On a quiet Saturday in mid-November, between the Nov. 1-2 Breeders’ Cup and stakes exercise late within the month, solely two graded stakes are to be contested Nov. 16 in North America, each price CA$175,000 at Woodbine.
Just one such race, the Kennedy Street Stakes (G2), was initially on the schedule. The Autumn Stakes (G2) was added to the Saturday program after Woodbine halted its Nov. 9 card earlier than its completion over considerations concerning the security of its major monitor. After the Nov. 10 card was additionally scrapped, the artificial Tapeta floor at Woodbine got here beneath in depth analysis, and monitor upkeep was modified, leading to a resumption of coaching and scheduled racing this week.Â
Two Canadian champions, streaking sprinter Patches O’Houlihan and 2023 King’s Plate Stakes winner Paramount Prince , are in motion Saturday, with the previous battling 2023 Breeders’ Cup Turf Dash (G1T) winner Nobals within the six-furlong Kennedy Street and Paramount Prince among the many favorites within the 1 1/8-mile Autumn Stakes. Each races are on the primary monitor.
Patches O’Houlihan and Paramount Worth are full merchandise of the Ontario breeding program. Apart from being foaled there, they’re by stallions that stand within the area.
Patches O’Houlihan, a 4-year-old by Reload  , is pursuing a fifth straight victory Saturday. Unbeaten this yr, he enters the Kennedy Street having received the restricted Pink Lloyd Stakes, Daring Enterprise Stakes (G3), Vigil Stakes, and Nearctic Stakes (G2T), all at Woodbine.
Though he lugged out to the middle of the course down the stretch within the Nearctic, he was tenacious in victory to prevail by a 1 1/2 lengths beneath jockey Sofia Vives. That improved his total file to 11-for-13 for proprietor/breeder Frank Di Giulio Jr.
PATCHES O’HOULIHAN ($6.30) stopped on the grandstand for a drink on his approach to profitable the $250,000 Nearctic Stakes (G2) at @woodbinetb. The gelding took jockey @SofiaLVives for a large journey down the lane. The fan favourite 4-year-old was coach by Robert Tiller. pic.twitter.com/soOLWbN7dX
— FanDuel Racing (@FanDuel_Racing) October 5, 2024
“He is a fighter, a avenue fighter,” praised Canadian Corridor of Fame coach Bob Tiller. “He would not hand over.”
The rail-drawn gelding’s solely losses got here when he was sixth the 2022 Bull Web page Stakes and a fifth within the 2023 Kennedy Street.
Patricia’s Hope’s Nobals, a 10-time winner by his 4-year-old season, has gone unplaced in three begins at age 5 since his 2023 Breeders’ Cup Turf Dash victory, although he has remained aggressive in opposition to a number of the United States’ high grass sprinters. He has proven versatility in dealing with artificial tracks, with 5 such victories, together with within the 2022 Woodstock Stakes at Woodbine. He raced one different time at Woodbine on Tapeta when twelfth within the 2022 Daring Enterprise Stakes.
Common rider Gerardo Corrales is up for coach Larry Rivelli, who has prepped him with two current works over Turfway Park‘s Tapeta floor.
Entries: guess 365 Kennedy Street S. (G2)
Woodbine, Saturday, November 16, 2024, Race 11
- Grade II
- 6f
- All Climate Observe
- $175,000
- 3 yo’s & up
- 6:20 PM (native)
Paramount Prince Seeks to Rebound in Autumn
Michael Langlois and Gary Barber’s Paramount Prince, a 4-year-old son of Society’s Chairman skilled by twin Corridor of Famer Mark Casse, heads into the Autumn, the tenth race on the cardboard, with a 3-for-5 file this yr, having received an allowance non-obligatory claimer at Gulfstream Park on Tapeta earlier than including the Dominion Day Stakes (G3) and Seagram Cup Stakes (G2) over the summer time. The front-runner will search to bounce again from a uncommon poor efficiency on Tapeta when fifth in a quick-paced Durham Cup Stakes (G3).
The competitors is led by Dwell Oak Plantation’s Endlessly Souper , a Mid-Atlantic invader driving a three-race win streak for coach Mike Trombetta, and the uncoupled Repole Secure-owned duo of By no means Stunned and Bail Us Out , each skilled by Kevin Attard.
Entries: HPIbet Autumn S. (G2)
Woodbine, Saturday, November 16, 2024, Race 10
- Grade II
- 1 1/8m
- All Climate Observe
- $175,000
- 3 yo’s & up
- 5:50 PM (native)