{"id":3869,"date":"2021-08-20T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodbine.com\/queensplate\/graded-stakes-trio-part-of-stellar-queens-plate-card\/"},"modified":"2021-08-20T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T14:00:07","slug":"graded-stakes-trio-part-of-stellar-queens-plate-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodbine.com\/kingsplate\/2021\/08\/20\/graded-stakes-trio-part-of-stellar-queens-plate-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Graded stakes trio part of stellar Queen\u2019s Plate card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO, August 20, 2021 \u2013 A trio of graded stakes, the\u00a0Highlander (G1), Dance\u00a0Smartly\u00a0(G2), Ontario Colleen (G3), complement the 162<sup>nd<\/sup> running of the $1 million Queen\u2019s Plate, Sunday at Woodbine.<\/p>\n<p>Seven fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and up, will vie for top spot in the $175,000\u00a0Dance\u00a0Smartly\u00a0Stakes, a 1 \u00bc-mile test over the E.P. Taylor Turf Course.<\/p>\n<p>Graham Motion will send out Blame Debbie, a four-year-old daughter of Blame, as the multiple graded stakes winning trainer looks to notch his first Dance Smartly crown.<\/p>\n<p>Owned by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Michael Cloonan and Timothy Thornton, the well-traveled bay has assembled a 4-1-3 mark from 13 career starts.<\/p>\n<p>Having raced at Delaware, Keeneland, Aqueduct, Tampa, Belmont, Saratoga, Kentucky Downs, Del Mar and Pimlico, Blame Debbie\u2019s racetrack passport will now include Woodbine.<\/p>\n<p>Bred by Tim Thornton and Tony Holmes, Blame Debbie won her debut at Delaware Park on August 29, 2019, finishing second in her next start at Keeneland, prior to a third in the Grade 2 Demoiselle at Aqueduct to close out her rookie campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, she went 2-0-2 from eight starts, the back-to-back victories coming at Keeneland, including her first stakes win, the Grade 3 Rood and Riddle Dowager on October 18.<\/p>\n<p>After a victory in the Searching Stakes this June at Pimlico to launch her 2021 campaign, Blame Debbie was fifth in her most recent start, Grade 3 Robert G. Dick Memorial Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe ran well first time back at Pimlico, then she was a little disappointing last time at Delaware,\u201d offered Motion. \u201cMaybe the first race took something out of her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Motion thinks the Kentucky-bred will fare well running over the Toronto oval grass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe&#8217;s training well, and I think she&#8217;ll like the turf course up there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The race is named after the Sam-Son Farm superstar who went\u00a0undefeated in 1991 while taking the Canadian Triple Crown, and becoming the first horse bred in Canada to win a Breeders&#8217; Cup race (G1 Distaff, 1991). She is a member of both the Canadian and American Racing Halls of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Sam-Son Farm has three wins \u2013 tops among all owners \u2013 in the race that was inaugurated in 1986 (Bessarabian won the first edition).<\/p>\n<p>The race is also the first event in Woodbine\u2019s\u00a0Ladies of the Lawn Series, in support of ReThink Breast Cancer. Next up is the $250,000\u00a0Canadian Stakes\u00a0(G2) on Saturday, September 18, culminating with the $600,000 E.P. Taylor Stakes (G1) on Sunday, October 17. At the conclusion of the points-based series, the winning connections will receive a $50,000 bonus. The inaugural winner of the 2019 Ladies of the Lawn Series was Starship Jubilee, Canada\u2019s reigning Horse of the Year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FIELD FOR THE\u00a0GRADE 2 $175,000 DANCE\u00a0SMARTLY\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>POST \u2013 HORSE \u2013 JOCKEY \u2013 TRAINER<\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 Blame Debbie \u2013 Kazushi Kimura \u2013 Graham Motion<br \/>\n2 \u2013 Merveilleux \u2013 Rafael Hernandez \u2013 Kevin Attard<br \/>\n3 \u2013 Afleet Katherine \u2013 Justin Stein \u2013 Kevin Attard<br \/>\n4 \u2013 Al Naseem \u2013 David Moran \u2013 Edward Vaughan<br \/>\n5 \u2013 Etoile \u2013 Irad Ortiz Jr. \u2013 Chad Brown<br \/>\n6 \u2013 Mutamakina \u2013 Dylan Davis \u2013 Christophe Clement<br \/>\n7 \u2013 Court Return \u2013 Luis Contreras \u2013 Josie Carroll<\/p>\n<p>-0-<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eight fillies duel for Grade 3 Ontario Colleen crown <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO, August 20, 2021 \u2013 Trainer Mark Casse, a four-time winner of the Ontario Colleen Stakes, will be launching a three-pronged attack on Sunday\u2019s renewal with Our Flash Drive, I Get It and Salty As Can Be heading postward in the one-mile turf race for 3-year-old fillies.<\/p>\n<p>The Ontario Colleen, which offers Grade 3 status and a purse of $150,000, attracted eight entrants.<\/p>\n<p>Our Flash Drive, a Live Oak Plantation homebred, is the only graded stakes winner in the Ontario Colleen lineup, having annexed the Grade 3 Selene over 1 1\/16 miles of Tapeta last time out. The runner-up there, Munnyfor Ro, came back to take the Woodbine Oaks Presented by Budweiser and is a leading contender for Sunday\u2019s Queen\u2019s Plate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s done everything right this year,\u201d said Casse, who had also watched Our Flash Drive win her maiden in authoritative fashion here at seven furlongs in her first appearance this year, but will be racing the Florida-bred on grass for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve breezed her a couple of times on the turf; she gets over the turf really well. She\u2019ll be extremely tough, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3870\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/woodbine.com\/?attachment_id=23468#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3870\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3870 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/woodbine.com\/queensplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/08\/Our-Flash-Drive-July-2021-Selene-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"Our Flash Drive winning the Selene Stakes in July.\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our Flash Drive winning the Selene Stakes in July. (Michael Burns photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I Get It was purchased privately for owner Gary Barber prior to winning the listed Sanibel Island Stakes over one mile of firm turf at Gulfstream on March 27.<\/p>\n<p>In her only subsequent outing, the Maryland-bred was well-beaten In Belmont\u2019s Grade 3 Wonder Again over 1 1\/8 miles of \u201cgood\u201d going.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI probably shouldn\u2019t have ran her,\u201d said Casse, recently inducted into the Hall of Fame at Saratoga to match his Canadian honours. \u201cShe wasn\u2019t a happy horse at the time. We\u2019ve just kind of given her a break; she\u2019s doing much better now. I think she should run well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salty As Can Be, owned by Gary Barber and Baccari Racing Stable, is a half-sister to Salty, who was a Grade 1 stakes winner for the same connections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s a beautiful filly,\u201d said Casse, who has seen the Kentucky-bred sandwich two wins around a disappointing stakes try. \u201cShe had to have throat surgery after her poor performance at Churchill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salty As Can Be, who had debuted victoriously at Churchill Downs, returned to win a six-furlong Tapeta sprint at Woodbine. The Ontario Colleen will be her first try on grass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe ran really well there,\u201d said Casse. \u201cShe\u2019s breezed well on the turf. She\u2019s a bit of a guess\u2026 I think she\u2019s good enough, but we\u2019ll just see. This is not an easy race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chad Brown, who captured the 2019 edition of the Ontario Colleen with Seek and Destroy, will be looking to duplicate that feat with Misspell, who was supplemented at a cost of $3,000 including the $1,500 entry fee.<\/p>\n<p>Seasons, third in the Grade 1 Natalma over one mile of turf here last September, adds to the depth of a field which also includes stakes winner Sweet Souper Sweet, third last time out in the Selene, plus Speightstown Shirl and Perseverancia, both maiden winners on the turf at the current meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Trainer Michael Doyle currently holds the Ontario Colleen record with five wins, the latest in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The most famous alumnus of the race is the Casse trainee Got Stormy, who captured the 2018 renewal and recently notched her second win in Saratoga\u2019s Grade 1 Bernard Baruch, defeating males in that one-mile turf race.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FIELD FOR THE GRADE 3 $150,000 ONTARIO COLLEEN STAKES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>POST \u2013 HORSE \u2013 JOCKEY \u2013 TRAINER<\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 Sweet Souper Sweet \u2013 Antonio Gallardo \u2013 Michael Trombetta<br \/>\n2 \u2013 Our Flash Drive \u2013 Patrick \u2013 Husbands \u2013 Mark Casse<br \/>\n3 \u2013 Salty as Can Be \u2013 Rafael Hernandez \u2013 Mark Casse<br \/>\n4 \u2013 Perseverancia \u2013 Luis Contreras \u2013 Darwin Banach<br \/>\n5 \u2013 I Get It \u2013 Kazushi Kimura \u2013 Mark Casse<br \/>\n6 \u2013 Seasons \u2013 Shaun Bridgmohan \u2013 James Toner<br \/>\n7 \u2013 Speightstown Shirl \u2013 Emma-Jayne Wilson \u2013 Roger Attfield<br \/>\n8 \u2013 Misspell \u2013 Irad Ortiz Jr. \u2013 Chad Brown<\/p>\n<p>-0-<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caravel chases grand slam in Highlander<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>TORONTO, August 20, 2021 \u2013 Caravel, winner of three straight including Saratoga\u2019s Grade 3 Caress at 5 \u00bd-furlongs on the turf last time out, will be cruising into Woodbine on Queen\u2019s Plate day seeking a grand slam in Sunday\u2019s Grade 1 Highlander Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>The Highlander, a six-furlong turf race, offers a purse of $350,000 and attracted a field of eight.<\/p>\n<p>Caravel, a four-year-old filly, will be facing males for the first time and making her first start for trainer Graham Motion. Celebrity chef Bobby Flay purchased a majority interest in Caravel following her impressive score two starts back in Monmouth\u2019s Goodwood Stakes at five furlongs on the turf.<\/p>\n<p>Breeder\/owner\/trainer Elizabeth Merryman retains an interest in Caravel, who is Pennsylvania\u2019s reigning Horse of the Year and has fashioned a record of 7-0-2, including five stakes scores, from nine starts. Merryman is based at Fair Hill in Maryland, as is Motion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve tried not to change too much, since I\u2019ve had her,\u201d said Motion. \u201cI kept her at Saratoga, we kind of kept her on the same schedule she would have at Fair Hill with Lizzie.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Highlander is the next marker for Caravel on the path which her connections hope will lead to the Breeders\u2019 Cup Turf Sprint, which will be run over five furlongs at Del Mar on November 6.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is kind of the race we\u2019d planned on, if she ran well at Saratoga,\u201d said Motion. \u201cThe six furlongs is a really good distance for her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Irad Ortiz Jr., who piloted Caravel for the first time in the Caress, retains the mount.<\/p>\n<p>Looking to hold the shipper at bay will be locally-based Silent Poet and City Boy, who were the 1-2 finishers in last year\u2019s Grade 2 Nearctic Handicap over six furlongs of the E.P. Taylor Turf Course.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3871\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3871\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/woodbine.com\/?attachment_id=23467#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3871\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3871 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/woodbine.com\/queensplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/08\/Silent-Poet-Oct-2020-Nearctic-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"Silent Poet capturing last year's Nearctic Stakes over City Boy. \" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Silent Poet capturing last year&#8217;s Nearctic Stakes over City Boy. (Michael Burns photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Silent Poet, a homebred who is owned by Stronach Stable and trained by Nick Gonzalez, also has victories in another pair of seven-furlong Grade 2 turf stakes, the 2019 Play the King and the 2020 Connaught Cup, but has yet to find his best form in two starts this season.<\/p>\n<p>City Boy, conditioned by Mike Keogh for The Estate of Gustav Schickedanz, had become a stakes winner in the 2019 running of the Nearctic. The City Boy gelding will be making his second appearance of this season after opening up with a second-place finish under allowance terms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe came out of his first start really well,\u201d said Keogh. \u201cHe ran well enough, and I think he needed the race. He missed a bit of time going into it. He always has little foot issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trainer Mark Casse, seeking his first Highlander victory, will send out a capable threesome in Turned Aside, Chuck Willis and Old Chestnut.<\/p>\n<p>Rounding out the field will be Admiralty Pier, who has kept top company throughout his eclectic career, and Honey Won\u2019t, who was supplemented at a cost of $7,000, including the $3,500 entry fee.<\/p>\n<p>The Highlander has been run over its current distance and surface since 2004 when Soaring Free, who went on to be Canada\u2019s Horse of the Year, captured his first of two consecutive renewals. The race was not run last year on a COVID-19-impacted stakes schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The Turf Endurance Series also gets out of the gates on August 22. The series is made up of three races, two of which are on the inner turf. The opening leg, at a distance of 1 3\/8 miles, is slated for Sunday, followed by a 1 \u00bd-mile trek September 12, and a 1 \u00be-mile marathon on the main course October 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FIELD FOR THE GRADE 1 $350,000 HIGHLANDER STAKES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>POST \u2013 HORSE \u2013 JOCKEY \u2013 TRAINER<\/p>\n<p>1 \u2013 Old Chestnut \u2013 Patrick Husbands \u2013 Mark Casse<br \/>\n2 \u2013 Admiralty Pier \u2013 Antonio Gallardo \u2013 Barbara Minshall<br \/>\n3 \u2013 Turned Aside \u2013 Emma-Jayne Wilson \u2013 Mark Casse<br \/>\n4 \u2013 Chuck Willis \u2013 Kazushi Kimura \u2013 Mark Casse<br \/>\n5 \u2013 Honey Won\u2019t \u2013 Jeffrey Alderson \u2013 Angus Buntain<br \/>\n6 \u2013 City Boy \u2013 David Moran \u2013 Mike Keogh<br \/>\n7 \u2013 Caravel \u2013 Irad Ortiz Jr. \u2013 Graham Motion<br \/>\n8 \u2013 Silent Poet \u2013 Justin Stein \u2013 Nick Gonzalez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO, August 20, 2021 \u2013 A trio of graded stakes, the\u00a0Highlander (G1), Dance\u00a0Smartly\u00a0(G2), Ontario Colleen (G3), complement the 162nd running of the $1 million Queen\u2019s Plate, Sunday at Woodbine. Seven fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and up, will vie for top spot in the $175,000\u00a0Dance\u00a0Smartly\u00a0Stakes, a 1 \u00bc-mile test over the E.P. Taylor Turf Course. 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