Godolphin's 5-year-old gelding made easy work of his five rivals in the Grade 1 event and earned a berth to the Breeders' Cup Mile.
Ricoh Woodbine Mile
Woodbine has four stakes, three of them Grade 1s on the grass, on its Saturday card, September 16; highlight Ricoh Woodbine Mile.
Multiple Grade 1 winning colt Modern Games (Ire) flew to victory in the Ricoh Woodbine Mile and earned another trip to the Breeders' Cup.
While Modern Games (Ire) will be a solid favourite, there are some good ones in the Mile field. Let's look at their recent races.
Early Breeders' Cup Mile contender Modern Games will try and get a free pass to the November race with a win at Woodbine.
Double Group 1-winning colt was second to the undefeated superstar Baaeed in the Group 1 Sussex Stakes in his last start.
Brandon Greer and his father Terrance have raced a small stable for 17 years. They won their first stakes race Sept. 18, the Woodbine Mile.
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.
Woodbine's second $1 million race of the 2020 season comes up Sept. 19, luring Preakness Stakes winner War of Will who will face few rivals.
Among the changes to the abbreviated 2020 stakes season at the Etobicoke track is the cancellation of the Grade 1 Canadian International.
El Tormenta found clear sailing under jockey Eurico Rosa Da Silva and rallied for a victory at 44-1 in Saturday’s $1 million Ricoh Woodbine Mile (Grade 1).
The Mark Casse trained filly Got Stormy is widely regarded as the one to beat in this weekend’s 23rd running of the $1 million Ricoh Woodbine Mile.
Made You Look is a late entrant for trainer Chad Brown and supplemented at a cost of $20,000 for the one-mile Win and You're In for the Breeders' Cup event
Mr Havercamp, Canada’s 2018 Champion Older Male and Champion Turf Male, has been ruled out of contesting his second straight Ricoh Woodbine Mile.
