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9 mares and mare fields for ages 3 and up, together with the formidable Mark Cuss Fourthum Elisian Discipline, Olivia Rose, Stormcast, and Ticker Tape House, will journey seven furlongs on Saturday’s third-grade major observe Sea Stakes At Woodbine.
Hardspin’s 5-year-old daughter, who spun from Good Strike, returned to the race from an eight-month layoff on July 11, ending ninth within the Colonial Downs.
“The race at Colonial, she was exterior and by no means truly participated within the race,” assistant coach Kathryn Sullivan stated of Philly, who notched her freshman victory within the Maple Leaf Stakes (G3) to shut the 2024 marketing campaign. “It was a bit unusual race for her.”
Chestnut was the 2023 Woodbine Oaks winner in the identical 12 months and was runner-up at Kings Plate.
“I feel she’ll be pleased to be again at Woodbine,” Sullivan stated. “She’s all the time working effectively right here, so we sit up for a great race.”
Olivia Rose received her fourth profession stakes crown after dominating a $100,000 ballad stake on July thirteenth.
With the victory, the 4-year-old daughter, the silent identify of Malibu Moon Male Malibu Dawn, is 14:5-4-1 with pockets income of $288,242.
“It was actually spectacular,” Sullivan stated. “The way in which she saved doing it (essentially the most spectacular a part of the victory) and she or he bought so sturdy.”
Olivia Rose received the 2023 South Sea Stakes Working, successful final 12 months’s Fury Stakes and Thunder Bay Stakes editions.
Olivia Rose beat Maiden on her third profession begin on August 26, 2023, shocked her 13 3/4 size over 6 1/2 furlong on the Woodbine major observe.
“She’s the opposite one that is constant and all the time stands up for the duty,” Sullivan stated. “Hopefully she will be able to provide you with one other massive efficiency on Saturday, which is a step up for her, and I feel that is her first stakes race at her open firm.
The super-consistent Stormcast returns to race motion after 9 months of layoffs.
The Stormcast concluded final 12 months’s season with the success of its first stakes on the 2024 Bison Metropolis Stakes, a center jewel within the Canadian Triple Tiara collection.
“I like her, she’s a really good filly,” Sullivan stated of the horse that will abolish $309,205 on 8:3-4-1 file and pockets income. “She has by no means completed within the high three, which could be very spectacular.
“That is her first begin of the 12 months, so it is a massive race for her first begin from some time off.”
Stormcast debuted on June 17, 2023 and positioned second within the Woodbine major observe with a 5-furlong dash.
“She’s doing very effectively and we’re getting ready her. We have been looking for her in the best place. Hopefully, that is it.”
The Darkish Bay, raised in Ontario by Dr. Tan Haika, was bought $95,000 for a two-year-old coaching on the 2023 Obs March Sale.
“Folks could discover a slight change in that her possession is at present listed as a lighthouse race,” Sullivan stated. “It is nonetheless the identical possession group and so they’ve achieved a little bit of a rebrand. She has a brand new silk and a brand new possession identify, however it’s the identical group.”
Ticker Tape House gathered her first-year successes when she received the 2024 version of Seaway.
Ranging from a pre-war mare journey, Medalia Doro’s daughter hit the rostrum in a single second and a 3rd in three of her 4 begins in 2025.
“She’s been doing rather well this 12 months,” Sullivan stated. “She received this race final 12 months, so I do know that is the race she actually likes. I feel she’s sitting in that massive victory. She was there in the beginning of all of the years.
The 5-year-old Darkish Bay, bred by Samson Farm, is 20:4-3-2 with pockets income of $328,269.
| no. | silk | Horse / sire | analysis | Coach/Jockey | The ultimate begin/Subsequent begin | scenario |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stormcast garments | 6.09 | Mark E. Case Rafael Manuel Hernandez | 1st, 2024 Bessaravian G3 2025 Seaway G3 | enter | |
| The ultimate race Subsequent race | 1st, 2024 Bessaravian G3 2025 Seaway G3 | |||||
| 2 | Ticker tape residence gold medal | 6.07 | Mark E. Case Patrick’s husband | Third, the candy Briar can be S. 2025 Seaway G3 | enter | |
| The ultimate race Subsequent race | Third, the candy Briar can be S. 2025 Seaway G3 | |||||
| 3 | metaphysics American freedom | 0.00 | Tony Gatterraro Ryan Munger | Fourth, Candy Briar can be S. 2025 Seaway G3 | enter | |
| The ultimate race Subsequent race | Fourth, Candy Briar can be S. 2025 Seaway G3 | |||||
| 4 | Speak to YA later Good wooden | 3.79 | Ian Black Slade Jones | Third, Ballade S. 2025 Seaway G3 | enter | |
| The ultimate race Subsequent race | Third, Ballade S. 2025 Seaway G3 | |||||
| 5 | Just a little loopy Military Mule | 0.00 | Josie Carroll Fraser | First, WO AOC (07/26/2025-R3) 2025 Seaway G3 | enter | |
| The ultimate race Subsequent race | First, WO AOC (07/26/2025-R3) 2025 Seaway G3 | |||||
| 6 | Loss of life angle intersection | 5.97 | Saffie A. Joseph, Jr. Xarel Forde | tenth, 2025 Sand Springs LS 2025 Seaway G3 | enter | |
| The ultimate race Subsequent race | tenth, 2025 Sand Springs LS 2025 Seaway G3 | |||||
| 7 | Olivia Rose Silent identify | 0.00 | Mark E. Case Sahin Civilian | First, Ballad S. 2025 Seaway G3 | enter | |
| The ultimate race Subsequent race | First, Ballad S. 2025 Seaway G3 | |||||
| 8 | Evaluating the dangers Mendelssohn | 5.91 | Chad C. Brown Eric Cancel | First, Sar Alwoc (7/23/25-r2) 2025 Seaway G3 | enter | |
| The ultimate race Subsequent race | First, Sar Alwoc (7/23/25-r2) 2025 Seaway G3 | |||||
| 9 | Elysian Discipline Laborious spin | 6.27 | Mark E. Case Pietro Moran | ninth, CNL AOC (07/11/2025-R7) 2025 Seaway G3 | enter | |
| The ultimate race Subsequent race | ninth, CNL AOC (07/11/2025-R7) 2025 Seaway G3 | |||||
