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~ Road to The Queen’s Plate ~
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....fourth in the Kingarvie Stakes. “He was running with shins in the Coronation and at the end of the year.” said Mike about the horse’s performance as a two-year-old, “He’s great now.”
The Beclawat Stable homebred, Ascot Bill, will most likely be going to the Plate, according to trainer Steve Attard. “I don’t want to go to the Plate unless I have a shot of coming in the top three.” said Steve, “He’s young and still learning. He should have won his last race but he had a cut in his mouth that I didn’t know about which was right where the tongue strap was.”
The gelded son of Vicar - Ascot Gold, by Mutakddim finished third on May 14 in a $69,900 allowance going 1 1/16 miles.
According to Steve, he thinks Ascot Bill was named after a friend of owner Les Perreira, who he used to play golf with at Ascot in England.
Edenwold and groom Carol Dyer
The Beclawat Stable also has an Oaks hopeful in the barn in Sweet Breanna. The Sahm - Sweet Roberta filly was bred by Spring Farm in Ontario and was an impressive 5 1/4 length winner in her last race on May 13, a $70,700 allowance going 1 1/16 miles after a second place finish on April 30.
Impressive as a two-year-old, the Josie Carroll trained, James and Alice Sapara owned, Edenwold, is scheduled to make his next start in the Plate Trail Stakes on June 4.
Edenwold broke his maiden in a $61,000 MSW on July 10, 2005 after finishing second in the Victoria Stakes in June, 2005. The son of Southern Halo - Best of Friends, by Making, then went on to win three straight including the Vandal and Simcoe Stakes.
He finished second in his first start in 2006 in the Queenston Stakes behind Atlas Shrugs.
Josie’s other Plate eligible horses, Elfros and Dream of Victory, “did not make the cut” and Vibank has been sent home for 60 days.
Talented filly Gumboots remains in the final nominations for the Plate and Josie says that she won’t know until after the Oaks if the filly, owned by Eaton Hall Farm, will run in the Plate.
Trainer Malcolm Pierce says that the Pin Oak Stable owned, Seeking Shelter, is iffy for the Plate, “We have got to get another 2 turn race into him.” said Malcolm who is hoping that the allowance race he is looking at will have enough horses to fill. “It is not a do or die thing anyway.” he commented, “He’ll have one more race then we’ll decide.”
Seeking Shelter (Peaks and Valleys - Summer Storm, by Peace for Peace) finished second in his last race on May 18 going 6 1/2 furlongs in a $63,200 Allowance.
Trainer Bryan Lynch must be eagerly anticipating the June Classic Races at Woodbine with Queen’s Plate hopeful Malakoff
(photo top with groom Napoleon Garcia)
and
Oak’s hopeful Wedded Woman (photo bottom with groom Nemo a.k.a. John Rowe).
Both horses are homebreds from Adena Springs in Ontario for Stronach Stables. Wedded Woman last ran April 12 at Gulfstream Park finishing third, coming off of a win at Gulfstream on March 6 in a 1 1/16 mile $33,000 Allowance.
Blind Mare has Maternal Instinct
Avid race fans at Woodbine would know the mare, Sinhouse, for she was definitely a horse that could run.
Sinhouse finished in the top three on sixteen occasions in her 36 career starts at Woodbine and had earned more than $350,000 for her connections.
Coming off of her best year in 2003 after winning 4 races and finishing second once, Sinhouse’s career abruptly ended in the spring of 2004 when trainer Erich Bauer entered the horse’s stall only to discover that the then 6-year-old mare had gone blind.
After finishing off the 2003 season with two straight wins, Sinhouse underwent minor surgery to help alleviate a persistent “runny nose” and drain the fluid from the area. She was back in training in 2004 and had been training and working fine until one morning in April when they went to get her ready for training and she wouldn’t move from the back of the stall. It was confirmed shortly after that she was blind.
Trainer Erich
Bauer, who owned
the horse in part-
nership with Gino
Desantis (GDS
Stable), was hop-
ing her sight would
return however
after a couple of
months nothing
changed and the
decision was made
to sell her as a pos- Sinhouse and her One Way Love colt sible broodmare.
Mark and Dawn Hughes, who now own the mare in partner- ship with Mike Mailhot, welcomed the mare at their farm and worked hard to make her comfortable in her new environment.
“We bought her a ‘mini’ horse,” said Dawn, recalling their early experience with Sinhouse, “We thought we would give her a buddy but she just about killed it which made us concerned that she might not take to being a mother.”
It was clear that Sinhouse was unhappy however she did perk up when Gino came to visit and upon hearing his voice her ears perked and she came running to him.
However after a few months Sinhouse began to settle in and Mark and Dawn worked closely with her to gain her trust.
Sinhouse was bred to One Way Love the following March on one cover and in February of this year she gave birth to a healthy colt.
“The biggest hurdle was getting her palpated.” said Mark about the entire experience of breeding a blind mare, “She was bred in one cover and when we foaled her out (in February) she didn’t really know what happened.
“The sweetest part was when we had brought the foal to the door, just in case she didn’t take to him, and then brought the mare to the foal. She immediately started to lick him. She bonded with him right away.”
The pair now spend the majority of the day in a large 4 acre paddock (with a new paint pony buddy) and Sinhouse will put her nose on her colt’s bum and fly around the paddock.
“It is like she uses him as her sight.” says Dawn. “She is 100% happy and healthy.”
Eight-year-old Sinhouse was recently bred back, on one cover, to One Way Love.
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From: The Plate/A Royal Tradition by Louis Cauz
The following appeared in The Canadian Sports and Daily Racing Form in 1926: There has been born a general suggestion that the King’s Plate conditions should be brought to the attention of King George V; that it would be advisable to make the classic open to all Canadian foals instead of restricting it to those born in the Province of Ontario. If adopted this suggestion would permit the
participation by Commander Ross who breeds in Quebec and to prominent western producers, including the Prince of Wales, who has a big ranch and breeding establishment in Alberta.