Weekly Wrap in Canadian Racing, Aug. 17-23; Shirl works

you're listening to an article from canadian thoroughbred.com. weekly wrap in canadian racing, aug. 17-23; shirl works by: jennifer morrison |. top winning canadian beyer speed figures – aug 17-23. from daily racing form. 96 salute with honor. advertisement scroll to continue with content 84 viewfinder. 83 mnemba island. 83 stay fantastic – hastings. 82 – deep explorer (asssiniboia). 81 – strategic vision (fe). 80 runway dream (turf). stakes – eternal search – court return – 77. soaring free – gretzky the great – 79. catch a glimpse stakes – alda – 79. stein-o-mite – woodbine leaderboard. it was a wild week at woodbine for the jockey standings as justin stein won 12 races last week while leading rider rafael hernandez sat out a 3-day suspension. that brought stein to within 3 of the top spot as this week gets underway thursday. the woodbine season goes on longer than any other meeting in canada but currently antonio whitehall leads all canadian riders with 80 victories. jockeys. 1 rafael manuel hernandez 292 62 48 27 $2,371,656 2 justin stein 279 59 32 35 $2,137,517 3 kazushi kimura 314 44 64 43 $2,127,7662 6 emma-jayne wilson 267 42 21 38 $1,448,366 4 luis contreras 279 36 40 37 $1,648,932. trainers. 1 mark e. casse 199 — 32 43 20 $1,995,588 16% 4 kevin attard 112 — 19 20 9 $912,461 17% 9 norman mcknight 97 — 19 13 9 $382,873 20% 2 josie carroll 71 — 18 9 8 $1,060,684 25% 3 robert p. tiller 92 — 17 12 14 $914,134 18%. owners. 1 gary barber 44 7 14 3 $470,577 2 live oak plantation 20 6 4 1 $328,902 3 stronach stables 34 3 6 4 $327,243 4 buttigieg training centre 57 9 8 10 $318,709 5 chiefswood stables limited 53 4 5 7 $308,382. horses by wins. pink lloyd old forester 3 3 0 0 $181,845 forester’s turn old forester 4 3 0 1 $142,861. spanish ballerina victor’s cry 4 3 0 1 $79,102 make no mistake raison d’etat 5 3 2 0 $49,454 pierian nephrite (gb) 3 3 0 0 $35,841 super chocolate souper speedy 4 3 0 0 $30,976. the buzz at woodbine last week was the 1 mile workout by shirl’s speight, the undefeated 3-year-old kentucky-bred for charles fipke, trained by roger attfield. who could be headed to the kentucky derby in 1 1/2 weeks, sept. 5. while the work did not go quite the way trainer attfield wanted according to daily racing form, he thought the group went a bit slow at the outset, the colt exited the 1 mile prep in 1:39.20 well. shirl’s speight worked with three others including stablemate perfect tapatino. he is scheduled to have one more 5 furlong breeze before he heads to kentucky. attfield told drf that he will accompany shirl’s speight to churchill downs which means he will have to quarantine for 14 days upon his return to canada. shirl’s speight, by speightstown. is reportedly #20 to get into the derby after defections. currently tiz the law is at 4 to 5 in william hill advance wagering.