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British Columbia

2017 CTHS Sale Info

 Preview Parade – Monday, September 11, 2017

Yearling & Mixed Sale – Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Thunderbird Show Park

24550 72 Ave, Langley, BC V1M 3W8

Phone: (604) 888-4585

2017 CTHS BC Sale Catalogue


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Paulick Report –  Chief Know It All Comes Out On Top In Exciting British Columbia Derby

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Saturday was a good day for Alberta based horses in the Derbies with Duane Antoine’s Dublin Day just getting his nose up at the wire in the Saskatchewan Derby at Marquis Downs in Saskatoon. The Kentucky bred son of Dublin out of the Thunder Gulch mare Coquina Day raced well off the pace and closed with a driving rush to just nip the favourite Uniter who was racing comfortably on an unchallenged lead. Sheldon Chickeness  was in the irons for conditioner Robbin Martens. Turbodyne got up for show but never challenged the leading pair.


HASTINGS SATURDAY WRAP-UP BY RICHARD YATES

RICHARD YATES

Wrap-up For Derby Day

DDERBY DAY 2017

Grey skies and the occasional raindrop could not knock the shine off the biggest day of the year at Hastings Racecourse, that being a Derby Day program that featured six stakes races, including the British Columbia Derby and Oaks and the two Diamond Futurities with the S. W. Randall Plate and the Delta Colleen thrown in for good measure.

It was an outstanding day of racing. There was a strong local contingent and a number of top class shippers from surrounding jurisdictions.  And while the Derby has always been the main event, it was Daz Lin Dawn in the Oaks that illuminated the firmaments with a performance that saw her defeat her local rival, Yukon Belle, and a couple of tough shippers from Emerald Downs who appeared to have much bigger Beyer speed figures.  It emerges obvious that the Beyer numbers for Hastings greatly understated the quality of Daz Lin Dawn’s races and even more significantly, they are not capable of measuring heart.  Richard “Big Race” Hamel rode Daz Lin Dawn and he won two other stakes on the card, showing up as he so often does when it counts the most.  There were some great stories (a $1,500 yearling won the Jack Diamond Futurity, a former $16,000 claimer won the Delta Colleen) out at Hastings today, but the Derby was the feature, so let’s begin with it.

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The British Columbia Derby—-Chief Know It All

CHIEF KNOW IT ALL Winning the 2017 BC Derby with jockey Rico Walcott up.

The 72nd running of the British Columbia Derby was a real barnburner that went to Canadian Derby winner, Chief Know It All ($9.50), who found a seam in the lane to hang a nose on Trooper John who was wide for much of the trip and ran way “too good to lose”.  The same could be said of Riser who was a neck back in third after setting some serious fractions on a tough track and leading for all but the last couple of jumps.  Jockey Rico Walcott saved ground with Chief Know It All for almost all the mile-and-an-eighth journey before angling out in the stretch to split horses with the move that got him home a nostril to the good of Trooper John.  The winner covered the mile-and-an-eighth in 1:51.95.

Chief Know It All was claimed at Churchill Downs this past June for $100,000 US by his current connections. Chief Know It All’s foray into Western Canada has gotten them out on the horse in two races (the Canadian and BC Derbies).  He is owned by Rollingson Racing Stable, Randy Howg, Rick Wiest and Clayton Wiest.  Robertino Diodoro trains the Kentucky bred son of Flashy Bull.  Diodoro has a far-flung operation these days, a successful one at that, and it raises the quality of the local sport to have horses ship in from top outfits who race in other places.  Shippers took the first five places in this edition of the Derby.

The British Columbia Oaks—Daz Lin Dawn

Daz Lin Dawn wins the British Columbia Oaks on 09/09/17 with rider Richard Hamel

In the centerpiece performance of her career thus far, Daz Lin Dawn ($4.50) defeated a familiar rival and a couple of Emerald Downs Invaders to remain undefeated in 2017, having now won 7 consecutive stakes. Her winning margin of a neck represents the only time this season anyone has gotten closer to her than 3 lengths, but the challenge came not from one of what appeared to be very tough Washington shippers, but from her frequent sparring mate, Yukon Belle who ran her best race of the season to take second.  Top Quality finished third, well clear of second-choice Little Dancer who likely took a lot of Washington simulcast money.

Daz Lin Dawn ran almost the entire mile-and-an-eight in the three-path while Good Luck to You was setting a pace that was attended by Little Dancer and Top Quality. It was at least mildly astonishing, if not shocking, to see the apparent ease with which Daz Lin Dawn ran around them when Richard Hamel cued her early on the final turn.  The only remaining threat came from Yukon Belle whose late run was impressive but insufficient to catch the winner.  It was Hamel’s second of three stakes win of the day.  He has been aboard for all seven wins this year.

Daz Lin Dawn is owned by JDP Holdings Ltd., Nancy Betts and Delton Stable. She is trained by co-owner Nancy Betts.  Daz Lin Dawn was bred in British Columbia by John Shone, Jacqui Shone and Samantha Shead.  She is by the deceased California based stallion Popular, out of the Meadowlake mare Summer Bay.  Summer Bay was a $2,800 RNA at auction in 2011 while in foal to Vronsky.  Daz Lin dawn sold for $15,000 in the 2015 CTHS Sale.  She was purchased from the Road’s End Farm consignment.

The Sadie Diamond Futurity—Here’s Hannah

Heres Hannah wins the Sadie Diamond Futurity on 09/09/17 with rider Richard Hamel

It has not been a secret on the backstretch that Here’s Hannah ($2.60) was good, she went off in her first race at a buck-fifty-five to one and ran like it. But it would have been hard to know that she was as good as she looked in the Sadie Diamond at thirty-cents to the dollar, being value at that.  Jockey Richard Hamel hand rode her all the way around, he could have left his stick in the jock’s room instead of carrying like excess baggage in a trip around the 6 ½ furlongs that took 1:18.13, about a half-length slower than the boys would run a few races later.  Raider did her best all the way, made a move going into final turn when asked that did not even fizz on the winner, and tried hard to the end but was unable to threaten the winner.  Sonoma managed to run third after botching the break, but she was well in arrears to the top two.

Here’s Hannah was bred in this province by B. C. Stables. She is by Numaany, out of Dreams Start Here, an unraced A Fleets Dancer mare.  Here’s Hannah is owned by B C Stables and Paul Caravetta.  John Morrison trains the long-striding chestnut who could truly be any kind.  As a daughter of Numaany, out of a mare by the Travers winner A Fleets Dancer, she has a distance pedigree in spades, and for what it is worth, she galloped out all alone, like a horse that wants more.  If she stretches to a mile-and-a-sixteenth, as she should, the Fantasy is hers to lose.

The Jack Diamond Futurity—Wise Market

Wise Market wins the Jack Diamond Futurity on 09/09/17 with rider Amadeo Perez

Fighting just about every inch of the way, Wise Market ($31.00) broke his maiden in the Jack Diamond, getting home a half-length ahead of a closing Pan Handle. European was a neck back in third.  Final time for the 6 ½ furlongs was 1:18.02.

Wise Market broke from the 10-hole under rider Amadeo Perez, soon hooked up with European who had the rail, and the two of them waged war for all but a few steps along the way. Little more than a head separated them until quite late when Wise Market reached down for more and managed to shake off the very determined European and hold off Pan Handle who, when he figured out a lead change late in the stretch, came up with a burst that almost got him there.  But Wise Market was full value for the win.  He ran hooked the entire trip in the two-path and showed the kind of resolve you need to win these kinds of races.

Wise Market is by Mass Market. His dam, Fuchsia Gold, won the Timber Music Stakes at two and Wise Market has inherited that precocity.  He sold in the 2016 CTHS Sale for $1,500.  Co-owner (along with Blair Law and Brian Albertson) and trainer Philip Hall purchased him from the Red Rock Farm consignment.

The S. W. Randall Plate—Highway Boss

HIghway Boss wins the S. W. Randall plate on 09/09/17 with rider Aaron Gryder

Having not won a race since October of 2015, Highway Boss ($26.90) picked a good time to break the losing streak in taking the Randall with a convincing 5 ¾ length victory over the near 40-1 shot Crazy Prophet who in turn was a head better than Neveradoubt in third. Highway Boss ran the mile-and-an-eighth in 1:50.52, roughly 8 lengths faster than the fillies and mares would go one race later in the Delta Colleen.

Aaron Gryder shipped in to ride a couple of Emerald Downs horses and two for Glen Todd who he was contract rider for at Hastings in 2013 and it was on Highway Boss that he did his best work. He pulled Highway Boss out of what could have developed into a three-horse speed duel and put the winner in perfect position behind Moon King and Modern who were one-two on the lead in realistic, but not severe, early fractions.   Highway Boss stalked the pace from an absolutely classic “catbird seat” position until there was quarter-mile to go, at which point Gryder asked and Highway Boss exploded to the lead, quickly opened up daylight and the party, as the late Dandy Don Meredith often sang, was over.  Crazy Prophet closed on the grandstand side to take the place by a head, and Neveradoubt filled the third spot with a run from far back, but they were in a race of their own that never involved the long gone Highway Boss.

Highway Boss was claimed at Santa Anita in January of 2016 by his current owner, the North American Thoroughbred Horse Company.   The five-year-old gelded son of Street Boss was bred in Kentucky.  He is trained by Glen Todd.

The Delta Colleen—Notis the Jewel

Notis The Jewell wins the Pacific Customs Brokers Distaff on 08/07/17 with rider Kerron Khelawan

Another version of the Cinderella tale is presented by Notis the Jewel ($16.80) who upset the short-priced favorite and runner-up Victress in the Delta Colleen Handicap. Sailingforthesun finished third after briefly getting to the front in the stretch.  Final time for the mile-and-an-eighth was 1:52.19.  Notis the Jewel and Victress trailed the field early with Notis the Jewel two or three lengths clear of Victress.  They made their moves at about the same time and Victress was never able to close the gap.  Sailingforthesun ran third.  Richard Hamel provided the well-timed move that greatly assisted the winner’s cause and got Hamel his third stakes win for the day.

Notis the Jewel has now won three in a row, the last two being stakes and the third one back being a conditioned $16.000 claimer. Since trainer William McLaren stretched her out this year after three sprints, she has become something other than a mid-level claiming filly.  She is now a legitimate contender, having shown that her win in the Distaff on BC Day was no variety of fluke.   She made a long, sustained run while holding off last year’s Oaks winner.  It was an impressive and well-earned win.

William McLaren races Notis the Jewel via lease and she was bred in British Columbia by the long-time BC horseman, the late Len Fielding.

Also Noteworthy:

The fourth was a Maiden Special Weight for two-year-olds at the “about 6 furlong” distance. It was won by Rogerio ($17.40) with Antonio Reyes getting his second score on the card.  Rogerio is owned by his breeders, Tod Mountain Thoroughbreds, and is trained by Mike Anderson.

Reyes opened the card with a win on Flaming Youth ($5.40) for owner/breeders Russell and Lois Bennett. Barbara Heads does the training.

The second race saw Amadeo Perez kick off his riding double with Santa Fe Trail ($4.80) for owner/breeder Forster Stable, trainer David Forster.


HASTINGS NEWS BY GREG DOUGLAS

HASTINGS NEWS BY GREG DOUGLAS

EXCITING FINISHES, BIG PAYOFFS

A POPULAR MIX ON BC DERBY/OAKS DAY

Vancouver, B.C. (Sept. 9/17) – It wasn’t quite a line dance by the jubilant owners of Chief Know It All because they were strewn all over the winner’s circle. But ask the Edmonton invaders if they care.

Chief Know It All survived a heart-stopping finish at Hastings Racecourse Saturday afternoon to capture the 72nd running of the Grade 3 $150,000 BC Derby.  As narrow victories go, it was almost a carbon copy repeat of his victory three weeks earlier in the Canadian Derby at Northlands Park in Edmonton.

Again with veteran Rico Walcott aboard, Chief Know It All withstood some fierce competition to win the BC Derby by a nose over Trooper John in a final time of 1:51.9 over 1 1/8 miles. This year’s Emerald Downs Derby winner and Saturday’s favourite Riser finished third after threatening to go gate-to-wire before relinquishing his lead at the final turn and finishing a neck behind Trooper John.

“Going down the backside Riser started to get away,” a breathless Walcott told outrider Bailey Heggie during a televised post-race interview as they were returning to the winner’s circle. “I didn’t want to be on the inside but had to stay on the rail. With Trooper John coming on strong, I wasn’t sure we’d won until the outrider told me.”

Trainer Robertino Diodoro and his Edmonton entourage that included owners Rick and Clayton Wiest as well as Randy Howg from their Rollingson Racing Stable were enjoying a victory dance and posing for pictures in the winner’s circle long after Walcott had left for the jock’s room.

Chief Know It All paid $9.50, $4.50, $3.60 and increased his career earnings to $317,006. Diodoro and his ownership ‘Happy Gang’ claimed the Kentucky-bred for $100,000 at Churchill Downs this past June.

The anticipated Clash of the Queens in the $100,000 BC Oaks for three-year-old fillies did not transpire exactly as expected but the eventual outcome was not a surprise with Hastings’ star Daz Lin Dawn winning her seventh consecutive stakes with leading rider Richard Hamel again at the controls.

Daz Lin Dawn and Washington Oaks winner Little Dancer were expected to lock horns in a classic showdown. But it was fellow Hastings runner Yukon Belle with a late charge who lost by a neck to Daz Lin Dawn in a dramatic closing that had the crowd on its feet. Little Dancer finished fourth.

“She wasn’t handling the wet track very well,” Hamel said of Daz Lin Dawn in the aftermath. “But her heart is huge to the point where she believes she’s unbeatable.”

Daz Lin Dawn’s seven-for-seven record this year is also making believers out of her ever-growing fan base. She paid $4.50, $2.90, $2.90 finishing her day’s work over 1 1/8 miles in a final time of 1:51.77.

Winning payoffs were much more plentiful in several other stakes featured on the BC Derby/Oaks program. Wise Market, trained by Phil Hall and ridden by Amadeo Perez, went off at 14-1 and won the $100,000 Jack Diamond Futurity by a half-length over fellow long shot Pan Handle.  Wise Market paid $31.00 and runner-up Pan Handle returned $12.60, resulting in a $353.39 Exactor.

In the very next race – the $50,000 SW Randall Plate – Aaron Gryder brought home Highway Boss ($26.90) with Crazy Prophet at 44-1 finishing second. That resulted in a $1,147.40 Exactor.

The $100,000 Sadie Diamond Futurity for two-year-old fillies provided much smaller numbers on the tote board with favoured Here’s Hannah ($2.60) winning by three lengths with relative ease. That was Hamel’s first of three victories on the day after closing out the card with a win aboard Notis the Jewell in the $50,000 Delta Colleen for fillies and mares.

Hamel leads the jockey standings with 59 wins.

Live racing resumes Sunday at 1:50 p.m.


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