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Mohawk Racetrack hosted the two-year-old trotting colts and fillies on Friday evening (August 18) and the novices put on an impressive show in a trio of Gold Series divisions....read on
2-åriga ston 1.609 m auto Purse: $70 000 (35,000-17,500-8,400-5,600-3,500)
Race 2 -- Trot, purse $95,600 (EX, P3, SU, TR) ONTARIO SIRES STAKES - GOLD - 2 YEAR OLD FILLIES. Last Horse PP 1/4 1/2 3/4 Stretch Finish Time 1/4 Driver Odds Trainer 5 Apprentice M (Kadabra/ChristinaM) 5 4/6 1/1T 1/T 1/1H 1/T 1:57.2 29.2 D Mcnair 0.40* J Czernyson 6 Sorceress Seelster (HolidayRoad/SelfDesire) 6 1/1T 3/2Q 3/2 2/1H 2/T 1:57.3 29.1 Trev Henry 4.00 J Wray 3 Miss Mimi (Kadabra/CreamyMimi) 3 6/10T 5@/4H 4@@/2H 3/3T 3/4 1:58.1 29.4 P Macdonell 33.95 J Bax 1 Illusioneesta= (Kadabra/ShesaPriority) 1 2/1T 4/4 5@/4 4/5T 4/6T 1:58.4 30 C Christoforou 11.50 P Henriksen 7 Shamrock Shaker (HolidayRoad/ChefHeartsalot) 7 7/13Q 7/10H 6@/6T 5/7T 5/10Q 1:59.2 30 Ri Zeron 9.50 Ri Zeron 4 Collateral Beauty= (Kadabra/FullTank) 4 3/4 6/6T 7/7Q 7/11 6/17 2:00.4 31.2 Ra Waples 45.70 H Holland 2 Zorgwijk Sophia (MajesticSon/ZorgwijkHaughty) 2 5/8H 2@/1T 2@/T X6X/8T X7/DIS S Filion 10.90 L Macarthur Time: 28.3, 59, 1:28, 1:57.2 (Temperature: 20, Condition: FAST, Variant: 0) 1st Apprentice M (b,f,2 - Kadabra-Christina M-Muscles Yankee) Owner: Menhammar Stuteri Ab,Paris,KY 2nd Sorceress Seelster (b,f,2 - Holiday Road-Self Desire-Self Possessed) Owner: Jack A Wray,London-Thomas G Wray,Schomberg,ON 3rd Miss Mimi (b,f,2 - Kadabra-Creamy Mimi-Conway Hall) Owner: Marvin Katz,Toronto-Al J Libfeld,Pickering,ON
2-åriga ston 1.609 m auto Purse: $70 000 (35,000-17,500-8,400-5,600-3,500)
Race 3 -- Trot, purse $94,800 (EX, P3, SU, TR) ONTARIO SIRES STAKES - GOLD - 2 YEAR OLD FILLIES. Last Horse PP 1/4 1/2 3/4 Stretch Finish Time 1/4 Driver Odds Trainer 4 Kadabra Queen (Kadabra/QueenStreet) 4 1/1T 1/1T 1/T 1/H 1/1 1:57.1 29.4 S Coulter 2.95 C Milner 2 Northern Lightning= (Kadabra/NorthernBlaze) 2 3/4 3/4 2@/T 2/H 2/1 1:57.2 29.4 P Macdonell 3.05 S Mceneny 6 Smoke And Mirrors (Kadabra/SoutaineHanover) 6 6/10H 4@/7Q 4@/4 3/4 3/3 1:57.4 29.3 Trev Henry 0.75* R Norman 5 Yokomotion (JusticeHall/YokoHanover) 5 4/6T 5/8Q 6/7T 6/8 4/4 1:58 29 S Byron 31.30 J Bax 3 Stormont Chef= (AngusHall/StormontFried) 3 5/8H 6@/9T 5@/6 4/5T 5/4H 1:58 29.2 Ph Hudon 27.90 K Benn 1 Gotta Pay To Play (WindsongEspoir/PhoenixGoal) 1 2/1T 2/1T 3/2T 5/6T 6/19 2:01 33 W Henry 11.25 W Henry Time: 29.1, 58.3, 1:27.2, 1:57.1 (Temperature: 20, Condition: FAST, Variant: 0) 1st Kadabra Queen (b,f,2 - Kadabra-Queen Street-Duke Of York) Owner: Harness Horsepower Inc,Campbellville-Frank Monte,Markham,ON 2nd Northern Lightning (b,f,2 - Kadabra-Northern Blaze-Angus Hall) Owner: Bradley J Grant,Milton-Domenic Chiaravalle,Hamilton-John D Fielding,Toronto,ON 3rd Smoke And Mirrors (b,f,2 - Kadabra-Soutaine Hanover-Donerail) Owner: Melvin Hartman,Ottawa,ON-David H Mc Duffee,Delray Beach,FL-Little E LLC,New York,NY
Mohawk Racetrack hosted the two-year-old trotting colts and fillies on Friday evening (August 18) and the novices put on an impressive show in a trio of Gold Series divisions.
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Starting from post five, Apprentice M was sitting fourth when Sorceress Seelster reached the opening quarter in :28.3, but driver Doug McNair of Guelph, Ont. soon moved the fan favourite to the front and Apprentice M sailed through fractions of :59 and 1:28 on her way to a three-quarter length win in 1:57.2 Sorceress Seelster finished second and Miss Mimi was third.
“I was hoping for a come-from-behind trip with her and not being in the lead, but she did it and she got the job done from there, so I’m very happy with that,” said Czernyson, adding that his concern about her early move to the front was rooted in an equipment change made after her August 4 runner-up effort at The Meadowlands. “A green horse and the first time open bridle too, so it was a little like ‘I don’t know if this is going to work,’ but she got it done.”
The win was Apprentice M’s first after a pair of runner-up finishes, the other coming in the July 25 Gold leg at Mohawk. A Kadabra half-sister to $1.3 million winner Charmed Life, Apprentice M was an $85,000 yearling acquisition at last fall’s Lexington Selected Sale by Menhammar Stuteri AB of Paris, Kentucky, and Czernyson had high expectations for her early in the training process.
“She’s done everything right from Day 1, pretty much, so I’ve been very pleased with her,” said the New Jersey-based trainer. “She’s kind of a nice going filly and pretty easy to get along with.”
The winner of the second $94,800 trotting filly division is also pretty easy to get along with, and just over an hour after her third straight Gold Series win Kadabra Queen was gobbling down her dinner and heading back outside to her paddock.
“We’re sitting here waiting for her to eat her dinner so I can turn her back out with her girlfriend and she’ll go and spend the night outside tonight,” said trainer Chad Milner. “She lived outside all winter, no blanket, the whole nine yards. I think she’s maybe spent five nights in the barn this year.”
The natural life clearly suits the Kadabra daughter, who has not been worse than third in six starts through her freshman campaign.
On Friday, she and driver Scott Coulter of Brantford, Ont. went gate-to-wire from post four, rolling through fractions of :29.1, :58.3 and 1:27.2 on the way to a one-length victory in a personal-best 1:57.1. Northern Lightning and favourite Smoke And Mirrors finished second and third.
“We’re very happy with her, first time on the front end, wire-to-wire, real happy,” said Milner, adding that he had considered making his own equipment change after the filly made a brief bobble at the start of an overnight event at Mohawk on August 4 that resulted in a third-place finish.
“I was too scared to change anything,” Milner admitted with a laugh. “I tried all week and I warmed her up in the [ear] plugs and she was fine, but I was like, you know what, she’s already won two Golds without them, I’m just going to leave them out.”
Owned by breeder Harness Horsepower Inc. of Campbellville and Frank Monte of Markham, Ont., Kadabra Queen boosted her earnings to $150,900 with the win and stretched her lead out to 50 points in the two-year-old trotting filly division standings.
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