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CANADIAN THOROUGHBRED HORSE SOCIETY YEARLING SALE – SEPT 8

CATALOGUE UPDATES (with files from Vicki Pappas, including corresponding Hip nos. in catalogue) *siblings racing for less than $20K not included unless large money earners

Coming up FRIDAY AUG 22 – 2015 (results will be posted Saturday)

RACE 1                CLM$10

#1            Duppy Conqueror            Hip 4            1/2 sister by Silent Name

RACE 5                MSW

#6            Storm Hawk                    Hip 14            1/2 sister by Court Vision

#10           Reallylikethisone           Hip 287          1/2 sister by Silent Name

RACE 6                MDN$16

#6            I Deliver                         Hip 118            1/2 sister by Thunderello

RACE 7                MSW

#6            Conquest Dynasty        Hip 11                full sister

RACE 8                ALW

#5            Bear’s Profit                Hip 117                1/2 sister by Court Vision

#7            Ted W.                         Hip 242                1/2 sister by War Cry

WEDNESDAY AUG 22. CATALOGUE UPDATES

3rd Race CLM$20 NW2

#6 Mel’s Ring (1st, add $23,100 in earnings) Hip 163 1/2 sister by Court Vision

6th Race CLM$20 NW2

#4 El Ceebeo (1st, add $23,100 in earnings) Hip 139 1/2 sister by Victor’s Cry

#5 New Forester (2nd, add $7,700) Hip 193 1/2 sister by Court Vision

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KICKIN GRASS – 2-YEARS-OLD GET READY FOR NATALMA/SUMMER

BOBBY’S KITTEN IN TOWN AND WISE DAN COMING –

It is an exciting time for Woodbine racing fans and horsepeople as the September and October championships races nears.

With WISE DAN expected to come and visit for the Woodbine Mile, which will be his first start since he was injured, the anticipation is at dizzying heights.

Friday and through the weekend, there are some very important and exciting races including the Natalma prep on Saturday featuring the $650,000 2yo purchase CONQUEST SARAHSTAR, who was entered twice for turf at Saratoga but both races came off the grass.

Sunday, the great PLAY THE KING is remembered and his race often prepares the locals for the Woodbine Mile. Hey, the locals are very good – Tower of Texas, Kaigun and Stacked Deck and BOBBY’S KITTEN was supplemented and he won the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint last fall in his last start.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT WRAP

(Thank you for Norm Files who took some great images)

Storming Place, by Union Place, wins Wed. night’s opener in a wild finish NORM FILES PHOTO

RACE 1- on the grass for fillies & mares 1 mile on turf and what a finish..Mike Stone’s STORMING PLACE (4) edges LIGHT THE PATH (middle) and BONITA BABE (8) to win. Trained by John LeBlanc Jr. and ridden by Alan Garcia.

race 2- BELLE SOUL, owned and bred by Charles Fipke and trained by Roger Attfield, upset 4 to 5 shot CONQUEST LUCKNLOVE in this maiden allowance on the grass. Eurico Rosa da Silva rode.

GEOCENTRIC gets her girth done up on the fly before race 2 on Wed. night. She finished 4th and is a speedy turf gal NORM FILES PHOTO

JMR FENDI, half sister to Horse of the Year Lexie Lou, and her happy friend Charlie Brown – NORM FILES PHOTO

RACE 3-MEL’S RING ran circles around this field for $20,000 claimers, winning by 7 3/4 lengths for C E C Farm and trainer Ralph Biamonte, One of 3 wins for Eurico Rosa da Silva on the night. The Where’s the Ring filly has a sibling in the yearing sale (see above)

race 4- GLASGOW KISS, by Old Forester, crushes maiden allowance fillies, for CS Downs Farms and trainer Mark Fournier. She was odds- on and was ridden by Justin Stein. Bred by John Carey.

race 5- ELSIE’S SONG, by Tale of the Cat out of stakes winner Cawaja beach, wins her maiden for $10,00 claiming under Michelle Rainford for Hard Eight racing and Scott Fairlie who bred by the filly.

race 6 – The wonderfully named EL CEEBEO comes from from back to win this 1 1/16 mile race for Pettifer Holdings, Rick Pettifer the breeder. This Milwaukee Brew fellow was racing for $20,00 claiming in the optional event and Emma-Jayne Wilson rode. Nick Gonzalez trains.

race 7 – Mike Wright saddles 2 and MALIBU TIDE rallies to win this $16,00 claiming/optional. He was not racing for the claiming price.

race 8 – Sid Cooper celebrates a win with ZENSATIONAL JOSH in this $10,00 claiming event. Dan Vella trains and it was the 2nd win on the night for Emma-Jayne Wilson. Behold the Bear was eased up and claimed by Ace Racing.

SHEENA RYAN having fun at the races – she may have been banged up from a fall a couple of weeks back but she’s tough as nails – NORM FILES PHOTO

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT..

TURF 101

The fall season for Woodbine racing means essentially one thing – grass and more grass.

Almost half of the stakes races to still be run at Woodbine will be on the turf and thus it takes some careful examination and care and some help from Mother Nature to get the EP Taylor turf course in prime condition.

Betting the races on turf takes a little more thought and creativity since the Taylor turf is outside of the main track and this is unique to North America. The long, sweeping turns and endless stretch run means you need a horse to rate and power on in the stretch. Class means a lot, pedigree means some and the firm or soft nature of the course must be taken into account.

Thoroughblog talked to Woodbine’s trackman Irwin Driedger, a champion jockey, about the turf.

Tblog – How often is the Woodbine turf cut?

ID – We cut it once a week, usually on a Tuesday, to about 5, 5 1/2 inches. By the weekend it can be almost 8 inches. The shorter the grass does not mean anything to the speed of the course, it has everything to do with the moisture in it.

The course did have a recent spell where it was very fast and firm, it must have been quite dry?

There was a week when it was really firm, we could not water it as we wanted to. We can have sprinkler malfunctions, the pumps won’t function and that affects us being able to water the course,

It takes a lot of time to water the whole turf course, there are 160 sprinklers to get all the way around. You have to make sure they turn on and shut off at the same time. Also, if it is windy, that affects where the water goes from the sprinkler when it goes up in the air.

We usually water on Sunday night or Monday morning. But if we are playing catch up with the watering, we have to be careful as the horses do cut up the course even when they are running fast over a firm turf.

There are some big turf races coming up, Wise Dan could be in town next month, how do you think the turf is now?

It’s been very good this year We have had downpours on Mondays or Tuesdays, other than the one week., and that has helped it.

We are hoping to get the “going stick” back from being repaired. It is a good tool for us to use – it’s actually mandatory in England to have it – as we can gauge how firm or deep the grass is.

Changing gears, the giant pile of Tapeta is at rest just outside the west entrance at Woodbine – when it is going to be put in?

The Polytrack has been pretty good this summer, it is draining well and performing like it should. The difficulty will come when we get into the minus-degrees. We have a plan for when that happens, we’ll add some oil.

Hopefully the day after we finish racing, we will get the Polytrack off and put on the Tapeta. You can see the water go right through it as it sits there. It is different than the Polytrack, it does not have rubber bits, the wax is different.

Thank you to Irwin Driedger for his information on the Woodbine turf and Polytrack!

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