Heading here? Bob Costigan’s yearling filly by Pivotal out of his Horse of the Year ARRAVALE was bought back for 270,000L yesterday at Goffs Orby sale…
DOH! PASO DOBLE MISSES IN OVERSKATE
Trainer Casse aims to set win record today with claimer
PASO DOBLE was just yards away from becoming a cool little answer to a neat trivia question and a special horse for Mark Casse last night when he led late in the Overskate Stakes. The Bold n Flashy fellow was odds on to win the 7 furlong stake and become the 90th winner for Casse at Woodbine this season, a record. The previous record is 89 by the late Frank Passero in 1995.
But PASO DOBLE got forced into a mad battle through a 2nd quarter by longshot Bug’s Bug and he was caught late by GYSPY RING, Paul Buttigieg’s gritty homebred Where’s the Ring gelding.
The time of 1:21 2/5 was suinning over a fast Polytrack, and resulted in a 91 Beyer for the winner.
Gypsy Ring’s mum, GYPSY GENNA (Varick) has 8 foals of racing age including a 2yo of 2011 (Gypsy’s Kin), GYPSY RING is her 6th foal.
Her other winners have been Georgio J, Sundar, Goss the Man and Foxy Clever.
The yearling full brother to this one sold to Bear Stables earlier this month for $95,000.
MARK CASSE has one runner today – the $12,500 claimer (he’s a stakes winner, however. LEGAL REVIEW, in race 7. He is 6 to 1 and the race goes at 4:55 p.m.
It would be a fitting win since the gelding is owned by Woodford Racing, in part, and that group got Casse rolling locally a few years ago.
MORE WEDNESDAY
TIERRA DEL TIGRE led all the way to win the 1 1/16 mile first race for $50K older males. The son of Catienus is currently owned by Ace Racing, Phil Stefaniak and E. Bona.
Emma-Jayne Wilson guied the gelding to the win.
NAPOLI came off a June-Sept. layoff and won race 2, an Ontario sired allowance race. The Bold Executive – Consort’s Choice 3yo, owned by Star Five Stable and trained by Pat Parente, was up to beat HAWK OVER HEATH right on the money but he was always in the pace battle. Ron House bred the grey gelding who was riddeb by Justin Stein.
Tricia Greer’s CHANTE DAN won her maiden at 9 furlongs in race 3 for $25,000 claiming, Ontario sired. The filly is by Domasca Dan out of Jovial Zone by Wild Zone and was bred by Greer. Bill Tharrenos trains the 3yo who was the 2nd winner for Emma-Jayne Wilson.
Jockey Jesse Campbell had a shrewd ride on THEATRE QUEEN for Janes, Janeane and Arike Everatt-Meeuse and Pam Edel in race 4 and guided the Ontario bred by Bob and JOhn to her maiden win.
Coming off an ccident last weekend in which he reportedly hurt his riubs, Campbell had the 2yo tucked in behind horses for most of the 6 furlongs and then he angled her out in time to win the $20K claiming event. Greg de Gannes was winning his first race since returning to training after several weeks of absence.
Linmac Farms’ SHARP BEAUTY likes Wednesday nights. She won again under the lights last night after speeding to a huge lead through 6 furlongs and holding on to win over a fast surface. She is a Sharp Humpor gal trained by John Cardella.
The 6 furlongs in race 6 for $20K claimers went in 1:09 3/5 and the pace battle was won by FOREST JUSTICE, owned by Rolph Davis and trained by Robert Tiller. The gelding is a homebred for Davis, produced from the mare Just Humor Me, by Distorted Humor. Eurico Rosa Da Silva rode the 4yo.
MIMI COOPER, a tough mare, won the last race for Maggi Moss for $20,000 claiming and also led all the way on what was certainly a speed condusive track.
Three horses on the evening were eased and/or vanned off according to Equibase charts.
REMEMBER THAT HORSE WHO WON YOU ALL THAT MONEY?
Do you?
Whether you are an owner, trainer, jockey, breeder, even a bettor – here’s your chance to give something back to the heroes of the sport.
Buy your ticket to the LEGENDS GALA on Friday night at Woodbine, it’s going to be really fun – it’s always the party of the year. LONGRUN THOROUGHBRED RETIREMENT, founded almost a dozen years ago by just a few of us horsefolks, has grown into the one of the most significant racehorse retirement and placement organizations in North America. WOODBINE ENTERTAINMENT donates heavily to the cause as do a selected number of local horsepeople and jockeys.
The VOLTERRA AWARD will be presented Friday night, there will be a silent auction, a love auction, food, drinks and fun – please step up and attend this important event.
FORT ERIE SCOREBOARD
LEADING HORSES BY WINS
1 Kinstar 10 5 2 1 $38,748 50% 8 80% 88
2 My Natalie 6 4 2 0 $40,461 67% 6 100% 92
2 Mr. Henry Two U 5 4 1 0 $25,467 80% 5 100% 86
2 Dark Continent 6 4 1 0 $22,916 67% 5 83% 80
Leading trainers
1 Ross Armata 103 21 21 10 $206,405 20% 52 50%
2 Layne S. Giliforte 56 17 7 10 $144,873 30% 34 61%
3 Martin Drexler 35 16 4 6 $150,224 46% 26 74%
4 Nicholas Gonzalez 106 14 16 11 $166,298 13% 41 39%
5 Jennifer Davis 91 13 11 11 $115,925 14% 35 38%
5 Shawn Rideout 69 13 6 10 $112,209 19% 29 42%
7 John Simms 106 12 13 19 $131,547 11% 44 42%
7 Anthony Husbands 47 12 7 5 $114,111 26% 24 51%
7 Sam Di Pasquale 26 12 4 2 $90,754 46% 18 69%
10 Marilyn G. McMullen 105 11 13 13 $125,860 10% 37 35%
10 Carla Christoffersen 36 11 6 3 $93,016 31% 20 56%
JOCKEYS*
*Krista Carignan hung up her tack as she has taken a ‘leave’ so the leading rider category is up for grabs!
1 Krista Carignan 271 49 48 30 $574,570 18% 127 47%
2 Kirk Johnson 276 47 37 35 $506,632 17% 119 43%
3 Christopher Griffith 285 46 48 37 $523,122 16% 131 46%
4 Real E. Simard 270 43 39 44 $466,396 16% 126 47%
5 Betty Jo Williams 229 37 26 46 $403,657 16% 109 48%
6 Martin Ramos Ramirez 239 35 36 32 $398,480 15% 103 43%
7 Brian A. Cheyne 256 27 38 34 $329,481 11% 99 39%
8 Francine Villeneuve 171 22 31 27 $314,957 13% 80 47%
9 Terry Husbands 161 20 18 21 $238,258 12% 59 37%
10 Roderick Dacosta 75 18 15 8 $170,902 24% 41 55%
RAPID REDUX – SATURDAY
photo courtesy Charles Town
Mountaineer release
The remarkable Rapid Redux bids to move within one of the modern-day US record for consecutive victories on Friday when he seeks his 18th straight win at Mountaineer in West Virginia.
The five-year-old gelding contests a minor $14,900 starter allowance contest on the dirt over 1m (2.55am Sat BST) in which he will start heavy favourite against seven rivals as he chasesthe 19-win mark achieved by the great Zenyatta and low-level New Mexico mare Peppers Pride.
Claimed at Penn National in October 2010, Rapid Redux started his impressive sequence at the same track in December last year, since when he has raced at seven different tracks at distances from 5f to 1m1f.
All of these wins have come in low-level contests, the most recent victory coming a Charles Town on September 16.
“We tend to like the lesser-known tracks – Thistledown, Charles Town, Mountaineer, Penn National,” said owner Robert Cole, speaking to the Blood-Horse.
“We like to run where somebody from New York or Philly might not run and it has worked so far.”
With a career record that now stands at 23 victories from 37 races, Rapid Redux’s current sequence of 17 straight wins is the longest for any male US horse since 1900.
SUPER SATURDAY AT BELMONT
Packed card of Grade 1’s, but fields are tiny
Lots of stars are out this weeken at Belmont and Santa Anita in a whole bunch of Grade 1 events, acting as ‘preps’ for the Breeders’ Cup eevtns. Surely, they are not great betting races, however, as most of the fields are very small, in particular the ones at Belmont.
The feature is the Jockey Club Gold Cup:
Saturday, Belmont Park, post time: 5:46 p.m. EDT
JOCKEY CLUB GOLD CUP S.-GI, $750,000, 3yo/up, 1 1/4m
PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML
1 Ice Box K Pulpit Nakatani Zito 12-1
2 Rodman K Malibu Moon Maragh Hushion 8-1
3 Stay Thirsty K Bernardini Castellano Pletcher 8-5
4 Drosselmeyer K Distorted Humor Lezcano Mott 6-1
5 A. U. Miner K Mineshaft Borel Hanna 10-1
6a Flat Out Flatter Solis Dickey 7-5
7a Birdrun K Birdstone Velazquez Mott 7-5
ARC FIELD AT 16
Qatar Prix De L´Arc De Triomphe (Group 1) (3yo+ Colts, Fillies & Mares) (Turf) (3yo+) Winner £1,970,345
Good To Soft 1m4f Number of runners: 16
**SO YOU THINK is early fave…
NO. DRAW HORSE AGE WGT TRAINER RTF% JOCKEY OR TS RPR
1 51-122 Workforce71 4 9-5 Sir Michael Stoute — 128 140
2 -11211 So You Think29 5 9-5 A P O´Brien — 129 141
3 -31133 St Nicholas Abbey21 4 9-5 A P O´Brien — 105 134
4 346132 Silver Pond35 4 9-5 C Laffon-Parias — 110 127
5 -23112 Hiruno D´Amour21 4 9-5 Mitsugu Kon — 103 134
6 1220-4 Nakayama Festa21 5 9-5 Yoshitaka Ninomiya — 117 138
7 3-2111 Sarafina21 4 9-2 A De Royer-Dupre — 123 137
8 11-422 Snow Fairy29 4 9-2 Ed Dunlop — 110 136
9 -12141 Treasure Beach50 3 8-11 A P O´Brien — 131 139
10 -11131 Reliable Man21 3 8-11 A De Royer-Dupre — 137 140
11 221112 Meandre21 3 8-11 — 137 140
12 Masked Marvel22 3 8-11 — 131 141
13 217113 Shareta21 3 8-8 A De Royer-Dupre — 117 136
14 313112 Testosterone21 3 8-8 P Bary — 123 136
15 -11211 Galikova21 3 8-8 F Head — 112 141
16 431511 Danedream28 3 8-8 — 123 138
