Last day of the Woodbine season

[Viva Pataca]

The last day of racing features Queen’s Plate winner Eye of the Leopard, Prince of Wales winner Alezzandro, 186 entries in a 13-races card, and possibly a daytime temperature that feels like 22F.

This is a once-a-year opportunity for plodders. Four locally-trained horses (Village Drive, Pool Play, Perfect Shower and Eye of the Leopard) will go against five shippers from New York, Illinois and Kentucky. It is a very competitive field.

Race 10 - 5:24 PM
Valedictory Stakes
Purse $150,000. One And Three Fourth Miles. (All Weather Track)

PP Horse A/S Med Jockey Wgt Trainer
1 Lemonade Kid (IL) 5/G L* J C Jones 115 A Mitchell
2 Village Drive (KY) 3/G L O Moreno 113 R Baker
3 Pool Play (ON) 5/H L P Husbands 117 M E Casse
4 Perfect Shower (ON) 4/C L C Fraser 115 R L Attfield
5 Zhivago (KY) 3/C L C Sutherland 113 H J Bond
6 Yankee Scholar (KY) 3/G L* E Ramsammy 113 T A Pletcher
7 Helicopter (FL) 4/G L* B Meier 115 L Rivelli
8 Eye of the Leopard (ON) 4/C L L Contreras 115 M R Frostad
9 En Fuego (KY) 4/G L E Wilson 115 C Clement


And for those claimers who are not good enough for the stakes, they are all here in this traditional 15f starter, which also produced some exciting finishes in the past.

Race 4 - 2:30 PM
STARTER ALLOWANCE $25,000
Purse $48,200. One And Seven Eighth Miles. (All Weather Track)

PP Horse A/S Med Jockey Wgt Trainer
1 Patrom (BC) 4/G L D Garcia 117 H Takemori
2 Bankura (ON) 3/G L S Williams 1095 J Mattine
3 Parthian Shot (ON) 4/G L E Ramsammy 119 A F McPherson
4 Talknow (ON) 3/G L E Wilson 114 P Attard
5 Alezzandro (ON) 6/G L C Sutherland 119 K Attard
6 Personal Signal (KY) 3/G L C M Garcea 10510 M O'Sullivan
7 Stolonboy (KY) 5/G L D Clark 117 J F Walls
8 Lifes Not a Breeze (ON) 6/G L S R Bahen 119 P Nielsen
9 Temptation Strong (ON) 3/C L C Spataro 1095 R A Jones
10 Parabola (ON) 4/G L* J Stein 119 D Wills
11 Pinders Gap (ON) 3/G L R Pacheco 1115 N De Toro
12 Active Duty (ON) 4/G L P Husbands 119 F Armata
13 Torquay (KY) 8/G L L Contreras 119 N De Toro
14 Criminal Power (NY) 6/G L R E Simard 117 A Silvera
15 Tap Show (FL) (AE) 7/G L R Pacheco 1145 F Armata

A - Coupled Entries - Pinders Gap, Torquay
B - Coupled Entries - Active Duty, Tap Show

[zilzal]

many of those horses are mere shells of what they once were particularly Alezzandro


BIG bulky fields of waiting to be claimed horses complicate the trips of logical horses

Often these closing days are dominated by a single style as biases, usually early, dominate

[Viva Pataca]

The triactor in the Valedictory prep came back again 1-2-3 in the same order.

1st Pool Play
2nd Eye of the Leopard
3rd Helicopter