AUGUST 2021 THE RIDER /23
Q.R.O.O.I.: 50 Alexander Crossing’s, Ajax, ON L0S 1T6 Telephone: (905) 426-7050 • Fax: (905) 426-7093 Email:
qrooiheadoffice@gmail.com
www.qrooi.com
AJAX DOWNS, AUGUST 4, 2021 - NIGHT LEADER un- leashed a furious rally midway through the 3rd running of the Ontario Bred Futurity and cap- tured the $61,020 stakes race for 2-year-olds, August 4 at Ajax Downs. Making just his third career start, Night Leader, sent off at odds of 8 to 1, broke smoothly from post seven in the eight-horse field and then flew past favoured First Cold Wave to win going away by 1 1/2 lengths under jockey Josh Scott. First Cold Wave, trained by Jason Pascoe and ridden by jockey Brian Bell held second by a neck over another Pascoe juvenile, Kold Kinda Star with Ismael Mosquiera riding. Owned by John Wilson
of New Liskeard, ON and Scott Reid of Lansdowne and trained by Reid, Night Leader raced the 300-yards on a fast track in 15.739 for an 83 speed index. The son of Ontario sire El Night
PRESIDENT Bob Broadstock 18101 Cedardale Road, Nestleton, Ontario L0B 1L0 (905) 986-0044 email:
bob_broadstock@hotmail.com
VICE-PRESIDENT Chantelle Bourgeois 416-985-7046
Chantelle.Bourgeois@
t4g.com
James Bogar
JBogar@cameronsteel.com
Scott Reid
sr_training@hotmail.com
Amanda McCormack
amccormack.valmor@
gmail.com
Night Leader Scores 8 to 1 Upset in $61,020 Ontario Bred Futurity at Ajax Downs
Shift from the mare Bajillion was bred by Edith Slater and was coming into the Futurity off a second and third-place finish in maiden races. He earned $25,163 for the victory. The bay gelding paid $19.60 to win. “The first two starts he
just needed to get a grasp of what he was supposed to do and today he just put it all together,” said Scott. “I have been getting on all of Scott’s 2-year-olds and I felt I had a knack with this lit- tle guy.” John Wilson was pleased
to be back at Ajax Downs to watch his horses race after the track was closed to spectators in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pan- demic.
“I missed seeing my
horses last year but it’s good to be here today. Night Leader is a serious little guy, he doesn’t fool around much. We were proud of him today.” For Reid, Night Leader
was his second stakes winner of the 2021 season, following the victory by George Coleman’s Firing Red Jess, also ridden by Scott, in the Picov Maturity in
Night Leader romps to a 1 1/2 length victory in the 3rd Ontario Bred Futurity. June.
Racing continues at Ajax
Downs next Wednesday, Au- gust 11 with the exciting final of the $50,000-added Ontario
Bred Derby. Fans are welcome at the
track and can register to attend at
www.ajaxdowns.com. First race post time is 1:30 p.m. Keep
Sean Slater
cusl8r@live.com
Ralph Pearson - 905-243-4501
ralphpearson@bellnet.ca
Jockey Josh Scott and co-owner and trainer Scott Reid celebrate the victory of Night Leader, also owned by John Wilson, in the Ontario Bred Futurity. New Image Media/Clive Cohen photos
up to date on Quarter Horse rac- ing at Ajax Downs by following us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, @AjaxDowns. Video feed of the August
4 card of racing at Ajax Downs:
https://www.facebook.com/ajax downsracetrack/videos/876039 956333066
Jessaprimadonna Struts Her Stuff in $51,660 Princess Derby at Ajax Downs
AJAX DOWNS, JULY 14, 2021 - In a thrilling renewal of the $51,660 Princess Derby for 3-year-old Quar- ter Horse fillies, JESSAPRI- MADONNA won the 350-yard dash by a neck over
stakes winner
Streakinlilwagon for owners Craig Spada of Ridgeway, ON and Isaak Fehr of Taber, AB. Craig Spada trains the Louisiana-bred daughter of One Sweet Jess and Cory Spataro rode. There were a few anx-
ious moments for Jessapri- madonna before the race as one of the stirrups on Spataro’s saddle broke in the pre-race warm-up and the filly had to return to the
saddling enclosure to be re- saddled. Once Spataro was back aboard Jessapri- madonna, the pair broke fast from post position six and set
their sights on
Streakinlilwagon, who grabbed a short lead. A cou- ple of strides before the fin- ish, Jessaprimadonna surged to win in the rapid time of 17.683 for an impressive 97 speed index rating. “Right in the post pa-
rade my (stirrup broke) and I had to go back and get an- other saddle,” said Spataro. “It was a little nerve-wrack- ing. But we kept her calm and once she went to the gate she settled right down.” Jessapr imadonna,
horses at Fort Erie racetrack with the help of his assistant Matt Storms and daughter Lauren Spada, won three races at Ajax on July 14 for a total of eight wins after just five days of racing, sec- ond in the trainer standings to Pascoe who has 10 wins. The 10-race card at realized
Ajax Downs
$141,378 in wagering, the highest single day of betting since 2013. Follow Quarter Horse
racing at Ajax Downs on Twitter,
Instagram and
Facebook (@AjaxDowns) You can watch the entire card of racing from the live stream on the Ajax Downs Facebook page.
Notice to the Industry
Quarter Horse Racing Industry Development Program
Third Start Bonus
JESSAPRIMADONNA won the Princess Derby by a nose for co-owner and trainer Craig Spada (white shirt), jockey Cory Spataro and assistants Lauren Spada and Matt Storms. Isaak Fehr from Alberta also owns. New image Media photo
who won one of the two Tri- als for the Princess Derby despite stumbling at the start, was claimed by Spada for $10,000 (US) from a race at Evangeline Downs in December, 2020. She has two wins in three starts for Spada and picked up $20,665 for winning the Princess Derby. “She sure ran a good
race today,’ said Spada. “I think maybe it was from my NHL hockey refereeing days that I learned to deal with pressure situations like this, having to change her saddle. You learn in horse racing every day and today we learned to stay calm and that’s what you do around horses.” St reakinl i lwagon,
owned and trained by Jason Pascoe of Pontypool, was one length ahead of Rick Crispi’s Jessies Good Candy while another Spada filly, Rosie Perry, finished fourth. Race favourite Ice
Cream Cartel broke a step slowly and then lost her path to other rivals and wound up eighth. Spada, who trains his
Due to the delay in the start of the Quarter Horse rac-
ing season, the deadline for the first submission of appli- cations for Third Start Bonus has been extended from August 15 to August 31. Please note that the program has been expanded to in-
clude payment to the owner of the qualifying horse. Please ensure you are using a 2021 application form,
and submit it to the QROOI office by August 31. Application forms are available on the Ontario Racing
website
www.ontarioracing.com. For further information contact:
Kathie Wilkinson Quarter Horse Program Coordinator
qhprogram@ontarioracing.com 416-477-5529
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50
