C.E.C. Farms home-bred filly Milwaukee Appeal would run a spectacular race in the final feature race on Sunday June 7th at Woodbine Racetrack capturing the Woodbine Oaks Stakes (presented by Budweiser).
The 54th running of the Woodbine Oaks was a much anticipated event for Canadian thoroughbred race fans as a field of thirteen fillies would go around the Toronto oval over a distance of a mile and one-eighth, vying for the $500,000 purse. Trainer Scott Fairlie would pick up his first Oaks victory as his filly Milwaukee Appeal would win the event by three and three-quarter lengths.
The race would start out great for Milwaukee Appeal, breaking smoothly and going to the front of the pack, while second place finisher Tasty Temptation would miss the break and play catch-up the majority of the race. Koonunga Hill would take the lead from Milwaukee Appeal before the first turn and set the pace going down the backstretch, going a half-mile in forty-eight and change and taking a two and a half length lead on Milwaukee Appeal, who was followed by maiden Indigo North and behind her First Circle and Politelyprecocious, with Miss Blakely coming up between them. In the meantime, Tasty Temptation was making up ground the whole way starting an early run for the leaders, using up vital energy early on. By the top of the second turn Koonunga Hill would begin to fade to Milwaukee Appeal and Tasty Temptation, who came out of the clouds and they would pass her and come into the home-stretch with the Fairlie trainee taking a short lead on Tasty Temptation . Rider Stewart Elliott would have much more left in his filly though and gave her some left-handed encouragement to run on and she would do just that, kicking away from Mark Cassie's Tasty Temptation by over three lengths to pick up her $300,000 share of the purse. Finishing third was ship-in Miss Blakely nosing out the other southern invader, Wynning Ride both back a fair margin of Tasty Temptation.
For full results to the 54th edition of the Woodbine Oaks Stakes (presented by Budweiser) click here: http://www.equibase.com/static/chart/pdf/WO060709CAN9.pdf
If Tasty doesn't miss the break, it was her race. I still don't like the jockey change, shame on CEC for taking Somsanith off the winning filly. That was just classless. Na would've given her just as good a ride as Elliott. Can't blame Elliott for taking the mount though.
ReplyDeleteI went 4 for 5 in picks over the weekend and my miss was second. How did everyone else do?