The plucky three-year-old Ontario-bred filly ME AND MY SHADOW broke through for her first stakes win on August 13 at Woodbine when she easily won the $250,000 Bison City Stakes, the second leg of the Triple Tiara for Canadian-bred fillies.

Made the favourite by bettors for the 1 1/16 mile race on Tapeta, D J Stable’s Me and My Shadow was coming off a solid fourth-place finish in the Woodbine Oaks on July 23 behind Elysian Field, Wickenheiser and Fortyfiveseventy. With the top two Oaks finishers heading to this weekend’s King’s Plate, the Bison City had a modest field of nine with just one stakes winner in the group, the speedy Fashionably Fab.

It was longshot Seattle Causeway who streaked to a clear lead early in the race, going easy fractions of :24.09 and 48.35, while Emma-Jayne Wilson settled Me and My Shadow into seventh spot in the early going. On the turn for home, a number of fillies made wide moves to get into contention with Me and My Shadow, trained by Mark Casse, making the quickest move to grab the lead in the stretch. The bay filly by Violence – Silhouette by Smart Strike quickly pulled clear to win by 3 1/2 lengths in 1:44.30. Tito’s Calling, a daughter of Society’s Chairman owned by Robert Narzili, was along for second, a neck in front of Fashionably Fab from Terra Racing.

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