Glamanation back at her best game in Ontario Debutante

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Coming off a flat effort on the grass two weeks ago, Glamanation will go back to the Tapeta in Saturday’s $100,000 Ontario Debutante, a six-furlong stakes for 2-year-old fillies at Woodbine.

Glamanation ran greenly in the stretch in her first two starts, when second here in a maiden special and fourth in the My Dear Stakes. Both races were won by Dream It Is, who subsequently romped in the Grade 3 Schuylerville at Saratoga.

Glamanation graduated third time out in the 5 1/2-furlong Shady Well Stakes for Ontario-breds on July 23. About a month later, she was a non-threatening fifth after a wide trip on the grass in the allowance prep for the Grade 1 Natalma Stakes.

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Owner-trainer Mike Doyle said Glamanation put it all together with blinkers on when she won the Shady Well under David Moran.

Doyle said that Moran “really couldn’t ride her the last 50 yards” of her debut, which she lost by 1 1/4 lengths to Dream It Is.

“When she ran the first time, she was gazing up in the grandstand,” Doyle recalled. “She’d never done anything like that in the mornings.

“The second time she ran, she did it even worse, so I put a little set of blinkers on her.”

Doyle said he was surprised by the lackluster performance put forth by Glamanation in a seven-furlong turf allowance last out. Glamanation is a daughter the Grade 1-winning turf millionaire Point of Entry, and Doyle expected her to run well on grass.

“I thought she would love the turf, but she didn’t, for whatever reason,” Doyle said. “Maybe it was just the turf that day. David said she was never really comfortable on it.”

Just four others were entered in the Ontario Debutante, which is carded as the eighth of 10 races.

KEY CONTENDERS

Glamanation, by Point of Entry

Last 3 Beyers: 59-60-57

◗ Doyle said he didn’t plan on running her back in just two weeks on Saturday, but was swayed to enter because of the compact field.

“I went in at the last minute,” Doyle said. “She came out of [her last] race unbelievable.”

Sly Roxy, by Speightstown

Beyers: 57-76

◗ Trainer Mark Casse supplemented the daughter of 2012 Canadian champion female sprinter Roxy Gap. After winning her debut with ease over an off track at Saratoga, she finished a fading fifth in the Grade 2 Adirondack there Aug. 12.

Holy Graeme, by Graeme Hall

Beyer: 68

Bred by Casse and his son Norman, she led all the way in her only race, which came in a maiden special weight dirt sprint Aug. 6 at Saratoga.

Shamrock Rose, by First Dude

The unraced filly was a $120,000 2-year-old purchase by Casse for Conrad Farm.