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(UPDATE) WOODBINE MILE favourite BECRUX worked 6 furlongs on the main Woodbine turf in 1:14 4/5 Monday morning.


JERRY BAILEY rode SHAKESPEARE to win four of of his first 5 career races from Mark 2004 to Oct. 05, including the Grade 1 Turf Classic. This week, the 2 get back together - well, kind of...
BAILEY is at Woodbine all week to promote the WOODBINE MILE, the $1 million gem of the month of September at Woodbine, while SHAKESPEARE is scheduled to compete in the race.
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BAILEY, one of the world’s top riders and now visiting tracks and talking about his Handicapping DVD, will be at Woodbine starting Thursday this week.

His first mission – the draw for post positions on Thursday afternoon at the trackside tent.

Bailey, along with the Woodbine media department's Sandy Hawley, will be at the downtown Toronto Turf Lounge for a "meet and greet" from 7 -9 p.m. Thursday.

On Friday, Bailey will be at the Greenwood teletheatre in east end Toronto for another "meet and greet" from 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Next Saturday morning, Bailey will be appearing during the last half-hour of my one-hour handicapping seminar on the second floor of the grandstand.

Next Sunday, Woodbine Mile Day, Bailey will host a two-hour autograph-signing session beginning at 11 a.m. on the second floor of the grandstand.

Bailey also will appear on Woodbine's simulcast show and will make the trophy presentation to the winner of the Woodbine Mile.

CLEARLY, CASSE

83 Beyer for 'Foxy'

Sovereign award winning trainer MARK CASSE cleaned up in the Grade 3 NATALMA STAKES for 2yo fillies yesterday, taking the top 3 spots in the 1 mile grass race for juvenile fillies.

Charles LaLoggia’s CLEARLY FOXY was the upset winner, the first stakes winner for sire Volponi (Breeders’ Cup Classic).

A $40,000 2yo purchase bred in Kentucky by Tim Kegal and Hopewell Investments, Clearly Foxy had an explosive move off the pace under Jono Jones to win by more than 3 lengths.

Casse trainee, NITE IN ROME, a Canadian bred by top young sire Harlan’s Holiday, was a closing second with jockey Mike Smith on board, and heavily favoured LICKETY LEMOM (Lemon Drop Kid),also owned by LaLoggia, was third.

Clearly Foxy is 2 for 2 in her career, both races on the grass.

Casse should have won 3 races yesterday but his first winner on the card, SATIN SLIPPERS, was disqualified when her rider Pat Husbands, hit another rival on the nose with his whip accidentally. Ontario-bred Satin Slippers is a promising 2yo and one of numerous 2007 classic contenders for Casse. She is by E Dubai.

The winner through DQ was SHE’S THE UMPIRE for Luis De Hechavaria, a Florida bred filly by Smart Strike.

Casse won later with first-time starting 2yo YAMANA, owned by Takes to Make Stable and partner. The day bay son of Tethra out of So Say All Of Us, won a maiden allowance with a very professional rally from off the pace in 125. The gelding was a $6,777 yearling purchase (US funds) and bred by Mark Hughes.

Woodbine claiming runner PICCOLO PETE has had only a few offspring at stud but his daughter GADGET PLAY won a maiden allowance for $60K yesterday in her 2^nd career start and first on turf. The Silver Duck Racing Stable homebred won easily.

LANGFUHR HAS 49^TH STAKES WINNER

Canadian bred sire LANGFUHR had his 49^th stakes winner,in a dead heat, in Charles Towns’ Cinderella Stakes for 2yo fillies on Saturday.

Chez Lang, a West Virginia bred won the 4 ½ furlong race in a tie with another filly, We’re in the Money (Whywhywhy).

COLD WAR WINS AT PRESQUE ISLE

Fort Erie Horse of the Year from 2006, COLD WAR, returned to winning form on Saturday at newly opened Presque Isle Downs. The War Deputy gelding won an allowance race at 1 mile by ½ a length.

He is owned and trained by Vern Fernandes. It would have been Cold War’s first race on the Tapeta footing.

APPRENTICE MELANIE PINTO WINS HER FIRST RACE

FORT ERIE, September 9…Apprentice jockey Melanie Pinto chalked up the first victory of her career in the fifth race Sunday at Fort Erie and three races later notched her second win.The 26 year-old native of Brampton, Ontario, guided Campari to a 1 ¼ length victory and followed up in the eighth race with a 3 ¼ length win aboard More The Mari’er.

“It feels great but it really hasn’t set in,” said Pinto when asked about her first win. “I was so tired at the wire I couldn’t muster up enough energy to get excited.”

Campari, trained by Josh Robillard, covered the 1 mile and 70 yards on a sloppy track in 1:43 2/5.

More The Mari’er ran six furlongs in 1:11 3/5 for conditioner John DiMarco.

Pinto, who had ridden in only two races prior to her win today, is scheduled to ride Pepee The Barker for trainer Noel Randall in Monday’s tenth race.