And they're off!: Horse racing back in Ontario after COVID-forced shutdown
Early Friday evening, Twin B Powerball ushered in the restart. After a somewhat heavy-handed 69-day shutdown of Ontario’s horse racing operations, the three-year-old pacer took the first race contested in the province, a dash at Grand River Raceway. But once the gate opened, it was back to business. It turned out to be a good day for trainer Bill Tharrenos, who sent Divine Martha to win the second race with Ademar Santos up, and later saw Hidden Identity put in the most impressive performance of the day, taking the sixth race by over 10 lengths with Emma-Jayne Wilson riding. Tiller and Di Giulio book-ended the card by taking the final race with Simple Souvenir, who just got his nose on the wire in a narrow photo with Skye Chernetz aboard. Nine trainers got winners on the 11-race card.
