Ticker Tape Home holds a class advantage as the lone graded stakes winner in a field of 10 female sprinters in the CA$135,000 Ontario Fashion Stakes (G3) Oct. 12 at Woodbine.
The Mark Casse trainee is coming off a win in the seven-furlong Seaway Stakes (G3) Aug. 24 and cuts back to six furlongs on Tapeta for the Ontario Fashion. The Live Oak Plantation-owned 4-year-old daughter of Medaglia d'Oro faces Owen's Tour Guide and Beauty of the Sea, both coming off stakes wins but not at the graded level.
Tequesta Racing's Owen's Tour Guide, a 6-year-old Tourist mare, rallied late to win the restricted Zadracarta Stakes at Woodbine over the inner turf Sept. 21 for trainer Willie Armata. She had been 11th in the Seaway a start early.
"She is doing very well," Armata said of the CA$5,000 purchase from the 2019 CTHS Canadian Premier Yearling Sale. "When she is in the entries, she likes to walk a little bit in the stall because she is excited. She knows, prerace, that it is time to be all business.
"She is happy and so are we. It's been a career year for her, and she deserves it. The plan will be to run her here and then one more time before the end of the year."
Trainer Kevin Attard will send out three runners: Love to Shop, Tripolina, and Ro Town. Casse also starts Star Candy, who is coming off a Sept. 20 allowance optional claiming win.
Woodbine, Saturday, October 12, 2024, Race 8Entries: Ontario Fashion S. Presented by Tanqueray (G3)
PP Horse Jockey Wgt Trainer M/L 1 1Star Candy (FL) Sahin Civaci 122 Mark E. Casse 6/1 2 2Blind Spot (MD) Keveh Nicholls 122 Saffie A. Joseph, Jr. 12/1 3 3A Game (ON) Fraser Aebly 122 Josie Carroll 15/1 4 4Owen's Tour Guide (ON) Jose Luis Campos 123 W. V. Armata 10/1 5 5Beauty of the Sea (FL) Sofia Vives 125 Joseph F. Orseno 3/1 6 6Love to Shop (KY) Emma-Jayne Wilson 121 Kevin Attard 4/1 7 7Swall (KY) Rafael Manuel Hernandez 122 Julia Carey 20/1 8 8Tripolina (KY) Kazushi Kimura 119 Kevin Attard 20/1 9 9Ticker Tape Home (ON) Patrick Husbands 123 Mark E. Casse 5/2 10 10Ro Town (KY) Justin Stein 122 Kevin Attard 12/1
