The British Columbia racing industry celebrated its stars of 2025 at the annual awards ceremony earlier this month.
Rondelito
Maximum Fifty's six wins at Woodbine, five-time winner, Best of Greeley, age 10, and Alberta's eight-time winner Jacrodra's Devil.
The $125,000 B.C. Derby went to Rondelito, a son of Lent owned by Lorie Henson and trained by her husband, Steve.
The Grade 3 Derby has nine entered while filly Chi Chi Time, entered in both, will compete against the gals in the Oaks.
Seventeen horses have been nominated to the Aug. 23 $200,000 Canadian Derby at Century Mile, but without Running Away it’s a wide-open race.
Rondelito won his third stakes race in succession in the Sir Winston Churchill, a local prep for the BC Derby.
Seven races at Hastings Racecourse on July 5 included a pair of three-year-old stakes races, both won by BC-breds.
