ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Remarkably, Le Cinquieme Essai seems to still be improving at age 8. But can he come up with the race of his career in the Grade 1, $1 million Woodbine Mile here Sunday?
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SAN MATEO, Calif. - Indyanne could be the best runner who will compete at this Bay Meadows meeting, and she showed it when she won Saturday's Bay Meadows Debutante in very impressive style.
A 2-year-old filly who won her debut on opening day by 10 lengths, Indyanne defeated stablemate This Side Up by six lengths in Satur-day's six-furlong stakes.
POMONA, Calif. - Doug O'Neill has gone a long way in the 11 years since winning his first stakes race on the five-eighths-mile track at Fairplex Park.
"It was in the CTBA Marian Stakes with a filly named Tanks Forthemusic," O'Neill recalled. "I remember standing in the winner's circle and I felt like Bobby Frankel."
O'Neill has made quite a few more trips to the winner's circle since then, and Sunday at Fairplex, he celebrated the 1,000th win of his career.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Last year, trainer Mark Casse sent out Sprung and Quiet Action to run one-two in the Grade 3 Natalma here at Woodbine.
While it seemed unlikely that Casse could top that feat, he did just that when Clearly Foxy, Nite in Rome, and Lickety Lemon finished 1-2-3 in Sunday's renewal of the one-mile turf race for 2-year-old fillies.
The sweep netted Casse $146,500 of the $162,000 purse, with all but $30,000 of that going to the account of Charles Laloggia, who owns both Clearly Foxy and Lickety Lemon.
Trainer Mark Casse swept the first three positions in Sunday's Grade 3, $162,000 Natalma Stakes, with Clearly Foxy, Nite in Rome, and Lickety Lemon.
Clearly Foxy assumed a three-wide stalking position early under Jono Jones, as Lacadena set splits of 23.59 and 47.52 seconds in the one-mile turf route for 2-year-old fillies. Clearly Foxy came down the center of the course in the stretch, and drew off in the final furlong to score by 3 1/2 lengths over 12-1 shot Nite in Rome.
Mystery Classic picked up his third straight stakes win on Sunday, when he led throughout for a 1 1/4-length victory over Wheaton Home in the $50,000 Chuck Taliaferro Memorial at Remington Park. It was another 1 1/4 lengths back to Gyrovagi in third.
Mystery Classic ($6.60) covered the six furlongs in 1:09.74. Bobby Walker Jr. rode the winner for trainer Bob Schultz.
The Taliaferro score came on the heels of Mystery Classic's wins in the Brother Brown at Remington, and the Lone Star Park Sprint. He races for his breeder, John L. Pierce II.
Oprah Winney got the easy prep her connections were seeking Sunday as she strolled to a 31/4-length victory in the $104,700 Schenectady Handicap for New York-bred fillies and mares at Belmont Park.
Scatkey rallied to get second by a nose over Karakorum Starlet.
The win was the fourth from six starts this year for Oprah Winney, who will now be pointed to the $1 million Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Monmouth Park on Oct. 26.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario Becrux, winner of last year's Woodbine Mile, tuned up for Sunday's renewal of the Grade 1, $1 million turf race with a six-furlong breeze in 1:14.80 here Monday morning.
The Woodbine Mile, for 3-year-olds and upward, will be run on Sunday. A field of about 12 is expected, with several candidates still weighing their options.
Locally based exercise rider John McInerney, who galloped and worked Becrux for trainer Neil Drysdale here last year, was aboard for Monday's drill over a firm main turf course that had the dogs well out.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Bear's Kid figures to be the speed of Wednesday's paceless Woodbine feature and will likely take some catching in the $80,000 optional claimer.
Bear's Kid, a 4-year-old trained by Reade Baker, seemed poised for stardom when he landed the Grade 2 Summer Stakes on the grass in his fourth start at 2. However, he subsequently ran fifth in the Grade 3 Grey BC Stakes on the dirt before going to the sidelines for nearly a year.