From the great white north – Bax takes aim at Elitlopp.

He has made the trip twice before, but traveling to Scandinavia with a top trotter in tow never gets old for Peterborough, Ontario harness racing trainer John Bax. In 1999, he was invited to Sweden for the prestigious Elitlopp with his fabled campaigner Goodtimes, a $2 million-earning son of Balanced Image-Goodtime Kathy, who was second in his Elitlopp elimination and third in the final at the age of eight.

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Assuming that volcanic ash-clouds do not delay his May 8 departure from Toronto’s Pearson airport, Define The World will be using the Oslo Grand Prix, May 16, as a warm-up, and heading to Stockholm two weeks later. Accompanying him will be linesman Paul MacDonell (who enjoyed world attention in 2007 and 2008 as the pilot of Somebeachsomewhere), who will be making the trip to the Elitlopp for the first time.