Page 8 - December 2016 Thoroughbred Highlight

What Are you Doing this Winter?
Trainer Shelley Fitzgerald (right) and friend Leanne Sheridan with three year-old lly Tornado Cat, bred and owned by Shelley Fitzgerald and Martin Wickins. The Ontario-bred lly by Gayego - Katz Reign, by Wildcat Heir was one of two yearlings on Shelley’s Tottenham farm when a tornado struck on June 24, 2014. “They were in the far paddock when the storm struck and after it was over they were both standing in the driveway,” said Shelley who mentioned that they lost the arena to the tornado but thankfully all of the horses were okay.
The other yearling was also aptly named Whirlwind Flash. Owned by Shelley herself, she is an Ontario-bred lly by Spaniard - Flashy Katherine, by Bold n’ Flashy. The now three-year-old made her rst lifetime start a winning one getting up in time to win by a neck in a maiden claiming race on November 13 at Woodbine.
Shelley and Martin also partnered on an Ontario- bred, Ontario sired yearling (soon to be two-year-old) Express Approval by Sligo Bay (IRE) out of Shelley’s With Approval mare Endless Approval who resides at Buttigieg Training Centre in Alliston.
Her racehorses will be at Trainer Bev Chubb’s farm during the winter months and “in an effort to keep half way t” Shelley will be working there 4 or 5 days a week until shipping back into Woodbine.
Leanne Sheridan who operated the Greenhawk trailer at Woodbine has left for Texas after 28 years with the company. Leanne moved to be with her US born husband Malcolm after the pair were married last year.
Trainer Catherine Day Phillips (right) and Assistant Candice Dixon with 2016 Woodbine Oaks winner Neshama (Sligo Bay (IRE) - Catch a Fire, by Indian Groom), owned in partnership with Catherine’s King eld Racing Stable Ltd., Carnegie Hill Stable, Anderson Farms Ontario Inc. and John Fielding. Catherine had a successful season in 2016 with her starters winning 26% of their races and earning more than $950,000.
The past few years Catherine has spent the winter with her family at their farm in King, Ontario where the horses are turned out for 6 weeks before getting legged up in the indoor arena to prep for their return to the racetrack as soon as the training begins in late February.
Candice and her husband Patrick, who works for trainer Reade Baker, usually go to Florida for the winter however this year they are staying home with their two children, 3-1/2 year old Madison and 1-1/2 year old Conor. Candice plans to help Catherine at the farm until the horses ship back in to Woodbine.
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Thoroughbred Highlight - Page 8 - December 2016