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(AND HE’S SOOO PROFESSIONAL)

WEDNESDAY NIGHT at Woodbine

The feature on the night – race 4: PASSING MOOD STAKES, Ontario sired 3yo fillies, 7 furlongs, turf. YOU WILL LOVE ME, (who can’t love her), a homebred of Bill Jones, had a great trip behind the speed duel of Boldly Seductive and Midnight Shadow but so did BIRSAY.

Both fillies engaged in a duel through the stretch and both were very game but it was The One Way Love filly You Will Love Me who edged clear while her rider Eurico Rosa da Silva never turned his stick over – very confident ride and a very good Ontario-sired filly.

The time was 1:23. It was a 79 Beyer.

It was the 4th win in just 7 starts for You Will Love Me, out of the mare Trinnon.

Quite a Knightmare (Ascot Knight) rallied for 3rd.

“I’m very happy with Earl’s training of this little filly and I will take Eurico for a steak dinner after the season’s over,” said a beaming Jones in the winner’s circle.

“Firmer turf than last time, she tired on the soft turf last time,” said trainer Earl Barnett who has done a super job with the 3yo filly.

(Here’s some history on Bill Jones and his involvement in racing as written in the Daily Racing Form a few weeks back)

**Bill Jones got into the thoroughbred racing business in an unorthodox way. Just over 20 years ago he had a farm in Mansfield, Ontario bulging with Black Angus cattle and a company in the oil business in Toronto.

“I won this horse, I think it was in a card game, and I didn’t know what to do with it,” said Jones.

While golfing one day, he mentioned to one of the course employees, Theresa Shields, that he had a racehorse. Shields introduced Jones to her father, dan, a trainer at Fort Erie.

“That’s pretty much how it started,” said Jones who is 73. “His name was Lemico Jewels and he was picking up a $5,000 cheque every two weeks at Fort Erie. He did okay.”

Jones decided to try the tougher waters at Woodbine racetrack and collected a small group runners and mares.

One mare, Trinnon, had been a $60,000 yearling purchase at the 1995 Woodbine select yearling sale but only placed during her racing career.

“I bought her from (trainer) Jim Day through bloodstock agent (now trainer) Dave Cotey,” said Jones. “Dave has helped me buy a couple of mares along the way.”

Jones bred Trinnon, a daughter of Grade 2 stakes winner Anshan out of the stakes producing mare Aunt Arctic, to Bold Executive but the mare didn’t get in foal.

She produced her first foal in 2000 when Great Auntee, a grey daughter of Great Gladiator was born.

Great Auntee, now 7, earned over $300,000 on the track for Jones and his wife Sheila while racing in high claiming events.

In the meantime, Jones sold his cattle farm and all his farm equipment and moved to a small 25-acre residential property in Caledon close to places where Jones can participate in his other favourite pastime, golf.

You Will Love Me, by One Way Love, a multiple champion, is Trinnon’s fourth foal.

“I tried to sell her at the yearling sale two years ago,” said Jones. “I was hoping to get $25,000 for her but someone only went up to $19,000 so I bought her back. She had x-rayed with chips in her hocks.”

Her win, as a 15 to 1 longshot, in the June 8 Lady Angela Stakes, with a purse of $126,000, was the biggest win by a Jones horse.

“That was a real hoot,” said Jones. “I had had so many friends ask when they could come to the races with me so I brought some that day. One guy made $5,000 betting on her. We really enjoyed drinking the champagne up in the turf club.”

You Will Love Me, her yearling full sister, weanling half-sister by Parisianprospector and their dam are the only horses owned by Jones.

The horses reside at John Carey’s T.C. Westmeath Stud. Carey and his wife Doris purchased Great Auntee off the Jones’ this spring and bred her to one of their stallions, Old Forrester.**

Other races…

RACE 1 - FIGHT THE STORM led from start to finish to win her 2nd consecutive race

RACE 2- PRINCIPESA MARIA took off to a big lead early, going too fast early, in the 9 furlong (yes 9 furlongs for maiden claiming fillies, $12,500), led all the way after slowing things down for a spell but the last two strides were two strides too many when BOLD CORKY (Bold Executive) scuttled past right on the money for Sue Leslie, owner and trainer, jockey Rob Landry.

Leslie had won her first race of the meeting with AWESOME ACTION in the Ontario Jockey Club Stakes last Saturday.

Bold Corky, bred by Gardiner Farms, took a ton of late betting action and went off at 5 to 2, down from her 6 to 1 morning line quote.

She ran 1 1/8 miles in 1:57 2/5 over the newly jelly-cabled Polytrack.

“She’s a hard trying little thing, got it done,” said Landry.

“She had been closing in her sprint races be were little doubtful about the longer distance but it worked out,” said Leslie, who commented on a successful LONGRUN day at the races last Sunday when the group that retires and places former racehorses raised monoey for its great cause.

Race 3 – turf, maiden allowance, Ontario-sired, 1 mile; RETALIATE (Canyon Creek-Puket by Sultry Song), from the red-hot Jim Day stable was a lovely price at 7 to 2 after taking a huge hit down to 5 to 2 before the race, to win his maiden in start no. 11 but only his 3rd on grass, a surface for which he is best bred.

A nice, ground saving trip, blinkers on, an overbet favourite in Wookin to Run and a modest field worked in the favour of the son of Canyon Creek, bred and co-owned by Jim Day and Cudney Stables. Day was not in attendance on the TV for the winning interview.

Race 5 – Nine-year-old VERY PROFESSIONAL took a ton of betting support (off at 9 to 2, 12 to 1 in the morning line, although the morning line favourite LAPTOP COMPUTER was scratched) in the $10,000 claiming sprint and what a classy old guy.

Settled far off the pace under a quite Stephanie Fedora, Very Professional came wide off the turn and caught Sugarcoat in the last few strides to win for the 14th time in his 83rd start. Earnings over $500,000.

A frantic pace duel between 5 others certainly helped while Sugarcoat was wide in the duel all the way.

Willie Armata owns, Vito Armata trains. It was the gelding’s first win in his 9th start of the season.

It was the win for Fedora who drops from a 10-pound bug rider to a 5-pound bug with that, her 5th career win as a rider.

Race 6 – JACKNOWS how to win – he had a dream trip to take his 3rd in 4 starts this year for Jam Jar and trainer John Ross, drawing clear off the turn under Garry Cruise.

He was dropping back to the $12,500 claiming level and winning for the 7th time in 29 starts.

COLONIAL RUCKUS, who once set a track record at the 1 1/16 mile distance, was sent on a maniacal pace duel with Amy’s Boy that didn’t help either runner. (And everyone thought all the speed in the race was scratched when Biblical Scholar was withdrawn but we forgot to tell the jockeys). The stalkers and closers did well in this race.

Race 7 – Half a mile in 49 2/5 for 1 1/16 miles (allowance fillies, Ontario-sired) and the field was very strung out with TO THE BRIM dragging her way to a clear lead and she almost made it home on top by NOHOCH, a homebred of Great Gladiator-Chamuel from Mike Doyle and Duar Racing, rallied wide and just got there at 5 to 1.

It was Nohoch’s first attempt at the distance and she was Turf-to Poly runner. Leading rider Tyler Pizarro never gave up and rode the winner.

The final race – GOT ON CREDIT, coming out of a race that has already yielded 4 next-out winners, was very brave on the pace and looked beaten at several points but held on for 1316096 Ontario, trainer Lyle Morden and jockey Jack Lauzon.

The Ontario-bred is by One Way Love who had a big night last night.

SPA DOINGS

The meeting started with the breakdown of a 7yo horse who had not raced much so that has to put a bad taste in anyone’s mouth.

The finishes of races later on the card were good, however, and 2yo SARGENT SEATTLE, a firster by the hot young sire VINDICATION, missed the track record by 1/5 in his 2yo debut.

And wow, Alan Pesch bought SUBTLE ALY for $3,000 at a winter mixed sale in Florida, sold most of her after she set a track record in her career debut and then the filly won the Schulyerville. Now that’s neat stuff.

Today, Canadian CHARLES FIPKE has a 2yo in the SANFORD STAKES today – TALE OF EKATI, named for his, the first ever, Canadian diamond mine near Yellowknife, won his debut very impressively and the Tale of the Cat homebred earned an 89 Beyer Figure. The colt is out of the Japanese bred mare Silence Beauty, by Sunday Silence.

Take of Ekati is worth a bet today in the Sanford. READY’S IMAGE (99 Beyer), by More Than Ready, and FED WATCHER (by Songandaprayer), 98 Beyer, are the colts to beat.

Ontario-bred MADEMOISELLEWHAKI, bred by Tom Keenan, makes her 2^nd career start in race 4 for maiden allowance fillies on turf. The filly is trained by Patrick Biancone and she was 7^th in her debut at Churchill in June.

SOMETHING INTERESTING

JUMP FOR JOYEUX, a 7yo gelding, had won 17 races before he came to WOODBINE for a $32,000 claiming race on April 7. He had just won by 6 lengths at Turfway, on Polytrack, with an 87 Beyer Figure.

He ran a 49 at Woodbine that day when 7^th beaten 10 lengths to Dashing Admiral.

His last 2 races? Two wins at 5 furlongs on turf at Churchill with 93 and 91 Beyers.

BAD NEWS

The DRF reports that SHILLELAGH SLEW, who had ankle surgery last year, had ankle surgery again recently and may have throat surgery. Last year’s champion 3yo colt is done for the year for owner David James.

HORSE MEAT
News that a new horse slaughter plant is opening in Canada (Saskatchewan)
(this is a letter from John Holland, an advocate for abolition of horse slaughter, U.S.)

"We have had persistent reports of Cavel International opening a new slaughter plant in Canada. This is of course their logical move. I have now spoken to a top person inside the industry (a competitor of Cavel) who confirms much of what we heard. I now have what I believe to be solid information. The reason for this cooperation is that loose horse prices are skyrocketing and there are not enough horses for all these operations (the enemy of my enemy).

The plant is an existing cattle slaughtering operation (expected). It will not operate under the Cavel name, but will be a co-op that will slaughter horses for Cavel. Planned ownership arrangements, if they are to change, are not known at this point. This is a smart move to attempt to avoid the obvious challenge the opening will present to their "irreparable harm" argument that has allowed them to have an injunction.

According to the source and the buyers, the plant has reportedly applied to be permitted to slaughter horses and has received the first level of approval but not the second. We believe that this means they are approved in Canada but not in the EU yet. It is telling its buyers that it will receive the final approval within 30 days. The kill buyers are already buying horses for the plant and they expect it to open as early as next week.

We know the plant is located in Western Canada near a town called Wolseley. Wolseley is just over an hour east of Regina and about two hours north of far Western Montana. The only plant we can find there is Nature Valley Farms (below) , and they are approved in Canada for horses. It also fits the description perfectly. Ominously, their capacity is over two and a half times that of Cavel in Dekalb. It is possible that it will be renamed. I have called to ask them if they will be buying horses, but got an answering machine.

I would hope this information, when fleshed out, could be used to convince the appeals court that Cavel does not risk irreparable harm."

Natural Valley Farms
Todd D'arcy*
*Box 550
Wolseley, SK S0G 5H0

Tel: (403) 230-8715
Fax: (403) 510-8697
Email tdarcy@telus.net <mailto:tdarcy@telus.net>
Web: www.naturalvalley.ca <http://www.naturalvalley.ca>

Unique in Canada, * NATURAL VALLEY FARMS *(NVF) is a producer-owned business dedicated to producing high quality products with revenue streams returning to the producer. The producer is provided information on his livestock performance that allows them to evolve as customer demand evolves. The company currently operates a federally inspected processing facility in Wolseley, Saskatchewan, with NVF cattle being custom-slaughtered at a number of federally inspected plants in Western Canada. The company’s own slaughter facility is expected to be completed in June of 2006, at which time the combined NVF facilities are expected to provide a processing capacity of 2,500 head per week. NVF currently produces “natural” boxed beef, commodity boxed beef, marinated beef, bulk ground beef and fresh trim.

AND...

Believe it or not, at the corner of ISLINGTON and STEELES, near Woodbine racetrack, is a store called Cavallino Carne Equine and Groceries...

I have yet to visit this place but plan to soon...