The latest Hoolie Racing Stable and trainer Barbara Minshall two-year-old star is UNCLE DODO (Uncle Mo) who won a prolonged stretch battle with Titan Ready to win the $128,000 Victoria Stakes at Woodbine on July 12. The 5 1/2 furlong Victoria was the first two-year-old stakes race of the Woodbine season and the top two finishers were maidens, but both coming off strong debut showings.
Titan Ready and jockey Fraser Aebly worked hard to get the lead by a length early in the Victoria and the Kentucky-bred by Title Ready was still holding on turning for home when joined by the filly Klassen, making her debut, and Uncle Dodo. Uncle Dodo, under Romero Maragh and racing on the wrong galloping lead engaged Titan Read midway through the stretch and just edged away. Maragh lost his whip but momentum was on his side and Uncle Dodo won by a head in 1:04.98. Klassen was third.
Uncle Dodo is a homebred for Andrew Hudson and family’s Hoolie Racing, based in South Carolina. Husband, his father Greg and brother David, raced a small stable throughout North America and have had young horses at Woodbine with Minshall for about a decade. One of those was My Dear and Grade 3 Schuylerville Stakes winner Dream It Is, the dam of Uncle Dodo.
Hoolie Racing has also had Canadian bred Dreaming of Drew, who won the Princess Elizabeth Stakes in 2020 and recent stakes winner Two Ghosts.
Dream It Is has produced other four named foals for Hoolie including Otto the Conqueror, who sold for $450,000 at the 2022 Keeneland September yearling sale and he is now a stakes winner of over $600,000.. Dream It Is has a Constitution yearling colt.
Dream It is is a granddaughter of Reve de Fille, an unraced mare whose own dam is the great BOSRA SHAM (Storm Cat), winner of the Champion Stakes (G1), Fillies Mile (G1), etc.
Minshall, one of Canada’s top trainers since the 1990s, has won more than 460 races and she has a host of promising juveniles coming up to race in the near future.
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