MORNING TRAINING at GLOBAL EQUINE – Babies are learning their lessons before they head to the racetrack – Photo by Renee Kierans
HASTINGS PARK OPENINF DAY – Modern was the easy winner of the Swift Thoroughbred Inaugural Stake. Photo by Patti Tubbs
More than 1,000 2-year-olds in training are up for sale between today and Friday in Ocala and plenty of Canadians and Woodbine horsepeople are on site to do some shopping. SPORT OF QUEENS RACING, the new syndicate club is inspecting horses and getting prepared to obtain its first horse. Read more below
Kentucky Derby updates and Hastings Park opens in Vancouver…
OBS APRIL 2-YEAR-SALE – Buy a champion?
TWO CANADIAN CHAMPIONS IN 2015 were bought at the April OBS sale in the last 2 years. Tucci Stables’ Riker, sold for $60,000 to Paul Sharp, Agent, at the 2015 Sale after an Under Tack eighth in :10 2/5, was chosen as Champion Two-Year-Old Male. The son of Include won four of his five starts at two, including wins in the Grey (G3) and Swynford Stakes after breaking his maiden in the Colin Stakes. He ended his juvenile campaign with a 5-4-0-0 record and $209,049 in earnings.
Bear Stables and Riversedge Racing Stables’ Academic posted three stakes victories in 2015, the first against her own sex in the Woodbine Oaks in June. In late summer, she returned and scored consecutive wins against males in the Canadian (G3) and British Columbia (G3) Derbies. Voted 2015 Canadian Champion Three-Year-Old Filly, the daughter of Henny Hughes was 6-4-1-0 last year and earned $500,312. She was sold for $54,000 by Flying Fish, Agent, at the 2014 Sale after working a quarter in :22 flat at the Under Tack Show.
Ontario-breds in this year’s sale with gallop show workout time:
42 11.0 C Exchange Rate Potra Clasica (ARG) Ontario Paul Sharp, Agent III C
105 10.2 F Badge of Silver Restless Indian Ontario Rockbridge Bloodstock, Agent IV 16
527 10.3 C Not Bourbon Beaucette Ontario McKathan Bros., Agent IX 6
614 10.2 C Big Brown Champagne Eyes Ontario Niall Brennan Stables, Agent IV 8
758 10.1 C Algorithms Elusive Hope Ontario Julie Davies, Agent III E
778 10.0 F Broken Vow Ethan’s Car Ontario RiceHorse Stables, Agent for Small Batch Thoroughbreds 17
800 10.2 F Munnings Faux Pas (IRE) Ontario King’s Equine, Agent for Peytona Farm 2
842 10.2 C Colonel John Friendofthefamily Ontario Eisaman Equine, Agent 7
891 10.3 C Blame Gravelly Bay Ontario Best A Luck Farm LLC, Agent XIV 3
1104 10.4 C Haynesfield Margeisforthebirds Ontario Sugar Hill LLC, Agent VII A
1124 out Updates C Maclean’s Music Meridian Mama Ontario Bobby Jones Equine LLC & Santa Fe Thoroughbreds,Agent I 18
1135 10.4 C Uncle Mo Miss Blakely Ontario Paul Sharp, Agent III
watch the sale on-line at obssales.com beginning at 10:30 this morning
SPORT OF QUEENS ON SITE AT OCALA 2-YEAR -OLD SALE
Next Promotional gathering April 30 – owners events May 1 at Woodbine
MODERN OPENING AT HASTINGS
Swift Thoroughbreds sponsored the Inaugural Stakes on opening day at Hastings Park and won the race with MODERN, a Tiznow 6-year-old who was last year’s champion sprinter in British Columbia. Bred by Darley, the gelding raced only 3 times for the breeder, won a modest maiden race at Turf Paradise before being scooped up by Swift. Dino Condilenios trains.
He set a soft early pace in the 6 furlong Inaugural and won in 1:10.91, good for an 82 Beyer Speed Figure as assigned by Daily Racing Form.
Modern has won 6 of 21 starts and $166,000. His dam is in the unplaced Interior Design. The 3rd dam is champion RAINBOW CONNECTION.
Wrap-up For Opening Day
Racing Again, Racing At Last
The largest opening day crowd in a long time turned out for the first card of the 2016 season at Historic Old Hastings Racecourse. For their efforts they got to watch a couple of high quality stakes races for older horses of both genders and two strong, if short, fields of allowance horses prepping for the first three-year-old stakes of the year that are now three weeks away.
The sun was not the only bright light. Trainer John Snow had a pretty shiny day with three wins and a second from five starters. Last year’s leading rider, Richard Hamel, started this season with a riding double. In the second race, the Ascencios, father and son, competed as a duo in a race at Hastings for the first time. They were back in together in the eighth, and father Gabriel showed Junior how it is down with a come-from-behind win.
It was a formful day for the many who speculated. Five favorites won on the eight-race card, and the pari-mutuel handle was close to $800,000, or about $370,000 more than opening day last year.
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KENTUCKY DERBY UPDATE – CUPID IS OUT
1. Gun Runner 151 Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC (Ron Winchell) & Three Chimney
Farms (Goncalo Borges Torrealba) Steve Asmussen $849,200
2. Nyquist 130 Reddam Racing LLC (J. Paul Reddam) Doug O’Neill $3,289,000
3. Exaggerator 126 Big Chief Racing LLC (Matthew W. Bryan), Head of Plains Partners
LLC, Rocker O Ranch LLC et al. Keith Desormeaux $1,628,000
4. Outwork 120 Repole Stable (Mike Repole) Todd Pletcher $660,000
5. Brody’s Cause 114 Albaugh Family Stable (Dennis Albaugh) Dale Romans $1,100,000
6. Creator 110 WinStar Farm LLC (Kenny Trout) Steve Asmussen $690,000
7. Lani 100 Koji Maeda Mikio Matsunaga $1,300,119
8. Mor Spirit 84 Michael L. Petersen Bob Baffert $616,800
9. Mohaymen 80 Shadwell Stable (Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum) Kiaran McLaughlin $807,850
10. Danzing Candy 60 Halo Farms (Teddy Aroney), Jim Bashor & Diane Bashor Cliff Sise Jr. $290,000
11. Destin 51 Twin Creeks Racing Stables LLC (Steve Davison & Randy Gullatt) Todd Pletcher $338,000
12. Suddenbreakingnews 50 Samuel F. Henderson Donnie Von Hemel $637,000
— Cupid 50 Michael Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier & Derek Smith Bob Baffert $542,857
13. $+Oscar Nominated 50 Ken & Sarah Ramsey Mike Maker $321,360
14. Shagaf 50 Shadwell Stable (Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum) Chad Brown $270,000
15. Whitmore 44 Robert V. LaPenta, Harry T. Rosenblum & Southern Springs Stable (Ron Moquett) Ron Moquett $400,000
16. Tom’s Ready 44 G M B Racing (Gayle Benson) Dallas Stewart $270,670
— +f-Polar River 40 Valentin Bukhtoyarov & Evgeny Kappushev Doug Watson $700,000
17. My Man Sam 40 Sheep Pond Partners, Newport Stables LLC & Jay Bligh Chad Brown $200,000
18. Majesto 40 Grupo 7C Racing Stable (Alejandro A. Ceballos) Gustavo Delgado $190,000 (Career: $239,500)
19. Trojan Nation 40 Julie Gilbert & Aaron Sones Paddy Gallagher $190,000 (Career: $213,290)
20. Mo Tom 32 G M B Racing (Gayle Benson) Tom Amoss $268,326
21. Fellowship 32 Jacks or Better Farm Inc. (Fred and Jane Brei) Mark Casse $206,590
22. Adventist 32 Treadway Racing Stable (Jeff Treadway) Leah Gyarmati $155,000
23. Laoban 32 Southern Equine Stable LLC (Michael Moreno) & McCormick Racing LLC Eric Guillot $142,000
24. Dazzling Gem 30 Steve Landers Racing LLC Brad Cox $150,000
AND…HOW ABOUT THE FIRST ONATRIO-BRED/SIRED 2-YEAR-OLD OF 2016?
PACHI CRUZ, an Ontario bred by Valid n Bold – Doctor Britt,by Raffie’s Majesty, won a maiden allowance at Laurel on Saturday for owner and trainer Jose Corrales.
The 2-year-old colt was bought for $9,000 from the 2015 Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society’s Woodbine yearling sale.
Gordon Simmons bred the colt who won the 4 1/2 furlong race in 52.98.
