The Ontario Thoroughbred Improvement Program’s Ontario Sire Heritage Series begins Sunday at Woodbine with the first two legs of the three-leg series (plus a final).
Established in 2021, the Ontario Sire Heritage Series is comprised of three opening legs and a $100,000 final for two divisions: three-year-old colts/geldings, and three-year-old fillies. In 2022, as a result of the increase, all three legs of the series will be worth $100,000 each.
All three legs and the final are contested over different distances and surfaces: the Woodbine Inner Turf Course, the Woodbine E.P. Taylor Turf Course, the Fort Erie Dirt Track, and the Woodbine Main Track.
On Sunday, the Lake Huron Stakes for colts and geldings and the Georgian Bay Stakes (fillies) will be contested at five furlongs on the inner turf.
The Lake Huron, race 3, has a field of six including stakes winner SILENT RUNNER (Silent Name (Jpn)) owned by C. Scott Abbott and trained by Mike Doyle. Silent Runner won the Frost King Stakes last year as a juvenile and has won on the turf. This year he has been unplaced in two races against much tougher competition. David Moran rides the Abbott homebred.
Race 7 is the Georgian Bay with 10 fillies entered. Norsemen Racing Stables’ BREATHING FIRE will take much support as she was third in the ‘open’ Alywow Stakes on July 9 at 64-to-1. The daughter of Signature Red, trained by Sid Attard, had one other race on turf and that was a victory at 6 1/2 furlongs on June 9. Justin Stein rides. Multiple stakes-placed LOIS LEN, owned by Aaron Yagoda, D J Stable and Quintessential Racing, comes off a main track win for trainer Mark Casse but she is stakes-placed on turf.
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