She's the Berries Carries Win Streak Into Trillium

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Photo: Michael Burns
She's the Berries wins the 2018 La Prevoyante at Woodbine

With three straight victories, including a stakes score on the all-weather surface at Woodbine, She's the Berries will be on familiar ground when she seeks her first graded stakes win June 16 in the $125,000 Trillium Stakes (G3) at the Toronto track.

Brereton Jones' homebred She's the Berries closed out 2018 with consecutive clear wins at Woodbine, including a 2 1/4-lengths score in the La Prevoyante Stakes against 3-year-old fillies by Ontario stallions. The daughter of Badge of Silver then opened her 4-year-old season with a narrow victory in a 1 1/16-mile allowance race May 5 at Woodbine.

Trained by Mark Casse, She's the Berries will stay at the 1 1/16-mile distance in Sunday's Trillium for fillies and mares 3-and-older, which has attracted 11 entries. 

Casse, who just completed a U.S. Triple Crown season in which he won the Preakness Stakes (G1) with War of Will and Belmont Stakes (G1) with Sir Winston, will also send out Gary Barber's Miss Mo Mentum, who won last year's Selene Stakes (G3) at Woodbine; as well as Barber's Summer Luck, who finished second to She's the Berries in the May 5 allowance race.

Also entered in the Trillium out of that allowance race are third-place finisher Ladies Night, fourth-place Dixie Moon, and fifth-place Cartabianca.

Stakes winner Bear Paw, campaigned by Bear Stables and breeder Colebrook Farms, will also try to secure her first graded stakes win. The daughter of Bear's Kid enters off a victory in an optional-claiming race May 26 at Woodbine for trainer Ashlee Brnjas.

"We're in good order," Brnjas said. "There are a lot of nice horses in this race, but I have absolutely nothing to complain about. I feel very privileged to train this horse."

 


Entries: Trillium S. (G3)

Woodbine, Sunday, June 16, 2019, Race 8

  • Grade III
  • 1 1/16m
  • All Weather Track
  • $125,000
  • 3 yo's & up Fillies and Mares
  • 4:55 PM (local)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L
1 1Tapa Tapa Tapa (KY) Jesse M. Campbell 117 Timothy E. Hamm 7/2
2 2Miss Mo Mentum (KY) Jerome Lermyte 119 Mark E. Casse 20/1
3 3Bear Paw (ON) Justin Stein 119 Ashlee Brnjas 20/1
4 4Dixie Moon (ON)Keeneland Sales Graduate Eurico Rosa Da Silva 121 Catherine Day Phillips 4/1
5 5She's the Berries (ON)Keeneland Sales Graduate Patrick Husbands 119 Mark E. Casse 3/1
6 6Lunar Garden (ON) Rafael Manuel Hernandez 117 Stuart C. Simon 20/1
7 7Summer Luck (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Emma-Jayne Wilson 117 Mark E. Casse 8/1
8 8Cartabianca (FR) Steven Ronald Bahen 117 Roger L. Attfield 20/1
9 9Ladies Night (KY)Keeneland Sales Graduate Alan Garcia 117 Gail Cox 12/1
10 10Giovanna Blues (KY) Gary Boulanger 117 Francine A. Villeneuve 12/1
11 11Hot Cash (ON) Luis Contreras 117 Michael J. Doyle 8/1