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When I grow up I want to be a ….

COVER BOY!! Rahy’s Attorney as a baby and as a grown up, thanks to Janet Black and Ellen McLellan for the photos.

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BREEDERS’ STAKES – SUNDAY AUGUST 2

NO CROWN, BUT PLATE / WALES WINNER SQUARE OFF

The Canadian Triple Crown wraps up Sunday at 1 1/2 miles on the Woodbine turf, which was soaked with rain last weekend as much as we’ve seen in recent years.

Queen’s Plate winner EYE OF THE LEOPARD will make his grass debut in the BREEDERS’ and meet up with GALLANT the Prince of Wales winner who has raced once on the grass and was 4th beaten 14 lengths to Utterly Cool ast year as a 2yo.

Eye of the Leopard, from the family of Queen of Egypt, Quiet Cleo (dam of turf champion Quiet Resolve) might be a better colt on the grass. His dam was 2nd in the 10 furlong Wonder Where Stakes on the grass.

The Breeders’ field will be a mixed bag of sophomores.

How about a bunch of grass loving, long distances guys from Fieldstone Farms and trainer Analisa Delmas? That barn seems to be getting a roll and a Breeders win would be the biggest ever for Ron Delmas and his family.

EYE OF THE LEOPARD Sam-Son Plate winner

FULL THROTTLE Gus Schickdanz maiden

GUIPAGO Fieldstone maiden winner on turf

HISAKI Fieldstone stakes placed maiden on turf

KEINO WEST Track West unplaced Plate/Wales

MENSCH Fieldstone 2nd Guipago, maiden

MR. FORICOS TWO U 2nd Plate

PARABOLA turf allowance winner

RESERVOIR turf winner

GENIUS KINSHASA turf winner

PERFECT SHOWER maiden winner

july7plate1.jpgIt says here that EYE OF THE LEOPARD will be even better on the grass…www.horse-races.net photo

 

 

 

 

 

 

RED HOT AND BLUE LOVE

The hottest trainers according to the Daily Racing Form’s awesome Formulator product include STEVE ASMUSSEN, who is 6 for his last 15 starters during the last 10 days.

ROGER ATTFIELD is 4 for his last 12 starters.

Speaking of trainers, here’s a big shout out to Thoroughblog reader and new trainer STEVEN CHIRCOP, who saddled his first winner on July 17 . REDEPLOY returned to racing just 4 days after an outing at Fort Erie and won nicely in the big leagues for Chircop, who also owns.

Chircop has owned horses and had other trainers and now is a trainer with clients himself.

WOODBINE SCOREBOARD – TRAINERS

Mark E. Casse      160      26      24      21      $2,073,143

Sid C. Attard     115     26     15     16     $1,134,573

Steven M. Asmussen     108     24     19     15     $983,612

Malcolm Pierce     98     23     11     10     $1,719,549

Terry Jordan     49     23     5     10     $834,194

Robert P. Tiller     161     21     32     20     $1,084,635

Nicholas Gonzalez     123     20     17     15     $1,069,836

Scott H. Fairlie     137     19     24     25     $1,428,876

Josie Carroll     82     19     11     17     $1,191,616

Reade Baker     147     18     23     24     $1,161,204

Roger L. Attfield     74     18     14     8     $1,092,824

Sam Di Pasquale     56     12     10     6     $364,873

WOODBINE SCOREBOARD – JOCKEYS

Jockey LUIS CONTRERAS is 6 for his last 20 mounts while EURICO ROSA DA SILVA, who has a big shot at the Sovereign Award this year for top jockey, is 10 for his last 37 mounts.

Patrick Husbands      438      86      75      70      $5,173,795

Chantal Sutherland     424     67     68     62     $3,709,063

James McAleney     284     55     36     45     $2,775,087

Eurico Rosa Da Silva     327     54     51     42     $3,733,626

Emile Ramsammy     367     51     44     44     $2,405,039

Tyler Pizarro     330     50     47     42     $2,480,519

Emma-Jayne Wilson     393     41     53     50     $2,525,776

Luis Contreras     130     31     21     17     $1,301,181

Justin Stein     308     27     38     30     $1,281,846

Jono C. Jones     226     20     20     26     $1,326,462

Todd Kabel     120     17     13     10     $860,205

Gerry Olguin     223     16     21     29     $888,946

WEST VIRGINIA DERBY

SATURDAY – MINE THAT BIRD VS. MONTY’S BEST VS. AWESOME RHYTHM

No sure thing

A win at the West Virginia Derby is never a guarantee

By BILL MOONEY, Special to The Review

Results of horse races don’t always play out the way they’re expected to, even for the most sophisticated bettors.

The rule of thumb is that about one-third of post-time favorites win. In the West Virginia Derby over the years, the ratio has been slightly higher – 34.1percent of wagering choices have been victorious. But there have been many surprising winners, too.

When Mind That Bird goes to the post in next Saturday’s 40th edition of the Grade 2, $750,000 West Virginia Derby, his odds will likely be less than even money, rendering him a prohibitive favorite. And, if so, there will be good reason for this. His 6 -length victory in the Kentucky Derby was the largest in the first jewel of the Triple Crown in 63 years.

http://www.reviewonline.com/page/content.detail/id/517015.html?nav=5010

july28rhyy1.jpgStrrrrrretch – Awesome Rhytm is headed to West Virginia and the country roads.

Terence Dulay photo.

 

 

 

SUNDAY

RACHEL VS. THE OTHER BIRD in ‘JERSEY

NEW YORK POST

Rachel Alexandra, Summer Bird clash in Haskell

by Ray Kerrison, New York Post

Rachel Alexandra might be the most glamorous horse in America today, but anyone who thinks she is a cinch to waltz off with Sunday’s $1.25 million Haskell Invitational at Monmouth should have a chat with Tim Ice.

Ice trains the Belmont Stakes surprise winner Summer Bird, who has been bedded down at Monmouth in Oceanpark, N.J. for a month and is taking dead aim at the wonder filly.

“We’ve got to outrun Rachel,” Ice said at the barn this week. “But they’re not giving her a check before the race. The Haskell is always a competitive race, and when they put up a million dollars it’s not going to be an easy race for anyone. They don’t give the money away. It has to be earned.”

Summer Bird is coming to run, and if Rachel is to get the prize, she will have to earn it the hard way, by running her eyeballs out.

http://msn.foxsports.com/horseracing/story/9861148/Rachel-Alexandra,-Summer-Bird-clash-in-Haskell