Ten fillies and mares, including two supplements, will compete in the 43rd Ontario Matron Stakes (G3) at Woodbine on October 22. The $150,000-added race is at 1 1/16 miles on the Tapeta and will go as race 8.
DREAMING OF DREW (Speightster), a two-time stakes winner in 2022, stretches out in distance after a fourth-place finish in the Grade 3 Seaway Stakes at 7 furlongs to Lady Speightspeare, the current leader of the older filly and mare division. Owned by Hoollie Racing Stable, LLC and Madaket Racing, Dreaming of Drew won the 1 1/16 mile Belle Mahone Stakes and 5 1/2 furlongs Long Branch Stakes and she was second in the Grade 3 Trillium Stakes in August. Kazushi Kimura will ride the 4-year-old who is trained by Barbara Minshall.
OUR FLASH DRIVE returns to Woodbine for Live Oak Plantation and trainer Mark Casse. The Ghostzapper filly won two stakes in 2021 and was undefeated in her three races at Woodbine last year. In 2022 the bay 4-year-old placed in two stakes races in the US before landing third in the Grade 2 Nassau Stakes behind the dead-heating pair of Lady Speightspear and Crystal Cliffs. She recently won the De La Rose Stakes at Saratoga on turf and was fifth in the Grade 2 Ballston Spa in her most recent race. The filly is 2-for-2 on Tapeta. Patrick Husbands will ride Our Flash Drive.
Also in the field is stakes winner KATE’S KINGDOM, who shipped into Woodbine on Aug. 13 and was third in the Trillium Stakes. She recently won the Gem City Stakes at 1 1/16 miles on Tapeta at Presque Isle.
The Ontario Matron Stakes was first run in 1979 but it was not held in 2020 due to the COVID-10 pandemic.
FIELD FOR THE GRADE 3 ONTARIO MATRON
Post – Horse – Jockey – Trainer
1 – Broadway Lady (S) – Sahin Civaci – Mark Casse
2 – Our Flash Drive – Patrick Husbands – Mark Casse
3 – Kate’s Kingdom – Antonio Gallardo – Armando De La Cerda
4 – Miss Vancougar (S) – Slade Jones – Nick Nosowenko
5 – Alydiva (S) – Rafael Hernandez – Mark Casse
6 – Silent Causeway – Justin Stein – Laura Krasauskaite
7 – Peace Seeker – Eswan Flores – Nick Nosowenko
8 – Super Chianti – Emma-Jayne Wilson – Michaela Neubauer
9 – Dreaming of Drew – Kazushi Kimura – Barbara Minshall
10 – Saratoga Vision – Jason Hoyte – Alexander Patykewich
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