Page 2 - June 2007 The Game

2 The Game, June 2007 Canada’s Thoroughbred Racing Newspaper
Northlands meet starts June 22
ORC drops case against trainer Parsley
Woodbine Jockey Notes:
Jockey Julia Brimo returned late to Woodbine this season after spending the winter in Ocala Florida galloping for Mark Casse and then moving on to Kentucky to continue galloping, Sealy Hill, until she got to the Kentucky Oaks at Churchill on May 4.
While in Kentucky, the 31-year-old rider galloped at Turfway, Keeneland and Churchill Downs for trainers Mark Casse, Mark Frostad, Roger Attfield and Dallas Stewart.
Julia won her first race of the 2007 at Woodbine on May 21 in a $52,400 claimer aboard the Malcolm Pierce trained, Feverish Dream, owned by Windways Farm.
Jockey Sunny Singh marked his return to racing with a win in his first mount back since being suspended from race rid- ing last year. Sunny rode 2-year-old Talken Tall to victory in the first race, a MSW worth $61,200 on May 27 for trainer Ashlee Brnjas and owner Colebrook Farms. Sunny had been gal- loping horses at Colebrook during his time away from the racetrack.
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Stampede Park wraps up what is to be their last thoroughbred race meet on June 17, the day after the running of the $125,000 Alberta Derby.
The Northlands live thoroughbred meet then kicks in to gear on Friday, June 22 and will run through to September 30.
The race meet has been shortened to 61 days this season and will end nearly a month ahead of last seasons closing on October 21.
Due to the shortened meet, the Stakes schedule has been juggled and purses redistributed which resulted in purse increases of $25,000 for five of their regular stakes events.
Thirty-four Stakes, worth a record total of $2,345,000 are scheduled with the track’s main event, the Alberta Fall Classic, a series of seven stakes worth a total of $400,000 for Alberta-breds, scheduled for September 29.
This year’s G3 $300,000 Canadian Derby is scheduled for August 25 with the City of Edmonton Distaff, for fillies and mares, now at $100,000 from $75,000 moved to the undercard for Derby day.
This is the first time they’re had a $100,000 race for fillies and mares at
Northlands.
The Wild Rose, for fillies and mares;
the Klondike, re-named the Don Fleming, for 3 and up; the Ky Alta and Count Lathum, for 3-year-olds will all be run- ning for $75,000 ($50,000 last season).
The increases have been determined and allocated by HorseRacing Alberta and the Alberta HBPA.
The stakes schedule for 2-year-olds had to be adjusted to accommodate the earlier closing date with two stakes moved to early August and two moved to early September.
Sprint Stakes, the Western Canada and Chariot Chaser, will return to their usual spots in July after being moved to mid-October last season.
The live thoroughbred racing schedule for 2007 is: Friday to Sunday and Wednesday for June;
Friday to Holiday Monday for the first week of July with no racing Wednesday July 4; Thursday racing is picked up for July 19 and 26. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays cards are evening events with first race post time at 6pm. Saturday, Sundays and Holidays begin at 1pm local time.
Trainer and Owner Ken Parsley was appealing his 10-year suspension and $100,000 fine when the ORC announced in April that it would not proceed with the case against him.
Ken Parsley had been heavily fined and suspended December 1, 2006 after an investigation by the Ontario Racing Commission found that Ken had acquired several illegal drugs and banned medications. None of Parsley’s starters had tested positive for any banned substance in his career as a trainer.
At the appeal hearing, the commission decided to call no evidence in the case
with Executive Director John Blakney stating that in the original investigation Parsley had said that he had purchased or been given illegal medications from an unauthorized source.
“All we had was his voluntary statement admitting to the acquisition of Aranesp, and that he had discarded it," was Blakney’s quote in Daily Racing Form.
The Parsley case had the same result as Standardbred trainer and driver, Pat Hudon, whose appeal was also granted due to lack of evidence.