Mon, 11/05/2001 - 00:00

Woodbine: Catch the Ring wins in a rerun

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - In a rerun of the 2000 Canadian Oaks, Catch the Ring collared front-running Mountain Angel in the final strides to win the Grade 3 Maple Leaf Stakes for fillies and mares.

Catch the Ring ($2.90) trailed early in the 1 1/4-mile race, as Mountain Angel set uncontested fractions. Catch the Ring commenced a four-wide rally on the far turn under Robert Landry, and won by a half-length in 2:03.62. Madame Red finished third in the eight-horse field.

"They both ran super races," said Mark Frostad, who trains the first two finishers for Sam-Son Farm.

Mon, 11/05/2001 - 00:00

Laurel: Favored La Reine's Terms delivers

This time, there were no traffic problems to hinder La Reine's Terms. Making amends for a near-collision that wiped him out of contention as the favorite in last month's Maryland Million Turf, La Reine's Terms ($7.40) bounced back and won the $75,000 Find Handicap.

New York shipper My Request rallied to finish second, a half-length behind.

Mon, 11/05/2001 - 00:00

Hawthorne: Galic Boy makes the grade

STICKNEY, Ill. - Thirty-one starts into his career, the 6-year-old Galic Boy won his first graded stakes race, beating heavily favored Where's Taylor in the Grade 3, $150,000 Robert Carey Memorial Handicap.

Galic Boy got a perfect trip under jockey Ray Sibille, passing the tiring Where's Taylor in deep stretch before drawing away to win by 1 1/4 lengths. Where's Taylor finished second by a neck over Good Journey.

Mon, 11/05/2001 - 00:00

Rochelle's Terms stuns 3-5 Strolling Belle

ELMONT, N.Y. - Rochelle's Terms, the longest price in the field at 26-1, came with a late run to win Saturday's $108,500 Turnback the Alarm at Aqueduct.

Rochelle's Terms collared Resort with less than a sixteenth remaining for a half-length win in the Grade 3 race. Strolling Belle, the 3-5 favorite in the six-horse field of fillies and mares, had a nightmare trip and finished third, two lengths behind Resort.

Mon, 11/05/2001 - 00:00

Distaff winner Nasty Storm no longer for sale

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Nasty Storm was scheduled to be sold at the November Sales at Keeneland this week. But after the filly won her third straight race by wiring the field Saturday in the Grade 2 $222,200 Churchill Downs Distaff, she was withdrawn from the sale and will remain in the barn of trainer and part-owner Dallas Stewart.

Nasty Storm was entered to sell as part of the Eaton Sales consignment. Eaton co-owner Reiley McDonald is one of five partners who race Nasty Storm, who has earned more than $342,000. McDonald did not know where the filly would run next.

Mon, 11/05/2001 - 00:00

Another blemish on Officer's record

ARCADIA, Calif. - Yougottawanna, who had never run in a graded stakes, upset Officer, one of the nation's top 2-year-olds, in Saturday's $125,000 California Cup Juvenile at Santa Anita.

Officer, a three-time major stakes winner, was returning a week after finishing fifth as the 7-10 favorite in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Belmont Park.

Sent off at 2-5 in the California Cup Juvenile, Officer appeared on his way to a victory in early stretch.

Mon, 11/05/2001 - 00:00

Youngsters out to demonstrate their versatility

MIAMI - Stakes-winning juveniles like Ms Brookski, Carey's Gold, Juggernaut, and O'Rocky have already proven their ability on the main track. Now they will all try to show their mettle on turf as well, as they top the fields for Saturday's $60,000 Lulu's Ransom and Fabulous Frolic stakes at Calder.

Mon, 11/05/2001 - 00:00

Poetically regains good form

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Poetically, Canada's champion 2-year-old filly last year, seemed to be in a rut heading into Sunday's Jammed Lovely Stakes at Woodbine.

But Poetically took a major step toward salvaging her sophomore season with a sharp score over favored Beautiful Belle in the $143,370 feature.

"She ran like the real Poetically," said Roger Attfield, in his office here Monday morning. "She certainly was her old self yesterday."

Mon, 11/05/2001 - 00:00

Katryan's 'Amazonian' chance

ETOBICOKE, Ontario - Trainer Abraham Katryan, fresh off a successful weekend at Woodbine, will send out Amazonian Racekey in Wednesday's Woodbine headliner for fillies and mares.

A field of five was drawn for the 1 1/16-mile preliminary allowance race worth $58,100.

Amazonian Racekey has banked $106,979 this season while winning three of nine outings. She toppled $16,000 claiming nonwinners-of-three company in her second start of the meet, and then made her way up in company, eventually winning a $32,000 nonwinners-of-three July 21.

Mon, 11/05/2001 - 00:00

McPeek has a happy dilemma

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - His options are plentiful and enviable. Ken McPeek soon will plot out a course of action for his dynamic 2-year-olds, Repent and Harlan's Holiday, a task in which he is reveling.

"This is the best," McPeek said the morning after Harlan's Holiday trounced a solid field in Sunday's Iroquois Stakes at Churchill Downs. "You love having problems like this."