Last year’s La Prevoyante Stakes winner FASHIONABLY FAB has had a fabulous season as a four-year-old, treading out of Ontario-sired stakes to take two graded wins and place in another. The dark-coloured daughter of Silent Name (Jpn), bred and owned by Dom Romeo’s Terra Farms, is on the shortlist for the Sovereign Award for Champion Older Mare Main Track.
Speaking of Sovereign Awards, the filly’s trainer, Kevin Attard, seems set to collect his first for Outstanding Trainer (he has had at least one season in recent years when he should have already won his first Sovereign) and he has sent out ‘Fab’ to win six of her last nine races, including the two this season.
Fashionably Fan provided apprentice rider Pietro Moran with his first stakes win when she won the Belle Mahone Stakes (G3) in her season debut on June 1. Moran was later injured and was out for the year, but his father, David, was given the mount on the fab filly and he guided her to a win in the Ontario Matron Stakes (G3) in September. The 1 1/4 miles of the Maple Leaf Stakes on Nov. 9 may have been a touch too far for Fashionably Fab, so the drop back to 1 1/16 miles against Ontario-sired gals should make her tough to beat.
The top three finishers from last year’s La Prevoyante are in the six-horse field, including runner-up TALK TO YA LATER, owned by Piano Bar Racing and trained by Ian Black.
Talk to Ya Later is one of the province’s best bargain buys from the local yearling sale in recent years. Plucked from the 2020 CTHS auction for just $5,000 by Jim Menzies of Piano Bar, the daughter of Perfect Timber has had a stellar career under trainer Ian Black. The five-year-old has been stakes-placed numerous times and earned over $227,000. Ryan Munger will ride Talk to Ya Later.
And TITO’S CALLING, third in last year’s La Prevoyante, is a homebred for Robert Marzilli who seeks her second win this year. The versatile daughter of Society’s Chairman is trained by Mike DePaulo and Jose Campos will ride.
Canuck Racing Club’s WAR PAINTER, coming off an exciting stakes win in the Ashbridges Bay over fellow La Prevoyante starter HURRICANE CLAIR, and Barbara Minshall’s FORTYFIVESEVENTY complete the Saturday stakes race.
LA PREVOYANTE just about usurped the great Secretariat for the Horse of the Year title in 1972 when both were two years old. La Prevoyante went 12-for-12 that year, winning stakes all over North America. Of the three groups that voted for the Eclipse Awards that year, one group, the turf writers, voted for her as Horse of the Year. The other two voted for Secretariat. La Prevoyante was owned and bred by Jean Louis Levesque and was a daughter of the great Buckpasser. She won 25 of 39 races but never got to the breeding shed as she died of a ruptured lung after her final race.
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