Toronto, ON – The ultra-consistent Careless Jewel, Canada’s 2008 Horse of the Year Fatal Bullet, recent stakes winner Biofuel and emerging star Bridgetown head a list of 10 runners with Canadian connections that have been pre-entered to the 26th Breeders’ Cup World Thoroughbred Championships, set for Santa Anita Park, in Arcadia, California on Friday, November 6, and Saturday, November 7.

Careless Jewel, Donver Stable’s outstanding three-year-old Tapit filly, is entered in the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Ladies Classic. The grey, trained by Woodbine-based conditioner Josie Carroll, seeks her sixth consecutive score. Recently, Careless Jewel took the Grade 2 Fitz Dixon Cotillion at Philadelphia Park on October 3. In August, the Kentucky-bred romped to an 11-length triumph in the Grade 1 Alabama Stakes at Saratoga. In six lifetime starts, Careless Jewel has five wins and on third, along with over $1 million in purse earnings. Woodbine jockey Robert Landry, who has been aboard in all but one of her starts, will be in the irons.

Four-year-old Fatal Bullet, a Bear Stables’ colour-bearer, trained by Reade Baker, is entered in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint. The bay son of Red Bullet, who finished second to Midnight Lute in last year’s event, will once again have Woodbine rider Eurico Rosa da Silva in the irons. The Florida-bred gelding sports a record of 9-for-14 and is 9-for-11, along with two seconds, over synthetic surfaces.

Biofuel, another Reade Baker trainee, heads into the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies off an impressive 4 1/2-length score in the Grade 3 Mazarine Stakes, contested at Woodbine, on October 10. The two-year-old daughter of Stormin Fever has two wins from four starts, for owner-breeder Brereton Jones. Da Silva will also partner the Kentucky-bred.

Summer Stakes champion Bridgetown, owned by Eugene Melnyk, goes for his third straight win, as the son of Speightstown has been entered in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf. After two starts in the U.S., the colt looked solid in taking the one-mile, Grade 3 Summer by 1 1/2 lengths on the Toronto oval’s E.P. Taylor Turf Course. Robert Landry gets the call.

Leading the contingent of Windsor, Ontario native J. Paul Reddam is three-year-old Canadian-bred Square Eddie, who has been pre-entered in both the Breeders’ Cup Sprint and Turf Sprint. The son of Smart Strike finished second to Midshipman in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile. Reddam is also represented in the Breeders’ Cup Turf by Red Rocks, who won the same event in 2006, and boasts a record of six wins  and 13 top-three finishes from 23 starts.

Frank Stronach will be represented by Einstein in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Stronach purchased the multiple graded stakes-winning seven-year-old son of Spend a Buck from Midnight Cry Stables in September.

Bickersons, a California-based dark bay filly, was pre-entered in the Juvenile Fillies event.  She was bred in Ontario by Bob Harvey of Mississauga.

Jungle Tale (Juvenile Fillies Turf) is a chestnut filly who has spent most of her freshmen year at Woodbine under the care of trainer Steve Asmussen.  She has a win in four starts, including a second-place finish in the Natalma Stakes last time out.

The celebrated Mine That Bird was Canada’s champion two-year-old colt in 2008 under the care of owner-trainer Dave Cotey.  Sold late last year to U.S. interests, the bay gelding won the Kentucky Derby in May and was pre-entered in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.  He was co-bred by Peter Lamantia of Toronto.

Final entries will be drawn on Tuesday, November 3.

Complete pre-entry fields and updates are available at www.breederscup.com. Further details about the Canadian horses are available at www.woodbineentertainment.com.

Canadian content in the Breeders’ Cup:

FRIDAY

1. MARATHON

(none)

2. JUVENILE FILLIES TURF

– Jungle Tale (Woodbine-based runner, trained by Steve Asmussen)

3. JUVENILE FILLIES

– Bickersons (Ontario-bred by Robert Harvey, of Mississauga, Ontario)

– Biofuel (Woodbine-based runner, trained by Reade Baker, of Toronto, to be ridden by Eurico Rosa da Silva, of Toronto)

4. FILLY AND MARE TURF

(none)

5. FILLY AND MARE SPRINT

(none)

6. LADIES CLASSIC

– Careless Jewel (Woodbine-based, Canadian-owned by Donver Stable (Donna and Vern Dubinsky), of Sherwood Park, Alberta, trained by Josie Carroll of Toronto, to be ridden by Robert Landry, of Toronto).

SATURDAY

1. JUVENILE TURF

– Bridgetown (Canadian-owned by Eugene Melnyk, native of Toronto, to be ridden by Robert Landry, of Toronto)

2. TURF SPRINT

– Square Eddie (Ontario-bred by Kinghaven Farms of King City, Ontario, Canadian-owned by J. Paul Reddam, native of Windsor, Ontario)

3. SPRINT

– Fatal Bullet (Woodbine-based, Canadian-owned by Bear Stables (Danny Dion) of Edmonton, Alberta, trained by Reade Baker of Toronto, to be ridden by Eurico Rosa da Silva of Toronto)

– Square Eddie (Ontario-bred by Kinghaven Farms of King City, Ontario, Canadian-owned by J. Paul Reddam, native of Windsor, Ontario)

4. JUVENILE

(none)

5. MILE

(none)

6. DIRT MILE

(none)

7. TURF

– Red Rocks (Canadian-owned by John P. Reddam, a native of Windsor, Ontario)

8. CLASSIC

– Einstein (Canadian owned by Stronach Stables (Frank Stronach) of Aurora, Ontario)

– Mine That Bird (co-bred in Kentucky by Peter Lamantia of Toronto)

 

 

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