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Maple Leaf byes for Lucky Jim, Enough Talk

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July 13, 2010

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With only 13 horses entering for this year's $850,000(C)Maple Leaf Trot at Mohawk Racetrack, three horses were offered byes and the connections of Lucky Jim, Enough Talk and Armbro Chronicle all accepted. Ten horses will go behind the gate Saturday, July 17, with the top seven advancing to the July 24 final where they will join the three trotters who sat out the elim.

The 2009 edition of the Maple Leaf Trot was certainly one of the most exciting races of the season anywhere in North America. Thousands of fans watched local star San Pail hand the great Lucky Jim his only loss of the campaign that night. Lucky Jim easily won their next meeting in the Nat Ray at the Meadowlands but those eagerly anticipating a rematch in this weekend�s Maple Leaf Trot eliminations will have to wait at least one more week.

Defending champion San Pail made a rare break in stride in his last race and has since requalified at Mohawk on July 9, finishing second behind fellow MLT hopeful Define The World who recently returned from a stint in Europe.

After his qualifying victory, Define The World competed the very next night at Georgian Downs in the $113,000(C) Masters Series final where he finished second to Misterizi in 1:54.

The lone European invader this year is Reven D�Amour who has won his last two starts overseas. As a 3 year old in 2008, he won the European championship and had an overall record of 11-7-2-0. He also won the feature race for 4 year old's on last year�s Elitlopp undercard.

Here is the complete field in post position order:

Post Horse (driver)

1 Slave Dream (Sylvain Filion)

2 All Cantab (Trevor Ritchie)

3 Lanson (Mario Baillargeon)

4 Define The Word (Paul MacDonell)

5 Striking Lindsey (Doug McNair)

6 San Pail (Randy Waples)

7 Wind Surfer (TBA)

8 Triumphant Caviar (Luc Ouellette)

9 Reven D�Amour (Fredrik Larsson)

10 Arch Madness (Trond Smedshammer)

(WEG)　

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