A year ago, four Super Final victories on a single card — including one by the incomparable Somebeachsomewhere — helped Paul MacDonell of Guelph vault to Canada’s driver of the year award.
Saturday, MacDonell will be hard pressed to duplicate that impressive haul when the eight $300,000 races return to Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, but the driver does have a great shot to win two divisions.
He’s driving Fast Pay, one of the top three-year-old pacing colts in the province, in the seventh race and millionaire sophomore trotting mare Elusive Desire in the 10th and final Super Final on the card.
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