broadcaster Chad Rozema that Bright Green, "was good until past the quarter when I wanted to her to relax a bit. She didn't want to relax...but she did the job. I was just hoping she wouldn't stop too bad. But I guess everybody else was tired following us."
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The driver said Bright Green's connections opted to skip the last Gold leg event on July 16 at Grand River Raceway. Instead, Bright Green won a C$25,000 OSS Grassroots division on July 14 at Woodbine Mohawk Park.
"We skipped the last Gold in Grand River because she's not really good around the turns," Roy said. "She raced really well in the Grassroots, so we decided to go back [to the Gold]. This week, she trained the best. I went to train her with Eric. I got off the bike, and I said I had never seen her that good and that it might be a good thing for this weekend."
The win improved Bright Green to 3-2-2 in 10 starts this year and 5-4-4 in 21 lifetime races. She increased her bankroll to C$122,996 this year and C$172,385 lifetime. The 1:52 mile shaved nearly three seconds off her previous-best mile of 1:54 3/4 set during that Grassroots start on July 14.
Bred by Glengate Farms, Bright Green was purchased for $65,000 at the 2023 Lexington Selected Yearling Sale by Ecurie Csl and Louis-Philippe Roy Racing.
--press release (Ontario Sires Stakes)--