LOUDER THAN WORDS

Today's news - LAWYER RON is a superstar..PRESQUE ISLE DOWNS has a breakdown on Tapeta in first race...Todd Kabel rides 2 longshot winners on Woodbine turf...and more..

WORD TO THE WISE

WOODBINE SATURDAY

Bad kickback on the POLYTRACK yesterday which seemed to hinder a lot of horses who tried to make rallies from the middle of the fields. Yesterday there were a lot of rallying winners who came from far back and then inside.

The very successful combo of trainer RON SADLER and MATT MOORE hooked up to win again on Saturday. AGNICO reeled in ODE TO ROY in the final strides to win the $40,000 claiming race for non-winners of 2. It was the first time Moore was on Agnico this year and the pair rallied wide to win in a race full of speed.

A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME..… race 3, CHANTAL SUTHERLAND on GABRIELLE’S CHARM allowed the filly to drift out numerous paths through the stretch while50 to 1 shot PAULIFF’S PRIDE tried to get by. Rick Dos Ramos could not use his whip or really ride his filly, ‘Pride’ much as they were carried out all the way from the 3/16 mark to the wire.

In the right call (in this corner’s opinion), GABRIELLE’S CHARM, a Florida-bred, was demoted to 2nd and the long bomb, a Tethra- Marilyn’sPride, by Sea Wall filly, was placed first.

The winner is owned and was bred by Paul Buttigieg and C. Crosby.

Steady HASSAYAMPA won race 4 after a good trip behind a pacesetter, You and Me baby, who was not going very fast. A good effort from TRUE PIC to be 2^nd after a sluggish start from the gate. Hassayampa is owned by John and Jessica Pastorek and trained by Paul Attard.

And a shout out to champion trainer PHIL ENGLAND, who returned to the winner’s circle yesterday after taking a couple of years off from training.

England, who has 3 horses for Dick Bonnycastle’s HARLEQUIN RANCHES, sent out MIZZ SHAKIN to win her 2^nd career start yesterday in a 2yo maiden allowance race. A homebred by Mizzen Mast – Lady Shakin by Dixieland Band, MIZZ SHAKIN, powered through the stretch to beat Sarcasm, the race favouritre by Distorted Humor.

The winner earned a 72 Beyer Figure.

Bred by Bonnycastle’s Cavendish Inc. , Mizz Shakin’s granddam is a half sister to superstar EASY GOER.

Tab the Alphabet Soup fillies PINK STOCKINGS and SAVOURY SOUP for later – they both races greenly in their debuts.

The Fieldstone Farms – Compadre (the sire), Analisa Delmas (trainer) train continued the roll yesterday when COBOTOWN RON won for the 2^nd consecutive time on the drop to $10,000 claiming.

Classy stakes winner ARCH HALL, the freshest horse in race 7 won that $89,000 allowance with a strong rally from far off the pace. The Archers Bay horse came inside in mid-stretch with a dramatic move that caused Emma-Jayne Wilson to stand up in the irons on Artie Hot, and then took off for a big win in 1:45 1/5, an 82 Beyer Figure. Champions PALLADIO and JUDITHS WILD RUSH were well beaten.

SPEAK WISELY, a $275,000 purchase by Sam-Son Farms, won the Ontario Colleen Stakes thanks to another masterful ride by Todd Kabel in the one-mile turf race.

The Smart Strike filly was making her grass debut (she’s out of the At the Threshold mare Irene’s Talkin, not a lot of grass breeding) and she stalked the pace set by longshot Northern City.

The Beyer Figure for the winner was 91.

While Sprung charged on the outside in early stretch and others were in the hunt, Kabel already had Speak Wisely darting to the lead inside of runners and she dug in.

Trainer Mark Frostad said the $275,000 was more expensive that most horses bought by Sam-Son at auction. There is a ½ sister to Speak Wisely in the upcoming Keeneland sale. They are siblings of Grade 1 winner ADIEU.

Kabel came right back with a $30.00 winner when guiding Car Colston Hall Stud’s SANT ELENA to win the 9^th race, an allowance for fillies and mares at 1 mile on turf. The Elfision miss was making her first turf start at Woodbine and in North America.

IVAN DALOS’ homebred GALLOPING RIVER scored a 20 to 1 upset to win the last race thanks to a nice rider by Tyler Pizarro. The Victory Gallop gelding 9Ontario-bred) was winning his maiden and he defeated a game WE’RE DREAMERS from the Sue Leslie barn.

118 for RON

LAWYER RON is a freak.

Much like his daddy , Lawyer Ron is blossoming into a champion at the age – common with offspring of the sire who tend to be great 3 and 4yo’s (and older, Jambalaya, Last Answer,etc.).

That move Lawyer Ron made yesterday in the Woodward at Saratoga was stunning and the colt got a 118 Beyer Figure,higher than his track-record setting run in the Whitney.

BREAK-DOWN IN FIRST RACE ON TAPETA

The inaugural meeting at Erie’s PRESQUE ISLE DOWNS started off ominously when a horse broke down in the first race, the Inuagural Stakes. The filly CANTREL, trained by Scott Lake, broke down over the Tapeta footing, a synthetic surface.

Jan Jar's LOTTACOSTA finished last in the Inaugural Stakes.

TWILIGHT METEOR NOSED BY THE BIZ

Canadian-bred TWILIGHT METEOR was pipped at the wire by classy NO BIZ LIKE SHOBIZ in the grade 3 Kent Stakes at Delaware Park yesterday.

The Smart Strike colt had dead aim on his rival but his charge came up inches short.

OTHER STUFF - and it's weird

Jockey JACK LAUZON was suspended 3 racing days by the Ontario Racing Commission for “providing conflicting statements to the Stewarts in their inquiries relating to a steward’s inquiry on Aug. 19, the 3^rd race.

The race in question – Xaler and jockey Patrick Husbands won but was deemed guilty of coming in a interfering with Lauzon and Money Player. The latter had to be checked hard and Lauzon lost his irons.

A complicated story goes something like this – Lauzon said he was interfered with one day, then apparently said he was partly at fault another day when Husbands’ was in the review room with a lawyer.

Husbands, who originally got 3 days suspension, has appealed his suspension.