ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Quick in Deed, the only four-time winner at the Woodbine meeting, should be the prohibitive favorite Wednesday in the $125,000 Deputy Minister Stakes, a seven-furlong sprint for Ontario-sired 3-year-olds.
Quick in Deed has won four in a row, including two Ontario-sired allowances, since finishing second to the talented Verne's Baby in his first start of the year.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Roger Attfield will be in Kentucky this week for a shopping expedition that will include the Fasig-Tipton sale.
Although Attfield said he fears the prices at Fasig-Tipton may be too dear, he at least has a little extra spending money after sending out Ablo and Noble Stella for lucrative victories last weekend. Ablo, partly owned by Attfield, picked up $300,000 for his win in Sunday's Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie, the second leg of Canada's Triple Crown. Noble Stella, owned by Gary Tanaka, earned $197,100 for her score here in Saturday's Dance Smartly.
VALLEJO, Calif. - Northern California-based horses have been making their presence felt across the nation, among them the undefeated Lost in the Fog and Ema Bovary, who won nine straight before being retired in February. Northern California's leading trainer, Jerry Hollendorfer, has shipped a number of runners successfully, including Adreamisborn, who won last year's Longacres Mile at Emerald Downs.
Add Desert Boom to the list.
Areek rolled to a three-length win in the three-horse $65,000 Red Cross Stakes for fillies and mares at Monmouth Park.
Areek ($3) ran the six furlongs over the sloppy track in 1:09.30 with Jose Velez Jr. aboard for trainer Mark Hennig. Thermal Ablasion was second with Welcome Home the trailer.
In the $60,000 Colts Neck Handicap for New Jersey-breds, War's Prospect ($7.40) set the pace and posted a 3 1/2 length win
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Ablo, who had finished fifth in the June 26 Queen's Plate at Woodbine, rebounded in a big way here Sunday by taking the $500,000 in front-running fashion.
Autumn Snow, making his first start in a main-track stakes, pressed Ablo throughout the 1 3/16 mile Prince of Wales but came up just a neck short with Wild Desert, the winner of the 1 1/4 mile Queen's Plate, another three-quarters of a length back in third.
INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Always First rallied along the rail to win Sunday's $163,500 Sunset Breeders' Cup Handicap at Hollywood Park, scoring his first stakes win on the final day of the spring-summer meeting.
Ridden by Victor Espinoza, Always First ($11.60), who was last in the first quarter-mile, finished three-quarters of a length in front of Runaway Dancer and T.H. Approval, who finished in a dead-heat for second in the field of eight.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Shaky Town won the $75,000 Bob Johnson Memorial at Lone Star Park and gave his trainer, Cole Norman, his second stakes win in just over an hour on Sunday. Earlier in the afternoon, Norman won the $50,000 Hallowed Dreams at Louisiana Downs with Where Is My Daddy.
Norman has divisions of his stable at both tracks, and was at Lone Star for the final card of the meet on Sunday.
ELMONT, N.Y. - Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens generously credits jockey Chantal Sutherland with helping develop Smokume into an improving stakes sprinter.
Sutherland and Smokume ($12) were an unbeatable combination Sunday in the Grade 2, $150,000 Tom Fool Handicap at Belmont Park.
Smokume, now 3-for-4 since Sutherland starting riding the 4-year-old gelding this season, won by one length over Willy o'the Valley on the sealed, sloppy track. Clever Electrician was third.
Smokume ran the seven furlongs in 1:21.92.
BOSSIER CITY, La. - Relishing the sloppy going following a heavy downpour, favored Where's My Daddy splashed to a 3 1/2-length win in the Hallowed Dreams Stakes at Harrah's Louisiana Downs on Sunday. Glorious Quest staged a late rally down the middle of the strip to finish second followed by Dear Alicia.
Ridden by Carols Gonzalez, Where's My Daddy ($4.20) dueled while in hand early before disposing of the other speed turning for home. The daughter of High Occupancy drew steadily clear and stopped the timer in 1:11.28 for the six furlongs.
ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Wannatalkaboutme apparently didn't enjoy the wet track in Sunday's $162,850 Shady Well Stakes at Woodbine, but managed to keep her unbeaten record in tact in the five and a half-furlong dash for Ontario-foaled 2-year-old fillies.
