CTHS Sales stakes on tap at Hastings
Monday’s B.C. Day holiday card at Hastings will feature a pair of CTHS Sales stakes and a $189,174 carryover in the pick five. The Jackpot wager begins on the third race.
The first of seven races on the card is the fillies division of the $50,000 CTHS Sales. Only three horses entered the 1 1/16-mile race for 3- and 4-year-old fillies, and it will likely serve as little more than a workout for four-time stakes winner Infinite Patience.
Trained by Barbara Heads, Infinite Patience is coming off a 7 1/2-length romp over Solarity and Princess of Cairo in a $27,000 allowance race for fillies and mares on July 13. The 4-year-old daughter of Sungold received an 82 Beyer for her facile win, and the career-best figure between the two 3-year-old fillies she will be facing Monday are the back-to-back 66’s that Heide was given for her win in and runner-up finish in back-to-back allowance sprints for sophomore fillies on May 24 and June 14.
Trained by Dino Condilenios, Heidi regressed in her latest race, finishing third as the favorite when she stretched out to 1 1/16 miles for the first time at the same level on July 12.
Mi Reyna, who won the fillies division of the CTHS Sales for 2-year-olds last year for trainer Milton Palma, set the pace before finishing fourth in the same race Heidi exits.
In addition, Infinite Patience could not have looked any better when she worked a half-mile in 47.40 seconds and was under wraps when she galloped out five furlongs in 59.40 with Antonio Reyes aboard Tuesday.
Reyes will ride Monday.
The colts and geldings division also came in light with just four horses entered. It goes as the second race, and the two 4-year-olds in the field – At Attention and Bold Arch – will vie for favoritism.
Notably missing is Be Quick who would have been heavily favored to remain undefeated. The Sales Stakes was supposed to be a prep for Be Quick on his road to the Grade 3, $125,000 Canadian Derby on Aug. 11 at Century Mile.
“He has a small abscess, so we are going to have to pass on the Sales Stakes,” trainer Keith Pedersen said. “He’s fine and only missed five days of training. He will be back on the track Monday, so we still have plenty of time to have him ready for the Canadian Derby.”
A Kentucky-bred son of Bodemeister, Be Quick went right to the front when he won his debut going 3 1/2 furlongs last year, and he dueled through honest fractions while winning his first three sprints at the current meet. He showed he could rate when he sat off an extremely slow pace in his first route test in a $28,200 allowance race on July 11.