ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Cary Brooks and owner Phil Brooks have a four-horse stable at Woodbine. On Saturday, the Brooks brothers will be looking for their first stakes win with their second stakes starter, Morant Bay, who will run in the Grade 3, $150,000 Mazarine, a 1 1/16-mile race for 2-year-old fillies.“We’re a great team,” said Cary Brooks, who at age 54 is Phil’s senior by two years. “We usually have four or five horses. We’d like more.”Both were introduced to racing at an early age in their native Jamaica, where their father, Clive Brooks, was a partner with the now-veteran Woodbine trainer Laurie Silvera. Cary Brooks attended the University of Miami in hopes of landing a golf scholarship. That did not materialize, but he did graduate with a degree in business administration. Brooks managed the Ocala, Fla.-based Post Time Training Center for his father and Silvera from 1990-96 and launched his training career here in 2008.Morant Bay is the type of horse who could give the siblings a higher profile. Bred in Ohio, Morant Bay was purchased for $4,000 at the Fasig-Tipton sale in Kentucky last October.“I liked her,” said Cary Brooks. “She didn’t have a whole lot of pedigree, but she was pretty correct, a nice-looking horse, and we bought her within our range.”Morant Bay came to the track in early March but did not make it to the races until Aug. 3.“She had a persistent cough, which held her back,” said Brooks. “The first time we breezed her, we thought she might be all right. She’s continued in that direction.”Morant Bay debuted on turf more by accident than design, after the first race in which she was entered did not fill. Forcing the pace throughout the six-furlong race, Morant Bay was beaten three-quarters of a length as the runner-up.“I put her on turf and she liked it, but I didn’t have any reason to think she was just a turf horse,” Brooks said. “She’d worked well a number of times on Polytrack.”On Sept. 14, Morant Bay returned at 6 1/2 furlongs on the main track and was a game winner under apprentice jockey Sheena Ryan.“We were thrilled,” said Brooks, who was saddling just his 12th starter and his first winner of the meeting. “We thought she ran great, and we’ve been very happy with the way Sheena rides her.”Morant Bay will be the first local stakes mount for Ryan, who rode in one stakes when she began her career at Northlands Park last year. The filly has been listed at 15-1 on Woodbine oddsmaker Ernie Perri’s morning line, and Brooks is well aware of the task she faces.“Two turns, that’s a question mark,” said Brooks. “Her pedigree, to me, suggests a mile. She trains like she’ll do it, but you never know until they try it.”Different spots for sophomoresThe anticipated Sovereign Award showdown for champion 3-year-old male honors will not take place at Belmont Park on Saturday. Up With the Birds, trained by Malcolm Pierce, and Five Iron, conditioned by Brian Lynch, had been slated to share a van to New York on Thursday and run in the Grade 1, $500,000 Jamaica.But while Up With the Birds will run in the Jamaica, at 1 1/8 miles on turf, Five Iron will run in the Grade 3, $200,000 Hawthorne Derby, also at 1 1/8 miles on grass.“It just looked like a more comfortable spot,” Lynch said. “It’s a big field and a competitive field in New York, with plenty of speed. It would be really nice to win a Grade 1, but you could, down there, run your eyeballs out and get beat a couple of heads.”The Hawthorne Derby will be the last start of the season for Five Iron.“He’ll go down to my barn at Keeneland,” Lynch said. “We’ll let him wind down there, then turn him out in Florida in December. He’ll start training with me at Palm Meadows, and hopefully we’ll get a start into him at Keeneland next spring on our way back here.”Lynch also said that Hampstead Heath, the 4-year-old gelding whom he trains for Rob Smithen, already has been put away for the year and will follow the same program as Five Iron.Hampstead Heath, an Ontario-bred, raised his game a notch this summer when finishing second in the Nijinsky and the Sky Classic, both Grade 2 turf stakes. In his most recent appearance, Hampstead Heath ran fifth, beaten just 1 1/2 lengths, in the Grade 1 Northern Dancer at 1 1/2 miles on grass.Big effort from Goldstryke GloryA potential showdown for champion female sprinter honors was on tap here Wednesday evening, when Goldstryke Glory and Youcan’tcatchme ran in the $102,200 Apelia Stakes, a six-furlong race for fillies and mares. Goldstryke Glory, despite losing a shoe coming out of the gate, simply outran Youcan’tcatchme, scoring by 1 1/4 lengths under regular rider Jesse Campbell and stopping the clock in 1:09.19.“We were a little concerned because the speed hadn’t been holding,” said Kelly Callaghan, who sent out Goldstryke Glory to defeat fellow 3-year-olds and become a stakes winner in the six-furlong Inglorious Stakes here Sept. 2. “She ran great; we’re all very happy. She wins these races on the turn – she opens up. Jesse rode her brilliantly.”Callaghan plans to run Goldstryke Glory here Nov. 3 in the Ontario Fashion Stakes, a six-furlong race for fillies and mares that offers Grade 3 status and a purse of $150,000. Callaghan is hoping a win in that race would give Goldstryke Glory champion female sprinter credentials.“The first step was to run against older fillies and win,” said Callaghan, who conditions the British Columbia-bred Goldstryke Glory for Barry Holmes. “The next step is to try to get a graded stakes with her.”The 4-year-old Youcan’tcatchme won the six-furlong Etobicoke and the Grade 3, seven-furlong Seaway in her two previous starts this season. Sam DiPasquale, who trains Youcan’tcatchme for Murray Stroud, said the Florida-bred had been battling a bruised foot and might not have been at her best in the Apelia. He is not sure if she will run back in the Ontario Fashion.“These things can take time, and I may not have given her enough,” DiPasquale said. “I won’t run her back unless she’s absolutely perfect.”Small fields for stakesSunday’s two Grade 3, $150,000 stakes here attracted a total of just 11 horses, with Go Greeley topping a field of five 2-year-olds in the 1 1/16-mile Grey and Delegation looming as an odds-on choice among six in the 1 1/8-mile Durham Cup.Opposing the three-time stakes winner Go Greeley will be the stakes-placed Matador; General Jack, an impressive recent maiden winner at Presque Isle Downs for trainer Graham Motion; and the locally based Ami’s Holiday and Big Bazinga, both winners of their only start.The others in the Durham Cup are Alpha Bettor, the only horse to defeat Delegation at Woodbine this year, James Street, So Long George, Awesome Overture, and Peyton.