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95 Beyer again for ‘Sons’
LIKE MOM LIKE SONS, a racy chestnut colt by Carson City-Mucupoftea, Mugatea, stayed undefeated with a workmanlike score in the Woodstock Stakes yesterday at Woodbine. The 3-year-old was allowed to lope along early in the 6 furlong event (22 4/5 for this speedball for the first 2 furlongs??) and, with his ears perked up, sped up around the turn 45 3/5 and 57 2/5.
The colt never felt Patrick Husbands’ whip although DANCER’S BAJAN, making his first start as a 3-year-old and one of just 2 Queen’s Plate eligibles in the race, charged hard on the rail to make it close. Like Mom Like Sons won by just over a length over a hard trying Dancer’s Bajan (Trajectory), trained by Robert Tiller.
The time of 1:09 3/5 translated into a 95 Beyer Figure, the same number earned by the colt in his allowance-winning season debut.
Like Mom Like Sons was a $70,000 buy-back as a yearling.
DANCER’S BAJAN’s Beyer Figure of 92/92 certainly boosts him up to the top of the Plate heap as long as the white-legged colt can handle longer distances.
The gelding won the Kingarvie last year at 1 1/16 miles by a nose and his dam’s sire, ALYDEED, won the Plate.
GRACIOUS WINNER?
Following the Woodstock victory by LIKE MOM LIKE SONS, owner and co-breeder Howard Walton had an unusual set of comments while being interviewed by Woodbine’s Renee Kierans.
Walton, remarking about the work of trainer Sid Attard and his crew said “Unlike some other trainers around here, (Sid) is fun to be with”.
Walton has had several others trainers for his horses in recent years.
Later, when asked about 2 turns for the colt, Walton said, “I don’t know about 2 turns but I know he’ll go one turn, what’s wrong with the Met Mile?”
Nothing like being modest after a big win.
CATCH THE THRILL ON THE WORKTAB
Champion 2yo filly of last year, CATCH THE THRILL (A.P. Indy) had her first workout at Keeneland yesterday – 3 furlongs in 37 3/5 – as she finally gets going in her training. She has less than 2 months until the Woodbine Oaks and is coming off surgery last fall.
MARCHFIELD, a maiden but a Plate eligible, worked 1:00 2/5, 3rd fastest of 90, at Woodbine yesterday and is on track again after bleeding in his latest at Gulfstream
GOLDEN RAIL- WOODBINE SATURDAY
When trying to seek out if there is a track bias, it’s often a good idea to review the races as many times as you can and get an idea where the winners came from on the card and hoe the favourites did as opposed to longshots.
Friday at Woodbine, it appeared that inside speed was very strong, although perhaps now it seems that Woodbine is offering up simply a very strong inside bias. It is very difficult for any horse to rally wide at Woodbine, unlike Keeneland.
As Polytrack is very, very loose right now (trainers and riders are calling on management to continue to put water on the surface), the kickback is a big factor facing off-the-pace types.
Yesterday, a litany of #1 horses won again just like Friday and any closers were coming up the fence. The late double was made up of stretch running JOVIAL JOYCE (Quebec-bred by Brahms), the first winner for trainer Barbara Pirie and jockey Matt Moore at the meeting – she rallied from far up along the inside) and RAYKHA (One Way Love), who darted up the rail in the stretch to catch front running Bold as Ice.
The 2-time winners on the card were trainer GAIL COX, who wintered in Florida and had layoff fillies STELLAR TIME (Gilded Time) and IMEANSERIOUSLY (Ecton Park, and an Oaks eligible) nicely prepared to win maiden allowance races, and PATRICK HUSBANDS (Like Mom Like Sons and Mark Casse-trainee CHAPLAIN, Canadian-bred by Touch Gold, 83 Beyer).
LAKE SECRET won a nifty allowance race in the middle of the card as the lone speed. Under a hand ride, the Greenwood Lake, Ontario-bred led all the way to win in 1:22 3/5 – a 95 Beyer Figure.
CREASE INFRACTION, who just got up in the final stages to win a $25,000 claiming event as race 7, set a track record for 5 ½ furlongs on Polytrack of 1:04 1/5 (besting the previous record last fall of 1:05 1/5). That was just an 81 Beyer Figure, however.
The 9-year-old Friendly Lover gelding nabbed Go Blue at the finish for trainer Lyle Morden, owned Dominic Triumbari and jockey Jerry Baird.
Meanwhile, while SID ATTARD won the Woodstock and is off to a great start this year, even he can lose a decent runner. Attard and Tucci Stables lost HYDETHETREASURE for $10,000 claiming last November to owner/trainer Mort Hardy and the filly won a $62,800 allowance race yesterday in her 2nd start of the season. The Bold n’ Flashy filly was bred by Bill Graham in Ontario.
Ontario breeders had a good day yesterday – GARDINER FARMS, JOSHAM FARMS, RON CLARKSON and ADENA SPRINGS had notable winners on the card.
INCLUDE US MISSES BUT PLATE CHANCES IMPROVE
Roger Attfield, Bill Werner and Mickey and Phyllis Canino’s INCLUDE US lost the lead in the last couple of strides in a maiden allowance race yesterday at Keeneland but the colt’s effort in the 1 1/8 mile race boosted his Queen’s Plate chances ten-fold. With few standouts lurking for the June 24 Plate, Include Us earned an 80 Beyer Figure with his long, sustained rally that was a bit trouble-filled.
He led late under Eddie Castro but Lemon Custard was up to beat him at the wire.
OTHER RESULTS – Canadian-bred filly HOT SPELL, a debut winner with an 88 Beyer Figure this winter at Bay Meadows, was a late scratch from her scheduled 2nd career start yesterday at Bay Meadows…LORD CARMEN (Ordway), a graded stakes placed Canadian-bred, was 3rd in a tough allowance race at Keeneland yesterday in his season debut…2yo filly SPIN MOVE (Mutakkdim) was a one-paced 5th in her debut from the rail post at Keeneland yesterday…Roger Attfield’s ‘other” Plate hopeful, OURTIMETODANCE was unplaced in the 10th race at Keeneland…
SHOOT FOR THE STARS- WOODBINE SUNDAY
Today’s Woodbine feature is the $125,000 STAR SHOOT STAKES (named for a top sire from the 1900s, sire of Triple Crown winner Sir Barton) for 3-year-old fillies at 6 furlongs and it truly is a very competitive race. Indeed, the DRF handicappers all have different picks – MY LIST, BEAR NOW, LOTTACOSTA, SANIBEL and the choices in the daily paper.
The favourite should be NATIVE LEGEND (not an Oaks eligible), an undefeated Tale of the Cat filly owned and bred by Bill Sorokolit out of the top mare NATIVE RIGHTS, dam of graded stakes winners Prized Stamp and Classic Stamp.
The filly rode the speed bias to her season opening win (84 Beyer) but looked very strong. My List (Kentucky-bred, Banker’s Gold) was 2nd that day and is a serious contender at the longer distance/ The only other Canadian-breds in the race are Sanibel (Ecton Park) and Siwa (Alydeed).
Only Siwa is a Woodbine Oaks eligible.
Canadian Triple Crown winner WANDO, whose first foals are arriving this spring, has a little full sister racing today for the first time. FUHRLEEN (Langfuhr) debuts in race 1 and reportedly will be wearing a #3 shoe. She is an Oaks eligible as is probable favourite YOLIE (Menifee).
Several colts with Queen’s Plate aspirations are looking to win today too. Stronach Stables’ GHETTO SUPERSTAR (Touch Gold) makes his debut in race 8 and meets IMPENDING, a Thunder Gulch colt who is well regarded but still very green.
CANADIANS ELSEWHERE…
AQUEDUCT – STRATOFAN (Tale of the Cat-Early Blaze, by Silver Deputy) won his debut and is now looking for a 2nd win in the 1st race for $30,000 claiming
GULFSTREAM – Jim and Alice Sapara’s WISHART seeks her maiden win in a $32,00 claiming race
TAMPA – SIGNALS IN THE WIND (Pioneering), allowance race at Tampa
KEENELAND – ROGER ATTFIELD has the fast improving Kentucky-bred RED BIRKIN in the Appalachian Stakes.
SHYMAN FARMS (Stuart Hyman) raced Ontario bred TOP SPEED in the last race for $40,000 claiming.It is the debut outing for the homebred Chester House-National Treasure colt.
Also in that last race at Keeneland is BENEDICT, a $500,000 yearling purchase from the Adena Springs 2yo sale 2 years ago (Golden Missile-Blazing Hot, Irish River) who is a maiden after 6 races and now in for $40,000 claiming. Oops.
READERS WRITE
Certainly enough has been said about track announcers on these pages that everyone has made their opinions clear. THOROUGHBLOG is a place where you are invited to give your views and news, and even vent a bit if you want. I welcome all comments but have the right to edit if I deem necessary.
Lots of topics to discuss in racing these days – Kentucky Derby, Queen’s Plate, Polytrack etc. Let’s change things up and move away from the announcer-bashing.
In response to Mr. Griffiths question about races at Woodbine being shorter than some of its premier events – this has often been a question horsepeople ask although in the last 2 years, I believe we are seeing a lot more long distance grass races (not necessarily Polytrack ones). Woodbine does utilize it’s turf course distance ( 1 ½ miles) as much as it can – and it prides itself on races on grass at long distances.
HOT CANADIAN-BRED LIST SHAKE-UP
I have moved horses all around in the THOROUGHBLOG HOT CANADIAN-BRED LIST (on sidebar at right), based on recent races according to class and Beyer Figures.
Also, be sure to check up on Plate and Woodbine Oaks candidates on the WOODBINE website links (they are on the links list, also on the right).
95 Beyer again for ‘Sons’
LIKE MOM LIKE SONS, a racy chestnut colt by Carson City-Mucupoftea, Mugatea, stayed undefeated with a workmanlike score in the Woodstock Stakes yesterday at Woodbine. The 3-year-old was allowed to lope along early in the 6 furlong event (22 4/5 for this speedball for the first 2 furlongs??) and, with his ears perked up, sped up around the turn 45 3/5 and 57 2/5.
The colt never felt Patrick Husbands’ whip although DANCER’S BAJAN, making his first start as a 3-year-old and one of just 2 Queen’s Plate eligibles in the race, charged hard on the rail to make it close. Like Mom Like Sons won by just over a length over a hard trying Dancer’s Bajan (Trajectory), trained by Robert Tiller.
The time of 1:09 3/5 translated into a 95 Beyer Figure, the same number earned by the colt in his allowance-winning season debut.
Like Mom Like Sons was a $70,000 buy-back as a yearling.
DANCER’S BAJAN’s Beyer Figure of 92/92 certainly boosts him up to the top of the Plate heap as long as the white-legged colt can handle longer distances.
The gelding won the Kingarvie last year at 1 1/16 miles by a nose and his dam’s sire, ALYDEED, won the Plate.
GRACIOUS WINNER?
Following the Woodstock victory by LIKE MOM LIKE SONS, owner and co-breeder Howard Walton had an unusual set of comments while being interviewed by Woodbine’s Renee Kierans.
Walton, remarking about the work of trainer Sid Attard and his crew said “Unlike some other trainers around here, (Sid) is fun to be with”.
Walton has had several others trainers for his horses in recent years.
Later, when asked about 2 turns for the colt, Walton said, “I don’t know about 2 turns but I know he’ll go one turn, what’s wrong with the Met Mile?”
Nothing like being modest after a big win.
CATCH THE THRILL ON THE WORKTAB
Champion 2yo filly of last year, CATCH THE THRILL (A.P. Indy) had her first workout at Keeneland yesterday – 3 furlongs in 37 3/5 – as she finally gets going in her training. She has less than 2 months until the Woodbine Oaks and is coming off surgery last fall.
MARCHFIELD, a maiden but a Plate eligible, worked 1:00 2/5, 3rd fastest of 90, at Woodbine yesterday and is on track again after bleeding in his latest at Gulfstream
GOLDEN RAIL- WOODBINE SATURDAY
When trying to seek out if there is a track bias, it’s often a good idea to review the races as many times as you can and get an idea where the winners came from on the card and hoe the favourites did as opposed to longshots.
Friday at Woodbine, it appeared that inside speed was very strong, although perhaps now it seems that Woodbine is offering up simply a very strong inside bias. It is very difficult for any horse to rally wide at Woodbine, unlike Keeneland.
As Polytrack is very, very loose right now (trainers and riders are calling on management to continue to put water on the surface), the kickback is a big factor facing off-the-pace types.
Yesterday, a litany of #1 horses won again just like Friday and any closers were coming up the fence. The late double was made up of stretch running JOVIAL JOYCE (Quebec-bred by Brahms), the first winner for trainer Barbara Pirie and jockey Matt Moore at the meeting – she rallied from far up along the inside) and RAYKHA (One Way Love), who darted up the rail in the stretch to catch front running Bold as Ice.
The 2-time winners on the card were trainer GAIL COX, who wintered in Florida and had layoff fillies STELLAR TIME (Gilded Time) and IMEANSERIOUSLY (Ecton Park, and an Oaks eligible) nicely prepared to win maiden allowance races, and PATRICK HUSBANDS (Like Mom Like Sons and Mark Casse-trainee CHAPLAIN, Canadian-bred by Touch Gold, 83 Beyer).
LAKE SECRET won a nifty allowance race in the middle of the card as the lone speed. Under a hand ride, the Greenwood Lake, Ontario-bred led all the way to win in 1:22 3/5 – a 95 Beyer Figure.
CREASE INFRACTION, who just got up in the final stages to win a $25,000 claiming event as race 7, set a track record for 5 ½ furlongs on Polytrack of 1:04 1/5 (besting the previous record last fall of 1:05 1/5). That was just an 81 Beyer Figure, however.
The 9-year-old Friendly Lover gelding nabbed Go Blue at the finish for trainer Lyle Morden, owned Dominic Triumbari and jockey Jerry Baird.
Meanwhile, while SID ATTARD won the Woodstock and is off to a great start this year, even he can lose a decent runner. Attard and Tucci Stables lost HYDETHETREASURE for $10,000 claiming last November to owner/trainer Mort Hardy and the filly won a $62,800 allowance race yesterday in her 2nd start of the season. The Bold n’ Flashy filly was bred by Bill Graham in Ontario.
Ontario breeders had a good day yesterday – GARDINER FARMS, JOSHAM FARMS, RON CLARKSON and ADENA SPRINGS had notable winners on the card.
INCLUDE US MISSES BUT PLATE CHANCES IMPROVE
Roger Attfield, Bill Werner and Mickey and Phyllis Canino’s INCLUDE US lost the lead in the last couple of strides in a maiden allowance race yesterday at Keeneland but the colt’s effort in the 1 1/8 mile race boosted his Queen’s Plate chances ten-fold. With few standouts lurking for the June 24 Plate, Include Us earned an 80 Beyer Figure with his long, sustained rally that was a bit trouble-filled.
He led late under Eddie Castro but Lemon Custard was up to beat him at the wire.
OTHER RESULTS – Canadian-bred filly HOT SPELL, a debut winner with an 88 Beyer Figure this winter at Bay Meadows, was a late scratch from her scheduled 2nd career start yesterday at Bay Meadows…LORD CARMEN (Ordway), a graded stakes placed Canadian-bred, was 3rd in a tough allowance race at Keeneland yesterday in his season debut…2yo filly SPIN MOVE (Mutakkdim) was a one-paced 5th in her debut from the rail post at Keeneland yesterday…Roger Attfield’s ‘other” Plate hopeful, OURTIMETODANCE was unplaced in the 10th race at Keeneland…
SHOOT FOR THE STARS- WOODBINE SUNDAY
Today’s Woodbine feature is the $125,000 STAR SHOOT STAKES (named for a top sire from the 1900s, sire of Triple Crown winner Sir Barton) for 3-year-old fillies at 6 furlongs and it truly is a very competitive race. Indeed, the DRF handicappers all have different picks – MY LIST, BEAR NOW, LOTTACOSTA, SANIBEL and the choices in the daily paper.
The favourite should be NATIVE LEGEND (not an Oaks eligible), an undefeated Tale of the Cat filly owned and bred by Bill Sorokolit out of the top mare NATIVE RIGHTS, dam of graded stakes winners Prized Stamp and Classic Stamp.
The filly rode the speed bias to her season opening win (84 Beyer) but looked very strong. My List (Kentucky-bred, Banker’s Gold) was 2nd that day and is a serious contender at the longer distance/ The only other Canadian-breds in the race are Sanibel (Ecton Park) and Siwa (Alydeed).
Only Siwa is a Woodbine Oaks eligible.
Canadian Triple Crown winner WANDO, whose first foals are arriving this spring, has a little full sister racing today for the first time. FUHRLEEN (Langfuhr) debuts in race 1 and reportedly will be wearing a #3 shoe. She is an Oaks eligible as is probable favourite YOLIE (Menifee).
Several colts with Queen’s Plate aspirations are looking to win today too. Stronach Stables’ GHETTO SUPERSTAR (Touch Gold) makes his debut in race 8 and meets IMPENDING, a Thunder Gulch colt who is well regarded but still very green.
CANADIANS ELSEWHERE…
AQUEDUCT – STRATOFAN (Tale of the Cat-Early Blaze, by Silver Deputy) won his debut and is now looking for a 2nd win in the 1st race for $30,000 claiming
GULFSTREAM – Jim and Alice Sapara’s WISHART seeks her maiden win in a $32,00 claiming race
TAMPA – SIGNALS IN THE WIND (Pioneering), allowance race at Tampa
KEENELAND – ROGER ATTFIELD has the fast improving Kentucky-bred RED BIRKIN in the Appalachian Stakes.
SHYMAN FARMS (Stuart Hyman) raced Ontario bred TOP SPEED in the last race for $40,000 claiming.It is the debut outing for the homebred Chester House-National Treasure colt.
Also in that last race at Keeneland is BENEDICT, a $500,000 yearling purchase from the Adena Springs 2yo sale 2 years ago (Golden Missile-Blazing Hot, Irish River) who is a maiden after 6 races and now in for $40,000 claiming. Oops.
READERS WRITE
Certainly enough has been said about track announcers on these pages that everyone has made their opinions clear. THOROUGHBLOG is a place where you are invited to give your views and news, and even vent a bit if you want. I welcome all comments but have the right to edit if I deem necessary.
Lots of topics to discuss in racing these days – Kentucky Derby, Queen’s Plate, Polytrack etc. Let’s change things up and move away from the announcer-bashing.
In response to Mr. Griffiths question about races at Woodbine being shorter than some of its premier events – this has often been a question horsepeople ask although in the last 2 years, I believe we are seeing a lot more long distance grass races (not necessarily Polytrack ones). Woodbine does utilize it’s turf course distance ( 1 ½ miles) as much as it can – and it prides itself on races on grass at long distances.
HOT CANADIAN-BRED LIST SHAKE-UP
I have moved horses all around in the THOROUGHBLOG HOT CANADIAN-BRED LIST (on sidebar at right), based on recent races according to class and Beyer Figures.
Also, be sure to check up on Plate and Woodbine Oaks candidates on the WOODBINE website links (they are on the links list, also on the right).
posted by Jen Morrison @ 7:20 AM
9 Comments:
At 8:15 AM,
Anonymous said…
Jen,
I was watching the races from home yesterday, and Patrick DID use his whip late in the race with Like Mom Like Sons. Very nice horse.
At 10:07 AM,
Anonymous said…
hi Jen,
I just wanted to post that Homesteader worhed 5 furlongs in 59.6 on 4/21 in Maryland. She is pointed towards a filly & mare stake at Delaware Park next weekend.
Homesteader's 1/2 sister is training forwardly for the Fasig Tipton midatlantic 2 year old in training sale in May.
At 10:22 AM,
Anonymous said…
A few days ago, comments were posted about Trackus. Wouldn't it have been a sight to see those 'chiclets' moving in that infamous race at DD in January, 1990 when Sylvester Carmouche took a shortcut in the fog?
At 12:51 PM,
Anonymous said…
Carmouche took no "shortcut" at all.
Instead he merely sat in the equivalent of the 1 1/4-mile chute near the top of the stretch (on a bullring, admittedly) and waited until the field approached before emerging from the fog and outrunning the field down the stretch.
A "shortcut" is what Rosie Ruiz took in winning the Boston Marathon.
At 6:54 PM,
Anonymous said…
I was at Woodbine for the races on Sat. What a nice horse; Like mom like sons. I heard a story that Baker had the horse but the horse switched stables before he ran, is that true? Whatever the case, he was well prepared for all of the races he has run.
At 7:08 PM,
Anonymous said…
Yes that is true. He was originally in the care of Reade Baker but has made all his starts for Sid Attard.
At 9:01 PM,
Anonymous said…
Never realized the importance of the whip down the stretch until someone on here labelled it a "A TOOL THAT ENHANCES THE PERFORMANCEOF A HORSE".Would you play poker against ten players,who were able to keep a ace in their pocket,and were able to use this ace whenever they felt like ""ENHANCING THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR HAND??
At 1:54 PM,
Anonymous said…
Was at Woodbine on Sat. Had a chance to Watch Like Mom Like Sons - what a classy performance.
I wonder if he'll stick around Woodbine, or will he head south to play with the 'Big Boys'
In any case, good for Walton - he deserves the victory.
At 4:00 PM,
Anonymous said…
I agree, Walton does deserve this win. And about his the comments on him being "a gracious winner", sounds like he must have had some reason for saying what he did. And no, not everyone has to like it.
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