RULING ANGEL HONOURED
Last racing show on THE SCORE
The season heads into its final weeks and the last racing show on THE SCORE cable channel is tonight and the feature is an overnight stake called the Ruling Angel.
The race is named for a Canadian Horse of the Year – she was a 2yo filly that won that big award – who was owned and bred by Sam-Son Farms.
Trainer MARK CASSE has three in the field incluing Eugene Melnyk’s GEMSWICK PARK, a workmanlike winner of her local debut who will start from the 1 post.
CLOSING SPEED has displayed flashes of ability at times and is another contender. His other runner, RETRACEABLE, is fresh but has not done much since her big win as a 2yo in the Princess Elizabeth. The best chance that a Casse runner won’t win will come from COSMIC QUEEN.
Ruling Angel S.
Purse $100,000. (Plus $15,000 – State Bred). For Three-Year-Old Fillies. Nominations by 12:00 midnight Wednesday October 14, 2009. $1,000 due at time of final entry. Final entries to be made through the entry box at the closing time then in effect for overnight events. A supplemental nomination may be made no later than the time of final entry by a non-refundable fee of $2,000, which includes the entry fee. Weight: 122 Lbs. Non-winners of a Sweepstakes of $60,000 three times in 2009, allowed 2 Lbs. Of two such races in 2009, 4 Lbs.; Of one such race in 2009, 6 Lbs. (No Canadian Bred Allowance) *Plus up to $16,200 Ontario Sired/Ontario Bred Breeder Awards. Six And One Half Furlongs. (All Weather Track)
P# PP Horse Virtual
Stable A/S Med Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 Gemswick Park (KY) 3/F L C Fraser 118 M E Casse 2/1
2 Not Just a Rumor (ON) 3/F L J McAleney 116 S C Attard 8/1
3 Retraceable (ON) 3/F L C Fraser 116 M E Casse 10/1
4 Closing Speed (KY) 3/F L R C Landry 116 M E Casse 8/1
5 Pretty Miss Trippi (FL) 3/F L E Ramsammy 116 M Silvera 6/1
6 Cosmic Queen (KY) 3/F L P Husbands 116 J Carroll 7/2
7 Indian Apple Is (ON) 3/F L C Sutherland 116 R P Tiller 4/1
Owners: 1 – Melnyk Racing Stables, Inc.; 2 – Hali Stable and Norseman Racing Stable; 3 – Quintessential Racing and Richard and Patricia Lenihan; 4 – Woodford Racing LLC; 5 – Mr. T Stables; 6 – Hill ‘n’ Dale Equine Holdings, Inc. (J. G. Sikura); 7 – Frank D. Di Giulio, Jr.
Breeders: 1 – Eugene Melnyk; 2 – Howard Walton & Hal Gregory; 3 – Hill ‘n’ Dale Farms; 4 – Anderson Inc.; 5 – Horses of Course Inc.; 6 – Palides Investments N.V., Inc.; 7 – Frank Di Giulio Jr.
Get your picks in for the last SCORE 1-2-3 CONTEST which has been free all year to enter…
(Photo below) GEMSWICK PARK – photo by The Knight Sky, see that stream at www.flckr.com 
WOODBINE SCOREBOARD – TRAINERS
Mark E. Casse 325 54 48 47 $3,906,595
Sid C. Attard 219 48 26 29 $2,457,004
Steven. Asmussen 210 42 31 29 $1,611,601
Roger L. Attfield 149 41 21 17 $2,911,390
Robert P. Tiller 277 39 50 44 $1,988,040
Reade Baker 243 36 34 36 $2,298,314
Scott H. Fairlie 241 35 32 40 $2,002,543
Malcolm Pierce 170 35 21 23 $2,799,596
Terry Jordan 81 35 9 13 $1,378,748
Nicholas Gonzalez 221 34 27 25 $1,675,299
Josie Carroll 152 27 24 31 $1,861,908
Brian A. Lynch 97 25 15 10 $1,303,056
Ian Black 179 20 32 22 $1,896,696
WOODBINE SCOREBOARD – JOCKEYS
Patrick Husbands 759 141 129 118 $8,621,716
Chantal Sutherland 756 103 108 116 $5,959,263
Emile Ramsammy 675 96 79 74 $4,268,997
James McAleney 512 96 63 73 $5,087,615
Eurico Rosa Da Silva 573 92 94 65 $6,046,548
Emma-Jayne Wilson 711 85 102 93 $4,838,521
Tyler Pizarro 583 84 92 73 $4,600,266
Todd Kabel 405 59 41 40 $3,139,798
Luis Contreras 285 56 41 37 $2,323,272
Justin Stein 533 53 65 45 $2,392,434
Robert C. Landry 314 36 33 40 $2,249,610
Corey Fraser 302 34 41 35 $1,839,113
Gerry Olguin 364 32 39 42 $1,865,452
Jono C. Jones 390 31 38 57 $2,574,511
WOODBINE SCOREBOARD – HORSES
* can be 5-time winner this week
Bogue Chitto 8 4 4 0 $276,040
*Six Pack Sammy 8 4 2 0 $83,211
Phor Philippe 9 4 1 2 $71,758
Jungle Wave 7 4 1 1 $395,800
La Gran Leslie 7 4 1 1 $79,920
*Shawanaga 6 4 1 0 $166,760
Air Wolf 8 4 1 0 $106,678
Spider Rock 7 4 1 0 $61,200
Free to Fly 11 4 0 4 $55,636
Garzon 10 4 0 2 $137,003
Almostoutoftheblue 6 4 0 1 $50,144
Lady Shakespeare 4 4 0 0 $228,300
D’ Wild Storm 5 4 0 0 $157,480
Poetic Fan 5 4 0 0 $44,740
FORT ERIE IN THE STRETCH
The future of Ontario’s second thoroughbred track FORT ERIE will be in question as the season comes to a close next weekend.
FORT ERIE TRAINERS
Nicholas Gonzalez 184 61 32 26 $527,119
John Simms 154 33 31 24 $335,984
Michael Newell 262 30 30 42 $344,785
Lyle Morden 92 22 13 14 $215,211
Daryl G. Ezra 91 22 8 13 $212,588
W. V. Armata 183 21 18 20 $219,437
Howard Keen 140 21 12 18 $226,522
Winston Wilkinson 131 14 13 19 $158,917
Robert J.W. Johnston 72 13 12 7 $131,545
Daniel Wills 74 13 6 15 $119,584
Marilyn G. McMullen 84 12 14 18 $130,059
Armand Concessi 41 10 4 7 $98,493
FORT ERIE JOCKEYS
Rui M. Pimentel 400 91 62 61 $894,968
Anthony Stephen 330 54 55 43 $613,756
Melanie Pinto 316 49 52 48 $535,642
Christopher Griffith 261 39 40 27 $422,333
David Garcia 227 38 30 34 $406,919
Edward Keith Robinson 312 37 26 23 $382,274
Daniel J. David 171 31 33 30 $328,596
Kirk Johnson 309 30 34 32 $351,802
Kristopher Robinson 227 28 20 34 $300,225
Mike Mehak 314 24 38 40 $333,309
Roderick Dacosta 151 24 21 19 $266,273
Sunny Singh 133 21 21 17 $235,159
BREEDERS’ CUP NOV. 6/7
The THOROUGHBRED DAILY NEWS reports that E.P. Taylor winner LAHALEEB will pass on the Breeders’ Cup and will go to Hong Kong.
“There is a ‘Win and You’re In’ policy attached to the
Woodbine race, but that’s a bit misleading,
as it would cost $100,000 to put Lahaleeb into the Breeders’ Cup scheme, plus
another $60,000 to supplement her into the Filly & Mare Turf,” trainer Mick Channon said. “I’m also mindful
of the fact that the going is likely to be too quick for this filly in America. Last year it was firm. She=s in the sales, but I would love her to accompany Youmzain (Ire) (Sinndar {Ire}) on the trip to Sha Tin. I do think the [Dec. 13] G1 Hong Kong Cup would suit her.”
The BAKER bullies are in Santa Anita, FATAL BULLET, reigning Horse of the Year inCanada, and top 2yo filly BIOFUEL.
Baker and JOSIE CARROLL, plus jockeys Eurico Risa Da Silva and Rob Landry, maybe the only Canadian connections along with Bear Stables and Donver Stable at the Breeders’ Cup this year.
WHIP HAPPY
files also from www.drf.com
As mentioned by a THOROUGHBLOG reader on a recent Comment (click the comments portion of the post or just scroll down to the end of each post to see what others are saying), the stewards at Woodbine did indeed reverse an order of finish that did not have an inquiry or disqualification.
Paul Nielsen, trainer of BIGGER BREEZE, who was 2nd by a sore nose to D’Wild Storm in an allowance race on Oct. 11 was placed first in therace recently as the horse had been struck in the face with the whip of Patrick Husbands, who rode D’Wild Storm to a head-win.
Patrick Husbands, aboard D’Wild Storm, inadvertently struck the head of Bigger Breeze with his whip with about a sixteenth of a mile to run. Jockey Gerry Olguin, driving for the wire with his head down, was not aware of the incident.
The stewards missed the infraction during their initial review of the race. Nielsen and Olguin were informed of the infraction by third parties but by the time they contacted the stewards the result was official.
In a ruling released last Sunday the stewards disqualified D’Wild Storm and placed him second, making Bigger Breeze the official winner for all purposes excepting parimutuel wagering.
Husbands was fined $200 for his whip miscue.
In other rulings: apprentice jockey Brian Cheyne has been fined $200 for using his whip when his mount, Right Trajectory, “was not visibly responding or in contention for a meaningful position.” Right Trajectory, competing in the second race here last Thursday, finished last of eight
from www.drf.com
COMING UP FRIDAY
Woodbine based gals in 2 divisions of the Valleyview and W@oodbine jocks head down to ride them.
PIN OAK VALLEY VIEW S.-GIII (Div. 1), $150,000, 3yo,
f, 1 1/16mT
PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT
1 Rex Regina (Ire) King’s Best Leparoux Rouget 117
2 Single Solution Flatter Graham Block 117
3 Kiss Mine Mineshaft Farina Vance 117
4 Weekend Strike Smart Strike D’mo Pletcher 117
5 Silver Reunion Harlan’s Holiday Dmngz Motion 119
6 Kiawah Cat Lemon Drop Kid Maragh Mott 117
7 Bluegrass Princess Dynaformer Velazquez McLaughlin 117
8 Flowerbomb Mineshaft Borel Attfield 117
9 Always in My Heart Hennessy Hamilton D Von Hemel 119
10 Redreamit Tapit Albarado McPeek 117
11 Project Rose Not for Love Baird Sheppard 117
12 Katara Pulpit Brdgmhn Matz 117
Friday, Keeneland Race Course
PIN OAK VALLEY VIEW S.-GIII (Div. 2), $150,000, 3yo,
f, 1 1/16mT
PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT
1 Unbridled Essence Essence of Dubai Lopez Sacco 117
2 Afternoon Stroll Stroll Theriot Hamm 123
3 Direct Line Tiznow Santiago Oliver 117
4 Haka Dynaformer Maragh Clement 117
5 Forest Uproar Forest Wildcat Landry Frostad 117
6 Keertana Johar Albarado Proctor 123
7 Saucey Evening More Than Ready Dominguez Motion 117
8 Eye of Taurus Aldebaran Velazquez McLaughlin 117
9 Aurora Lights Pulpit McAleney Coatrieux 117
10 Miss Keller (Ire) Montjeu (Ire) Da Silva Attfield 117
11 Mother Russia Mayakovsky Leparoux Rice 119
12 Cumulonimble Stormy Atlantic Castanon Hobby 119
AE Seniga Military Emigh Hughes 117
