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Canada’s Thoroughbred Racing Newspaper The Game, March 2007 3
Jambalaya Wins Grade 1 Stakes at Gulfstream
The Canadian owned 5 year old Jambalaya roared from off the pace to capture the Gulfstream Park Breeders’ Cup Turf, a Grade 1 stakes race at a mile and three eights on the grass on Sunday February 24.
Ridden expertly by Javier Castellano,
the son of Langfuhr hugged the hedge
behind several horses down the
backstretch. Around the far turn, the
situation did not look promising as
Jambalaya, owned by Kingfield Farms and
Day Phillips, found himself blocked by a wall of horses. Castellano angled his horse outside rivals and in mid-stretch found just enough of an opening for Jambalaya to unleash his notorious late run. The favorite Honey Ryder was coming up quickly on the inside and the two horses appeared as if they
would hit the wire together, but Jambalaya had just a little bit more momentum and prevailed by a neck at odds of 7.10 to one. The winner’s cheque for $180,000 gets him over $825,000 Canadian for his 17 race career.
As a three-year-old, in August 2005 Jambalaya first proved his brilliance on the turf by winning the Breeders’ Stakes at Woodbine, the third jewel in the Canadian Triple Crown. A month after
that, he captured the Grade 3 Saranac at Saratoga Racecourse. This however, is Jambalaya’s first Grade 1 win.
Jambalaya is now being pointed towards the G3 $150,000 Pan American Handicap on March 31 at Gulfstream Park for his next start.
trained by Catherine
Jambalaya and Catherine Day Phillips Woodbine 2006
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Canadian Champion and Horse of the Year Quiet Resolve has died
Sam-Son Farm announced that Quiet Resolve, Champion Turf Horse and Horse of the Year, has passed away.
Quiet Resolve suffered an irreparable injury while trying to stand following anaesthesia for colic surgery on February 1 at Guelph University in Ontario.
A homebred for Sam-Son Farm by Affirmed and out of Quiet Cleo (No Louder), Quiet Resolve retired due to injury in 2002, with earnings of $2,346,768.
Quiet Resolve earned Sovereign Awards in 2000 as Champion Turf Horse and was named Canada’s Horse of the Year. In the same year he narrowly missed winning the Breeders’ Cup Turf G!, finishing second by 1/2 length.
“Quiet Resolve was a courageous race horse both on and off the track.” said Sam Son Farm owner Tammy Samuel-Balaz. “He was a sentimental favourite of the farm and a horse who always gave you 110% effort in everything he did. He loved to race and to win and will be deeply missed. He was one of a kind!”
Quiet Resolve has been buried at Sam-Son Farm.
In This Issue
Robert Love, Woodbine’s New Outrider
Page 18
What is Rick Raposo Cookin’ Up? Page 18
Michael Burns Photo
Brrrrrrr! Woodbine in February
Page 16
The Game
Health & Nutrition 2007
Pages 25 to 32
Special Advertorial Feature
Editorial Pg 4 Nancy Powis Eulogy Pg 4
Is the Queen Derby Bound? Pg 5 Fort Erie 2007 Pg 5 Wilson OK After Spill Pg 8 Thoroughbred RatingsPg 12 Olguin at Santa Anita Pg 14 Cheltenham Festival Pg 17 Handicapping JockeysPg 19 Horses Return to Hastings Pg 22 Jim Reynolds Pg 22 Paddy Head Pg 23 HBPA (Ontario) Update Pg 24 Sutherland Returning? Pg 24
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Remote Ruler’s 30th Foals of 2007 Stallion Listings
Out of Town LongRun Retirement Professional Directory Classifieds
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Woodbine Racetrack has announced it will have a 102 day schedule with $22 million in Stakes races for the 2007 season. As usual, the top races this year will be the 148th Queen's Plate with a purse of $1million on June 24, the Woodbine Mile ($1million) presented by Bell on September 16 and the $2 million Pattison Canadian International booked for Oct. 21.
Woodbine will be kicking some of their big racing days up a notch by combining numerous stakes on one card.
The Grade 2, $700,000 Northern Dancer Breeders' Cup Turf Stakes, is set for Sunday, July 22. It will be one of four added- money events that day with the $300,000 Dance Smartly, the $125,000 Bold Venture and the $125,000 Ontario Matron also on the card.
The Bison City Stakes, second gem in Canada's Triple Tiara of Racing, will now be contested at Woodbine after 27 years at Fort Erie. The $250,000 race will be coupled with the Grade 3, $200,000 Dominion Day Stakes, on the Canada Day Holiday, Sunday, July 1.
The Breeders' Stakes, the third gem of Canada's Triple Crown, is set for Sunday, August 5 at Woodbine. The 1 1/2-mile turf event carries a purse of $500,000.
The $500,000 Labatt Woodbine Oaks, first leg in the Canadian Triple Tiara of Racing, is scheduled for Sunday, June 10 and the $200,000 Scotts Highlander Stakes returns as the complement feature on Queen's Plate day.
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