Mother Nature played a role in who was winning races at Woodbine on August 10 as both stakes races were won by front-runners.
Canadian Stakes
The Grade 2 Canadian Stakes, sans Moira, and the Bison City Stakes, with Oaks winner Kin's Concerto, headline Woodbine Saturday.
The 2022 Horse of the Year took her first graded stakes win with aplomb, crushing rivals in the Grade 2 Canadian on Sept. 9.
Already with a free pass to the Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf at Santa Anita, Fev Rover will go for another Canadian Stakes.
The lucrative 2022 program offers more than $16.9 million in stakes events, including 37 graded stakes and two $1 million classics.
Casse sends out a trio in Mile; Desert Encounter looks to capture three consecutive International victories at Woodbine.
Woodbine Entertainment is targeting June 18 (or earlier) as a start date for the Thoroughbred season; Queen’s Plate remains on August 22.
Under rider David Moran, the Gail Cox trainee rallied from next-to-last and blew past 4-5 favourite Cambier Parc for a convincing four-length score.
Starship Jubilee went to the front and never looked back en route to a 4 ¼-length victory in the $250,000 Canadian Stakes at Woodbine on Saturday.
Starship Jubilee will defend her title in the Grade 2 Canadian Stakes, a 1 1/8-mile turf race for fillies and mares which offers a purse of $250,000.
Woodbine Entertainment and the Japan Racing Association have partnered on a sponsorship agreement for the Canadian Stakes and Paradise Stakes.
