With Manitoba super mare Escape Clause awaiting auction in Kentucky, the new – and some say “even better” – Manitoba-bred female, the unbeaten Hidden Grace is being pointed to possibly two $50,000 stakes at Century Downs near Calgary this month.
Speaking from Century Downs which cancelled its Sunday race card because of heavy snow, Hidden Grace trainer Mike Nault told The Insider that Hidden Grace’s main objective is the $50,000 CTHS Sales Stake Fillies Division on Saturday, Oct. 26, the race that Escape Clause won two years in a row. (It’s a race for 3- and 4-year-old fillies bred in Canada who were run through the CTHS yearling sale in Alberta, Manitoba or B.C.).
But he said he is also considering entering the 3-year-old in the $50,000 Lynn Chouinard Founders Distaff Handicap on Thanksgiving Monday, Oct. 14. It’s a race for older fillies and mares. Nominations close tomorrow. The only problem, he said, is that there are only 12 days separating this race from the CTHS Sales Stake. “I’ll take a look at the other nominations to see if she should be entered,” he said.
“She’s getting bigger and stronger,” he noted. “Everybody’s anxious to see her run. When people pass her stall, they say ‘There’s that good filly’.”
Hidden Grace, who is eight for eight wins, all stakes races, was bred in Russell, Manitoba and has the same father, Going Commando, as Escape Clause.
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