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Coady Photography/Caitlin Fancy
OCTOBER 20, 2019
Century Downs • $22,670 400 yards • :20.037
Favorite Trick TB
Favorite Cartel
SINGLES CRUISE, ‘16-f. Going Single
Shenoshercorona Mr Eye Opener
Stellar Queen
Canada Cup Derby
SINGLES CRUISE
by Tracy Gantz
After winning last year’s Canada Cup Futurity-RG3 at Century Downs, Singles Cruise moved to Los Alamitos in California under the tutelage of Champion trainer Paul Jones. She returned to Century Downs for the $22,670 Canada Cup Derby-RG3, coming away with another victory on Oct. 20.
Ridden by Neville Stephenson, Singles Cruise broke third and then dueled with favored Papas Coleen for the lead. Singles Cruise prevailed at the wire by a half-length, completing 400 yards in :20.037.
Laurie Ferguson trains Singles Cruise for owners Barry and Janice Sather. Last year at Grand Prairie,
Singles Cruise won the Jerry Stojan Memorial Futurity and Evergreen Park Juvenile Challenge. This year at Los Alamitos, she captured the James S. Smith Memorial Handicap. When trained by Hector Magallanes, she fin- ished second in the 2019 Sun Downs Derby Challenge.
Dr. Steve Burns bred Singles Cruise out of Going Single. The mare has produced three winners from
six starters, including stakes winner Snowboundbeast and stakes-placed Ivlis.
Donalda Cochrane’s homebred Papas Coleen (First Timber-Cash In This Lane) finished second under jockey Ceasar Cervantes for trainer Darcy Hawkes. Alvin Cross Child
owns and trains third-place Chasin Harm (Hawkinson-Yr Brown Lucy). Trevor Simpson rode the gelding.
JB Runaway Special (JB Runaway Fame-Ms Oakie Is Special), Goldin Warrior (First Timber-Madam Goldilocks), and Ifarm (Coronado Cartel-Avery Hope) finished fourth, fifth, and sixth. Seventh-place finisher Timbersknightryder (First Timber-Sparkling Hy) was disquali- fied to ninth, moving Last Unicorn (Unification TB-Teller Reba) into seventh and JB Easy First Down (First Down Leaving-Tisa Easy Effort) into eighth. Heza Southern Cartel (Carters Cartel-SS Southern Lady) finished 10th.
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