Saturday, Hastings Racecourse, post time: 7:35 p.m. EDT
BRITISH COLUMBIA DERBY-GIII, C$250,000, 3yo, 1 1/8m
PP HORSE SIRE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY WT
1 Doobiedoobiedoobie Adios Charlie Rob & Sheena Maybin Maybin Asencio 126
2 Explode Trappe Shot Canmor Farms Cloutier Perez 126
3 Stay Fantastic Stay Thirsty Tod Mountain Thoroughbreds Ammann Reyes 126
4 All Good Will Take Charge Peter Redekop B. C., Ltd. & James Redekop Hall Sarmiento 126
5 Call It a Wrap Finality Riversedge Racing Stables, Ltd. Rycroft Galviz 126
6 Final Jeopardy Street Sense Peter Redekop B. C., Ltd. & James Redekop Hall Gonzalez 126
7 Flatout Winner Flat Out Westana Ranches, Inc., Debra McComas, Jill J. Tracy Lindell, Danard et al Walcott 126
8 Five Star General Distorted Humor North American Thoroughbred Horse Company, Inc. Todd Gutierrez 126
9 Whiskey Bound Afleet Alex M. Kim Peacock & Lance Giesbrecht Pedersen Civaci 126
(Photo of FIVE STAR GENERAL BY PATTI TUBBS) There is the field for the 74th BC Derby, held Saturday at Hastings Park in Vancouver. The race is part of a stakes filled day and ushers in the BC CTHS yearling sale on Sept. 10.
While last year Sky Promise mowed his way through all three western Canadian Derbies (Manitoba and Canadian plus BC), this year there could very well be three different winners. Oil Money won the Manitoba Derby and has stayed in Manitoba. Explode was placed first through the disqualification of Journeyman, owned by Godolphin.
Explode, owned by Ole A Nielsen, is in the BC Derby but the competition may be a bit tougher this time around for the $2,500 weanling purchase and son of Trappe Shot.
A winner of four straight races, Explode is actually 4 for 8 at Hastings Park since he is based there.
The guys to fear are Final Jeopardy, who had a botched beginning in his Canadian debut in the Canadian Derby but adds blinkers for Peter Redekop and Glenn Todd’s Five Star General, who will be ridden by Kentucky Derby winning jockey Mario Gutierrez. Gutierrez seeks his first BC Derby win.
Five Star General, a private purchase by Todd this summer, was a stakes winner at 2 at Aqueduct and the son of Distorted Humor handily won his first start for his new barn in the Aug. 5 Winston Churchill Derby Trial.
Funnily enough, a Five Star General has already won the BC Derby. In 1978, Golden Chance Farms’ Five Star General, a son of Lt. Stevens, came into Vancouver and won the Derby, after winning the Derby Trial. The horse went on a good career with more stakes wins at age 4 and graded stakes placings in California at age 5.
Also on the big card of racing Saturday at Hastings Park is the BC Oaks and Delta Colleen Stakes, among others.
HERE’S HANNAH has won 11 of 12 career starts and is once again a candidate for champion older mare in Canada. She races in the Delta Colleen on BC Derby day – Photo courtesy Patti Tubbs
HERE’S HANNAH, the amazing older mare who has won 11 of 12 races and 7 races in succession, will be heavily favoued in the Delta Colleen.
Here is a feature from The Province newspaper on Mario Gutierrez’s return to Hastings:
For the on-line catalogue for Tuesday’s CTHS-BC YEARLING sale – https://www.cthsbc.org/catalogue
~ by Jennifer Morrison
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