Reagan's Flame invades Woodbine and wins the Grade 3 Whimsical, while Plate winners' showdown goes to Paramount Prince.
Whimsical Stakes
King's Plate winner Mansetti meets 2023 Plate winner Paramount Prince on Saturday at Woodbine; Whimsical Stakes also on card.
There were several impressive races by Woodbine horses this weekend, including the two stakes stars who could rule the season.
Graded stakes-winning mares battle in the Saturday feature at Woodbine; track hosts Kentucky Derby party on May 4.
American trainers are moving into the Woodbine barns for early stakes and early King's Plate favourite My Boy Prince returns.
The Grade 3 Whimsical Stakes was a procession for Our Flash Drive and Ontario trainers Catherine Day Phillips and Mike Dunslow are red hot.
Our Flash Drive will be odds-on in the Grade 3 Whimsical Stakes on May 13, while the Grade 3 Jacques Cartier is wide open.
The purse money was spread out over three racing days at Woodbine last week, while Barber and Casse won another stakes race.
The Sunday headliner at Woodbine will include the winner of last year's Thunder Bay and Ashbridges Bay Stakes.
LNJ Foxwood's brilliant filly Boardroom wins first graded stake of Woodbine season, trained by Josie Carroll.
The 2020 Champion Female Sprinter takes on Boardroom and others; Star Shoot Stakes for sophomore fillies also on June 18 card.
Shakopee Town makes her Canadian debut in the $125,000 Grade 3 Whimsical Stakes on Opening Day of the 2019 Woodbine Thoroughbred meet.
Live Oak Plantation’s Let It Ride Mom edged out favourite Moonlit Promise at the wire to win the $125,000 Whimsical Stakes at Woodbine Racetrack.
Woodbine will host its first graded stakes of the 2018 Thoroughbred meet with the $125,000 Whimsical Stakes headlining the Saturday afternoon program.
Sam-Son Farm’s Southern Ring broke sharply and fended off all foes late on her way to an impressive one-length win in Sunday’s Grade 3, $147,250 Whimsical Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Malcolm Pierce, the bay daughter of Speightstown arrived at the six-furlong main track sprint off a third-place effort in the Minaret Stakes on February […]
