Essence Hit Man, Canada’s champion sprinter in 2011 and 2012, makes his much anticipated return in Wednesday night’s $100,000 Ontario Jockey Club Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Larry Cappuccitti for A & G Racing Stable, the now eight-year-old chestnut last raced on November 30, 2013 when second in the Grade 2 Kennedy Road Stakes. Essence […]
Essence Hit Man
Bear No Joke surged off the rail at the top of the lane and collared a free-wheeling Essence Hit Man to capture Saturday’s Grade 2 $177,000 Kennedy Road Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Reade Baker for Bear Stables Ltd., the grey son of It’s No Joke broke sharply from the inside post under rider and […]
Essence Hit Man successfully defended his Grade 3 $168,000 Bold Venture title with a familiar front-running performance in Woodbine’s Wednesday night feature. Essence Hit Man, twice named Canada’s champion sprinter, came into the 6 1/2-furlong ‘Poly’ stake off a narrow 1/2-length defeat to Laugh Track in the Grade 3 Vigil Stakes. However, there would be […]
Essence Hit Man won the $169,200 Jacques Cartier Stakes for the third year in a row with a powerful front-running performance on Saturday, at Woodbine. Trained by Sylvain Pion and ridden by Jesse Campbell for owners A&G Racing Stable, Essence Hit Man, racing without his customary blinkers, was relaxed out of the gate notching a […]
Audre Cappuccitti, one of Woodbine’s most popular and successful trainers, who had been around horses her entire life, has passed away. Cappuccitti, who won 537 career races, including 35 stakes scores, celebrated a Sovereign Award in 2011 when Essence Hit Man was named Canada’s champion male sprinter. She had horses with Vito Armata and Glen […]
Essence Hit Man, with Jesse Campbell in the irons, got off to a fast start and then dug in late for a three-quarter length score in the featured $168,000, Grade 3 Vigil Stakes, Sunday at Woodbine. Last year’s Canadian champion sprinter, Essence Hit Man, an Ontario-bred five-year-old son of Speightstown, went one better than […]
The Jockey Club of Canada is pleased to announce the winners of the 37th Annual Sovereign Awards for excellence in 2011 presented earlier this evening at Woodbine Race Track in Toronto. OUTSTANDING JOCKEY Luis Contreras OUTSTANDING APPRENTICE JOCKEY Ryan Pacheco OUTSTANDING TRAINER Mark Casse OUTSTANDING OWNER IN CANADA – TIE Dover Stable, Glenn Todd & […]
Essence Hit Man launched his 2011 campaign in blistering style, setting a track record of 1:08.16 for six furlongs, while taking the featured $168,000 Jacques Cartier Stakes, Sunday at Woodbine. With Patrick Husbands at the controls, Essence Hit Man, a four-year-old son of Speightstown-El Prado Essence, fired from the gate, quickly opening a three-length lead […]
