Unbeaten, untested Miss Speedy big favorite in Bison City

ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Miss Speedy will put her unbeaten record on the line as the heavy favorite in Saturday’s $250,000 Bison City Stakes at Woodbine. The 1 1/16-mile route is the second leg of the Canadian Triple Tiara, a series for Canadian-bred 3-year-old fillies.

Miss Speedy debuted without much fanfare for trainer Denyse McClachire here July 10, when she blew the break before closing through traffic to win going away by 3 3/4 lengths. She received a 75 Beyer Speed Figure in the 5 1/2-furlong maiden special.

A majority interest in Miss Speedy was subsequently sold to Gary Barber, and Mark Casse took over the training duties.

“We were very impressed with the way she won, and the trouble she overcame,” Casse said.

Miss Speedy made her much-anticipated second start in a 1 1/16-mile Ontario-sired allowance Aug. 15. Sent off at 1-2, she went straight to the lead and kept on going to prevail by four lengths with a 90 Beyer.

Gary Boulanger, who rode Miss Speedy in both of her starts, said the big daughter of Souper Speedy has untapped potential.

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“I don’t know how talented she is,” Boulanger said. “I always thought a lot of her, but she did that so easy the other day. She ran a 90 [Beyer Speed Figure], and there’s more there.

“She was ultra-impressive in both starts. Her maiden race impressed me beyond, because she had no kind of education to do what she did. She showed how much talent she had that day. Coming back going 1 1/16 miles, she had trained like she’d go on and on. In her half-mile works, the gallops-out were unbelievable, [six furlongs] in 1:10 and change, 1:11 flat. She’s an amazing filly.”

Casse has captured the Bison City a record five times. He had won it three years in a row heading into 2020, when his son Norm won it with the Kentucky shipper Mizzen Beau.

The Bison City drew five others, including Emmeline and Il Malocchio.

Emmeline nosed out Il Malocchio for second in the opening Triple Tiara race Aug. 1, the $500,000 Woodbine Oaks. Munnyfor Ro, the Oaks winner, finished a respectable fourth in Sunday’s Queen’s Plate.

Emmeline is a maiden after six starts, but a good one, having posted back-to-back 80 Beyers heading into the Bison City. She was a front-running second over an anti-speed track while beaten just a neck in her penultimate race, a 1 1/16-mile maiden special.

Il Malocchio graduated on the inner turf in the restricted Victorian Queen Stakes last September. After wintering in the United States, she was fourth here in the seven-furlong Fury Stakes before losing the Oaks by just 1 1/4 lengths.

Miss Marie benefited from the anti-speed bias when beating Emmeline July 10, after which she finished sixth in the Oaks.