Coming off a great year with his 2-year-old Cash or Card (by Currency Swap), co-owned by Larry Falloon and trainer Shelley Brown and winner of the Winnipeg Futurity and the Osiris Stakes, horse owner Oslen Belle has reason to feel optimistic about a foal who was recently born at the farm of Florent Rivard in St. Eustache, Manitoba.
The foal, whom Belle imaginatively named Belle Boy (get it?), is by the same stallion, Going Commando, who sired Manitoba’s greatest horse, Escape Clause, and the nine-for-nine stakes-winning filly, Hidden Grace. Ossie is hoping a colt can mimic the success of the fillies, especially because the colt’s mother was fathered by the Grade 1 Haskell Invitational winner Roman Ruler.