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TOP BEYER FIGURES FROM DRF FOR WOODBINE SUNDAY:

 

NOHOLDINGBACK BEAR – 89

SUN DAZE – 80

D’ORO PARADISE – 77

SECRETARIAT HUMOR – 76

 

STRONG WIN FOR NOHOLDINGBACK BEAR

Woodbine’s 4th day of racing on Sunday was held in bright sunshine and warm temperatures, spring is here!

The Tapeta continues to play quite slow but also fair as winners came from everywhere and it was a formful day indeed.

Bear Stables’ NOHOLDINGBACK BEAR was a dominant winner of the Woodstock Stakes for 3-year-olds, winning from off the pace set by invader SHOGOOD, who ended up 2nd.

Trained by Mike DePaulo, the white faced fellow is a pretty picture and he got his first stakes win after  3 runner-up placings in good races. He was coming out of a rapid stakes race won by Manhattan Dan, who had already gone on to win another stakes race.

Noholdingback Bear was a $25,000 ‘short’ yearling purchase and is a Kentucky bred by Put It Back out of Pleasant Quality by Elusive Quality. Pleasant Quality was bred in Ontario by Carol Shaddock and Lesley McLean and she has had 5 other foals for American breeder Jerry Mamgotchian.

The colt’s Beyer Figure was 89 for 1:10.22.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More Sunday stuff from Woodbine…

Race 1- a 6 1/2 furlong claiming race for $20,000, non-winners of 2 and heavily favoured ALPHA HIGH,making his 3rd start off a long layoff and coming in from 2 Florida outings, was a flop as he was a modest 3rd behind the pumped up BOURBON FIRST, the 2nd winner for the Denyse McClachrie stable this year. Ryan Kerbel owns the Old Forester gelding who was making his season debut off some good workouts. Justin Stein was riding his first winner of the meeting.

race 2- a $10,000 claiming race for non-winners of 3 and speedy DREAM ON JOHNNIE made easy work of the field for owner George Ledson and trainer Danny O’Callaghan. The Ontario sired Where’s the Ring gelding is a 4yo who was making his first start of the year. David Moran was the winning rider. Dream on Johnnie was even money. In that race, Grom reared up at the start and hit his head, lost his rider, Jermaine Bridgmpohan and ran loose briefly. He was deemed to have had an unfair starts.

race 3- Class reigned in this allowance race for Ontario sired fillies as BELLA FABIANA rallied wide to win her season debut. She has been 5th in the South Ocean Stakes in her 2yo finale after a troubled trip. Patrick Husbands rode for trainer Nick Gonzalez and Mike Romeo of Terra Farms, was in the winner’s circle with the filly’s namesake, wife Fabiana, as was Matteo Romeo, the couple’s 6 week old son. Apparently Matteo is supposed to attend every race of Terra horses now as the good luck charm.

Bella Fabiana is by Court Vision from Include Katherine by Include.

race 4- Interesting race to start pick 4. Paul Pompa and Darwin Banach’s EQUITY SHARE was favoured for this maiden race for $32,00 claiming. The Super Saver gelding, a 4yo, was originally a $240,000 purchase as a 2yo but troubles getting him to the races landed him in Canada.

It appears the problem with the gelding could be his gate ability. He stood in the gate for several seconds when the doors opened before he came out. He was miles behind the field but did have a wonderful rally so he does have some abilty.

The winner was SUN DAZE (of course, on a Sunday!) for Martha Gonzalez and Nick Gonzalez. The bay Concord Point gelding is an Ontario bred from a Henny Hughes mare, bred by Donver Stables.

He led all the way through 5 furlongs to win big under Emma-Jayne Wilson.

race 5 -a maiden $8,000 claiming race was won by heavily favoured FLASHY RUBY for owner and breeder Doug Hoggard and trained Kisa Burry. The Bold n’ Flashy 4yo is out of a Feu d’Enfer mare, Double D Ruby. Sheen Ryan scored her first win of the season on the filly, in her first day of riding in 2016.

This race was one of several that had many bad incidents at the start with several horses being scrunched and steadied at the start.

race 6 – maiden fillies for $25,000 claiming and TESSIER wore down Super Story to win her maiden in her first race at Woodbine. This Haynesfield filly debuted at Keeneland in April 2015 and then did not race until last month in Florida. She was taking a big edge here and won at 3 to 1 for Alice Sapara and trainer Josie Carroll.

race 7 – Claiming $10,000 and the 10-year-old TEVEZ, owned by Wilf Jones, was odds-on despite his habit of breaking slowly. At five furlongs, a slow start can be costly and while Tevez broke well, he was wiped out soon after by Hopehard and Chris Husbands and the speed ran away. It was SARATOGA BOY who zipped away  for Jennifer Armata-Barrett and trainer Ross Armata. Juan Crwford won his first race of the year on board this Saffir gelding.

race 9 – an allowance race for non-winners of 1 other than/non-winners of 2 at 6 1/2 furlongs was won by newcomer SECRETARIAT HUMOR, a chestnut filly by Distorted Humor from Secretariat’s Soul, a full sister to Perfect Soul. This 4yo was bred in Kentucky by Charles Fipke, went through a Goffs sale at age 2, rertpoedly brought a bid of 600,000 pounds but she never left the Fipke fold. She raced 8 times for Fipoke in Europe and won a 1 3/16 mile Polytrack race.

She rallied from well off the pace for Emma-Jayne Wilson to win for trainer Brian Lynch, who races at Belmont and has his horses at Woodbine in the care of an assistant.

Race 10 – a nice maiden allowance, open, went to D’ORO PARADISE, another Charles Fipke runner, this one ridden by Alan Garcia for trainer Roger Attfield. The Medaglia d’Oro filly is a Fipke bred and she rallied in time to collar Conquest City Girl and Sweet Crimson.

Trainer Attfield is reportedly to have surgery on his foot in mid-week.

Wagering on Saturday at Woodbine was $2.6 million and $3.085 was wagered on Sunday.

 

KENTUCKY OAKS FREE-FOR ALL: SONGBIRD SCRATCHED

 

Songbird’s fever has crushed racing fans and her connections but now the Kentucky Oaks on May 6 is turning into a cavalry charge with many possibilities.

Many horses had already been ruled out of the 1 1/8 mile race at Churchill Downs but you may see some owners and trainers change their minds now that the superstar filly is out.

Here is the points list:

 

Rank Horse Points Owner(s) Trainer Non-Restricted Stakes Earnings

1. Songbird 190 Fox Hill Farms Inc. (Rick Porter) Jerry Hollendorfer $1,940,000
2. Terra Promessa 150 Stonestreet Stables LLC (Barbara Banke) Steve Asmussen $360,000
3. Lewis Bay 130 Alpha Delta Stables (Jon Clay) Chad Brown $399,600
4. Land Over Sea 128 Reddam Racing LLC (J. Paul Reddam) Doug O’Neill $420,000
5. Weep No More 100 Ashbrook Farm (Glenn S. Bromagen) Rusty Arnold II $340,000

6. $+Go Maggie Go 100 Mike Tarp Dale Romans $151,900
— Polar River ^90 Valentin Bukhtoyarov & Evgeny Kappushev Doug Watson $700,000
— Cathryn Sophia 80 Cash is King LLC (Chuck Zacney et al) John Servis $355,520
— Mo d’Amour 70 King of Prussia Stable (Ed Stanco) Todd Pletcher $118,000
7. Venus Valentine 50 Rosemont Farm LLC (James Eigel) Tom Amoss $132,275

8. $+Mokat 50 JK Racing Stable Richard Baltas $112,000
— Wonderment 50 Magdalena Racing (Sherri McPeek) & Chris Sterbenz Kenny McPeek $57,660
9. Rachel’s Valentina 48 Stonestreet Stables LLC (Barbara Banke) Todd Pletcher $670,000
10. Royal Obsession 45 Stonestreet Stables LLC (Barbara Banke) Steve Asmussen $68,000

11. Dream Dance 44 Stoneway Farm (James L. Stone) Neil Howard $146,453
12. Taxable 40 Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC (Ron Winchell) Steve Asmussen $80,000
13. Paola Queen 40 Grupo 7C Racing Stable (Alejandro A. Ceballos) Gustavo Delgado $49,000
14. Nickname 36 LNJ Foxwoods (Larry, Nanci and Jamie Roth) Steve Asmussen $420,000
— Dreams to Reality 31 Gabriel Duignan Michael Dilger $45,000
— +Vale Dori-ARG (4yo) ^30 Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Maktoum Mike de Kock $188,752
— Midnight On Oconee 24 Cottonwood Stables LLC (Tommy Ligon & Pete Nance) Larry Jones $80,000
— +She’s a Warrior 22 C R K Stable (Lee & Susan Searing) Peter Eurton $84,000
— Dothraki Queen 20 Magdalena Racing (Kenny McPeek et al) Kenny McPeek $419,480
15. Gomo 20 Reddam Racing LLC (J. Paul Reddam) Doug O’Neill $304,250
— Off the Tracks 20 Newtown Anner Stud and J Stables Todd Pletcher $153,994
— Forever Darling 20 Richard Baltas, Hebert Bloodstock and J K Racing LLC Richard Baltas $146,000

16. Carina Mia 20 Three Chimneys Farm (Goncalo Borges Torrealba) Bill Mott $144,040
17. Marquee Miss 20 Rags Racing Stable LLC (Joe Ragsdale et al) Ingrid Mason $134,900
— Cosmic Evolution 20 Stephen L. Fidel Lon Wiggins $110,760
— Ready to Confess 20 Pin Oak Stable (Josephine Abercrombie) Donnie Von Hemel $43,000
18. Adore 20 Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC (Ron Winchell) Steve Asmussen $40,000
— +Inconclusive 20 Carolyn Friedberg & Jeff T. Larson Richard Scherer $26,663
19. Flora Dora 16 Coffeepot Stables (Bob Cummings and Annette Bacola) Marialice Coffey $130,250
— Stageplay 14 Mike G. Rutherford Steve Asmussen $187,724
— Jet Black Magic 12 Carl R. Moore Management LLC (Carl R. Moore) Bret Calhoun $265,000
— Street Fancy 10 Agave Racing Stable (Mark Martinez) Phil D’Amato $196,345
— Gamble’s Ghost 10 Ivan Dalos Josie Carroll $121,299
— +Dolly Dagger-SWE 10 Finn Blichfeldt Fredrik Reuterskiold $32,500
— +Shaken 10 Mark Stansell Mike Stidham $20,000
— Dearest 10 Gelfenstein Farm (Iván Rodríguez Gelfenstein) Gilberto Zerpa $19,800
20. Northwest Tale 10 Charles E. Fipke Dallas Stewart $19,000