Cederberg ($12.80) won the co-featured Jim Coleman Province Stakes for three year-olds on Sunday at Hastings Racecourse with an unrelenting effort over the 6 ½ furlong sprint distance that saw him eventually wear down a very game Bluegrass Angus and win in 1:16.32, that being plenty fast for a three year-old at Hastings in early May. David Lopez rode the winner.
Cederberg is a gelded son of the deceased Rosberg (who, even from the Other Side, is still the best stallion in the province) out of an American Chance mare. The North American Thoroughbred Company, Peter Tom, and his trainer, Troy Taylor, own him.
Quatre Cat ($15.60) absolutely devastated a field of three-year-old fillies in the Ross McLeod Stakes when she put a Linda Ronstadt move (Blue Bayou) on last year’s champion juvenile filly Finality’s Charmer and left that one and the rest in her wake while widening to an 8 ½ length victory. Ridden by Ryan Pacheco, the winner covered the 6 ½ furlongs in 1:16.88.
Rob McDonald who owned both stallion and mare bred Quatre Cat in British Columbia. She is by Abraaj, who now stands in Washington, and is out of the Foxhound mare Four Girls. Quatre Cat has won stakes at both two and three- and her four-year-old full sister has blossomed into an 8-time winner. Stuart and May Carmichael and David and Sylvea Gregory, she being the trainer as well, own Quatre Cat.
Sunday’s sixth was an Allowance Optional Claimer with a $35,000 tag available to those not meeting the non-winner of two other than condition. A high quality group of eight older horses lined up for the 6 ½ furlong sprint that was won by Brass and Gold ($39.60) in a final time of 1:16.71 with Pedro Alvarado aboard. Taylors Deal, making one of his infrequent but ever excellent appearances, finished a closing neck short of the winner and a head in front of Go for Guinness who took third after fighting it out on the front end with, first, Distillery and then Brass and Gold.
Brass and Gold was bred in the Okanagan by his owners, R.J. and Lois Bennett. Barb Heads trains.
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