Not So Quiet targeting repeat in Overskate Stakes

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Not So Quiet has made lots of noise in the Ontario-sired ranks at Woodbine since joining trainer Mark Casse’s barn after a 1 1/2-year layoff in the spring of 2020. The 6-year-old will try to complete a sweep of the Vice Regent and Overskate stakes for the second year in a row on Saturday in the $100,000 Overskate at 7 1/2 furlongs on the inner turf.

All seven of Not So Quiet’s wins came with jockey Rafael Hernandez aboard. After ending up fourth in an open allowance in his June 27 season opener, the turf expert finished third in the Grade 3 Vigil behind the two leading Tapeta sprinters on the grounds, Souper Stonehenge and Pink Lloyd.

Hernandez gave Not So Quiet a great ride most recently in the five-furlong Vice Regent on the inner course. After getting away slowly, the son of Silent Name rallied inside from sixth to score by 1 1/2 lengths with a career-high 98 Beyer Speed Figure.

As the 125-pound highweight, Hernandez will break Not So Quiet from post 4 in the nine-horse field. They won last year’s Overskate from post 7 in a 10-horse race.

Forester’s Fortune is competing around two turns for the first time off a sixth-place finish in the Vice Regent. The 4-year-old was competitive in restricted stakes last year without winning one. He cleared the first allowance condition two back after closing from sixth, earning a career-best 90 Beyer in the process.

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Trainer Rodney Barrow sent out Forester’s Fortune to breeze five-eighths in 1:00 last Saturday, which was the seventh-fastest of 48 works at the distance.

“He had a good work,” Barrow said. “He’ll go the distance. He relaxes. I’m not scared of that part at all. When he ran in the last stakes, he got hung wide the whole way. [Not So Quiet] had a perfect trip.”

Daisuke Fukumoto retains the mount on Forester’s Fortune.

Told It All is hard to gauge. Victorious in last year’s restricted Elgin Stakes before tailing off in the fall, he was claimed from trainer Norm McKnight by trainer Suzanne Drake for just $9,500 on July 11. He ran the race of his life off the claim on Aug. 27, when taking the final leg of the Woodbine Turf Sprint Series with a 96 Beyer, then wasn’t a factor in a subsequent second-level allowance.

Dun Drum closed for fourth in last year’s Overskate. His best of four races this year, all at the second allowance category, was a third in his penultimate start traveling a mile on the inner turf.

There’s No Joe ran well in each of his turf races, both of which were on the main course. He was beaten three-quarters of length most recently when second in a seven-furlong allowance.