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Broken Proposal Will Try To Deliver Sam-Son Seventh Princess Elizabeth Score

Broken Proposal, a two-year-old daughter of Broken Vow, goes for her first-added money crown in the $250,000 Princess Elizabeth Stakes, one of two (Grade 3 $150,000 Hendrie) features on Saturday's 10-race card at Woodbine.

Ten starters are slated to go postward in the 76th renewal of the Princess Elizabeth, a 1 1/16-mile main track race for Canadian-bred two-year-old fillies.

Trained by Stuart Simon, Broken Proposal, a Sam-Son Farm homebred, finished second in her career bow on October 1 at Woodbine in a one-mile race over the E.P. Taylor Turf Course.

Sent on her way at 15-1, the bay, under Gary Boulanger, had a less-than-ideal journey.

Despite a tough beginning and a traffic-filled ending, Broken Proposal managed to finish second 1 ¾-lengths behind the winner.

If Simon was hoping for his young charge to gain some needed experience in her debut, she most certainly did.

“She had a trip where she doesn't have a lot of speed, so I told Gary to just let her get her feet underneath her and get some experience of closing behind her horses,” said Simon. “And that's just what she did. She hesitated a little bit in the stretch, but that happens on the turf. I like to see them save ground and it teaches them a little something.”

Broken Proposal came out of the race in good order and has been training forwardly ahead of her spot in the Princess Elizabeth starting gate.

“She came out of the race well. She's one of those fillies where she was a little immature this summer, but each week now she just becomes a better filly. Mind and body, she's putting it all together. I think her turf form will transfer to the main track. She's worked well on the main track and I know she'll really get the distance. She'll run a long way, that filly. I think the two turns and the further distance will only help her.”

Should she win on Saturday, Broken Proposal would be the seventh Sam-Son silk bearer to have won the race that was inaugurated in 1946.

Sam-Son, who lead all owners with six Princess Elizabeth victories, won the 2000 edition with Dancethruthedawn. The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame inductee went on to win the 2001 Queen's Plate and Woodbine Oaks, both with Boulanger aboard.

In 2018, Boulanger and Simon teamed with Bold Script to win the race. One year later, Simon won with Cool Shadows.

“It would be great to see Sam-Son get their seventh,” said Simon. “I have two, so I'm looking forward to going for the hat trick.”

Mark Casse has four chances to win. The dual Hall of Fame trainer is represented by Baksheesh, a daughter of Summer Front, who won the Muskoka Stakes in August, Lois Len, a stakes-placed daughter of Hunters Bay, Gary Barber homebred Into Touring, who will make her Canadian debut on Saturday, and Mo Touring, another Barber homebred, who will contest her third consecutive stakes event.

Princess Elizabeth-winning fillies Nipissing (2012), Roan Inish (2009), Ginger Gold (2001), Dancethruthedawn (2000), Deputy Jane West (1992) and Par Excellence (1979) all went on to win the Woodbine Oaks presented by Budweiser the following year. Ginger Gold holds the race record (1:43.48) at the current distance of 1 1/16 miles.

The Grade 3 Hendrie has drawn six hopefuls, including Amalfi Coast. The five-year-old daughter of Tapizar arrives at the 6 ½-furlong race for fillies & mares, three-year-olds and up, off a splendid score in the Grade 3 Ontario Fashion Stakes on October 3. Trained by Kevin Attard, the Terra Racing Stable homebred is 7-2-4 from 18 career starts. Attard is also represented by Toffen, a four-year-old daughter of Cairo Prince, who is 5-1-0 from nine starts.

The Princess Elizabeth is slated as race seven. The Hendrie goes as race three. First race post time is 12:55 p.m. Fans can also watch and wager on all the action via HPIbet.com or the Dark Horse Bets app.

$250,000 PRINCESS ELIZABETH STAKES

Post – Horse – Jockey – Trainer

1 – Broken Proposal – Gary Boulanger – Stuart Simon

2 – Mo Touring – Rafael Hernandez – Mark Casse

3 – Into Touring – Rafael Hernandez – Mark Casse

4 – Lois Len – Patrick Husbands – Mark Casse

5 – Souper Flashy – Antonio Gallardo – Kevin Attard

6 – Swinging Mandy – Emma-Jayne Wilson – Dale Desruisseaux

7 – Keep It Neat – Luis Contreras – Barbara Minshall

8 – Baksheesh – Kazushi Kimura – Mark Casse

9 – Moira – Justin Stein – Kevin Attard

10 – Intro – Daisuke Fukumoto – Michael De Paulo

$150,000 HENDRIE STAKES

Post – Horse – Jockey – Trainer

1 – Fiduciary (GB) – Luis Contreras – Josie Carroll

2 – Our Secret Agent – Kazushi Kimura – Mark Casse

3 – Betwixting – Patrick Husbands – Martin Drexler

4 – Toffen – Antonio Gallardo – Kevin Attard

5 – La Libertee (S) – Rafael Hernandez – Mark Casse

6 – Amalfi Coast – Justin Stein – Kevin Attard

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Pair Of Turf Stakes In The Spotlight Friday At Woodbine

A pair of turf stakes, the Lake Superior and Thunder Bay, will share the spotlight on Friday's eight-race card at Woodbine.

The seven-furlong tilts are part of the Ontario Sire Heritage Series, an eight-leg stakes series which are contested at Woodbine and Fort Erie racetracks.

Ontario Racing and its Thoroughbred Improvement Program (TIP) Committee unveiled the series in March. With a total purse structure of $750,000, the Heritage Series features a total of four races – three opening legs and one final – for both three-year-old colts and three-year-old fillies that are sustained to the Ontario Sires Stakes program.

On Aug. 7, Forest Survivor won the $80,000 Lake Huron Stakes, a five-furlong Inner Turf race for colts & geldings, while Artful Ballerina took top prize in the companion $80,000 Georgian Bay for fillies, contested at the same distance and over the same surface.

Five weeks later, at Fort Erie, Red River Rebel won the six-furlong $80,000 Lake Erie Stakes, for colts & geldings, and Red Equinox bested her filly rivals in the six-furlong $80,000 Rondeau Bay Stakes.

The $80,000 Lake Superior, which goes as race three, has attracted 11 colts & geldings, including Darwin Banach pupil I'm Dashing.

Bred and owned by Martin and Victoria Earle, the son of Society's Chairman has compiled a record of 2-0-1 from five career starts.

The bay arrives at the Lake Superior off a smart score on Sept. 26 at Woodbine. Under Antonio Gallardo, who gets the call again on Friday, I'm Dashing broke outwardly in the 7 ½-furlong Inner Turf race, but quickly recovered and then rallied to notch a one-length win in 1:31.75 over firm ground.

“We were excited about that effort,” said Banach. “I spoke with the owners and we had this spot in the back of our minds, if he could step up and win that race. And he did it quite impressively I thought. It set up everything for the Lake Superior, so now, this is where we're aiming.”

After a ninth-place result in his career bow last October, I'm Dashing finished fourth in his next start, his three-year-old debut, this June at Woodbine.

He broke his maiden via a three-quarter-of-a-length victory on Aug. 1 in a seven-furlong race over the E.P. Taylor Turf Course, following that effort with a third-place finish in another seven-panel grass engagement on Sept. 4.

Banach, enjoying a strong season at the Toronto oval, is looking for another top showing from his sophomore.

“He's been doing, well, developing and maturing. He's very easy to work with, just a very cool dude to be around. He wants to go out there and please you. He was very laid back and now he's a little more playful coming home. He's talking to us, telling us he's feeling pretty good.”

The Thunder Bay, slated as the first race, has drawn eight hopefuls, including multiple stakes winner Lorena, trained and co-owned by Stuart Simon.

First post time is 4:45 p.m. Fans can also watch and wager on all the action via HPIbet.com and the Dark Horse Bets app.

FIELD FOR THE $80,00 LAKE SUPERIOR

POST – HORSE – JOCKEY – TRAINER

1 – Forest Survivor – Shaun Bridgmohan – Norman McKnight

2 – Speed Way (S) – Simon Husbands – Sid Attard

3 – Master Spy – Patrick Husbands – Mark Casse

4 – Perfect Crime – Eswan Flores – Patrick Dixon

5 – Maakwa – Gary Boulanger – Shana Lopez

6 – I'm Dashing – Antonio Gallardo – Darwin Banach

7 – All Canadian – Emma-Jayne Wilson – Gail Cox

8 – Kosmonavt – Luis Contreras – Norman McKnight

9 – Dragon's Brew – Kazushi Kimura – Robert Tiller

10 – Secret Reserve – Rafael Hernandez – Mike Mattine

11 – Red River Rebel – Justin Stein – Kevin Attard

FIELD FOR THE $80,000 THUNDER BAY

POST – HORSE – JOCKEY – TRAINER

1 – Red Equinox – Christopher Husbands – Jamie Attard

2 – Imaginary Sky (S) – Daisuke Fukumoto – Suzanne Drake

3 – Meet the Soprano – Rafael Hernandez – Mark Casse

4 – Cleomenes – Patrick Husbands – Josie Carroll

5 – Jilli Marie – Steven Bahen – Katerina Vassilieva

6 – Lorena – Gary Boulanger – Stuart Simon

7 – Sunsprite – Justin Stein – Kevin Attard

8 – Dejas Too – Luis Contreras – Josie Carroll

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Jockey Of The Week: Dylan Davis Celebrates First Grade 1 Win At Woodbine

Jockey Dylan Davis is usually riding at Belmont Park at this time of year but he travelled to Woodbine outside Toronto, Canada and came home with his first career Grade 1 victory. The win earned Jockey of the Week honors for Davis. The honor, which is voted on by a panel of racing experts, is for jockeys who are members of the Jockeys' Guild, the organization which represents more than 1050 active, retired and permanently disabled jockeys.

Riding for trainer Christophe Clement, Davis was aboard Mutamakina (GB) in the Grade 1 E.P. Taylor Stakes, a 1-1/4 mile turf test for fillies and mares three-years-old and up and part of the Ladies of the Lawn series. Davis was riding Mutamakina (GB) for the third time including a win in the Grade 2 Dance Smartly in August, the second leg of the Ladies of the Lawn series. Despite the gutsy win in her last start, Mutamakina (GB) went off as the 8-1 sixth choice in the field of 10.

Mutamakina (GB) stalked a slow pace on the yielding turf, and sat off the leader, Kalifornia Queen. Those two battled for the lead into the stretch with Mutamakina (GB) taking the lead at the sixteenth pole, holding off stablemate, La Dragontea (GB) to win by a neck in 2:09.14. Kalifornia Queen finished third.

“She ran well here about a month ago,” Davis recalled. “We saw an opportunity to bring her up. Christophe did a great job getting her here. I've been breezing her, setting her up for this race. We knew she would be tough coming here.”

Davis, 27, the son of retired jockey Robbie Davis, has been riding since 2012. He tied a NYRA record with a six-win day on Feb. 18, 2018 at Aqueduct finishing in-the-money in all nine of his mounts that day. His sisters, Jacqueline and Katie are also jockeys. He currently sits in 4th place of the Belmont Park standings with 19 wins and nearly $1.4 million in purses.

Davis' weekly statistics were 22-4-2-0 and $449,894 in total purses.

Other nominees for Jockey of the Week included Tyler Gaffalione with 12 wins during the week, Juan J. Hernandez who won two stakes races at Santa Anita, Flavien Prat who won the Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth Challenge and Evin Roman who also won 12 races during the week.

The Jockey of the Week panel would also like to recognize the remarkable achievement of Arnaldo Bocachica on Oct. 9 when he set a single card Charles Town record of eight stakes wins during the West Virginia Breeders' Classic card. Bocachica now sits in a 10-way tie for second for most jockey victories in a single day.

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Mutamakina Rules the Lawn at Woodbine

Al Shira'aa Farms' Mutamakina (GB) (Nathaniel {Ire}) returned to the site of her win in the GII Dance Smartly S. two months ago to capture the GI E.P. Taylor S. and secure the win in the Ladies of the Lawn series at Woodbine Sunday. The 8-1 shot, four wide into the first turn, tracked pacesetting Kalifornia Queen (Ger) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) who set a pedestrian pace over the rain-soaked turf course. Mutamakina eyeballed the pacesetter entering the stretch, while a host of rivals piled up to her outside and a pair of foes snuck through the inside as Kalifornia Queen drifted out in upper stretch. Mutamakina finally got the best of the stubborn pacesetter in deep stretch before grimly holding off her late-closing stablemate La Dragontea (GB) (Lopa de Vega {Ire}) to win by a neck and give trainer Christophe Clement the one-two finish in the 1 1/4-mile race.

“She ran well over here about a month ago and we saw an opportunity again to bring her out here,” said winning rider Dylan Davis. “Christophe, first off, did a great job of getting her here. I've been breezing her, setting up for this race, and she's been breezing well and maintained herself and we knew that she would be tough coming here.”

Dylan continued, “She handled everything great. Last time she put herself in a great position laying second. Today, again, she got her nerves going a little bit more than previously, but she put herself in a great position putting herself second. We slowed down the pace and she was handling it well for me and I just needed her to finish strong. Once she got a head in front there at eighth pole she was digging in nicely. She handled the turf well today.”

Launched in 2019, Woodbine's Ladies of the Lawn series is a points-based bonus series which began with the Aug. 22 Dance Smartly S. and was followed by the Sept. 18 GII Canadian S. won by La Dragontea. Mutamakina's two wins in the series earned her own a $50,000 bonus.

Mutamakina, twice group-placed in France in 2019, shipped stateside last autumn and was third in the 1 1/2-mile Zagora S. at Belmont Oct. 31 before concluding the season with a win in the 1 3/8-mile GIII Long Island S. She opened 2021 with a runner-up effort in the May 1 GII Sheepshead Bay S. She bested E.P. Taylor favorite Etoile (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) by a half-length in the Dance Smartly last time out.

Pedigree Notes:

Mutamakina's third dam is champion Ridgewood Pearl (GB), who won the 1995 GI Breeders' Cup Mile at Belmont Park. Her dam, Joshua's Princess, produced a colt by Camelot (Ire) this year. Her 2-year-old full-brother sold for 16,000gns at last year's Tattersalls October sale.

Mutamakina joins Steel Prince (Ire) and Precious Ramotswe (GB) as group winners by Nathaniel out of Danehill mares. Nathaniel is also the sire of Group 1 winners Enable (GB)–two-time winner of the Arc–God Given (GB), Lady Bowthorpe (GB) and Channel (Ire).

Sunday, Woodbine

E. P. TAYLOR S.-GI, C$602,000, Woodbine, 10-17, 3yo/up, f/m,
1 1/4mT, 2:09.14, yl.
1–MUTAMAKINA (GB), 124, m, 5, by Nathaniel (Ire)
                1st Dam: Joshua's Princess (GB), by Danehill
                2nd Dam: Josh's Pearl (Ire), by Sadler's Wells
                3rd Dam: Ridgewood Pearl (GB), by Indian Ridge (Ire)
   1ST GRADE I WIN. (100,000gns Ylg '17 TAOCT). O-Al Shira'aa
Farms; B-Widgham Stud (GB); T-Christophe Clement; J-Dylan
Davis. C$360,000. Lifetime Record: SW & MGSP-Fr, 16-5-3-3,
$634,509. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for
   eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–La Dragontea (GB), 124, f, 4, by Lope de Vega (Ire)
                1st Dam: La Concorde (Fr), by Sadler's Wells
                2nd Dam: La Leuze (Ire), by Caerleon
                3rd Dam: Floripedes, by Top Ville (Ire)
(67,000gns 3yo '20 TATMA). O-Reeves Thoroughbred Racing
& Rebecca Hillen; B-Bartisan Racing Ltd (GB); T-Christophe
Clement. C$120,000.
3–Kalifornia Queen (Ger), 124, f, 4, by Lope de Vega (Ire)
                1st Dam: Kaldera (Ger), by Sinndar (Ire)
                2nd Dam: Konigstochter (Ger), by Dai Jin (GB)
                3rd Dam: Karenina (Ger), by Second Set (Ire)
(€70,000 Ylg '18 BBAGO; €260,000 3yo '20 ARARC).
O-Madaket Stables LLC, Michael Dubb & First Row Partners;
B-Stall Torjager (GER); T-Chad C. Brown. C$60,000.
Margins: NK, NK, 1. Odds: 8.90, 5.85, 2.85.
Also Ran: Waliyak (Fr), Great Island, Keyflower (Fr), Family Way, Court Return, Etoile (Fr), Merveilleux. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

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