Collecting Flatter's speed earns her Glorious Song triumph
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Collecting Flatter put away the other speed in a determined score under Kazushi Kimura in Saturday’s $129,500 Glorious Song, the first of two seven-furlong 2-year-old stakes on the Woodbine card.
Collecting Flatter ($9.50) set honest fractions on a golden rail path while being pressed by longshot Play the Music. She dug in through the stretch to prevail by three-quarters of a length, in a time of 1:22.94.
Forever Dixie raced wide throughout against the bias while closing for second, ahead of Anam Cara, who rallied inside for third in the 11-horse field of fillies.
It was the second stakes victory for Collecting Flatter, who was making her first start with Lasix after having finished sixth in her previous race in the Grade 1 Natalma on turf.
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“We were anxious to get her back on the Tapeta surface,” winning trainer Josie Carroll said. “She seems to really love that. She showed some signs of needing (Lasix) off her last race.”
A Kentucky-bred daughter of the late Claiborne Farm stallion Flatter, Collecting Flatter earned $75,000 for owner-breeder Ivan Dalos.
“We love Flatter and I’m missing him,” Colleen Dalos said. “We’ve had unbelievable success with Flatter. He has worked so well with our mares.”
*** Hal ($6.90) wore down the front-running favorite Ticker Tape Home to land his stakes debut while remaining unbeaten in the $130,750 Display.
Hal saved ground in third before making a stretch bid in the two-path en route to a half-length win over Ticker Tape Home. Firing Bullets wound up third in the six-horse field. The final time was 1:22.
Justin Stein rode Hal, a son of Breeders’ Cup Classic winner Accelerate trained by Darwin Banach. Hal banked $75,000 for the partnership of Suzi Shoemaker and First Corp. Thoroughbreds.
“He’s a cool customer,” Stein said. “He just comes over and does his job. He was game. He might have just been toying with that horse a little bit.”
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