Cool Shadows improving as she points to Ontario Lassie

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Cool Shadows looped the field under jockey Jerome Lermyte to win the Princess Elizabeth Stakes on Oct. 26 and will likely make her final start of the season in the $125,000 Ontario Lassie Stakes on Dec. 8, trainer Stu Simon said.

“That’s what we’re looking at right now as long as the weather stays good and the track stays good,” he said.

Cool Shadows has won two of her last three starts. Simon said the connections had been high on Cool Shadows coming into this season, and the 2-year-old daughter of Munnings has improved in the last several weeks.

“She always struck me as a nice filly,” he said. “She was a little bit mentally and physically immature over the summer, but she’s really started to move forward this last six weeks or so. She’s really trained good on the synthetic and she ran well on it. She’s also trained well on the dirt. She’s on the upswing that filly. She’s going in the right direction.”

Simon said Cool Shadows is expected to join him this winter at Palm Meadows Training Center in Florida. Simon added that a long-term goal would be next June’s Woodbine Oaks, but that a dirt campaign could be in Cool Shadows’ immediate future this winter at Gulfstream Park.

“We’ll probably explore her on the dirt this winter and see how she is,” he said. “You want to do that with all of the 2-year-olds turning 3 to see how they are on the dirt and you never know where it takes you.”