Got Stormy Stands Out in Ontario Colleen Stakes

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Photo: Coglianese Photos/Joe Labozzetta
Got Stormy wins the Wild Applause Stakes at Belmont Park

Already a two-time turf stakes winner, Woodbine newcomer Got Stormy headlines a field of eight 3-year-old fillies entered in the $125,000 Ontario Colleen Stakes (G3T) July 21.

Gary Barber's Got Stormy will make her Woodbine debut in the one-mile event following a pair of stakes wins stateside over the same distance for trainer Mark Casse. In addition to posting a victory over the Gulfstream Park turf in her first start from the Casse stable during the winter, the daughter of Get Stormy  won the June 2 Penn Oaks and the June 23 Wild Applause Stakes at Belmont Park.

Got Stormy, who has earned $226,925 from seven starts, will aim to conquer the E.P. Taylor Turf Course next with Patrick Husbands picking up the mount.

"She's been here for a couple of weeks now," said assistant trainer Kathryn Sullivan. "She came up after her last race at Belmont and she's been going very well. We're very happy with her, and we think she's a nice little filly. This race is right up her alley—a mile on the turf. That's exactly what she has been really excelling at."

Fresh off a victory in the $225,000 Bison City Stakes over 1 1/16 miles on the Tapeta, fellow Casse trainee Safe to Say will move to the turf for the first time since her third-place debut last July. Owned by Barber and Windways Farm, the daughter of Justin Phillip  has won two of three starts this year with a rallying third-place finish in the Selene Stakes (G3), also a 1 1/16-mile affair.

"It's always been in the back of our minds that she would run well on the turf," Sullivan said. "It's not that big of a change from the Tapeta—those surfaces are not completely dissimilar.

"Everything is going well. She came out of the Bison in good order, and we're looking for a good performance."

Another recent Woodbine stakes winner, Fairy Hill, will be tested for the first time over the E.P. Taylor Turf Course. Claimed for $25,000 at Woodbine last fall by Bruno Schickedanz, the improving Fairy Hill put forth a respectable fourth-place showing going 1 1/8 miles against Woodbine Oaks Presented by Budweiser competition, then cut back to seven furlongs and captured the Lady Angela Stakes June 29.


Entries: Ontario Colleen S. (G3T)

Woodbine, Saturday, July 21, 2018, Race 8

  • Grade IIIT
  • 1m
  • Turf
  • $125,000
  • 3 yo Fillies
  • 4:47 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1A. A. Azula's Arch (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Eurico Rosa Da Silva 115 Kevin Attard 20/1
2 2Armoricaine (GB) Alan Garcia 115 H. Graham Motion 15/1
3 3Ladies Night (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Gary Boulanger 115 Gail Cox 20/1
4 4Get Explicit (KY) David Moran 115 Barbara J. Minshall 12/1
5 5Fairy Hill (ON) Jeffrey Ian Alderson 117 Norman McKnight 6/1
6 6Got Stormy (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Patrick Husbands 121 Mark E. Casse 7/5
7 7Peach of a Gal (MD) Rafael Manuel Hernandez 115 H. Graham Motion 5/2
8 8Safe to Say (ON) Jerome Lermyte 119 Mark E. Casse 5/1