With just four racing days left in the 2024 Woodbine racing season, a number of big stables have already shipped out horses to places south. Those include Martin Drexler, Mark Casse and Bill Tharrenos, among others.
The door is wide open these days for plenty of small stables to win races and last week, through four racing days, 25 different trainers won races. Thirteen different jockeys won the 35 races.
Multiple race winners included trainers Mike DePaulo, Kevin Attard, Norm McKnight, Paul Buttigieg and Sid Attard.
Rafael Hernandez rode eight winners, Keveh Nicholls won four, Sahin Civaci picked up six and Austin Adams won four.
Trainer KERRON PALMER won his first career race last week when he sent out the classy gelding AVOMAN to win a claiming event for owner Bruno Schickedanz. Palmer saddled his first few horses in 2023 and has had 32 starters this year. Avoman, winner of the Plate Trial and Steady Growth Stakes in his career, joined the Schickedanz team in September when claimed for $15,000.
HANNAH SPRENGER won her first race as a trainer (she has raced horses as an owner) with LILZ HOPE (Frac Daddy) who flew to a big win in her third race of the season last week.
On Sunday, a maiden two-year-old allowance race was won by longshot MOHAYMEN DIAMOND, a bay colt owned and trained by Chetram Mohabir and ridden by Cheyenne Kerr. At 29-to-1, Mohamen Diamond defeated a couple of well-bred first-time starters from the Kevin Attard barn, among others in the 1 1/16 mile race. It was the fifth start for the Ontario-bred by Mohaymen, who is now standing in Ontario. The colt earned a 63 Beyer Speed Figure for his time of 1:43.00.
Mohabir purchased Mohaymen Diamond for $7,500 from the CTHS Ontario yearling sale last fall from breeder Kenny Ng. Ng had purchased the dam, No Means No, a stakes-placed daughter of Louis Quatorze, for $3,500 from a Wanamaker’s online auction in February, 2021, not in foal.
There are two stakes races on the final weekend of racing.
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