Up With the Birds rallied from the back of the pack to take Saturday’s $250,000 Coronation Futurity at Woodbine. The Sam-Son Farms homebred, trained by Malcolm Pierce and ridden by Eurico Rosa da Silva, was steered with great confidence from sixth, and last, position, prevailing under a hand ride in the 1 1/8-mile event. Bookies […]
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Magic Broomstick, with jockey Emma-Jayne Wilson in the irons, swept by the field in mid-stretch en route a three-length score in Sunday’s $100,600 Avowal Stakes, at Woodbine. The dark bay daughter of More Than Ready-Special Brush, trained by Malcolm Pierce for owner Sam-Son Farms, sat off the early pace of Man Stuff in the seven-furlong […]
Chief Bearhart, twice named Canada’s Horse of the Year, died of heart failure on September 18 at the age of 19, in Japan. The Sam-Son Farms legend, who was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2002, had been standing stud at the Japan Bloodhorse Breeders’ Association Shizunai Stallion Station (JBBA). “As […]
