Page 6 - June 2005 The Game

6 The Game, June 2005 Your Thoroughbred Racing Community Newspaper
Fort Erie’s Leading Jockey wins 4 on May 22
Jockey Francine Villeneuve, rode home four winners on May 22 giving her a season total of 13 wins in only ten days of racing at the Fort.
Her first win was in Race 3 aboard Party Believer for trainer Stanley Fishman and his Lucky Fish Stable; her second win was in Race 4 on Wild T’mater for trainer Nick Gonzalez and owner Shannon Bell; she won the 6th race with Scale the Heights for trainer Carlton
Johnson and owner Parkway Racing Stable and Francine finished off the day with a win in the 8th aboard Winter Holiday for owner/trainer William MacKinnon
Francine Villeneuve is Canada’s all-time leading female rider with close to 850 career wins. She was the 2004 recipient of the Avelino Gomez Memorial Award for her significant contributions to Canadian racing.
Hastings Jockey Scores 4 Wins on Derby Day
Jockey Frank Fuentes was having a Derby Day to remember on Saturday May 7 when he won four consecutive races including a Stakes win at Hastings.
The winning streak began in the fifth race with Alittlebitextra for trainer Cindy Krasner and owner Bronco J Stables; he won the sixth with Brass Key for trainer John Van Loon who owns the horse in partnership with Tom & Joan Druce. The seventh race was the Hong Kong
Jockey Club Sprint Handicap which he won with the Bennett’s defending race winner and Horse of the Year, Lord Nelson. His final win on the day was aboard Regal Pusher in the eighth for trainer Steve Henson and owners Mike and John Young.
Frank is currently the second in the jockey standings (one win behind David Wilson) with a record of 17-11-6 and $322,897 in 73 starts.
Track record holder Jonah Magic in the Fort Erie paddock for his second race of the season on May 22.
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On Sunday, May 8 Speedy Comet won the 4th race at Fort Erie, going 4 1/2 furlongs in 51 4/5 seconds. The fol- lowing day, May 9, Jonah Magic won the 10th at Fort Erie in 51 4/5 seconds at the same distance.
The horses share the record.
However if you look at the times in 100th of a second it will explain why Speedy Comet is named the record holder at a distance which has not been written at Fort Erie in a number of years.
The 4 1/2-furlong track record was first established in 1968 when Trade Wagon was clocked in 52 seconds flat. The record was equaled twice in 1971, first by Dawn Deluxe (April 17), then a week later by Dozen Dancer (April 24).
Seven-year-old Speedy Comet’s trainer, Stacey Cooper, says she knew the horses were going to go fast that day because Oh Mar, Fort Erie’s 5 furlong track record holder, was also in the race. Oh Mar finished sec- ond. Speedy Comet is owned by Nick Mileni Jr. and was ridden that day by jockey Tyrone Harding.
Jonah Magic is trained by Myckie Neubauer for owner R.M.C. Stable and was ridden by jockey Brian Bochinski.