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Nice Guys Stables’ King Cause may have been the oldest horse in a 10-horse field, but the 7-year-old son of Creative Cause pulled off a 14-1 upset to land his first graded stakes victory in Sunday’s $150,000 Knickerbocker (G3) at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet.
Duly Resolved capped off his Ontario Sires Stakes season in style tonight (October 4) by establishing a new trotting track record at The Raceway at the Western Fair District in one of two divisions for three-year-old colts and geldings.
It’s always exciting to have a Grade 1-winning 2-year-old in the barn, but it is perhaps more so when it’s your first graded stakes winner in 11 years and first Grade 1 winner since 1993.
Twin B Archie managed to hold off a fast-closing Duly Resolved to take the $165,725 Simcoe Stake for three-year-old trotting colts on Saturday night (Sept. 3) at Woodbine Mohawk Park. The race, contested by just five talented sophomores, kicked off a stakes laden card anchored by the legendary Canadian Pacing Derby and Maple Leaf Trot.
Bernard McCormack of Cara Bloodstock will have a solid chance to add another Queen's Plate to his resume on Sunday in Hall of Dreams, a Lemon Drop Kid colt who enters the race off a runner-up effort in the Plate Trial Stakes on July 24.