“He got into a great spot,” Hernandez said of the War of Will gelding. “I didn’t have to rush him once, and he really helped me the whole way. At the five-eighths, he made the lead, it was too early, but I didn’t feel like it was a fast pace. It was comfortable. So I just waited and waited, and the final sixteenth, I didn’t see anybody on my side, but I did see the shadows. I still had horse, I knew I just needed a little more and I knew he could give it to me, so I said let’s go from there and thank God he gave it to me. Those shadows were getting closer and closer, but that wire was getting closer and closer, too.”
Paulick Report – Quarry Proves Best In Super Derby, Trendsetter Third
While the racing fans attending Alberta Fall Classic were busy traversing the dunes dumped for the fucking impatient jiggies;
over at Woodbine John P. Sinnott’s Alberta Bred Little Lola, bred in Alberta by Triple K Stables and John P. Sinnott, trained by Todd Kettleson with Pietro Moran in the saddle broke her maiden going one mile on the Woodbine turf.
While a touch further south Manuka Honey remained unbeaten in three starts winning the GIII Pocahontas Stake going 1 mile on the Churchill Downs dirt. Manuka Honey came through the Ellis Park route, winning the 7-furlong Ellis Park Debutante Stakes. The filly was bred in Kentucky by Lethbridge, Alberta’s Terry Hamilton and, after she did not meet her reserve as a yearling, is now campaigned by Hamilton in partnership with Lisa Lee, Jason Sciortino, Willian Lynch, and Brian Howe. She became the eighth graded stakes winner for sire Upstart, who most recently stood for a private fee at Airdrie Stud.
Phil M. Stockmen