'Seven' once again pulled off an upset win at Woodbine, this time on May 1, setting a track record for 1 1/16 miles in a strong allowance.
Omar Moreno
Elizabeth and Gordon Lickrish have been racing and breeding horses in Ontario for several decades and Golden Vision wins big at Woodbine.
Her Majesty’s Flag, with Omar Moreno up for the first time, was full of run down the lane to capture Sunday’s co-featured $127,750 Duchess Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by David Cotey for owners Dominion Bloodstock and Barry Butzer, the chestnut daughter of Midshipman-Regal Point arrived at the seven furlong ‘Poly’ sprint for sophomore fillies from […]
Yvonne Schwabe’s homebred Surtsey, with Omar Moreno aboard, outduelled the defending champion Silent Treat through the stretch to win the featured $100,000 Zadracarta Stakes, Saturday at Woodbine. Contested over seven furlongs of yielding turf, eight fillies and mares lined up for the challenge, with the Chad Brown-trained Wavell Avenue, a ship-in from New York, the […]
Lapsang won a stretch duel with Dulcify to capture Saturday’s $114,800 Deputy Jane West Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Suzanne Drake for owners Janice and Joseph Pollard, Silver Duck Racing Stable and Philip Yu, Lapsang rallied four-wide for the stretch run and finished gamely to notch a narrow neck score in the inaugural running of […]
Trainer Ashlee Brnjas, who was at her wedding reception, watched her 70-1 Reconnect rally in deep stretch to take Saturday’s $126,600 La Prevoyante Stakes, an Ontario Sires event for three-year-old fillies, at Woodbine. With Omar Moreno at the controls, Reconnect, in her first grass test, flew down the outside of the E.P. Taylor Turf Course […]
Omar Moreno, the 2009 Sovereign Award recipient for outstanding apprentice jockey in Canada, was given another well-deserved honour on Monday evening in Miami, an Eclipse Award, for his riding efforts in 2010. Moreno, who won his first race with his first mount, Fortress Mountain, on August 10, 2008, at Grand Prairie, Alberta, becomes the fourth […]
Woodbine jockey Omar Moreno had plenty of wins in 2010, 146, to be exact. But the biggest victory of his young career might come away from the Toronto oval, Monday evening at the Eclipse Awards in Miami. He rode into last year’s thoroughbred campaign with a full head of steam, armed with a 2009 Sovereign […]
