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.
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