Fedalia noteworthy in Woodbine's Thursday feature
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Droppers from first-level allowance company look live in Thursday’s nominal Woodbine feature, which is a nonwinners-of-two Ontario-sired allowance/$40,000 claimer. Among them, Fedalia could prove best in the six-furlong sprint on the main turf.
Fedalia is two starts removed from her maiden special weight score in a 6 1/2-furlong main turf sprint. The closer came up a neck short after getting away slowly two back in a five-furlong inner-turf allowance, for which she got a 79 Beyer Speed Figure.
Fedalia was the 5-2 favorite Oct. 2 in a main turf allowance over good ground, in which she finished a non-threatening fifth after quite a wide trip.
Fedalia has had a beneficial little break heading into Thursday’s race, during which she breezed an easy half-mile in 50.40 seconds last Thursday. Keveh Nicholls, who won three races last Saturday, will ride her again for trainer Steve Attard, a combination that’s 1 for 8 at the meet.
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Bodacious Miss is coming off a distant seventh in a 1 1/16-mile allowance that was moved to the main track, a race that shouldn’t be held against her. She was previously third behind the upwardly mobile Musical Ride in a seven-furlong allowance over a good main course, where she earned a 78 Beyer.
Like Fedalia, Bodacious Miss is competing with a $40,000 claiming tag. Gary Boulanger has the mount for trainer Steve Owens on the daughter of Bodemeister.
Ol’ Blondie wired maiden special weight opponents in her third start traveling 5 1/2 furlongs on the Tapeta on Sept. 5. She got her second straight 69 Beyer most recently when fourth while finishing ahead of Fedalia in the aforementioned Oct. 2 allowance.
O’l Blondie was outworked by her stakes-placed stablemate, Artie’s Storm, in a decent five-furlong breeze in 1:00.40 on Oct. 16. The daughter of former leading Ontario sire Old Forester blew out three-eighths in :36 last Saturday under the watchful eye of trainer Paul Buttigieg.
Imagery was competitive late in the summer at the first allowance category on the Tapeta, before a disappointing seventh-place finish as the favorite Oct. 10. Her best of three turf races was a victory over $50,000 maidens at Gulfstream in January.
Benny’s Button wound up third in a minor Ontario-sired stakes for 3-year-old fillies on the dirt at Fort Erie on Sept. 14. She was a front-running fourth in her lone turf start in an Ontario-sired stakes on the inner turf here in August.
Among the three main-track-only entrants, Swirling Dancer seems best. She was softened up in a speed duel on the inner turf Aug. 19, in a race that contained two next-out winners. She checked in fourth in her lone Tapeta start here in allowance company in June.