Six stakes races including the BC Cup Sir Winston Churchill Derby Trial make up a strong eight-race card at Hastings Racecourse in Vancouver on holiday Monday, August 5.
The BC Cup, a popular event on the Hastings calendar, has open races for all divisions of horses, each one worth $50,000. First race post time is 2:30 p.m. PST and the BC Cup Debutante for two-year-olds fillies at 6 1/2 furlongs kicks off the card.
Race 7 is the Derby Trial for three-year-olds pointing to the BC Derby (G3) in September. Peter Redekop’s BC-bred AUGUST RAIN (Sungold) has won two consecutive stakes races this season including the July 6 Chris Loseth Stakes. Barbara Heads trains the chestnut sophomore who won three of five starts as a juvenile, all stakes races. Redekop bred the gelding who is 8-to-5 in the morning line for the 1 1/16 mile Trial.