Moira impressively repeated the course on his way to a dominant score in Sunday’s Woodbine Oaks game, helping coach Kevin Attard to a second straight win in the event and adding to a long list of members. for her ownership group. And she did it all without her back shoes, due to being active in the paddle and not being able to change her shoes in time.
First impressions graduating from the clouds in Princess Elizabeth S. C$250,000 here last October, the bay ranked second as the most loved place in GIII Mazarine S. November 28 produced in Fury S. seven pounds for Ontario bred on June 11 and narrowly finished work on Pioneer’s Edge (Pioneerof the Nile). Looming here on a two-way back road and with girl Sahlabiya, trained by New York-based Chad Brown, valued at $1.6 million, appears to be the main danger, the black bay. dark uninhabited early while saving the ground. She was led away from the fence a bit and drove to keep the speed in the rear. Racer Ramon Hernandez hit the gas early and split the horse on the turn home, and Moira passed Sahlabiya as if she were standing at school before racking up points in a time almost a second faster than the boys had gone in the race. Plate Trial two previous races .
Hernandez said: “She pushed the button on the first turn. “We just sat there and saved as much as we could and moved to the back. I knew the horses would stop in front of me, so I just tried to get her out of them. By August three, I was where I wanted to be. Back home, I just talked to her and said, ‘Come on, Moira, it’s all your fault. Go get it.’ And she just exploded. I have to give a big thank you to this amazing team, the owners, for giving me a chance to come back with this incredible film. From the first day I walked in the morning, I was impressed. Today, she showed up. She just plays with the rest of the pitch.”
Regarding the pre-race incident, coach Kevin Attard said, “It was crazy. You know, she’s always been some kind of little ant in the blanket. We studied her a lot and she just had a small episode and unfortunately stepped on her back foot and this shoe and bent the other shoe. The paddock blacksmith tried to adjust and repair it. I appreciate his efforts. So we decided to run her without shoes later. I’m not too concerned about it being a synthetic surface. But obviously you’re not used to doing that, so it’s always a bit stuck in your head anyway. She is a class horse and I have always appreciated her, and she clearly ran there today. “
Moira, named for the character Moira Rose in the Canadian sitcom Schitt’s Creektook action one more time to get good results as her picture was being taken in the winner’s circle.
While athletics had a particularly stellar record in the first leg of Canada’s Triple Crown, top blood-selling agent and Montreal-based Donato Lanni – the organizer of X-Men Racing – will not be attending Queen’s. Plate on August 21.
“It will depend on her and Kevin,” Lanni said. “It could be great to run in that race again. Fillies have won it before, but we are lucky to be here today. So let’s take one race at a time and thank you for Woodbine. You do a great job here and it’s a great place to be. “
The winner has a 2 year old full brother named Runaway Charlie and her dam got her $400,000 back from the foal Ghostzapper at the November 2020 sale in Keeneland. Devine Aida – a land and grass bet winner – lost the 2021 foal, but gave birth to a pony Sir Prancealot (Ire) this time around. She is the daughter of speed enthusiast GSW (Came Home).
OAKS WOODBINE BY BUDWEISERC$500,800, Woodbine, 7-24, (C), 3yo, f, 1 1/8m (AWT), 1:49.78, ft.
first-MOIRA, 121, f, 3, by Ghostzapper
Dam One: Devine Aida (MSW & GSP, $273,215), by Unbridled’s Song
2nd beat: Passion, by Came Home
3rd Strike: Rajmata, According to Known Truth
($150,000 Ylg ’20 KEESEP). OX-Men Racing, Madaket Cage
LLC & SF Racing LLC; B-Adena Springs (ON); T-Kevin Attard;
J-Rafael Manuel Hernandez. C$ 300,000. Lifetime record:
4-3-1-0, $440,331. * 1/2 to Jungle Cry (Animal Kingdom), SW,
$114,340.
2-Sister Seagull121, f, 3, Spin hard–Sweet Kitten, by Kitten’s
Joyous. ($95,000 RNA Ylg ’20 KEESEP). TYPE 1 BLACK.
O-Sean & Dorothy Fitzhenry; B-Sean Fitzhenry (ON);
T-Day Catherine Phillips. C$ 100,000.
3–Sahlabiya121, f, 3, Medaglia d’Oro–Orchard Beach, by Tapit.
($1,600,000 Ylg ’20 KEESEP). TYPE 1 BLACK. O-Shadwell
Stability; B-Anderson Ont Farm. Inc. (ON); T-Chad C. Brown.
C$ 50,000.
Margins: 10 3/4, 4 3/4, NO. Odds: 1.00, 9.80, 4.60.
Also Ran: Souper Flashy, Pioneer’s Edge, Swoop to Finish, Maccool’s Girl, Bizymaline, Curlin Candy, Recharge Vixen. Click to view Equibase.com chart or VIDEO sponsored by TVG.
