WEG Harness Racing News; Brainard, Zeron among HOT TRAINERS

Tracy Brainard has re-emerged as the hottest trainer on the Woodbine Entertainment Group harness racing circuit, and Rick Zeron has made the most of limited starts to rocket up the charts.

Takter, Fellows, McIntosh, Kopas, McCall and Camirand have posted great numbers the past few weeks, while Baillergeon remains his steady Eddy self.

W H O ‘ S H O T AT WEG - TRAINERS

Last 15 Days 03/9/2009 thru 21/9/2009

TRAINERS Sts 1st 2nd 3rd Win% UTRS

Tracy L Brainard 36 8 5 7 22.2 .364

Jimmy W Takter 28 6 4 4 21.4 .341

Benoit O Baillargeon 37 5 9 0 13.5 .270

Robert Don Fellows 29 5 4 4 17.2 .295

John R Kopas 20 5 1 3 25.0 .328

Robert A McIntosh 34 5 6 3 14.7 .275

Richard Zeron 18 5 5 2 27.8 .469

Darren James McCall 11 4 1 0 36.4 .414

Marc R Camirand 7 3 0 0 42.9 .429

Casie Coleman 31 3 3 3 9.7 .183


Last 20 Days 27/8/2009 thru 21/9/2009

TRAINERS Sts 1st 2nd 3rd Win% UTRS

Tracy L Brainard 47 9 10 9 19.1 .374

Benoit O Baillargeon 50 8 10 0 16.0 .271

Robert A McIntosh 52 8 10 5 15.4 .293

John R Kopas 29 7 1 5 24.1 .318

Richard Zeron 23 7 6 3 30.4 .493

Robert Don Fellows 36 6 4 5 16.7 .275

Jimmy W Takter 28 6 4 4 21.4 .341

Casie Coleman 45 5 3 3 11.1 .170

Darren James McCall 15 5 1 1 33.3 .393

Marc R Camirand 10 4 1 0 40.0 .456


As you can see, the Coleman barn has been uncharacteristically weak these past 20 days, but I do not have any insight as to whether a specific malady affected the full team. In any case, Coleman horses rebounding off of troubled races may come at decent odds if up against vulnerable faves. Casie runs one of the hardest-working and most professional barns in the harness racing world and she remains among the leading Canadian standardbred trainers by wins, UDRS and money won, and part of the recent low WEG numbers can be attributed to her star pupils competing in OSS events across Ontario.

HOT Harness Racing Drivers and Trainers at Mohawk Raceway

I would say the most amazing performances in recent days have been from Sylvain Filion, and the hot hands are starting to get some good horses. Randy Waples is continuing his torrid summer, while Mark Macdonald is back with these 2 and Jamieson as the elite drivers of WEG standardbred racing.

Other top performing drivers at Mohawk include Condren, Rick Zeron, Simon Allard, Trevor Ritchie (all old track hands know about Ritchie and trotters), Henriksen, Chris Christoforou, Mario Baillargeon and Paul Macdonell.

Hot barns in recent weeks include a return to dominance by Casie Coleman, after Tracy Brainard posted some big numbers in the spring. Benoit Baillargeon keeps on winning, and August cards have seen horses from Marty Fine, Bob McIntosh, Per Henriksen, Ben Wallace, Richard Moreau, Stephen Charlton and Michael Grant blazing to the wire.

In coming days I will post some theories and examples of how to cash big exotic tickets, including Win 3s and Superfectas.

Peace.

Top Harness Racing Drivers and Trainers at WEG Racetracks

Without revealing my super-secret statistahunch formula, here are trainers and drivers to include in your boxes in coming days:

(Calculated as of July 13, 2009, published July 16th)

Top Trainers at Mohawk

AAA Group (HOT):


Coleman
Brainard
Charlton
McIntosh
Henriksen
O'Sullivan
Baillergeon
Gillis
Fletcher
Fine
Young

More to watch for:

Christoforou
Hughes
Allard
Austin


Hot Lately:


McCall
Montini


Top Drivers at Mohawk


AAA Group:

Jamieson
Waples
Condren
Macdonald
Marks
Henriksen
Baillergeon
Allard
Ritchie
Christoforou
Filion


Hot Lately:


Zeron


When I update this list in the future I will try to include an initial, and maybe even an entire first name!