Fresh off a successful day of racing on July 23 ‘Cup’ Day, Hastings Racecourse comes back with its popular BC Cup Day on Monday, August 1. Six stakes races worth a total of $300,000 highlight the eight-race card which begins at 2:00 Pacific.
Wagering on Cup Day last week was over $900,000 and fans crammed the Hastings grandstand for a dress-up, festival-type afternoon at the races.
On Aug. 1 the stakes races begin with the $50,000 BC Cup Debutante for 2-year-old fillies at 6 1/2 furlongs. Stakes-placed MS STANFORD, owned by Mauro Comensoli and trained by Dino Condilenios, and debut winner STOPSHOPPINGSHELLY, owned by MJD Sables and trained by Demetris Topouzis, are contenders in the Debutante.
The BC Cup Distaff is led by multiple champion INFINITE PATIENCE, who is fresh off a win in the Monashee Stakes in her season opener for William DeCoursey and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.
The BC Cup Sir Winston Churchill Derby Trial offers a chance for 3-year-olds to prepare for the BC Derby. Kim Peacock and Lance Giesbrecht’s REGAL RIOT, a BC-bred son of Jersey Town, is coming off of two stakes wins for trainer Robert Anderson.
BC-bred LEGACY SQUARE, who won the Spaghetti Mouse Stakes in his career debut, is the early favourite for the BC Cup Nursery Stakes.
The BC Cup Classic for older horses sees Bryan and Carol Anderson’s streaking AT ATTENTION, a BC-bred by Shanghai Bobby, take on six rivals and the Hong Kong Jockey Club for 3-year-old fillies has U DID IT, owned by John Anderson, meeting six rivals.
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