TORONTO, June 25, 2026 – Miss Vyvyanne will look to make it five consecutive wins on the Woodbine inner turf when she takes on six rivals in Saturday’s $200,000 bet365 Highlander Stakes (G2T) at Woodbine. Owned by Ralph R. Murray and Calstar Farm, the 6-year-old daughter of Rainbow Heir out of the Half Ours mare Caribean Beat has shown a flair for running on the Toronto oval’s inner turf course, claiming four straight scores on it. The Gail Cox trainee launched that win streak with a pair of 5-furlong scores last June and followed those up with victories in August and October, also at 5 panels. Miss Vyvyanne and jockey Pietro Moran winning Race 7 on October 12, 2025 at Woodbine (Michael Burns Photo) Miss Vyvyanne will once again race at the same distance on Saturday in the race for 4-year-olds and up. “I think it’s the sharper turns [on the inner] that she enjoys,” said Cox. “She handles them so well, she kicks away down the lane and the stretch is shorter. So, when you put all those factors together, I think it just suits her in every way possible. She truly is a five-eighths horse. Could she go longer if she had to? If the set-up was right, I’m sure she could, but she thrives at five-eighths on the smaller turf courses. She has a very efficient stride on the turf.” Claimed for $32,000 last June by Cox and Murray out of her second consecutive victory against optional claiming fillies at Woodbine, Miss Vyvyane was then fifth against second condition, $50,000 optional claiming filles on the main track on Aug. 31. She then rhymed off four consecutive wins, including a 2 ¾-length victory going 5 furlongs on the Gulfstream synthetic on Mar. 14. “We’ve been very conservative with where we’ve run her, but I felt she was moving better when we got her to Florida. She just kept on improving from there.” Miss Vyvyanne capped off her quartet of winner’s circle trips with a 1 ½-length triumph in the Golden Beach overnight handicap at Gulfstream on Apr.11. She covered 5 furlongs over ‘good’ turf in :55.52. “She ran huge in Florida,” praised Cox. “She loves the track there. We had sent her home for a vacation when the turf season ended here at Woodbine, and she came back better than ever.” The chestnut mare arrives at her first graded assignment off a second to Little Teddy, who won the 2025 Sovereign Award as Canada’s Champion Female Sprinter, in a 5-furlong main track race on May 9. “She’s doing great,” said Cox. “When you watch her run, you don’t think she is going as fast as she is. The one thing you always get with her is an honest effort. She is a great example of a horse who tries no matter where she runs.” Bred in Florida by Tom McCrocklin and Gerald Martin, Miss Vyvyanne is 11-3-1 ($420,431) from 24 starts. Carlos Balbuena is the groom. Recent works: Miss Vyvyanne breezed 4 furlongs in :51.60 over the Woodbine turf training track on June 12. One week later, she covered 4 furlongs on the main track in :47.40. “We had an easy maintenance work on the grass,” said Cox. “There wasn’t a race for her and you don’t have to train her very hard at all. We would have worked on the turf again, but it was cancelled, so we worked her on the main track. That was a bigger work and she handled it like a pro. “She’s great in the mornings, very easy to deal with. She would want to train hard if you let her, but she’s just so easy to work with and just seems to get everything. She’s very sensible.” Fast Facts: Sid Attard won three straight editions of the Highlander, with Signature Red in 2010 and 2011, and Smokey Fire in 2012. Wagering menu for the Highlander: Includes Rolling Double / Exacta / 0.20 Trifecta / 0.20 Superfecta / 0.20 Pick 3 (Races 7-8-9) / 0.20 Pick 5 (Races 7-8-9-10-11) / $1 Swinger / $5 All Stakes Pick 3 (Races 7-9-10) ***15 % Take out*** Field for the Highlander (G2T) Post – Horse – Jockey – Trainer 1 – Miss Vyvyanne – Pietro Moran – Gail Cox 2 – G T Five Hundred – Jose Campos – Dale Desruisseaux 3 – Foxtrotanna – David Moran – Sid Attard 4 – Outlaw Kid – Sahin Civaci – George Weaver 5 – Western Whirl – Fraser Aebly – Stuart Simon 6 – Golden Afternoon – Rafael Hernandez – Nicholas Vaccarezza 7 – Ready to Collect – Jason Hoyte – Roger Broomes -30- Chris Lomon, Woodbine Share This:Share
