Haynesfield, the Suburban Handicap winner, completed preparations for his expected start in Saturday’s Grade 1, $750,000 Whitney Handicap by working four furlongs in 49.06 seconds Tuesday morning over the training track at Belmont Park.
Track clockers caught Haynesfield’s first quarter in 24.81 seconds and his second quarter in 24.25. He galloped out five furlongs in 1:02.80
ETOBICOKE, Ontario – Trainer Martin Jones had made his first and only previous visit to Woodbine in 1995, when he was working with his father, trainer Gary Jones, and watched Morgana finish sixth in the E.P. Taylor Stakes.
On Monday, Jones was back at Woodbine to send out Unzip Me as the odds-on favorite in the Royal North, a six-furlong turf race for fillies and mares that offered Grade 3 status and a purse of $157,400.
Notoriously ($10.60) was much the best in the $50,000 Northlands Oaks for 3-year-old fillies at Northlands Park Monday.
With Tony Maragh aboard, Notoriously stalked an honest pace set by Voodoo Youdo, took the lead at the six-furlong mark and proceeded to draw off to win the one-mile feature by 6 1/2 lengths over heavily favored Shifty Time. Among the Willows made a late move to finish third. The final time was 1:40.60.Trained by Rod Cone, Notoriously earned $30,000 for her owner, Darrell Landry.
Stachys captured the $75,000 Manitoba Derby, Ruby’s Big Band won the $50,000 Assiniboia Oaks via a disqualification, and Paris By Night prevailed in the $30,000 Graduation as horses based at Canterbury Park dominated the showpiece card of the Assiniboia Downs season on Monday.
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Trick of the North took advantage of a lively pace to upset Spaghetti Mouse in the $50,000 B.C. Cup Classic at Hastings Monday. The 1 1/8-mile Classic headlined the B.C. Cup Day card, which included seven $50,000 stakes for B.C.-breds.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. - Any doubts as to what direction Discreetly Mine would be taking the remainder of the year were erased in 1:14.27 on Monday. That was the time it took the explosive 3-year-old to complete 6 1/2 furlongs en route to a decisive 8 3/4- length victory over Essence Hit Man and eight other overmatched rivals in the $150,000 Amsterdam.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Southern California shipper Unzip Me ($3.40) proved a comfortable winner under Joe Talamo in the Grade 3, $157,400 Royal North Stakes at Woodbine Monday.
It was the sixth score in the last seven starts for Unzip Me, who pressed the front-running Mother Russia through quick fractions of 22.37 and 44.83 seconds in the six-furlong turf sprint. Talamo sat chilly on Unzip Me until just before the eighth pole, where she made the lead before drawing clear to prevail by two lengths in 1:08.05.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – With two New York stakes victories under his belt already this year, the Canadian-based trainer Roger Attfield will go for a hat trick of sorts when he ships Miss Keller to Saratoga for Wednesday’s $70,000 De La Rose Stakes.
Attfield has won the Grade 2 New York Stakes at Belmont with Lady Shakespeare and the Grade 2 Lake George Stakes here with Fantastic Shirl. The De La Rose is an overnight stakes scheduled for one mile on the inner turf.
Trainer Greg Tracy had his license revoked by the board of stewards at Northlands Park after testing positive for cocaine.
Tracy, 48, has 943 career wins and was in second place in the standings at Northlands with 31 wins. He was operating under a probationary license with certain conditions imposed. The stewards ruled that Tracy violated the conditions and revoked his license. When the current meet started Tracy was serving a 90-day suspension for refusing to provide a urine sample at Turf Paradise.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Not wanting a repeat of the gate incident that forced him to scratch from last year’s Breeders’ Cup Classic at Santa Anita, Quality Road had a relatively unique gate schooling session following regular training hours Monday morning in preparation for his start in Saturday’s Grade 1, $750,000 Whitney Handicap.