Facing just two rivals, good ones, Enable powered through the rain at Ascot to add another record to her illustrious career.
Horses
The HBPA requested a test of the product ZEV that appears to be the source of the recent capsaicin positive drug tests throughout Canada.
Eclipse winner Skywire, runner-up Avie’s Flatter, and third-place finisher Mr Ritz will square off against five other rivals in Sunday’s $125,000 feature.
Fort Erie Race Track was to host the Rise Jim Stakes July 21 but the race is now scheduled for next week as horses do not get to the track.
The eight-year-old gelding boasts 23 wins from 28 starts lifetime with purse earnings over $1.8 million and is currently riding a seven-race win streak.
The Grade 3 Trillium Stakes also shares the Saturday spotlight at Woodbine; could be a battle between Amalfi Coast, Painting, and Souper Escape.
Silvino Morales and Amadeo Perez both had riding doubles while the stallion Second in Command had two winners as racing continues without fans.
It was a day in which even money or close to it favourites were established in all of the seven races - but only three of them actually won.
The connections of 58 hopefuls made the July 1st sustaining payment with an additional three supplementing to the opening leg of the Canadian Triple Crown.
Ontario-bred trained by Mike Keogh faces seven rivals on the E.P. Taylor Turf Course in Saturday’s $175,000 Connaught Cup Stakes at Woodbine.
Quiet grandstands and some unscheduled Race 2 delays notwithstanding, it was an exciting second day of racing at the Vancouver oval.
An impressive list of fillies has been whittled down from the original 58 nominated to the 1 1/8-mile opening leg of the Canadian Triple Tiara.
Aidan O'Brien became the most successful Investec Derby-winning trainer of all time while he enjoyed an eighth victory in the premier Classic.
The Board of Directors made the difficult decision due to the restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic; the Class of 2020 will be inducted in 2021.
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins hopes to score at Woodbine as his star filly targets the Fury Stakes on July 5th - the NHLer's first horse to run at the Toronto oval.