Warrawee Needy showed no mercy to the rookie rivals he squared off with in the $130,000 OSS Gold Series final at Rideau Carleton Raceway on Monday, and in the process he took two fifths of a second off the track record for pacing colts.

Best Ears made a break when making a bid for the early lead, and that left top honours to Warrawee Nonsuch. He made the speed to the quarter pole in :28 before Warrawee Needy and driver Jody Jamieson accelerated from sixth to first. The undefeated son of E Dees Cam-Great Memories hit the half in :56.4 and rolled the field to the three-quarter pole in 1:24.2 before turning on the afterburners and blazing away to a 16-3/4 length score in 1:52.1. Jake Sully was a distant second, with Machapelo taking home third prize.

The 1:52.1 record-setting mile lowered Rideau’s former track record of 1:52.3 established by Isle Of Patmos on October 29, 2004. It also matched the OSS record for two-year-old pacing colts on a five-eighths mile track. Just Asign To Me set the standard at Windsor Raceway last season.

The victory was the fifth in as many tries for Warrawee Needy, who hangs his harness bag in the barn of trainer Carl Jamieson. The O’Brien Award-winning conditioner also shares ownership on the precocious pacer with Tom Kyron, Dr. Michael Wilson and Floyd Marshall. The lion’s share of the purse lifted the freshman’s bankroll to $178,500.

(courtesy Standardbred Canada)