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In my travels on this glorious morning I caught up with a few nice people and several nice horses including Field Commission, a G2 Winner of the Nearctic Stakes and 2009 Champion Male Sprinter in Canada; and Tasty Temptation - the gutsy filly who finished second in the Oaks, took on the boys in the Queen's Plate and later in the fall won Woodbine's Wonder Where Stakes.
Those readers more interested in reading about Woodbine's weekend races including D's Wando in the Woodstock Stakes or checking out video of Roger Attfield's stakes win at Keeneland with Lady Sbakespeare should skip to the bottom of the post.
(As always, please double left click the photo to enlarge the photo and then use your "Back" button to return to the blog post. Enjoy!)
Sunshine silhouette
Get up, stand up
This game is all about the angles
Charge!
Crouch
Sometimes, mornings are a struggle
Down the garden path
Green with envy
A bit of banter on the way to work
The track is crowded in the mornings...
But it's still beautiful
Malcolm Pierce on the track
A focused trio of riders
The chase is on
Tense
A grey horse standing by the edge of the track watching the horses race by caught my attention. As I moved closer, I realized it was Tasty Temptation.
Look at her focus as she enjoys the activity on the track
Tasty Temptation stood for nearly ten minutes soaking in the atmosphere...
But she was soon tempted to run
Checkered
Sprinting
Big Red Mike is a looker..
But trainer Martha Gonzalez is fond of two year-old Glory Game
I'm pretty fond of Glory Game myself
Gentle giant Glory Game
This horse was standing oh-so-rigid and pointing his nose as if ready to pounce
A closeup shot of the sand ring
Red and ready
Up for it
Sunny smile
Field Commission and his good friend B.I
B.I advised that Field Commission prefers grapes to mints. Next time!
Happy workers
You gotta love what you do
Apprentice Ryan Pacheco looks into a bright future
Thumbs Up! - Tyler Gaskin and (I believe) Stormy Lord
Triple Greys!
Line em up!
Hop hop!
Bath time
Emma-Jayne Wilson sneaks a peek
Audre and Joey's Best
Admiring gaze
One of Audre Cappuccitti's many grey horses
Triple red threat (if you count the vehicle)
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As mentioned in yesterday's post, the Woodstock Stakes goes on Sunday at Woodbine with a pair of Ontario-bred three year-olds - D's Wando and Essence Hit Man - in tough against five American-bred invaders going six furlongs on the polytrack.
The Woodstock Stakes is the eighth race on Sunday's card. Here is the field:
Sunday April 25, Race 8, Woodstock Stakes
PP Horse A/S Med Jockey Wgt Trainer
1 Essence Hit Man (ON) 3/G L C Sutherland 117 A Cappuccitti
2 Bear's Hard Ten (KY) 3/C L E R Da Silva 119 R Baker
3 City Trooper (NY) 3/C L E Ramsammy 115 G Weaver
4 Fearless Cowboy (KY) 3/C L A Garcia 119 K P McLaughlin
5 D's Wando (ON) 3/C L E Wilson 117 I Black
6 Gary D (KY) 3/C L L Contreras 115 S M Asmussen
7 Wildcat Frankie (FL) 3/G L P Husbands 117 J Hatchett
Immediately after the Woodstock is an allowance event for Ontario Sired Three Year Olds And Upward Which Have Never Won Three Races. This race also goes six furlongs on the poly and features Bob Tiller's Race for Gold and Mark Casse's Legal Review taking on eight older horses. You can read about Race for Gold, including photos and an interview with Bob Tiller, in my recent Queen's Plate Profiler.
Here is the field for the allowance tilt:
Woodbine - Sunday April 25, Race 9
PP Horse A/S Med Jockey Wgt Trainer
1 D'wild Man (ON) 4/G L J Stein 121 G H Rowntree
2 Montrose Avenue (ON) 4/G L E R Da Silva 121 N Gonzalez
3 American Scout (ON) 4/G L C Sutherland 121 A Cameron
4 The Boy's Ring (ON) 4/G L R A Dos Ramos 121 P M Buttigieg
5 Bug's Boy (ON) 7/G L S R Bahen 121 J P Le Blanc, Jr.
6 Bob's Ring (ON) 4/C L E Ramsammy 123 L Silvera
7 Race for Gold (ON) 3/C L E Wilson 116 R P Tiller
8 Mega Rush (ON) 4/G L O Moreno 1165 M P De Paulo
9 Legal Review (ON) 3/C L P Husbands 116 M E Casse
10 Gas N Dash (ON) 4/G L T Pizarro 121 S Di Pasquale
Canada's Champion Two-year-old Hollinger, trained by Roger Attfield, put in a nice breeze at Keeneland this morning hitting four furlongs in 49 flat. The work ranked 19th out of 42. Attfield's other top three year-old, Mobilizer, was a late trainer scratch on Thursday at Keeeneland.
Regardless, Attfield still enjoyed an excellent Thursday at the races as Lady Shakespeare captured the Bewitch Stakes. The Thoroughbred Times reports:
Charles Fipke’s homebred Lady Shakespeare chased the pace before taking over in the final sixteenth on Thursday to capture the $150,000 Grey Goose Bewitch Stakes (G3) on the turf at Keeneland Race Course.
The four-year-old Theatrical (Ire) filly picked up the second stakes victory of her career and first graded stakes triumph following a win in last year’s Ontario Colleen Stakes at Woodbine for trainer Roger Attfield.
Lady Shakespeare captures the Bewitch Stakes
As always, you can catch up on all the latest goings on in my Woodbine News page and read all about the latest entries, results and works of the top Canadian three year-olds in my 2010 Queen's Plate contender page.
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Local horsefolks in need of some new equipment should check out the Greenhawk Harness and Equestrian Supplies Spring Sale, taking place until Saturday. Look for deals on all sorts of riding apparel, horse supplies and more with name brands that include Elation, Charles Owen, Weaver, Ariat and Shedrow. This is considered one of the largest sales of riding apparel in Canada and savings are traditionally from 15% to 80%.
GREENHAWK HARNESS AND EQUESTRIAN SUPPLIES SALE, April 22 to 24, 5665 McLaughlin Rd., Mississauga (off Matheson Blvd.), 905-238-5502, Thurs-Fri, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Sat, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 905 238-8507, http://www.greenhawk.net/.
TGIF good readers and happy shopping!
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