BIG
RED
MIKE
Dave Landry photo
TODAY’S BITS FOR A STEAMY WEDNESDAY:
if your brain has not fried yet, tune in for another installment of Bet Night Live tonight on The Score, showing a few races from Woodbine and offering money for winning bets!
It will be a relatively quiet 3 weeks until the Prince of Wales – not sure how many that race will lure other than the 3 from Sam-Son and the Big Red Mike guy…If Mike wins we want a party at the barn! Tradition seemed to wane after this year’s Plate when the huge parties at Tino Attard’s, Ian Black’s Sam-Son, Roger Attfield were not matched by the winner at his barn…we’re ready for a Fort Erie invasion so get ready Mike!
and don’t forget:
JULY 19 – LONGRUN FASHION SHOW AND FUN AT DANIELLE’S IN NOBLETON, ONTARIO – GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!
QUEEN’S PLATE SADDLE-TOWELS ARE UP FOR AUCTION – click on the link below to bid, bid bid!
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LOST IN THE QUEENLY SHUFFLE
Two very solid efforts came on Sunday on Plate day but got lost in the noise and hoopla of Plate day.
Both were on the grass – the main Polytrack was seemingly so dry and unfair that front runners dominated on the hot and steamy day.
SIGNATURE RED (left)won the Grade 3 Highlander for Howard Walton’s Norseman Racing and trainer Sid Attard. The son of Bernstein-Irish and Foxy, a $77,000 yearling purchase, ran a 99 Beyer Figure in his neck win over Hero’s Reward.
Later SPICE ROUTE(below) won the Singspiel Stakes under a good hold by Mike Smith in the gelding’s first race this season. He ran a 96 Beyer for Harlequin Ranches, Roger Attfield et al..NORM FILES PHOTO
FROM INTORONTO.COM
big TV numbers big Queen sightings
EXCERPT:
Sunday’s Queen’s Plate smashed records – for attendance, bets and viewers.
Attendance soared to 33,000, a record for this decade.
On Tuesday, CBC announced a record 765,000 viewers tuned into its Plate broadcast Sunday. Last year, 285,000 viewers tuned in, said a Woodbine spokesperson.
It was also a record handle for the Queen’s Plate of nearly $7 million placed in bets.
The 84-year-old monarch looked radiant in a turquoise hat, jacket and floral print skirt, and seemed characteristically unfazed by the unrelenting sun and sweltering humidity as she watched the race, handed out trophies and shook hands with Plate spectators.
“I was humbled in her presence. She’s the Queen of England,” enthused Woodbine Entertainment Group spokesperson Glenn Crouter. “Everywhere she went, she received a standing ovation and applause.”
Crouter marvelled at the Queen’s seemingly genuine interest in those she met.
“She looked everyone she met in the eyes, listened and appeared to be hearing and responding to their every word. In all my years of covering sports, you don’t see that with most celebrities. She went around that walking ring in 100 F weather. I just marvelled.”
read entire story here:
http://www.insidetoronto.com/sports/article/843789–jockey-wins-plate-before-queen
CASSE PULLING AWAY
Mark E. Casse 203 32 25 27 $1,572,092
Reade Baker 119 20 21 19 $1,108,918
Steven M. Asmussen 99 20 16 14 $784,751
Robert P. Tiller 108 19 11 17 $926,439
Nicholas Gonzalez 103 19 11 9 $1,298,730
Sid C. Attard 100 17 17 12 $1,006,812
Laurie Silvera 80 16 15 8 $677,437
Roger L. Attfield 79 15 13 10 $1,124,508
Josie Carroll 68 13 9 5 $689,850
Michael P. De Paulo 73 13 8 9 $506,036
Sam Di Pasquale 57 10 14 4 $347,075
Scott H. Fairlie 82 10 13 13 $470,066
Audre Cappuccitti 85 10 8 14 $539,765
Michael V. Pino 26 10 5 5 $296,804
Paul M. Buttigieg 41 10 5 4 $397,772
HORSE RACE IN JOCKS’ RACE
Patrick Husbands 348 60 56 54 $3,587,603
Eurico Rosa Da Silva 301 60 41 42 $3,378,250
Chantal Sutherland 278 53 31 34 $3,027,917
Emile Ramsammy 285 47 34 27 $2,011,464
Omar Moreno 332 39 48 56 $1,774,358
Emma-Jayne Wilson 273 36 39 32 $1,871,624
Tyler Pizarro 214 29 26 26 $1,274,316
Luis Contreras 145 28 21 20 $1,084,987
Jono C. Jones 186 22 26 19 $1,369,929
James McAleney 198 20 32 17 $1,383,133
David Clark 145 20 22 13 $905,163
Richard Anthony Dos Ramos 124 17 8 9 $620,813
Justin Stein 204 16 21 22 $787,376
Corey Fraser 149 16 18 17 $766,242
Gerry Olguin 160 10 17 19 $528,941
Steven Ronald Bahen 150 10 12 16 $618,530
FORT ERIE SCOREBOARD
Nicholas Gonzalez 86 26 15 13 $237,773
John Simms 81 11 12 14 $122,311
Lyle Morden 51 9 8 4 $106,301
Marilyn G. McMullen 40 8 3 4 $73,317
Howard Keen 69 6 6 7 $75,648
Allen Desruisseaux 19 6 2 1 $42,344
Anthony Husbands 18 6 0 3 $50,449
Michael Newell 68 5 9 8 $64,139
Michael Wright, Jr. 34 5 4 6 $47,443
Henry Reid 29 5 3 5 $53,022
Winston Wilkinson 43 5 2 5 $51,319
Rise Arnold 15 5 2 1 $38,876
Justin J. Nixon 10 5 1 2 $42,118
Anthony Adamo 8 5 1 1 $40,340
JOCKEYS
Krista Carignan 162 32 31 24 $345,818
Christopher Griffith 123 22 18 16 $249,685
Anthony Stephen 98 20 12 15 $203,793
Rui M. Pimentel 102 17 15 15 $209,798
Real E. Simard 137 17 12 25 $202,047
Francine Villeneuve 107 14 18 13 $168,977
Melanie Pinto 83 14 9 14 $148,613
Kirk Johnson 110 8 14 12 $123,098
Daniel J. David 58 8 6 6 $79,717
Mike Mehak 103 7 17 11 $113,624
Sunny Singh 92 7 9 13 $90,230
CANADIAN OWNED FILLY
Category Seven storms on
The beat goes on for the Louisiana turf monster.
Category Seven won her third straight race Saturday at Louisiana Downs in the Top Corsage Stakes, 7 1/2 on the turf. She made a powerful 4 wide stretch drive to win her third stakes race and third in a row overall and is now 4 for 7 on the year and 11 for 19 overall since moving to the grass. The “Queen of the Louisiana turf” posted an 89 beyer and her time was faster than the mirror boys stakes race later on that day, she paid $5.00 to win. Next up, she defends her “The Matron” stakes title at Evangeline Downs on July 24th, one mile on the grass. Trained by cajun Kenneth Hargrave, owned by James Perron Racing Stable.
ALBERTA NEWS
One year ago, Salt Flat Speed (Salt Lake-Another Mulca, Allen’s Prospect) was a $10,000 claimer at Northlands Park. Today, the gelding is like an unstoppable freight train.
Salt Flat Speed easily captured today’s $50,000 Spangled Jimmy Handicap in Edmonton – leading gate to wire. “Unbelievable,” said trainer Jim Meyaard. “He keeps amazing me.
and on Canada Day, Northlands held WEINER DOG RACES!!
IN BRITISH COLUMBIA…
HUGE CANADA DAY HOLIDAY RACING CROWD WATCHES THE END OF A STREAK FOR CONCERT MUSIC
Concert Music failed to hit the right notes in her bid to make it six straight wins at Hastings Racecourse in Thursday’s 45th running of the Vancouver Sun Handicap on a Canada Day holiday card that attracted the largest crowd of the 2010 thoroughbred season.
Instead, it was Summer Song singing the winning tune with a late charge after trailing for the first three quarters. Ridden by Mario Gutierrez, Summer Song finished one and a half lengths in front of Kaweah Priincess over the one and one-sixteenth miles in 1:44.63.
Summer Song paid $6.90, $3.60 and $3.10. Concert Music, the odds-on favourite, settled fo fourth in her first loss after five impressive victories, all at six and half furlongs
Teide, 2009 Horse of the Year, won the $50,000 Lieutenant Governors with relative ease after a brief challenge from Spaghetti Mouse. With Chad Hoverson in the irons, Teide drew away to win by one and one-quarter lengths in a final time of 1:49.50. Trained by Dino Condilenios, Teide paid $3.10 in re-establishing himself as the top handicap horse on the grounds. Spaghetti Mouse finished a clear second.
In the final $50,000 stakes on Thursday’s card, Dearest Princess with Fernando Perez aboard staged a dramatic rally on the rail to beat arch-rival Otero by a neck in the Supernaturel. Trained by Mel Snow, Dearest Princess covered the one and one-sixteenth miles in 1:45.54, paying $11.60, $4.10 and $3.50.
