Woodbine Mohawk Park: Strobe Lite shines in OSS Gold Series

Strobe Lite, coming off a third-place finish against open company in the Goodtimes Stakes final last Saturday, posted a 1:52 2/5 victory in Sunday night's lone C$140,000 Ontario Sires Stakes Gold Series test for 3-year-old male trotters at Woodbine Mohawk Park.

With James MacDonald in the bike, Strobe Lite left from post seven and pressed on two-wide to take the top spot away from Dream For Peace (Mark MacDonald) after the 28 1/5 quarter. Strobe Lite would then allow a brushing Touchedbyanangel (Doug McNair) to take command on the way to the half-mile marker, which was reached in 57 seconds flat.

Nearing the 1:25 3/5 three-quarters, Strobe Lite was guided off the pylons by MacDonald, and after he battled with Touchedbyanangel into the lane, he went by in mid-stretch. From there, Strobe Lite edged clear and went on to defeat Touchedbyanangel by a length and a half, with Dream For Peace third. Mike Me Up (Tyler Borth) and Anibal Duharas (Louis Roy) rounded out the top five.

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An O'Brien Award recipient last year, Strobe Lite is an Alarm Detector gelding trained by Ben Baillargeon. Baillargeon also co-owns Strobe Lite, who now has a summary of 5-6-4 from 17 outings and earnings of C$586,328, with breeder Glengate Farm, Claude Hamel and Nunzio Vena. He paid $3.50 to win as the favorite.