Voelz Delight equals track record on Industry Day
At 0h03, on August 3, 2021 • By NEWSROOM/ONTARIO SIRES STAKES
Front end control was the name of the game at Grand River Raceway on Monday (Aug. 2), as the winners of both C$101,400 three-year-old pacing filly Gold Series divisions and all five $21,000 Grassroots divisions controlled the tempo on their way to victory.
Taking top billing on the 31st annual Industry Day program was Voelz Delight who captured the first Gold Series division in a track record equalling 1:52.4, matching the record set by Neon Moon during the 2018 edition of the Elora oval’s signature event.
Starting from post three, driver Sylvain Filion fired the Bettors Delight daughter to the front and led the field of eight through fractions of :26.4; :54.1 and 1:22.4. Jody mounted a late charge, but Voelz Delight sailed home a one length winner in the 1:52.4 clocking. Favorite Dabarndawgswatchin settled for third.
“Last week she had a bad week, the last Gold (July 23). Some kind of a virus was going through the barn and she wasn’t 100 per cent, and she still raced real good, but I knew she would come back good today,” said trainer Ben Baillargeon of the filly’s third-place effort on July 23. “She warmed up good and I told Sylvain, ‘If she gets to the front, you’re the boss’. She had nothing to prove really, to nobody. She’s a true Gold horse, she proved herself last year and she proved herself this year again, some people, looks like they had doubts in her today, but now we just proved them wrong.”
Guelph, ON resident Baillargeon trains Voelz Delight for owner-breeder Richard Berthiaume of Pointe-Aux-Trembles, QC. The win was the filly’s second in Gold Series action this season and her third lifetime. In seven sophomore starts the filly boasts a record of five wins and two thirds for earnings of C$146,328.
