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Woodbine’s leading jockey for the second consecutive year, Eurico Rosa Da Silva, notched
his 200th win of the 2016 meet aboard the Bruno Schickedanz owned (left) Defondo, trained by Norm McKnight (right) on December 4. Bruno Schickedanz was the meet’s winningest owner with 38 wins at Woodbine in 2016. Trainer Norm McKnight was
the meet’s second winningest trainer with 59 wins. Eurico went on to win two more races later on the card and surpassed the 201 wins mark he recorded in 2015.
It’s My Pleasure, with Jockey Rafael Hernandez gallop out after winning the fourth race Allowance race for breeder and owner Rustlewood Farm Inc.
The three-year-old Sky Mesa  lly was trained by Woodbine’s 2016 top trainer Mark Casse, who  nished out the meet with 97 wins and more than
$5.5 million in purse earnings in 459 starts. Mark Casse has been Woodbine’s leading trainer for 10 consecutive years with 11 leading Woodbine training titles overall.
Trainer Kevin Attard (second from left) with his son Joshua (left) with owners Cory Hoffman (second from right) & Stephen Chesney (right) outside the saddling enclosure at Woodbine on closing day of the 2016 meet.
Kevin  nished  fth in the trainers standings in 2016 by purses earnings with more than $1.6 million and ranked third by number of wins in 2016 with 42 wins in 273 starts.
Owners Chesney & Hoffman closed the season as the  fth leading money earning owners for 2016.
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