Super image of ARE YOU KIDDING ME during stretch run of Sky Classic Stakes by SDP Photography
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
results from FRIDAY AUG 22 – 2015
RACE 7 MSW
#6 Conquest Dynasty (finshed 2nd in her debut) Hip 11 full sister
LEXIE LOU SNEAKS INTO WOODBINE ALLOWANCE
returns from January layoff
LEXIE LOU WORKOUT with maiden White Gladiator
HORSE OF THE YEAR, champion 3yo filly and turf female LEXIE LOU is entered at Woodbine on Wed. evening in a turf allowance race as she returns from a layoff for Gary barber. The 4yo
Off since a second-place effort in the Grade 2 La Canada Stakes held January 17 at Santa Anita, Lexie Lou will leave from Post 6 in Wednesday night’s opening race (6:45PM EST), a 1 1/16-mile turf event for older fillies and mares, as she works towards a potential start in the Grade 2 Canadian Stakes, a Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re In event, slated for Sunday, September 13.
BEHOLD this filly! ..today in the Pacific Classic
“Since 1976, she is the only horse to win a Grade 1 stakes race at 2, 3, 4 and 5, according to Equibase. The only horse. – Gary West – ESPN
Saturday, Del Mar, post time: 9:10 p.m. EDT
$1 MILLION TVG PACIFIC CLASSIC S.-GI, $1,000,000, 3/up, 1 1/4m
PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER ML
1 Class Leader Smart Strike Smith Sadler 15-1
2 Bailoutbobby Mizzen Mast Graham O’Neill 20-1
3 Bayern Offlee Wild Bejarano Baffert 6-1
4 Hard Aces Hard Spun Espinoza Sadler 5-1
5 Red Vine Candy Ride (Arg) Rosario Clement 6-1
6 Imperative Bernardini Nakatani Baltas 12-1
7 Catch a Flight (Arg) Giant’s Causeway Prat Mandella 9-2
8 Hoppertunity Any Given Saturday Garcia Baffert 5-1
9 Beholder Henny Hughes Stevens Mandella 5-2
10 Midnight Storm Pioneerof the Nile Baze D’Amato 20-1
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FRIDAY – WOODBINE
Messy beginning to the day as 3 to 5 shot GRANDMA’S HOUSE lost jockey Justin Stein at the start as they were not ready to go. That left Stein on his feet at the break and the filly on the lead, causing havoc for horses still in the race. The start for others was also quite disastrous and perhaps the race should have been called a no contest.
CAVALETTA won the race off the claim for Soli Mehta and trainer Kevin Attard, his 26th win of the season. Eurico Rosa da Silva rode the 6yo mare by Offlee Wild who is 2 for 8 this year. The race was for $10,000 claiming.
race 2- TUSCON got the biggest class drop in racing from maiden allowance to maiden claiming and he got to the main track, added blinkers and led all the way to win for $37,500 claiming for Reade Baker, Rick Mah and Jus Luk Stables. The sizy Hard Spun fellow was making his 3rd career start and Jim McAleney rode.
race 3– MARVELOUS SKY, a John Oxley homebred by Sky Mesa, debuted at Churchill Downs last fall and had a bad start. Not seen since then, the 3yo colt was looking for grass in this maiden allowance but the race came off and the field shrunk. He went on to win handily over Schomeberg at a fat 7-1 under Gary Boulanger.
race 4- PENNY STAMP won at 8 -5 for her 2nd score in her 7th race. This is a Laurie Silvera owner and trained gal who has been in the top three in all of her races this year. She is by Saffir and Omar Moreno rode er to win this $10,00 claiming race.
race 5- a maiden allowance for 2-year-olds was supposed to be on the grass but it came off and so those eyeing the Summer Stakes next month will have to go to turf ‘on the blind’.
This race was pegged by the whispers as being between BEAR’SWAY, GIGANTIC BREEZE and CLEOPATRA’S STRIKE, all beginners in the 7 furlong event and it essentially finished that way.
GIGANTIC BREEZE, a large chestnut homebred for Stan Dodson’s Hopefield Farm , rallied very wide, lugged in through the stretch but went on to win by a head over Bear’sway. The winner is by Giant’s Causeway and is the first foal of the placed mare Dixie and a Breeze by Dixieland Band. Mike DePaulo trains the colt. The time was 1:23.88 – a 65 Beyer Speed Figure according to DRF
race 6 – Well, GOLDEN BLUE ECHO tipped his hand in his latest when he was 2nd by a head at 28-1. He proved that race was not a fluke as he came right back to win his maiden in his 16th attempt for Taramatie Mohabir. It was the first win of the season for trainer Chris Jolin. Juan Crawford rode.
race 7- As race 5 – this was a maiden 2-year-old filly race that was supposed to be on the grass but it came off. It was yet another Sam-Son farms’ well prepared beginner in this race – SWOOP AND STRIKE did just that as she made her way through the field down the backstretch, rallied 4 wide off the turn and beat Conquest Dynasty. The winner is a Smart Strike filly out of Dance With Doves, who is a daughter of Dancethruthedawn. This is a half sister to Dance Again, a stakes winner on the grass. The time of 1:23.98 was about the same time as the colts’ time, she posted a 63 Beyer.
race 8 – TRUE EXECUTIVE ran the race of his life in this first level allowance at 6 furlongs as he reeled in Bear’s Romeo to win in 1:09.19 – a 90 Beyer Figure and the highest number for this 6to by Bold Executive.
True Executive, stakes placed and at one time 3rd to Phil’s Dream, his stablemate, in th 2014 OJC Stakes, was claimed for just $8,000 in July, won for $10,000, was 2nd for $19,000 and then won this $58,600 race for Ken Katryan and trainer William Armata.
The dark bay was ridden by Tommy Wong and there were plenty of hugs, kisses and pats for the gelding in the winner’s circle.
race 9 – MOBIL APP snuck into this $16,00 maiden claimer on the Polytrack and was taking an edge. The Gus Schickedanz filly was well ridden by Luis Contreras and she rallied to win for trainer Mike Keogh.
