When a young horse tops a yearling sale, there is always the hope that the horse has the talent to match his price tag. The 2022 sale topper at the Canadian Premier Yearling Sale, a steel grey son of Cairo Prince – Hopping Not Hoping by Silent Name (Jpn) brought a bid of $115,000 from agent Dr. Robert McMartin, buying the colt for Gary Barber.
Christened MY BOY PRINCE, the colt could well be a bargain at that hefty price.
Trained by Mark Casse and ridden by Sahin Civaci, My Boy Prince rolled to a jaw-dropping, 14-length victory in the $201,500 Simcoe Stakes for yearling sale graduates. His share of the purse was $120,000 (CAN).
My Boy Prince sped to his maiden win in his second career start, June 18, after a second-place finish in his debut to the filly Bolt Enoree. He had been away for two months due to a foot abscess. He had just two published workouts coming into the 11-horse Simcoe field but was hammered down to 1 to 5 by the public and once he broke well and grabbed the lead, the race was over. He sped 6 1/2 furlongs in 1:15.48, about three seconds faster than the fillies went in the Muskoka Stakes.
“He could be special,” said Casse to Canadian Thoroughbred in a text. “Good for the sale too, [we’ll] be buying more.”
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My Boy Prince was bred by Murray Smith and sold through agent Gail Wood of Woodlands. His sire, Cairo Prince, has had six crops to race and he sired the Canadian Champion two-year-old filly in 2022, Cairo Consort.
The dam, Hopping Not Hopping, was bred by Roger Fortier and she raced for Smith, Chris Chop, and Katharain Gavel. Trained by Barbara Minshall, Hopping Not Hoping, from the Harlan’s Holiday mare Delray Beach, won the Shady Well Stakes in her third career race. She raced just four times in her career.
My Boy Prince is the mare’s second foal to race. Her 2019 foal, Right Matter is placed. The mare has a yearling colt by Kitten’s Joy entered in the Keeneland September yearling sale.
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“Get out and buy an Ontario bred.” That was trainer Phil Hall, who hails from British Columbia where he has been a leading trainer, but moved his stable to Woodbine a few years ago. Hall sent out SOUPER SINCLAIR to win the $100,000 Algoma Stakes for three-year-old fillies, grabbing the win by a scant nose over Malta Manors’ Zana.
Souper Sinclair, a daughter of Souper Speedy – She Stands Proud by Proud Citizen, was bred by the late Gus Schickedanz and a $31,000 purchase by Praven Sorensen from the 2021 CTHS Ontario sale. The filly was also owned by Dennis Tucker, who passed away in June.
Ridden by Jose Campos, Souper Sinclair, wearing blinkers for the first time, came from about two lengths off the pace and somehow turned on enough jet power to catch Zana (Goldencents), who appeared to be home free. The time for the 7 furlongs on the Tapeta was 1:25.03.
This was Hall’s first stakes win at Woodbine. Souper Sinclair has 2 wins from 11 races and earnings of $130,285. Her dam She Stands Proud has also rodiced stakes placed Proud Speaker. Second dam Woodsmoke is a stakes winner and this is the immediate family of Queen’s Plate winner Woodcarver.
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HURRICANE CLAIR (Silent Name (Jpn) – Hurricane Lorraine by Weather Warning) blew by her two-year-old filly rivals and won the Muskoka Stakes 5 1/4 lengths for owners David Rowbothman, Rodney Carpenter and Tony Boogmans. Trained by Martin Drexler, Hurricane Clair was a $35,000 at last year’s sale from breeder Bru-Mel Stables, who had consigned the filly with care Bloodstock. Hurricane Clair was even money in the Muskoka which was just her second career race. The filly had finished third in her debut after a messy start.
Despite stumbling at the start of this race, Hurricane Clair rallied wide under jockey Sahin Civaci and won handily in a time of 1:18.46. She is the second foal of the $263,000-earning mare Hurricane Lorraine, a half sister to stakes winner Selva.
There is a half-sister by none other than Cairo Prince to Hurricane Clair in this year’s sale (Aug. 30 beginning at 12 noon).
RAPID TEST, one of the first horses newcomer Colin Davis’ Apricot Valley Thoroughbreds bought into, won the Elgin Stakes with a well-timed, rail-rallying move under jockey Kazushi Kimura. Co-owned by Kingfield Racing Stable and trained by Catherine Day Phipps, Rapid Test was one of two new stakes winners for Souper Speedy during the day.
The gelding was picked out by Day Phillips from the consignment of Joey Gee Thoroughbreds. Named Speedy Tiger at the time, the gelding was scooped up for $22,000 from agent Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency. Rapid Test made his debut on May 13 and ran to his impressive workouts, winning that day. He recently won again, in his fourth career race., posting an impressive 85 Beyer Speed Figure. His Elgin score came in a time of 1:23.01.
“Colin got in touch with us before the yearling sales stakes two years ago,” said Day Phillips. ‘He was interested in getting into horse racing and Rapid Test was the first horse we bought for him.”
Rapid Test is from the four-time winning mare Arch Tigress, by Archarcharach.
Davis, who lives in Cobourg, has since added a couple of broodmares to his farm and he will sell his first homebred on Aug. 30 the CTHS sale, a filly by World of Trouble from the Medaglia D’Oro mare Renata.
“I got bit by the bug bad,” said Davis.
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