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The Grade 3 Ontario Derby, for 3-year-olds headlines Sunday’s 10-race card at Woodbine in Toronto, Ontario.

Besilu Stables is still very much in business with some of the most valuable bloodlines in the stud book. The operation just looks different from the one we had grown accustomed to seeing during the previous decade.

Avie’s Flatter, 2018 champion 2-year-old, and earner of over $1 million in his career, will enter stud at Colebrook Farms in Ontario, Canada.

A colt by Mitole and a filly by the Factor were both purchased by D. J. Stable LLC for $210,000 to share honors at the top of the Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company’s 2022 Selected Sale of Yearlings.

“Hopefully, he can go back to Saratoga next year over hurdles,” Brion said. “He really loves the jumping. Even in general, he seems a lot more eager to train and do things. He’s 8-years-old and has been doing the same thing his whole life, so it might just be enough to really spark him up again. He’s doing great, he’s a class old horse.”