The Di Scola Boys won their first stakes race as owners when the two-year-old colt HE’S NOT JOKING roared to an impressive four-length win in the bet365 Grey Stakes (G3) at Woodbine on November 3. A Kentucky-bred trained by Josie Carroll, He’s Not Joking was 10-to-1 in the field of eight and had Kazushi Kimura aboard for his fourth career race.
The Grey, run just 30 minutes after the Mazarine Stakes (G3) for fillies, had a filly favourite as Shifty (Medaglia d’Oro), trained by Mark Casse, stayed in the Grey despite being cross-entered along with several other stablemates to the Mazarine.
And the fans liked Shifty, who had won the Catch a Glimpse Stakes and was coming out of the Grade 2 Miss Grillo on turf at Aqueduct where she had finished sixth. Owned by D J Stable, Shifty was speedy out of the gate at the outset of the 1 1/16 mile race and went fast on the lead, 23.01. 47.11 and 1:11.17. Her stablemates Tapit Kissit Winit, a colt who was two-for-two, and Ready to Battle got tired chasing her, while the Kevin Attard-trained colt Dewolf stayed in the hunt.