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After only winning one of his first five career starts, M and L of Delaware, LLC’s Simple Kinda Man ($16.50) sprung a 7-1 minor upset in the $200,000 Battle of Waterloo on Monday afternoon (August 7) at Grand River Raceway, using a steady first-over push to grind down 9-5 favourite Burning Midnight and evade 40-1 longshot Hudson Phil in 1:55....read on
2 year old Open Pace 1.609 m auto Purse: $200 200
Race 11 -- Pace, purse $200,200 (EX, SF, SH, TR) BATTLE OF WATERLOO - FINAL (TOP 9 MONEY WINNERS DECLARED, PLUS 2 A.E'S) (DRAWN AFTER ELIMINATIONS) Last Horse HV PP 1/4 1/2 3/4 Stretch Finish Time 1/4 Driver Odds Trainer 3 Simple Kinda Man 3 4/3 3@/1H 2@/H 1/H 1/T 1:55 29.2 C Callahan 7.25 S Mceneny 6 Hudson Phil 6 8/7 6/5 6/4 4/3H 2/T 1:55.1 28.4 Ja Macdonald 41.50 M Steacy 1 Burning Midnight 1 1/1 1/1 1/H 2/H 3/1Q 1:55.1 29.3 Trev Henry 1.85* C Giles 4 Taste Of History 4 2/1 2/1 3/2 3/2 4/1Q 1:55.1 29.1 L Roy 3.80 R Allard 7 Casimir Richie P 7 9/8 8/7 8/6 6/5H 5/3T 1:55.4 29 T Moore 43.45 Dr I Moore 5 Avalon Hanover 5 7/6 9@/7H 9@/6H 8/8 6/5T 1:56.1 29.2 B Mcclure 7.20 D Menary 8 Stock 8 3/2 4/3 4/2H 5/4 7/7T 1:56.3 30.3 S Filion 9.90 D Fontaine 2 Southwind Grizzly X2 6/5 7@/5H 7@/4H 7/6H 8/8 1:56.3 30.1 D Mcnair 7.05 T Alagna 9 Lucky Sport 9 5/4 5@/3H 5@/3H 9/8H 9/23 1:59.3 33.2 J Jamieson 5.95 D Menary Time: 27.4, 57.3, 1:25.3, 1:55 (Temperature: 20, Condition: FAST, Variant: 0) 1st Simple Kinda Man (b,c,2 - Sportswriter-Sorcha Bluestone-Rocknroll Hanover) Owner: M And L Of Delaware LLC,Wilmington,DE 2nd Hudson Phil (br,c,2 - Shanghai Phil-Hazel-The Panderosa) Owner: Hudson Standrdbrd Stb Inc,Hudson,QC 3rd Burning Midnight (b,g,2 - Mach Three-Respectednbeloved-Dream Away) Owner: Brad D Gray,Dundas-Denise Guerriero,Toronto,ON
2 year old Open Pace 1.609 m auto Purse: $20 000
Race 2 -- Pace, purse $20,000 (EX, SF, TR) BATTLE OF WATERLOO - CONSOLATION Last Horse HV PP 1/4 1/2 3/4 Stretch Finish Time 1/4 Driver Odds Trainer 4 Phantom Seelster 4 4/7 4@/14 3@/3H 2/H 1/1T 1:56.2 30.3 Trev Henry 0.15* M Barrieau 2 Notabadgame 2X 6/9 6/18 5@@/4H 3/1H 2BE/1T 1:56.4 30.4 D Mcnair 19.80 R Mcintosh 6 Atomic Seelster 6 5/8 5/16 4/4 I5/3H 3/3H 1:57 31 T Moore 14.85 Dr I Moore 5 Family Sports 5 2/5 3/13 2/3 4/1H 4/7T 1:58 32.1 J Jamieson 5.95 D Menary 1 Sprocket 1 1/5 1/12 1/3 1/H 5/7T 1:58 32.4 W Henry 24.45 W Henry 3 Sports Band 3 3/6 2@/12 6@/5H 6/6 6/15 1:59.2 33.1 T Cullen 16.50 D Menary Time: 27.3, 55.3, 1:25.1, 1:56.2 (Temperature: 20, Condition: FAST, Variant: 0) 1st Phantom Seelster (ro,g,2 - Mach Three-Pantecostal-No Pan Intended) Owner: Gestion Mastel Inc,Longueuil-Conrad Leber,Montreal,QC-Marcel Barrieau,Cambridge,ON 2nd Notabadgame (b,c,2 - Badlands Hanover-Noshameinmygame-Camluck) Owner: Robert McIntosh Stables Inc,Windsor-Al McIntosh Holdings Inc,Leamington-James H Walker,Port Perry,ON 3rd Atomic Seelster (br,c,2 - Shadow Play-Angelina Seelster-Astreos) Owner: Shadow One Stable,Puslinch,ON-Shawn A Murphy,Charlottetown,PE-Darcy Murphy,Rothesay,NB
After only winning one of his first five career starts, M and L of Delaware, LLC’s Simple Kinda Man ($16.50) sprung a 7-1 minor upset in the $200,000 Battle of Waterloo on Monday afternoon (August 7) at Grand River Raceway, using a steady first-over push to grind down 9-5 favourite Burning Midnight and evade 40-1 longshot Hudson Phil in 1:55.
The son of Sportswriter and Sorcha Bluestone drafted comfortably behind a contested pace, allowing Burning Midnight (Trevor Henry), Taste Of History (Louis-Philippe Roy), and Stock (Sylvain Fillion) to tussle on the first turn. Just after Burning Midnight used his inside position to stack the field up through a :27.4 first quarter, Corey Callahan angled Simple Kinda Man off the pegs from fourth to gain through the stretch on the first occasion. After attending a rated :57.3 half mile, Simple Kinda Man worked closer yet, duelling Burning Midnight down through a :28 third quarter and edging away on the far turn. Simple Kinda Man evaded a late-rallying Hudson Phil (James MacDonald) up the pegs by a length, while the engulfed Burning Midnight narrowly protected third from Taste of History.
“He drove really well today,” Callahan said about Simple Kinda Man, who has blossomed into a stakes contender after his lone prior win came in a $3,000 maiden event at Vernon Downs on June 24. “He was nice and calm, I could sit out there and rate as much as I wanted to go, and when I called on him, he just sprinted off for me.”
The Battle win was not only the first for Callahan, who made his Grand River debut, but also for trainer Scott McEneny.
“He was sent to me about six weeks ago to race in Ontario,” said McEneny. “He’s very fast, he’s a very aggressive horse, and we’ve had to get him quieted down a little bit. He got in a speed duel in his first start, and that kind of woke him up. He seems pretty good now; he’s got very quick speed.”
Phantom Seelster Circles To Waterloo Consolation Win
After biding his time in midfield as 24-1 outsider Sprocket blazed a blistering pace, Phantom Seelster ($2.30) circled three-wide up the far side and took over in the final eighth to capture the $20,000 Battle of Waterloo Consolation for Ontario-sired two-year-old pacers.
Twice a Grassroots winner at Mohawk, the gelded son of Mach Three and Pentecostal trailed two in the second flight as Sprocket (Wayne Henry) amassed a double-digit lead through early splits of :27.3 and :55.3. Trevor Henry angled Phantom Seelster second-over at the halfway stage behind Sports Band (Cullen), and ultimately the prohibitive favourite was forced three-wide around stalled cover nearing three-quarters in 1:25.1. Once around Sports Band, Phantom Seelster steadily gobbled up ground, reeling in the decelerating Sprocket just before turning for home and living up to his odds-on billing. Notabadgame (McNair), who broke stride at the start, recovered to catch the field, circled three-wide off the far turn, and closed under urging to only miss by 1-3/4 lengths. Atomic Seelster (Moore) likewise rallied from astern to take third.
For Phantom Seelster, the win was his third in five career starts. Trainer Marcel Barrieau shares ownership with Gestion Mastel, Inc. and Conrad Leber.
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