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Trotting.ComSometimes you have to get the breaks to win a Breeders Crown race and that proved to be the case in the event for 3-year-old filly trotters as 1-5 shot Mission Brief broke stride on a clear lead in early stretch and Wild Honey emerged with the victory in the $500,000 event on Saturday (Oct. 24) at Woodbine...read on
3 åriga ston 1.609 m auto Purse: $648 700 ()
Race 6 - Trot, purse $648,700 (EX, P3, SU, TR)
BREEDERS CROWN - FINAL - 3 YEAR OLD FILLIES.
(PURSE $500,000 U.S. 250,000 - 125,000 - 60,000 - 40,000 - 25,000)
Post time: 08:30 P.M. Lasix: 04:15 P.M. Horses Entered: 7 | Sta | Häst | Kön | Kusk | Tränare | Rek | Intj | Far | Mor | Morfar |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ELEGANT SERENITY | S | Roger Mayotte | Roger Mayotte | 10,5 | 350 508 | KADABRA | ELEGANTIMAGE | BALANCED IMAGE |
| 2 | CLASSICAL ANNIE | S | Aaron Merriman | Jim Arledge Jr | 11,0 | 127 083 | ANDOVER HALL | CLASICALY DESIGNED | LINDY LANE |
| 3 | WILD HONEY | S | John Campbell | Jimmy Takter | 09,7 | 1 256 385 | CANTAB HALL | U WANNA LINDY | S J'S PHOTO |
| 4 | SPEAK TO ME | S | Brett Miller | Jimmy Takter | 10,7 | 351 328 | MUSCLE MASSIVE | MS NAUGHTY | KADABRA |
| 5 | I'M SO FANCY | S | Matt Kakaley | Ron Burke | 11,0 | 133 141 | DONATO HANOVER | HARBOUR BELLE | LINDY LANE |
| 6 | DANIELLE HALL | S | Jody Jamieson | Carl Jamieson | 11,0 | 552 541 | DEWEYCHEATUMNHOWE | DEBBIE HALL | LIKE A PRAYER |
| 7 | MISSION BRIEF | S | Yannick Gingras | Ron Burke | 08,7 | 1 421 687 | MUSCLE HILL | SOUTHWIND SERENA | VARENNE |
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Horse HV PP 1/4 1/2 3/4 Stretch Finish Time 1/4 Driver Odds Trainer
3 Wild Honey 3 2/1T 2/2 2/3 1/1H 1/1H 1:54.3 29 J Campbell 1.60 J Takter
5 Im So Fancy= 5 7/11H 7/12Q 6@/10 4/4 2/1H 1:54.4 27.4 M Kakaley 86.30 R Burke
4 Speak To Me= 4 6/9H 6/10Q 7/11Q 6/5H 3/1H 1:54.4 27.3 B Miller 55.35 J Takter
2 Classical Annie 2 3/3H 3/3H 3/5 2/1H 4/2T 1:55.1 29.1 A Merriman 116.30 J Arledge
6 Danielle Hall= 6 I5@/8 5/8H 5/9 5/4T 6P5/5T 1:55.4 29 J Jamieson 62.15 C Jamieson
1 Elegant Serenity 1 4/7 4/6H 4/7 3/3Q 5P6/3H 1:55.1 28.4 R Mayotte 26.20 R Mayotte
7 Mission Brief= 7 1/1T 1/2 1X/3 7/7T 7/13Q 1:57.1 32.1 Y Gingras 0.35* R Burke Time: 26.2, 56.2, 1:25, 1:54.3 (Temperature: 10, Condition: GOOD, Variant: 1)
1st Wild Honey (b,f,3 - Cantab Hall-U Wanna Lindy-S Js Photo)
Owner: Christina Takter,East Windsor,NJ-John D Fielding,Toronto,ON-
Herb A Liverman,Miami Beach,FL-Jim H Fielding,Toronto,ON
2nd Im So Fancy (br,f,3 - Donato Hanover-Harbour Belle-Lindy Lane)
Owner: Burke Racing Stable LLC,Fredericktown-Howard A Taylor,Philadelphia-
Judith S Taylor,Bala Cynwyd,PA-Dandy Farms Inc,Glenview,IL
3rd Speak To Me (b,f,3 - Muscle Massive-Ms Naughty-Kadabra)
Owner: Brittany Farms,Versailles,KY | photo |
| Wild Honey and John Campbell won the Breeders Crown for 3-year-old filly trotters. |
Sometimes you have to get the breaks to win a Breeders Crown race and that proved to be the case in the event for 3-year-old filly trotters as 1-5 shot Mission Brief broke stride on a clear lead in early stretch and Wild Honey emerged with the victory in the $500,000 event on Saturday (Oct. 24) at Woodbine.
The race began as expected as Mission Brief cleared the 8-5 Wild Honey going to the quarter in a respectable :26.2. Mission Brief and Yannick Gingras cruised to the half in :56.2 with no movement from the trailers.
Mission Brief kicked it into high gear late on the final turn and appeared to be opening ground effortlessly on Wild Honey, hitting the three-quarters in 1:25 and looking on her way to an open lengths victory.
That victory would not materialize as Mission Brief blew up and was pulled to the outside in the stretch leaving Wild Honey and driver John Campbell suddenly in the lead and concerned about the trailers.
Closers I'm So Fancy and Speak To Me gained gradually on the Jimmy Takter-trained daughter of Cantab Hall, but neither could dent the filly's margin as she won for the third straight time this year and avenged a defeat to Mission Brief in last year's Breeders Crown juvenile event.
"I don't think I was going to catch her," said John Campbell of Mission Brief. "My filly was struggling on the turn and she got away from me. If you're going to beat Mission Brief you've got to stay right on her back."
But Campbell's strategy to stay on Mission Brief's back was not important once the filly made a break.
Mission Brief’s trainer Ron Burke said his filly, “didn't warm up the best. The track didn't suit her today and she has those issues that we're not 1,000 percent over just yet. I thought she was, but I knew warming her up that maybe we had an issue.
“She was home. All she had to do was keep herself trotting so, you know, it's bad. That's the high of the sport and the lows of the sport right there. She'll be fine and there will come a time yet when she'll put it all together. She's the best horse I've ever trained."
Winning trainer Jimmy Takter -- who captured his third Crown of the evening and 24th lifetime -- said he thought he had a chance.
"I saw Yannick was having trouble with her (Mission Brief). She wasn't trotting as smoothly as she usually does," Takter said.
Takter also put his vote in for division honors for Wild Honey. "She won the Hambletonian (Oaks), the Kentucky Futurity (filly division) and the Breeders Crown. I think she should be the divisional champion," Takter said.
Wild Honey, owned by Christina Takter, John Fielding, Jim Fielding and Herb Liverman, has now won more than $1.5 million during her career. She's won 17 of 26 lifetime starts.
It was the 12th Breeders Crown victory for John Fielding, who ranks second in Crown victories by owners.
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