HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Trinniberg’s long journey to defend his title in the Breeders’ Cup Sprint will begin just before midnight Friday, when he steps on a van bound for Ocala. From there, he’ll board a flight to the West Coast, taking up residence for the next six weeks at Santa Anita, where he cemented his championship 2012 campaign with a three-quarter-length decision over The Lumber Guy in the Sprint.
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ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Solid Appeal, back on her home turf following a sixth-place finish in Arlington’s Grade 1 Beverly D., will look to resume her winning ways when she faces eight fillies and mares in Sunday’s Grade 2 Canadian Stakes.
The $300,000 Canadian, at 1 1/8 miles, is a Win and You’re In qualifying race for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Wise Dan, the reigning North American Horse of the Year, will attempt to become the first two-time winner of the $1 million Woodbine Mile on Sunday. His imposing presence scared away several potential rivals, as just five others were entered in the 17th running of the Grade 1 stakes, which is a Win and You’re In qualifying race for the Breeders’ Cup Mile.
By the time Labor Day has come and gone, there is usually some semblance of order amongst the nation’s sprint division. Summer staples like the Forego, Vanderbilt, and King’s Bishop, all Grade 1’s at Saratoga, and Del Mar’s Bing Crosby and Pat O’Brien, usually begin to sort things out as summer turns to fall and everyone’s attention starts focusing on the Breeders’ Cup Sprint.
But such is not the case this year.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Bear Stable, trainer Reade Baker, and jockey Jim McAleney combined to take the 2005 Summer Stakes with Bear’s Kid, and they will team up again in the Grade 2 race Saturday at Woodbine with a promising son of Bear’s Kid, Asserting Bear.
The $200,000 Summer, a Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re in qualifier for the Juvenile Turf, drew 10 2-year-olds who will negotiate a mile on the grass. Two of the Summer entrants, supplements My Conquestadory and Spanish Flower, were cross-entered in Saturday’s Grade 2 Natalma for 2-year-old fillies.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Woodbine’s leading trainer, Mark Casse, has won the Grade 2 Natalma Stakes four times and will try to win it for the third year in a row Saturday with the quartet of Appreciating, Madly Truly, My Conquestadory, and Spring Likeacobra. A one-mile turf route for 2-year-old fillies, the $200,000 Natalma is a Breeders’ Cup Win and You’re In qualifier for the BC Juvenile Fillies Turf.
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It was about this time last year when I wrote something about Game On Dude looking like a pretty solid single in the Breeders’ Cup Classic. Let’s forget that ever happened.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – If setting a track record is the standard for being back in peak form, then Groupie Doll is up to par, having done so in winning the Presque Isle Downs Masters on Monday night in Pennsylvania.
Groupie Doll returned Tuesday to Churchill Downs “in great shape,” according to trainer Buff Bradley, and attention now shifts to the next two races for the 2012 filly-mare sprint champion, those being the Oct. 5 Thoroughbred Club of America Stakes at Keeneland and the Nov. 2 Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Santa Anita.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trade Storm, invading from England for Sunday’s Woodbine Mile, was settling in here Wednesday morning after arriving in Toronto about 10:30 the previous evening on a flight from Amsterdam.
Trained by David Simcock, the 5-year-old Trade Storm has faced some of Europe’s premier milers this year and adds spice to a Woodbine Mile field headed by defending champion Wise Dan.
A colt by Smart Strike out of a Canadian champion brought $1 million from a partnership led by Dr. Mark Dedomenico’s Pegasus operation late in the second session of the Keeneland September yearling sale on Tuesday.
The colt is the second foal out of Serenading, by A.P. Indy, a champion older mare in Canada and winner of $538,754. Serenading’s dam, the stakes-winning Daijin, is a full sister to Belmont winner Touch Gold and a half sister to Canadian Horse of the Year and Triple Crown winner With Approval. Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency consigned the colt as agent.