Sky Promise Seeks Triple in British Columbia Derby

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Sky Promise wins 2018 Canadian Derby at Northlands Park.

Canadian Derby (G3) winner Sky Promise will head a field of 12 in the 1 1/8-mile British Columbia Derby (G3) at Hastings Park Sept. 8.

The $150,000 race for 3-year-olds is the feature race on the Hastings card Saturday, which includes the $100,000 British Columbia Oaks, two stakes for 2-year-olds, and two $50,000 handicaps.

Trained by Robertino Diodoro, Sky Promise won the Manitoba Derby at Assiniboia Downs, also going 1 1/8 miles, by 7 1/2 lengths Aug. 6. The score was his first for his new trainer and the first since he broke his maiden in July of 2017, when he was under the care of Ken McPeek.

The son of Sky Mesa  was claimed out of a June 7 race at Churchill Downs, but was claimed again in his very next start June 30 at the Louisville track, when Rick and Clayton Weist, R 6 Stable, and Norman Tremblay signed the $40,000 claim ticket.

Sky Promise won the Manitoba Derby right out of the gate for his new connections and followed it with a one-length score over fellow British Columbia entrant Day Raider in the Aug. 25 Canadian Derby going 1 3/8 miles at Northlands Park.

The newly minted graded stakes winner had previously finished sixth in his only other graded effort, the Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) in March. 

Others providing competition in the British Columbia Derby are multiple stakes winner Weekend Wizard, who comes in off a second in the Muckleshoot Derby at Emerald Downs; and Count Latham Handicap winner Apalachee Bay.


Entries: British Columbia Derby (G3)

Hastings Racecourse, Saturday, September 08, 2018, Race 8

  • Grade III
  • 1 1/8m
  • Dirt
  • $150,000
  • 3 yo
  • 5:25 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Day Raider (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Antonio Ambrosio Reyes 126 Craig MacPherson 6/1
2 2Not Yet (KY) Miguel A. Rodriguez 126 Robert Gilker 12/1
3 3Pickford (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Denis Araujo 126 Greg Tracy 20/1
4 4Apalachee Bay (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Amadeo Perez 126 Philip Hall 6/1
5 5Wise Market (BC) David G. Lopez 126 Philip Hall 20/1
6 6Sky Promise (KY) Rico W. Walcott 126 Robertino Diodoro 3/1
7 7Chef (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Scott Williams 126 Dino K. Condilenios 30/1
8 8Titochip (KY) Sahin Civaci 126 Craig MacPherson 30/1
9 9El Noble (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Enrique Alonzo Gonzalez 126 Milton Palma 15/1
10 10Canadian Game (KY) Aaron T. Gryder 126 Glen Todd 9/2
11 11Brave Nation (KY) Silvino Morales 126 John Snow 15/1
12 12Weekend Wizard (BC) Richard Harvey Hamel 126 Craig MacPherson 7/2