The Fresh Yankee for older trotting mares and Lady Liberty for older pacing mares both feature overflow fields of 12 and both will have a pair of Canadian-trained and owned starters.

 

Elegant Serenity (post 10) and Rockin With Dewey (post two) will try their best to take down monster mare Hannelore Hanover in the Fresh Yankee.

 

Doug Millard's homebred Kadabra mare Elegant Serenity has a Grand Circuit victory this season in a leg of the Miss Versatility for trainer/driver Roger Mayotte of Mississauga, Ont. Rockin With Dewey also has a Miss Versatility victory this season for trainer Ben Baillargeon of Guelph, Ont., and his co-owner Diane Ingham of Mount Pleasant, Ont. Ingham also bred the mare with Harry Rutherford of Mount Pleasant, Ont.

 

Co-owned by John Fielding, the Takter-trained double millionaress Shake It Cerry will start from post nine in the Fresh Yankee while the Ron Burke stable's Kelseys Keepsake, co-owned by David Heffering of Port Perry, Ont., and Patti Harmon trainee Swishnflick, bred by Allen Colquhoun of Guelph, Ont. and Dr. J. Keith Colquhoun, of Rockwood, Ont., will both start from the trailing tier.

 

O'Brien Award winners Solar Sister (post five) and Lady Shadow (post 12) will headline the Lady Liberty.

 

Four-year-old Mach Three mare Solar Sister has transitioned well to the older ranks this season and most recently finished second in the Golden Girls for Guelph, Ont. trainer Gregg McNair and owners/breeders David Willmot of King City, Ont. and Clay Harland Horner of Toronto.

 

Trained by Ron Adams of Lasalle, Ont., Lady Shadow is the mare to beat in the Lady Liberty from the second tier. The reigning divisional champion was the Golden Girls winner at The Meadowlands and also won the Roses Are Red earlier at Mohawk. The millionaire daughter of Shadow Play is owned in part by David Kryway of Amherstburg, Ont.