Danny is retired, we wish him well..Mark Casse has won the last 4 stakes races at Woodbine..and let’s get ready for AMERICAN PHAROAH…
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT…
and this morning – AMERICAN PHAROAH WORKS:
GALINA POINT is 4th straight stakes winner for MARK CASSE
Lost in the moving and stirring FINAL CALL of Danny Loiselle in the Lady Angela Stakes, race 4 at Woodbine on Sunday, was the victory by GALINA POINT, anOntario sired and bred filly owned by Gary Barber and trained by Mark Casse. It was Casse’s 4th straight stakes winner at Woodbine.
The filly was bought by Gary Barber from Cary Brooks last year and she has won 2 stakes and been 2nd and 3rd in 2 others. Her Lady Angela score was just in time and she battled RIVER MAID to just win in 1:23.35 for 7 furlongs, good for a 74 Beyer Figure.
ALAN GARCIA rode.
The filly was originally a yearling buy from Spring Farm for just $6,600 at auction. She is by the late Saffir out of Celtic Craft by Danehill.
Pohdi Pohdi got burned out in a pace battle with Classyshadesofgrey and landed 3rd.
More Sunday coming up tomorrow..
IT’S BELMONT WEEK – Is there the same electricity in the air as Chrome’s run? Smarty Jones?
If there was not a buzz yet, perhaps there will be today and going forward after AMERICAN PHAROAH’S stunning workout Monday morning at Churchill Downs on a moist, floated track.
Five furlongs in 1:00.08 easy, with huge gallop out, six furlongs in 1:12.82, seven eighths in 1:25.94, up a mile in n 1:39.59.
Wow.
CANADIAN CHARLES FIPKE HAS TALE TO TELL
Belmont Stakes hopeful Tale of Verve took to the Belmont main track early Saturday morning to log his final breeze in advance of the $1.5 million race on June 6.
With exercise rider and jockey Kortez Walker up for the work, the son of Tale of Ekati went five furlongs in 59.02 seconds, the fastest work at the distance.
“He galloped out good and came back blowing, which is good because it means he got something out of it,” said Dallas Stewart, who trains Tale of Verve for Charles Fipke. “He came back great and looked awesome.”
Coming off solitary maiden win on April 23 at Keeneland, Tale of Verve was entered as an also-eligible for the Kentucky Derby on May 2, but failed to make the race. The bay colt was then sent to Pimlico for the Preakness Stakes, where he finished second – seven lengths behind American Pharoah – at odds of 28-1.
“I hope he has another step forward in him; that’s what we’re here for,” said Stewart, who finished second in a Triple Crown race for the third year in a row.
The Fipke homebred will have a long way to travel if he is to vanquish Triple Crown hopeful American Pharoah, who galloped 1 ½ miles over the Churchill Downs main track on Saturday morning. The 1 ½ miles of the Belmont is considerably farther than Tale of Verve has ever raced, but Stewart sees that as a positive.
“It’s in his breeding,” said the Kentucky-based horseman. “He’s a big horse and has a great stride, so hopefully it will add up. It’s going to be a matter of stamina, and hopefully the best horse will win.”
WOODBINE FEATURE ON DAN LOISELLE
ROBERT GELLER BEGINS JUNE 13 – here is Longacres from last year
