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Canada’s Thoroughbred Racing Newspaper
The Game, August/September 2008 9 “You’re always looking for that ‘diamond in the
They’re ALL my favorites
By Harlan Abbey
-- assistant trainer to Dr. Ralph Biamonte, then based at the Fort -- suggested the couple move to Ontario. Jorge went on to become champion Fort Erie rider in 1994, retiring two years later. Brigitte groomed for Biamonte for seven years, then spent nine years with Paul Nielsen.
“Your horses are like your children,” said Brigitte Desorcy, who is in her rst year as a licensed head trainer at Fort Erie. “You can’t spoil one and not the other,” she continued, but admitted: “When they win, they move up a notch” in the pecking order.
rough’ and if you’re at the track, you’re more a part of it.” Her stable includes her own Sera na Queen, Great Torrington (in partnership with Nielsen), Jane Cross’s Faygo Dancing Home and Bill Payne’s distance-loving My Pal William.
A native of Winnipeg who lived on a farm and had her own retired Thoroughbred, the gray, Heaven
Can Wait, as a teen, Desorcy started going to the races with her owner-uncle Bernard Vermette. She answered a want ad for a groom at Assiniboia Downs and began working for Emile Corbel and then the
“Paul would challenge me to make my own decisions about the horses,” Desorcy said, “He’d let me enter them, choose the jockeys and so on last year. We generally thought alike so he told me ‘You’re ready to go out on your own.’”
Pizarro, father of Woodbine rider and Sovereign Award winning apprentice Tyler Pizarro, rides all the stable’s horses in the mornings and also the odd runner for trainer Robert Gilyana. Jorge and Bri- gitte’s daughter Kayla, 17, helps out at the barn and their son Stephen, 15, hopes to be a writer.
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nice horses,” she recalled. In 1990 she met jockey Jorge Pizarro, a native of
a Thoroughbred outright or in partnership because
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Argentina, and when he suffered an injury and was having trouble getting mounts his brother, Pepe
Mr. Jester - Continued from page 8
Mr. Jester retired from racing at age four with ve wins and three stakes wins from 15 career starts and close to $800,000 in earnings.
Inbred 3 X 3 to Mr. Prospector, Mr. Jester has a pedigree which suggests he will sire runners suited to a variety of distances.
A source of speed comes from Mr. Jester’s sire, Silver Deputy, a two-year- old stakes winner himself and the sire of 74 stakes winners and seven cham- pions. According to
John Burness, owner of Colebrook Farms Stallion Station which stands Mr. Jester for a $3,000 fee, Mr. Jester’s ability to carry
his speed over distances “comes from his dam, who is by Fappiano.”
Possibly Mr. Prospector’s most signi cant son at stud, Fappiano has established
a line that is responsible
for seven American classic winners.
Four yearlings by Mr. Jester will be offered at the Ontario sale: hip numbers 140, 281, 311 and 215.
If you would like
to purchase a piece of these exciting Canadian prospects, mark your calendar for the follow- ing Canadian-bred year- ling sales: August 25 in Edmonton, Alberta at AgriCom; September 2 and 6 in Ontario at the Woodbine Sales Pavilion and September 9 in British Columbia at Thunderbird Show Park.
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Mobil $1,951,384
A Bit O’Gold $1,888,155
One for Rose $1,380,298
Financingavailable $1,333,779
Nite Dreamer $ 1,149,788
Barbeau Ruckus $1,142,709
Edenwold $1,082,150
Forever Grand $1,018,412
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