The $100,000 Friday feature at Woodbine will see Canada’s champion female sprinter of 2019 face six rivals.
Races
The two-day, 14-race event, this year held at Del Mar in California, has a record number of overseas entrants, but few Canadians.
The 39th and final day of the season came to an early end due to heavy rain, but spectators were welcomed back in 2021.
Following the first 77 days of the 2021 Woodbine season, there is a new face on top of the jockey standings; plus a weekend wrap.
The door is wide open for the Sovereign Award for Champion 3-year-old colt in Canada should Safe Conduct not make his third required start.
Trained by Kevin Attard, the Adena Springs-bred filly provided new ownership group X-Men Racing with its second winner, first stakes winner.
The $9,000 purchase Secret Reserve is three for four in 2021 with two stakes wins for Stacey Van Camp and Carlo d'Amato.
Del Mar hosts the 38th Breeders' Cup World Championships on Nov. 5 and 6, with 14 races worth $31 million led by the $6 million Classic.
The $250,000 race for fillies has a wide-open field of 11 led by four starters from the Mark Casse barn including stakes winner Baksheesh.
The Thunder Bay and Lake Superior Stakes at Woodbine on Friday are scheduled for turf but could be moved to the main track due to rain.
Alberta-bred four-year-old won the Oct. 16 CTHS Sales Stakes at Century Mile, stamping himself as one of the top older horses of the year.
Winner of the Dance Smartly Stakes (G2) in her previous race, the Christophe Clement-trainee held over stablemate La Dragontea.
On British Champions Day, Baaeed rules and Sealiway upsets the Champion Stakes in two Win and You're In Races for the Breeders' Cup.
Through stakes scores, winless streaks, good luck and bad fortune, the six-year-old looks good heading into the Nearctic Stakes.
Brandon and Terry Greer's plucky 6-year-old gelding will turn back to six furlongs for the Grade 2 on October 17.
