Fri, 12/01/2017 - 17:07

Signature Red switching Ontario stud farms

Michael Burns
Signature Red holds off favored Fiddlers Patriot to win the Grade 2 Highlander Stakes at Woodbine.

Signature Red, a Grade 2 winner and Canada’s leading freshman sire of 2016, will relocate to Adena Springs North in Aurora, Ontario, for the 2018 breeding season and will stand for an advertised fee of $3,000 Canadian.

The 11-year-old Bernstein horse previously resided at Colebrook Farms Stallion Station in Uxbridge, Ontario, and stood in 2017 for $2,500.

Signature Red has sired two crops of racing age, with 13 winners and progeny earnings of $780,695. His runners are led by stakes winners Signature Spring and Latonka and stakes-placed Red Cabernet.

Fri, 08/26/2011 - 12:13

Woodbine: Attard takes two shots at fourth straight Play the King

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Sid Attard will try to win the Grade 2 Play the King Stakes for the fourth year in a row Sunday when he sends out Signature Red and Jungle Wave in the seven-furlong turf event. The $200,000 Play the King is the prep for next month’s Grade 1 Woodbine Mile, and it should yield several starters for that $1 million fixture.

Sun, 06/26/2011 - 15:25

Woodbine: Signature Red repeats in Highlander Stakes

Michael Burns
Signature Red holds off favored Fiddlers Patriot to win the Grade 2 Highlander Stakes at Woodbine.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Signature Red captured the Grade 2, $201,200 Highlander Stakes for the second year in a row on the Queen’s Plate undercard at Woodbine on Sunday.

After a stalking trip under Luis Contreras, Signature Red held off favored Fiddlers Patriot in the final strides to win the six-furlong turf dash by a nose, in a time of 1:09. Heros Reward held on for third, after racing in tight quarters in the stretch under Sheldon Russell.

Fri, 06/24/2011 - 13:39

Woodbine: Signature Red eyes repeat in Highlander Stakes

Michael Burns
Signature Red will be looking to defend his title in Sunday’s Grade 2 Highlander Stakes at Woodbine.

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Sid Attard will take two shots at Sunday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Highlander Stakes, when he runs Signature Red and Jungle Wave in the six-furlong turf sprint on the Queen’s Plate undercard at Woodbine.

Signature Red captured last year’s Highlander after pressing the pace, registering a 100 Beyer Speed Figure in his first stakes triumph. He is winless since then, but has hit the board in each of his four most recent outings, all on Polytrack.

Most recently, Signature Red was a non-threatening third in the Grade 3 Vigil Stakes.