SHAKHIMAT is back to work – the early Queen’s Plate favourite could be good enough to take on the good ones in the U.S., we will find out soon – MICHAEL BURNS PHOTO
CLEAR THE TRACK, SHAK IS BACK!
Queen’s Plate favourite back to work…
ROGER ATTFIELD, Hall of Fame tainer and coming off a big season (he is nominated for a Sovereign award as is stable stars Are You Kidding Me, Shakhimat etc.). worked a bunch of horses at Payson Park on Thursday as some of his starts get back to action.
The aforementioned SHAKHIMAT, a favourite for the Queen’s Plate this year and winner of the Coronation Futurity, limbered up with a 3 furlong move in 39.20 on Thursday.
Dan Gale owns the son of Lonhro who was bred by Adena Springs and purchased for $60,000 by Richard Hogan at auction.
Attfield could race the colt in Florida this winter to gauge what type of colt he has before heading to Woodbine for Plate preparations.
More Attfield workers included:
ARE YOU KIDDING ME – 3 furlongs in 36 flat on the dirt, a bullet.
DANISH DYNAFORMER, Breeders’ Stakes winner and 3yo Sovereign Award nominee, 38.80
Also n the worktab, Prince of Wales winner BREAKING LUCKY is back at work as he exercised 3 furlongs in 39.93 on Thursday for trainer Reade Baker at Palm Beach Downs.
CANADIANS ELSEWHERE
MARITIME PULPIT – Ontario bred for Ben Hutzel, romps at Gulfstream – Gulfstream Photo
BEN HUTZEL’S MARITIME PULPIT, who has a little following in his home province in Ontario, loved the slop at Gulfstream on Friday as he won by 9 1/4 lengths in a $16,000 claiming race at 1 1/16 miles.
His time of 1:43.05 was good for a lifetime best Beyer Speed Figure of 81.
Mike DePaulo trains Maritime Pulpit for Hutzel, who bred the 5-year-olds. It was the 2nd win for the gelding in his 22nd start and he has earned over $65,000.
Also with a big winner on the rainy day was BILL THARRENOS, who sent out his recent claim SUPER C ME (Any Given Saturday) to win in an off-the-track 5 furlong dash for $16,00 claiming. The speedy gelding was just claimed by Tharrenos for $6,250 and this was his 4th win in a row.
The gelding put up an 81 Beyer Figure for a time of 57.94.
DEL CIELO, bred by Riverlea Farms Ltd. and racing for trainer Ricky Griffith in Florida, won a $25,000 claiming race at Gulfstream on Thursday. The bay filly by Philanthropist from Winner Squall, by Summer Swuall prssed the pace before taking the lead on the turn and going on to a 5 3/4 length win. She was 6-1.
DREAM CLUB – THE HASTINGS RACING CLUB enters 2nd year
Go to the home page of HORSE-CANADA and read about this neat idea and the fun people who have bought in to the Club..
It is almost 600 kilometres north from the sound of galloping racehorses at Hastings Park to Williams Lake, British Columbia but for Madelene Doyle, a horse racing fanatic, involvement in the sport had always been a lifetime away.
Tucked away in her keepsakes are newspaper clippings of the great Secretariat and his Triple Crown sweep in 1973 and a journal with her sketches of a horse farm with a track that she one day hoped to build…
read more
https://canadianthoroughbred.com/magazine_articles/the-dream-club/
ONTARIO RACING COMMISSION ISSUES RULING ON TODD KABEL
http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onrc/doc/2016/2016canlii1497/2016canlii1497.html
NTRA PUTS SOME FACES TO THE NAMES OF BETTORS
Hires Twitter team to cover the National Handicapping Ch. next week in Las Vegas
The National Thoroughbred Racing Association (NTRA) announced today the formation of a new #NHC Social Media Team to highlight the news, personalities and culture of the world’s richest and most prestigious handicapping tournament, the $2.75 million (estimated) Daily Racing Form/NTRA National Handicapping Championship (NHC) presented by Racetrack Television Network and Treasure Island Las Vegas, set for Jan. 28-30 at Treasure Island.
The four-person #NHC Social Media Team is comprised of award-winning turf writer Jennie Rees; Woodbine Racetrack communications manager Keith McCalmont; Breeders’ Cup social media consultant Molly McGill; and University of Arizona Race Track Industry Program (RTIP) student Joe Longo.
Rees will make the #NHC Social Media Team her first public endeavor since retiring from the Louisville Courier-Journal in October as one of the most prolific and decorated chroniclers of American racing. In 34 years with the Courier-Journal she won five Media Eclipse Awards – including the 2015 Eclipse Award for Feature/Commentary writing announced earlier this month – and five Red Smith awards for Kentucky Derby coverage. She also is a member of the National Museum of Racing’s prestigious Joe Hirsch Media Roll of Honor.
“The NHC is one of the real gems in American racing, with the qualifiers having amazing back stories,” Rees said. “I am so looking forward to helping to publicize the diverse personalities who are such an important component of horse racing’s colorful tapestry. For someone reinventing herself as a multimedia communications specialist, you couldn’t ask for a better launch. So to my longtime readers, come join me for takeoff.”
