NEW YEAR’S DAY may have been born in April but he won the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile with an inside rally for Gary and Mary West. TERENCE DULAY PHOTO
Tuesday Nov 5 – Keeneland November the focus today and through the week, lots of Canadians selling and some 170 Stronach Stables and Horse Racing League horses are selling, let’s see how many come back to Canada…here is today’s news..
MORE CUP WRAP
It is fair to say (no pun intended) that there are a lot of people who are getting tired fast of having the BREEDERS’ CUP at Santa Anita – speed favouring track, turf races that cross dirt, you name it.
The notion that it should be held there every year is horrific. The California horses thrive there, so do the Euros, but let’s get back to some eastern tracks every now and then please.
MELBOURNE CUP – WATERHOUSE MOMENT
both trainer GAI WATERHOUSE and jockey Damien Oliver have had their share of controversy but they won the MELBOURNE CUP last night with FIORENTE:
FASIG TIPTON NOVEMBER SALE
say bye bye to some big Canadian-breds
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BREEDERS’ CUP BEYER FIGURES DAY 2
1 1/16M BCJuvFil-G1 2,000,000 FT 10 F 12 81
1 1/4M BCFMTrf-G1 2,000,000 FM 10 F 1 104
7F BCFMSprt-G1 1,000,000 FT 12 F 6 107
About 6 1/2F BCTrfSpt-G1 1,000,000 FM 13 5 94
1 1/16M BCJuvnle-G1 2,000,000 FT 13 12 88
1 1/2M BCTurf-G1 3,000,000 FM 12 1 107
6F BCSprint-G1 1,500,000 FT 12 6 98
1M BCMile-G1 2,000,000 FM 10 1 104
1 1/4M BCClasic-G1 5,000,000 FT 11 12 112
All-sources handle for the 14 Breeders= Cup World Championships races was $136,539,014, a 7%
increase over last year’s 15 Breeders Cup-race total of $127,676,366. The 2013 full-card handle was
$160,704,877, an 11% increase over last year’s figure of $144,272,332. Saturday’s 12-race Breeders’ Cup card was $109,183,731, up 13% from the 2012 handle of $96,685,567
At Woodbine, betting on Saturday was $5.2 million, up nicely from last year’s $4.5 MILLION.
However, Friday thoroughbred racing at Woodbine was cancelled so there is no comparison to this year.
So, in our last post, MEN, we talked about the big wins by WISE DAN and MUCHO MACHO MAN and former Woodbine runner RIA ANTONIA, who was picked out by Woodbine trainer Ricky Griffith for $9,000 and then sold privately to current owners Chris Dunn and Looch Racing.
Here are some other Breeders’ Cup thoughts:
BREEDERS’ CUP FILLY & MARE SPRINT – GROUPIE DOLL pushed her naysayers aside, those that said she was not the same horse as the one who won this race last year, and powered to a short win in the 7 furlong dirt test. The Bowman’s Band – Deputy Doll, by Silver Deputy mare is a 5yo with 11 wins in 21 races for Bill Bradley and partners. It was only her 4th race of the season.
Her dam DEPUTY DOLL, by Canadian bred SILVER DEBUT, was killed by lightning in 2009, a year after Groupie Doll was born.
TURF SPRINT
It was a year of repeats (and why not, Sanya Anita is funny-enough a track that it yields big-time horses for courses). MIZDIRECTION, sold last night at the Fasig Tipton November sale, was making her first start since June for Jim Rome and partners and Mike Puype and she rallied to win over dead-hearters TIGHTEND TOUCHDOWN and RENEESGOTZIP.
The winner is a Mizzen Mast grey mare, 5-years-old, and she won 11 of 17 races.
JUVENILE – Anyone looking for Kentucky Derby hopefuls…may not find one in this race.
NEW YEAR’S DAY, a colt by Street Cry (Ire) out of Justwhistlindixie by Dixie Union, came out of nowhere to win in his 3rd career race, and his first since Aug. 31. He had only raced on Polytrack at Del Mar. His owners Gary and Mary West threatened to sue over the dropping of Lasix for 2yo races in the Breeders’ Cup, but it’s likely they were not complaining on Saturday.
Bob Baffert trainee was a $425,000 yearling purchase.
TURF – The excitrment was all about the 4yo filly THE FUGUE, but this elegant Dansili gal could not keep her power going as she was too close, moved too soon and was rundown y MAGICIAN, trained by Aidan O’Brien. The winner made little sense – he had never been 1 1/2 miles, was 9th in his previous race, the St James Palace Stakes and he had been off since June 18. Of course, as a European, he had no workouts, so bettors only had 1st Lasix to go on. Irish bred 3yo is by Galileo.
FILLY & MARE TURF – DANK looked great on paper, on the track and she won a thrilling finish in the 1 1/4 mile turf event. She is a Dansili (GB) 4yo filly who won the Beverly D in her only NA start.
SPRINT – Hot pace in this race was not a surprise and the track had been watered so the speed bias calmed down a little. The brilliant SECRET CIRCLE, winner of the 2yo sprint 2 years ago was making his 2nd start off a 1 1/2 year layoff for trainer Bob Baffert and owned Mike Pegran, Karl Watson and Paul Weitma. A son of Eddington. LAUGH TRACK, a Woodbine stakes winner, was a fast closing 2nd.
“This is the story of my Breeders’ Cups. You can’t ever be unhappy when a horse runs the kind of race he ran. They run the Filly and Mare Sprint at 7/8, gee, I wish they ran this race at 7/8. He ran a great race.” – Mark Casse, trainer of LAUGH TRACK, 2nd in the Sprint to secret Circle. CINDY PIERSON DULAY/WWW.HORSE-RACES.NET
CANADIAN RESULTS:
JUVENILE FILLIES
-Ria Antonia, who broke her maiden at Woodbine in July when trained by Ricky Griffith, was elevated to the win position after being interfered with by She’s a Tiger.
-Concave (Ontario-bred by Windways Farm Ltd. of King City, ON; owned by Reddam Racing LLC of Windsor, ON) finished ninth.
FILLY AND MARE TURF
-Marketing Mix (Ontario-bred by Sean Fitzhenry) finished fifth.
FILLY AND MARE SPRINT
-Judy the Beauty (Ontario-bred by Adena Springs of Aurora, ON) finished second.
TURF SPRINT
-DImension, ridden by Woodbine regular David Moran, finished fifth.
-Handsome Mike (owned by Reddam Racing LLC of Windsor, ON) finished eighth.
JUVENILE
-Bond Holder (owned by Reddam Racing LLC of Windsor, ON) finished fourth.
-Conquest Titan (Woodbine-based with trainer Mark Casse, won the Swynford Stakes on August 24), ridden by Woodbine regular Eurico Rosa da Silva, finished thirteenth.
-Rum Point (owned by Reddam Racing LLC of Windsor, ON) finished twelth.
-We Miss Artie (Ontario-bred by Richard Lister of Toronto) finished seventh.
SPRINT
-Laugh Track (Woodbine-based with trainer Mark Casse) finished second.
-Private Zone (Ontario-bred by Adena Springs by Aurora, ON) finished tenth.
MORE WOODBINE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY BITS
SUNDAY – The 2yo Ontario bred gal SHIFTY, owned by Mike Rutherford, won the 1st race in her 3rd career start. She won the $40K claiming event quite easily and she was bred by Mike Byrne.
Race 2 was another maiden 2yo filly race and the winner was GDANSK for Greg Lang and Mike Ambler and trained Nick Gonzalez. It would be a good day for the Ambler clan as they won later with TONIGHT WE DANCE, who romped in a $20K claiming event later int he card.
GDASNK is a $45,000 yearling purchase by Langfuhr bred by Gus Schickedanz.
Another maiden allowance race, the 4th, was won by Paul O’Brien’s homebred NEESA, a daughter of Sligo Bay (big weekend for that sire). She is out of Red Skiummer by Gulch and was making her 5th career start. Steve Attard trains.
SPEYSIDE won an Ontario sired allowance for Bear Stables Ltd. in race 5. The son of Mobil, bred by Tony and Mary Jane Lamb, was turning back from 1 1/16 miles to 6 1/2 furlongs.
YOUCAN’TCATCHME won her 3rd stake of the year in just her 4th race when she took the ONtario Fashion. The fast gal was lucky as Goldstryke Glory was scratched with a virus. She is a 4yo by The Daddy, owned by Murray Stroud and trained by Sam DiPasquale. She was scratched from the Fasig Tipton November sale. She may have won the Female Sprinter award with that win.
SATURDAY –
SWEET LEW, a firster by Empire Maker, won the 1st race, a MSW, from post 1 for owner Jake Ballis and trainer Brian Lynch
Race 2 was won by the 6yo AWESOME ECLIPSE at 80 to 1 ( only 9 horses in the race) but he interfeed with DRAGO’S BEST a few times in the stretch and was disqualied. The winner, a Seeking the Best (Ire) 4yo, has won 3 of his last 4 races for HIll n Dale Equine Holdings and Josie Carroll.
Race 3 – an allowance sprint, was won by Ontario sired SPIRIT WARNINGS, a 4yo by Weather Warning owners by Spirit Winds Stable Inc. This is a cool homebred who is 2 for 8 this year.
Race 4 was won by Reade Baker owned and trained 3yo filly MORE THAN BANDEAU, who is 3 for 8 this year. She won her maiden for $5,000 at Fort Erie but has wins for $9,500 and now $20K.
Race 5 was a cool 2yo maiden allowance race for fillies and the winner was 2nd time starter SHANGARRY. This quick 2yo filly is a Florida bred by Greatness. She is owned by Cabarnet Racing and Ed Seltzerm the latter who co-bred the filly. Justin Nixon trains.
PORT SEVERN is 4 for 8 this year for CHiefswood Stable as he won a 10 furlong off the turf allowance in race 6. Rachel Halden trains the Niigon 3yo.
race 11 – PETE’S PITA led most of the way to win the maiden allowance for Centential Farms and Gail Cox – this is the first known winner for Plate Trial Stakes winner PETE’S SAKE. That colt came to Woodbine for the 2000 Trial for trainer Todd Pletcher, stayed with trainer Wray Lawrence from there and then retired to stud. He has had a handful of racing foals and currently stands at Chilala Springs in Ontario.
READE BAKER TO ETOBICOKE SPORTS HALL OF FAME
Sovereign Award winning trainer READE BAKER will be inducted into the ETOBICOKE SPORTS HALL OF FAME on Thursday night at a ceremony at the Old Mill restaurant. Congrats to one of Canada’s longtime leading horsemen!
LONGRUN DAY AT WOODBINE SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10TH
LongRun Day, an annual event hosted by Woodbine Entertainment Group to
showcase and distribute information about off the track thoroughbreds, is slated
for Sunday, November 10th in conjunction with the H.B.P.A. of Ontario –
Backstretch Appreciation Day.
LongRun Thoroughbred Retirement Society is a registered charity which operates
out of Woodbine Racetrack and helps find adoptive homes and new careers for
thoroughbreds once their racing days are over through fostering, rehabilitating
and retraining the horses who run for our pleasure. In addition, LongRun serves
to educate the racing industry and the general public about the merits of its
programme. There are currently over 45 horses in LongRun’s foster care,
awaiting new, loving homes.
An information area will be set up on Woodbine’s second floor and our popular
calendar of graduates, sponsored by the H.B.P.A., will be distributed, as well as
newsletters and brochures. Many of Woodbine’s jockey colony will be available
for autographs from noon until approximately 2:00 p.m. and there will be
LongRun merchandise and Christmas cards for sale. Please join us and receive
your free copy of our beautiful calendar.
MARKETING MIX RETIRED
bred in Ontario by SEAN FITZHENRY
Marketing Mix (Medaglia d’Oro–Instant Thought, by Kris S.) will retire following her fifth-place effort in the Filly and Mare Turf, according to Glen Hill Farm=s Craig Bernick. Yesterday Bernick tweeted, AMarketing Mix is being retired. She has given us tremendous thrills, and we are looking forward to her career as a broodmare.”
A seven-time graded stakes winner, Marketing Mix captured last year’s GI Rodeo Drive S., as well as this year’s GI Gamely S. She was also second in last year’s Filly and Mare Turf and retires with 10 wins from 21 starts and earnings of $2,015,893.
LEADING OWNERS AT WOODBINE BY MONEY
1 Sam-Son Farms 96 21 16 14 $2,067,910 22% 51 53%
2 John C. Oxley 112 25 15 19 $2,060,049 22% 59 53%
3 Chiefswood Stable 89 20 14 15 $1,477,680 22% 49 55%
4 Melnyk Racing Stables, Inc. 80 22 14 5 $1,216,284 28% 41 51%
5 Bear Stables, Ltd. 136 25 14 17 $1,198,577 18% 56 41%
6 Tucci Stables 66 6 11 15 $1,151,776 9% 32 48%
7 Hill, Jim and Susan 75 13 13 10 $987,235 17% 36 48%
8 Buttigieg Training Centre 86 15 7 5 $853,957 17% 27 31%
9 Frank D. Di Giulio, Jr. 61 15 10 12 $692,123 25% 37 61%
10 J.R. Racing Stable Inc. 28 7 5 4 $611,993 25% 16 57%
TRAINERS
1 Mark E. Casse 357 73 49 42 $4,670,956 20% 164 46%
3 Robert P. Tiller 237 46 36 36 $2,259,606 19% 118 50%
4 Reade Baker 213 40 23 30 $2,207,750 19% 93 44%
8 Josie Carroll 110 30 9 7 $1,507,524 27% 46 42%
2 Malcolm Pierce 137 25 21 22 $2,401,099 18% 68 50%
5 Nicholas Gonzalez 182 25 30 26 $1,790,620 14% 81 45%
12 Sid C. Attard 176 25 23 26 $1,102,708 14% 74 42%
JOCKEYS
Luis Contreras 733 146 117 105 $7,196,155 20% 368 50%
Eurico Rosa Da Silva 563 129 106 73 $7,412,649 23% 308 55%
Justin Stein 521 80 61 50 $4,464,114 15% 191 37%
Jesse M. Campbell 546 73 63 83 $4,635,035 13% 219 40%
Emma-Jayne Wilson 515 64 84 69 $3,525,001 12% 217 42%
Patrick Husbands 230 55 28 38 $2,685,418 24% 121 53%
Gary Boulanger 486 51 66 55 $3,110,640 10% 172 35%
Todd Kabel 446 49 53 54 $2,380,943 11% 156 35%
Skye Chernetz 465 42 48 55 $1,766,336 9% 145 31%
Tyler Pizarro 325 40 37 54 $1,937,124 12% 131 40%
HORSES – by wins
Phil’s Dream 9 7 1 0 $501,318 78% 8 89% 119
Go Greeley 6 4 1 1 $375,603 67% 6 100% 94
Ultimate Destiny 7 4 3 0 $303,638 57% 7 100% 109
Leigh Court 6 4 1 0 $283,840 67% 5 83% 99
Silent Treat 9 4 3 0 $168,128 44% 7 78% 95
Renegade Man 7 4 1 0 $152,543 57% 5 71% 98
Port Severn 7 4 0 2 $147,789 57% 6 86% 102
Line of Best Fit 8 4 1 0 $143,364 50% 5 63% 92
Daniel Be Good 7 4 1 1 $61,053 57% 6 86% 94
Sotique 8 4 0 1 $50,279 50% 5 63% 85
AND…COMING SOON…THE STORY OF MINE THAT BIRD
