Sunday racing at Woodbine was held on a cloudy and cool day, much different than the very hot and steamy conditions of Saturday as Mother Nature continues to surprise southern Ontario with rollercoaster weather.
The second day of the Labour Day long weekend had much smoother racing compared to Saturday’s card which had many races resembling more like a roller derby. From Saturday’s rough racing, three jockeys emerged with three-day suspensions: Keveh Nicholls, Declan Carroll and Emma-Jayne Wilson.
LORENA, finding the move back into Ontario-bred races the right formula, took the $100,800 Zadracarta Stakes at five furlongs on the inner turf. The 4-year-old Souper Speedy – Negotiable by Hat Trick (Jpn) filly, a multiple sales winning sprinter for Brent and Russ McLellan, Kai Olguin and trainer Stuart Simon, and her favourite rider Gary Boulanger chased the pacesetting Marie MacKay early. That rival managed to steal away from the unbeaten speedster 5-2 choice Stormy Silence, and went in 21.66 for the first two furlongs and 45.09 for half a mile. Stormy Silence bid for the lead into the stretch but was nabbed late by Lorena with Marie MacKay third in 57.29.
Lorena was bred by Liam Gannon and she has won 7 of 12 races and over $330,000. She was a $40,000 yearling purchase locally.
The day started out with newcomer TREASON (Constitution – Cougarstown by Speightstown) rolling to a 16 1/2 length win in an allowance race for LNJ Foxwoods and MSK Racing Ventures. Trained by Josie Carroll, this newly gelded 4-year-old had not raced in almost one year, when he was competing for trainer Bill Mott in New York. A maiden debut winner last summer, Treason dragged jockey Justin Stein to the lead and kept going, setting a track record for 1 1/16 miles of 1:41.51.
His Beyer Figure was a whopping 101. Not quite Flightline (126 Beyer) but impressive.
The stellar year for trainer Mike Doyle and owner C. Scott Abbott continues as Abbott’s homebred TARANTO TITAN won his maiden on the turf in race 3, an optional claiming event. It was the fifth career start for the chestnut colt by Giant Gizmo -Roman Damsel by Roman Ruler and David Moran rode. Doyle has saddled 13 winners at Woodbine this season.
Followers of the daily workout tabs will have noticed a youngster with big preps named BUSHIDO. This homebred of American Suzi Shoemaker’s Lantern Hill Farm ran to those preps when he won his debut at 5 furlongs on the grass for trainer Darwin Banach. The First Samurai ridgling is from the Street Boss mare Burma Road. Bushido posted a 71 Beyer Figure.
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