TORONTO, December 3, 2025 – Nine starters, including Kevin Attard trainees Hammerhead, Jokestar and Zabo, will vie for top prize in Saturday’s 150,000 bet365 Valedictory Stakes (G3), a 1 ½-mile main track test for 3-year-olds and up, at Woodbine. A dark bay son of War Front out of the Medaglia d’Oro mare Figarella’s Queen, Hammerhead sports a mark of 1-4-2 from 12 starts, to go along with $142,664 in purse earnings. Owned by Gold Square LLC, the well-traveled 3-year-old arrives at the Valedictory off a runner-up effort over 1 3/8 miles on the inner turf on October 25. “It was…

Bringing the Heat Speightstown colt Salamis earned his first graded stakes badge with a spicy showing in Saturday’s $300,000 Hollywood Derby (G1T) at Del Mar. Closing from sixth with Umberto Rispoli in the irons, Salamis turned a dawdling pace into a sizzling display of late speed, outlasting multiple stakes winner Tom’s Magic for the breakthrough score. The dark bay out of First Defense mare Antonoe successfully avenged a fifth in her graded debut, which came on October 25 in the Grade 3 Bryan Station at Keeneland. Trained by Chad Brown for breeder/owner Juddmonte, Salamis is now 3-0-2 from seven starts…

A look at some of the top highlights from the past weekend of racing at Woodbine. Uncorked Fire and Wine, paired with rider Slade Jones, could not be tamed in a gate-to-wire triumph of the $250,000 Coronation Futurity, Saturday at Woodbine. In his stakes debut for owner Paul Ryder, the 2-year-old Lexitonian colt looked the part of a seasoned veteran, jumping out to an early lead and maintaining command throughout the 1 1/8-mile main track event. Bred in Ontario by James and Janeane Everatt, Arika Meeuse and Robert Marzilli, the bay was originally a $5,000 purchase at the 2024 Fasig-Tipton…