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Salute With Honor Complete Weekend Stakes Sweep For Husbands, Casse At Woodbine

Jockey Patrick Husbands and trainer Mark Casse completed a sweep of the Thanksgiving weekend stakes events at Woodbine in Toronto, Ontario, as Salute With Honor won the Grade 3, $125,000 Durham Cup in front-end fashion on Sunday.

Salute With Honor was followed by a hard-closing Skywire and Rafael Hernandez to complete a Casse exacta in the 1-1/16-mile main track test for horses three years old and up.

The Husbands-Casse duo also clicked in Saturday's $250,000 Cup and Saucer Stakes with Canadian-bred 2-year-old Master Spy.

In Sunday's graded stakes feature, Salute With Honor took command from the quick-leaving Inventing Blame into the first turn approaching the :23.43 quarter mark and clocked a half-mile in :47.36 and three-quarters in 1:11.78 en route to victory.

Skywire, who raced inside near the back of the seven-horse field, maneuvered outside on the final turn and came tearing home to finish second, one length behind his triumphant stablemate. Timeskip closed from last to nab the show honours for conditioner Rene Kierans ahead of another Casse trainee, Pioneer Man. Roaring Forties, Armistice Day and Inventing Blame completed the order of finish.

Salute With Honor was not far off Freitag's track record (1:42.16) as he posted a final time of 1:42.35.

First-time stakes winner Salute With Honor ($6, $3.20, $2.90) was the slight 2-1 favorite over Skywire ($3.10, $2.50), who won the Grade 2 Eclipse on July 4 over the same course and distance, and they combined here for a 3-1 exacta worth $19.10.

“He's a horse that likes to be forwardly-placed,” noted Husbands of the six-year-old chestnut son of To Honor and Serve. “I don't touch him, he just does what he's gotta do. I just be the pilot and relax on his back, and when I asked him, he gave me all he can give me.”

The Live Oak Plantation homebred gelding earned his seventh career win and has banked nearly $360,000 from 19 starts. Salute With Honor has now won two races in a row at Woodbine and sports a five-for-seven record here lifetime.

Husbands has won back-to-back editions of the Durham Cup on two occasions. He first accomplished the feat with the Casse pupil Delegation and the Josie Carroll-conditioned James Street in 2012-2013. Last year, he guided The Great Day to victory for trainer Arnaud Delacour. The veteran jockey and four-time winner Casse earned their first Durham Cup titles together in 2009 courtesy of Pool Play.

Live Thoroughbred racing continues on Thursday at Woodbine, with post time for the nine-race program set for 2:15 p.m. A reminder that the new Friday post time of 4:35 p.m. goes into effect this week and Racing Night Live returns on TSN with coverage from Woodbine Racetrack and Woodbine Mohawk Park from 7-9 p.m. ET.

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Win Win Win Strikes Gold In Forego With Last-To-First Rally

Despite a heavy downpour of rain just minutes before post time, Win Win Win did just that, coming from well off the pace and passing five rivals through an assertive stretch run to take the 41st running of the seven-furlong Grade 1, $300,000 Forego presented by America's Best Racing at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Owned by Charlotte Weber's Live Oak Plantation and trained by Mike Trombetta, Win Win Win, a 4-year-old son of Hat Trick, arrived off a runner-up finish to fellow Forego contender Complexity in a one mile allowance optional claiming tilt on July 2 at Belmont Park.

Breaking from post 7, Win Win Win was initially last in the 11-horse field, 16 1/4 lengths off the pace as Complexity dueled up front alongside True Timber through an opening quarter-mile in 22.28 seconds and a half in 44.63 over the sloppy and sealed main track.

Around the far turn, Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano engaged his charge at the three-eighths pole while Complexity and True Timber continued their upfront battle. At the top of the stretch, Castellano angled Win Win Win, still last, nine wide and in pursuit as Complexity established a one-length lead with True Timber still fighting to the inside and Funny Guy putting in a bid to the outside. In the final strides to the wire, Win Win Win found a new gear and powered home a half-length winner in a final time of 1:21.71.

Win Win Win at the wire in the Forego

Castellano, who scored his first Forego victory since piloting Mass Media to victory in 2005, picked up the mount aboard Win Win Win in his last out runner-up effort and said that his first time aboard the son of Hat Trick was a learning experience.

“What an amazing horse. I'm truly honored to ride the horse and very blessed with the way everything went,” Castellano said. “He was very far back and made a huge run to win the race. Not too many horses can do that. He did it and in a nice way. He's a really nice horse. I rode him last time at Belmont and he didn't break out of the gate. I rushed to get the spot I was looking for and didn't have the best result. I think I learned through that experience and today it paid off with a Grade 1 win in the Forego.”

Complexity finished another three-quarters of a length to True Timber, who garnered graded stakes black type for the eighth time in his career.

Rounding out the order of finish were Funny Guy, Lexitonian, Everfast, 2018 Forego winner Whitmore, Mind Control, Majestic Dunhill, Fortin Hill and Firenze Fire.

The victory was a first graded stakes triumph for Win Win Win, who was a stakes winner on dirt and turf. Last January, he won the Pasco at Tampa Bay Downs and broke the track record for seven-furlongs finishing the race in 1:20.89 and capped off his 3-year-old campaign with a victory in his turf debut in the Manila over the Widener turf last July at Belmont Park.

Trombetta had been anxious to get his horse back to the seven-furlong distance over the main track and was thrilled to see him display such an effort.

“It's a distance he likes, but he doesn't have the best gate speed,” Trombetta said. “The way this track has been playing, it's very hard to close. Well, what he did, I haven't seen the whole meet.”

Trombetta said he was a bit concerned when Win Win Win was so far back.

“I honestly don't know what to say; he dropped so far back, and his chicklet and number actually went off the screen and I couldn't even see across the track,” Trombetta said. “I thought he was absolutely out of the race and might not have had a chance to even finish. But then turning for home, he came back on the screen. It's just unbelievable.”

Win Win Win was off the board in last year's Grade 1 Kentucky Derby and Grade 1 Preakness Stakes and Trombetta said that he had shorter races in the back of his mind for a while.

“It's been on my mind for a long time,” Trombetta said. “We got caught up in the Triple Crown, for which he made a good run at it. We tried him on the grass, and he won there. He's just a good horse. These races are a little hard to find, but he certainly deserves it.”

Returning $16.20 for a $2 win bet, Win Win Win enhanced his consistent lifetime record to 12-5-3-1 and his earnings past the half-million dollar mark to $601,600.

Live racing resumes on Sunday at Saratoga with an 11-race card which features the Grade 3, $125,000 Shuvee going 1 1/8 miles for older fillies and mares on the main track. First post is 1:10 p.m.

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Souper Escape Runs Away With Woodbine’s Trillium Stakes

Live Oak Plantation's Souper Escape gave her filly and mare foes the slip in the $125,000 Trillium Stakes to earn her first graded stakes victory on Saturday afternoon at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto, Canada.

The Michael Trombetta trainee was an impressive 1:42.78 winner in the Grade 3 main track event, coming close to the 1:42.16 track record for 1 1/16 miles held by recently retired Freitag.

“When she came out from the gate, she was so nice and relaxed, it looked like it was kind of easy, but she was all game today,” said winning jockey Luis Contreras, who was bracing for the competition to come. “When I turned for home, I had so much horse and she just kept rolling.”

Souper Escape set fractions of :24.93 to the quarter, :48.65 to the half and 1:11.76 while widening her lead to three-quarters. Another Time and favorite Theodora B. were her closest rivals three lengths behind after Nantucket Red levelled off when attempting a three-wide bid down the backside.

Souper Escape opened up six lengths down the lane and ended with 4 1/2 lengths to spare as Painting, who trailed the seven-horse field through the first half-mile, rallied into second-place and finished 3 1/4 lengths clear of show finisher Another Time.

Art of Almost, Wings of Dawn, Theodora B. and Nantucket Red rounded out the order of finish.

Souper Escape paid $7.50 to win as the slight 5-2 second choice.

The four-year-old homebred daughter of Medaglia d'Oro–Cry and Catch Me also counts the 2019 La Lorgnette Stakes, her only other start on Tapeta, among her five wins from 15 starts. Today's victory boosted her bankroll well over the $200,000 mark.

Contreras and Trombetta have already teamed up for a stakes win this season with Woodstock champion Newstome at the start of the meet.

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Charlotte Weber’s Live Oak Plantation Named Florida Breeder Of The Year, Leading Owner

The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders' and Owners' Association has announced its Florida-bred Champions for 2019. Typically, the awards are presented at an annual awards gala held on the Monday prior to OBS's March auction. The event was not held this year, however, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and it will not be rescheduled.

For the 16th time in FTBOA history, Charlotte Weber was honored with a Florida-bred champion that was bred by her Live Oak Stud and owned by her Live Oak Plantation, located in Ocala, as Global Access was named the Florida-bred Champion 3-Year-Old Colt or Gelding. Live Oak Stud was also named the Florida Breeder of the Year for the third time and the Leading Owner by Florida-bred Earnings for the fourth time. She previously won the Breeder title in 2006 and 2007 and the Leading Owner title in 2011, 2016, and 2017.

During the year, Global Access won the Grade 3 Marine Stakes and Grade 3 Ontario Derby at Woodbine, the Grade 3 Saranac Stakes at Saratoga, and the DRF Bets Sophomore Turf Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs. He was also second in the Wando Stakes at Woodbine, with thirds in the Grade 2 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes at Saratoga and in the Charlie Barley Stakes at Woodbine.

By Giant's Causeway out of Daveron (Ger), by Black Sam Bellamy (Ire), Global Access won four of nine starts with a second and three thirds while earning $337,733 during 2019. Trained by Michael Trombetta, Global Access finished the year with a career bankroll of $373,402.

Another Florida-bred who took home multiple honors was Starship Jubilee, the Champion Older Female and Champion Female Turf Horse. Bred by William P. Sorren of Miami Beach, Fla., Starship Jubilee received Sovereign Awards as Canada's Horse of the Year and Champion Female Turf Horse for 2019, adding to the titles she also earned in 2017 and 2018.

Trained by Kevin Attard for Blue Heaven Farm, in 2019 Starship Jubilee won the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor Stakes and her second consecutive Canadian Stakes presented by the Japan Racing Association (G2), both at Woodbine. The Canadian was not the only stake she won for the second straight time, as she also defended her title in the Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf at Gulfstream Park. In 2019, she was also second in the Grade 2 Dance Smartly Stakes and Nassau Stakes at Woodbine and second in the Grade 3 Cardinal Stakes at Churchill Downs. The well-traveled mare was also third in the Grade 3 Woodford Reserve Ballston Spa Stakes at Saratoga.

Starship Jubilee is by Indy Wind out of the Forest Wildcat mare Perfectly Wild, and she finished the year with three wins, three seconds, and a third from seven starts, with earnings of $604,929. She finished the year with $1,171,387 in career earnings.

Once again in 2019, the Florida-bred Champion 2-Year-Old Colt or Gelding title went through the FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes series at Gulfstream Park.

Shooting Star Thoroughbreds' Chance It garnered the title after winning the $100,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Dr. Fager and the $400,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes In Reality, while finishing second in the FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Affirmed.

By Currency Swap out of Vagabon Diva, by Pleasantly Perfect, Chance It was bred by Bett Usher of Ocala, Fla., and finished the year with three wins and two seconds from five starts, with earnings of $384,150.

K P Dreamin was named the Florida-bred Champion 2-Year-Old Filly based on her two third-place finishes in the Grade 1 Chandelier Stakes at Santa Anita and in the Grade 1 Starlet Stakes at Los Alamitos.

Trained by Jeff Mullins for Karl Pergola, K P Dreamin was bred in Florida by Peter Vegso's Ocala-based Vegso Racing Stable. She is by Union Rags out of Litigating, by Point Given and she finished the year with one win and two thirds from five starts, with earnings of $132,260.

William Stiritz's Wildwood's Beauty used the Florida Sire Stakes program for older horses and Florida-bred stakes to catapult herself to the title as the Florida-bred Champion 3-Year-Old Filly and Champion Female Sprinter.

During the year, the Scott Becker trainee won the Stonehedge Farm South Sophomore Fillies Stakes and FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Ivanavinalot at Tampa Bay Downs and the Sheer Drama Stakes and Sunshine Million Distaff Stakes at Gulfstream Park. She was also second in the Florida Sire Stakes City of Ocala at Tampa Bay Downs and in the Florida Sire Stakes Wildcat Heir at Gulfstream Park, while amassing a record of four wins and five seconds from 10 starts. She racked up $327,895 in earnings in 2019 and finished the year with career revenues of $355,395.

Bred by Philip and Karen Matthews of Ocala, Wildwood's Beauty is by Kantharos out of Miss Propitious, by J P's Gusto.

In the stallion categories, Journeyman Stud's Khozan was Florida's Leading Juvenile Sire and Leading Freshman Sire, while Ocala Stud resident Adios Charlie was Florida's Stallion of the Year.

Khozan had 44 runners, 19 winners, and three black type stakes horses for progeny earnings of $1,275,632, and Adios Charlie progeny acquired $3,753,347 from 106 runners, 65 winners, and three black type stakes winners.

Khozan was represented by his leading money earner and stakes-winner Liam's Lucky Charm ($233,800), while multiple graded stakes-winner Jean Elizabeth was the leading money earner for Adios Charlie with $264,888.

Kathleen O'Connell and Saffie Joseph, Jr., tied with 58 Florida-bred wins at Florida tracks while O'Connell was also the Leading Florida Trainer of Florida-breds by black type stakes wins with six, and Joseph was the Leading Florida Trainer by Florida-bred earnings with $1,977,046.

It was the 12th time O'Connell has won or shared the title as the Leading Florida Trainer by wins (2003, 2009-2018) and the first time Joseph has won a Florida-bred title in either category. O'Connell has won or shared the Florida black type wins title twice before in 2013 and 2017.

The Joe O'Farrell Memorial Award presented by Ocala Breeders' Sales Company went to William A.T. and Lyn Rainbow's The Acorn as the original consignor of Starship Jubilee, the year's top Florida-bred graduate of OBS.

Sally J. Andersen of Ocala was presented the Needles Award as Florida's small breeder of the year. Andersen bred multiple stakes-winner Anyportinastorm, and recorded earnings of $843,513 as a breeder of Florida-breds. Andersen was presented a John Deere Riding Mower 330 as the Needles Award winner.

In June, the FTBOA recognized Imperial Hint as the Florida-bred with the top Beyer Speed Figure during 2019, as awarded by the Daily Racing Form. Imperial Hint logged an electrifying 114 Beyer while setting a Saratoga track record for six furlongs in 1:07.92 in the Grade 1 Alfred G. Vanderbilt Stakes.

Imperial Hint is trained by Luis Carvajal, Jr., for Raymond Mamone, and he was bred in Florida by Bert and Martha Pilcher's Shade Tree Thoroughbreds in Fairfield.

Horse Capital Television is partnering with the FTBOA and will air a special awards edition honoring each champion and their connections. The event will premiere on Wednesday, July 15 at 8 p.m. on https://www.facebook.com/HorseCapitalTV/ and https://www.horsecapitaltv.com/.

The re-aired show will be available on www.ftboa.com, The Florida Horse Twitter page and the FTBOA Facebook page.

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