Fort Erie racetrack’s 90th Thoroughbred season gets underway Tuesday, May 27 with a 4:30 p.m. post time and eight races with plenty of entries. There are two Maiden Stakes on the program, each worth $30,000 and run at five furlongs on the main track.
One of Fort Erie’s leading riders, CHRIS HUSBANDS, will be back in the saddle after being seriously injured last summer when a horse flipped over on him. Husbands had a fractured spine and pelvis and has not ridden since July 2024. Also returning to Fort Erie is ISMAEL MOSQUEIRA, who fractured his arm in a gate incident last summer. Mosqueira returned to the saddle this spring at Ajax Downs.
Leading trainers JULIE MATHES, JOE HUMBER, ROY AGOSTINO, SHARON CECCATO, JOHN SIMMS and JEFF VOYCE, among others, are back with horses at Fort Erie.
The MAIDEN STAKES are races four (colts and geldings division) and seven (fillies).
The colts and geldings split is headed by ICON RACING STABLES’ PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE, trained by Anthony Adamo. The four-year-old by Souper Speedy missed by a nose 10 days earlier in a $15,000 maiden race at Woodbine.
ICON Racing Stables is owned by Dave Andreola and family of Niagara Falls. Andreola has refurbished his Fort Erie barn and added a salt therapy room as he plans to go big in this, his second year of racing horses. The horses are trained by Anthony Adamo and the team is already two-for-four at Woodbine this spring.
The fillies split of the Maiden Stakes has a couple of fillies owned and bred by Charles Fipke in the field. SUPER HONEY TIMBER was second in her career debut at Fort Erie last summer for trainer Michaela Neubauer. RUBY’S GHOST, by Ghostzapper, raced three times at Fair Grounds this past winter for Dallas Stewart and had mixed results. First-time starter EMMA’S LAST GEM, owned by Larry Cordes and Pat County Jr., is a half-sister to King’s Plate and Prince of Wales winner Mighty Heart.
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