ONE BAD BOY on way to PRINCE OF WALES

Will be supplemented for $12,500, race lures 5 nominees

with some  files from Woodbine media

PRINCE OF WALES PROBABLES:

  • One Bad Boy
  • Avie’s Flatter
  • Tone Broke
  • Skywire

The Queen’s Plate champion One Bad Boy took to the track on Wednesday morning at Woodbine Racetrack in preparation for the second jewel of the OLG Canadian Triple Crown. The three-year-old son of Twirling Candy, who has remained at Woodbine following his impressive Plate triumph on June 29 over 1-1/4 miles on the Tapeta, breezed an easy half-mile in :51.20 over the synthetic course today under Jerome Lermyte.

Owned by Sayjay Racing LLC, Greg Hall and Brooke Hubbard, One Bad Boy is being pointed to the $400,000 Prince of Wales Stakes next on Tuesday, July 23 at Fort Erie Race Track. The third jewel is the $400,000 Breeders’ Stakes back at Woodbine on Saturday, August 17 over the E.P. Taylor Turf Course at a distance of 1-1/2 miles. A $500,000 bonus will be awarded to the owners of any horse that can sweep all three legs of the OLG Canadian Triple Crown in 2019.

Just five horses were nominated to the ‘Wales. One Bad Boy does not appear on nomination list as he was never originally nominated to the Canadian Triple Crown and was supplemented to the series in May for $5,000.

The other projected starters are AVIE’S FLATTER, who had a workout on the dirt at Fort Erie on Thursday, a super 1:00 3/5, TONE BROKE, 3rd behind One Bad Boy and Avie’s Flatter in the Plate, SKYWIRE, who lost all chance in the Plate when Tone Broke crashed into him at the start and perhaps He’s a Macho Man. The other nominee Lucas n’ Lori, was 6th beaten 14 lengths in the Plate.

California-based trainer Richard Baltas weighed in on the Ontario-bred’s preparations for the second leg of the OLG Canadian Triple Crown which will be contested over 1-3/16 miles on the dirt course.

INCREDIBLE RESCUE! MR CHANGUE SWALLOWED BY SINKHOLE AT FORT ERIE

We have heard of it happening to horses and other animals but when you see it, you can’t believe your eyes.

That was the reaction to those who only saw photos of a shocking incident on the Fort Erie backstretch on Thursday when 6-year-old horse MR CHANGUE was swallowed up in a sink hole while grazing. The $92,000 earner who toils at low claiming levels at the Fort was almost completely below the ground as Fort Erie workers and horsepeople, fire and police scrambled to pull the horse out. It was an amazing and successful rescue. Read more about it here. Two photos below by JEN KOHLSMITH on Facebook:

MR HAVERCAMP TRIES TO CONQUER SARATOGA

Yielding turf, long layoff big hurdles for Sovereign champion

some files from NYRA

Sean and Dorothy Fitzhenry’s homebred Mr Havercamp, named for a character in the film Caddyshack, makes his return to Saratoga in Friday’s Grade 3 Forbidden Apple, a one-mile test for 4-year-olds and up on the inner turf.

After winning his first two career starts at Woodbine in impressive fashion for trainer Catherine Day Phillips, Mr Havercamp shipped to Saratoga for the 2017 Grade 3 Saranac and ran fifth, defeated less than four lengths, in a race that saw the first three finishers – Voodoo Song, Yoshida, and Bricks and Mortar – go on to become Grade 1 winners. He was defeated a nose for fourth that day by eventual Grade 2 winner Rocketry.

A five-time stakes winner, Mr Havercamp broke through at the graded level last season, sprinting to victory in the grassy Grade 2 Play the King at Woodbine and came back to finish a strong second in the Grade 1 Woodbine Mile, a one-turn turf event won by Oscar Performance. He then demonstrated his versatility by adding a second graded score in November when victorious in the Grade 2 Autumn on Woodbine’s Tapeta surface.

Day Phillips said Mr Havercamp is training well into Forbidden Apple, while coming off a nearly seven-month layoff since finishing off-the-board in the Grade 2 Fort Lauderdale on a soggy turf at Gulfstream Park.

“He’s doing well,” said Day Phillips. “His long term goal is the Woodbine Mile and we’re getting going and getting back on track to hopefully where he’s been. He’s had quite a layoff and it’s a lot to ship and run against the best, but he’s a good horse and deserves a chance.

“The Woodbine Mile was a huge effort, but the Play the King was also a huge race. Every time he ran it was exciting,” she added. “Every race is special with him.”

Junior Alvarado, who piloted Mr Havercamp to a fourth-place effort in the Forbidden Apple last year when it was contested at Belmont Park, will guide the 5-year-old son of Court Vision from post 5 on Friday.

Day Phillips said the veteran rider will have options in terms of race tactics for the dark bay gelding.

“It’s a matter of getting him comfortable in the race. That will be for Junior to figure out,” said Day Phillips. “If there’s a lot of speed, he won’t be as close. Just getting him into his stride is the most important thing, and where he is in the race we’ll find out. We haven’t by design put him closer or taken him back.”

Day Phillips said a return to Saratoga has brought back fond memories, in particular, her win in the 2005 renewal of the Saranac, which she won with Canadian-bred Jambalaya, who went on to win the Grade 1 Arlington Million in 2007.

“Both trips to Saratoga were hugely memorable. With Jambalaya it was our first time having shipped anywhere, so it was a really big deal,” said Day Phillips. “He ran a huge race and it was our own horse, so it was extra special. It was an all in the family kind of thing.”

FIRST YEARLING SALE OF 2019 – FASIG TIPTON SUMMER -KENTUCKY

Three Ontario-breds sell, 7 bought back

The average yearling price at the first major sale of 2019 dropped 8.6% while the median held steady at $75,000 at the Fasig Tipton Kentucky Summer sale in Lexington.

Canadian bred yearlings that went through sale:

NOT SOLD (47,000) 7
KANTHAROS-QUITE A RUCKUS, CH F
EATON SALES AGENT
ON

NOT SOLD (10,000) 26
BODEMEISTER-SANS SOUSI, B F
CARA BLOODSTOCK AGENT FOR CHARLES HAYDEN
ON

125 NOT SOLD (19,000)
OXBOW-AMIABLE GRACE, B C
EATON SALES AGENT FOR WILLIAM D. GRAHAM (WINDHAVEN FARMS)
ON

132 (NOT SOLD 39,000)
KANTHAROS-ARCHERETTE, B C
WARRENDALE SALES AGENT FOR TALL OAKS FARM
ON

139 NOT SOLD 47,000
MACLEAN’S MUSIC-BEAUTIFUL POSSE, B C
WARRENDALE SALES AGENT FOR TALL OAKS FARM
ON

196 NOT SOLD 95,000
SPEIGHTSTER-DREAMING OF LIZ, CH F
WOODFORD THOROUGHBREDS AGENT
ON

$50,000 236
AMI’S HOLIDAY-HATMAKER, B F
WARRENDALE SALES AGENT FOR TALL OAKS FARM
ON

$50,000 – BRUCE LUNSFORD 247
MIDSHIPMAN-I GOT THIS, CH C
BLUEWATER SALES LLC AGENT XXIV
ON

$75,000 311
CONGRATS-MAZUCAMBERA, CH C
CARA BLOODSTOCK AGENT
ON

SARATOGA OPENS EARLY

Saratoga opened its boutique meeting 8 days earlier this summer and the quaint track had a smaller crowd and lower betting than usual.

B.C. – HASTINGS PARK NEWS AND NOTES

Champion HERE’S HANNAH is in action this weekend in Vancouver.