Milton, August 30, 2025-Louis-Philippe Roy Planted Emoticon Legacy (Walner) On the point and a comfortable miles cut like a decisive 1-5 chalk over double millionaire Maryland to take the degree 3 $ 158.125 Simcooe 3-year-old open prot, one of the two Simcoe Stakes Harness Racing events on the Saturday card on Woodbine Mohawk Park, in a Stakes record 1: 50.
Roy stretched emoticon legacy from the post 6 to reach the foreground and approached a: 27.2 first quarter, while Maryland, from the 9-5 second choice, pushed from the Pylon Post to fourth place. No challenges for the leader and a delayed pace to A: 57 half and then forced Maryland to set up a first bid after emoticon Hanover, at which point Roy the accelerator immediately got through the far turn. Emoticon Legacy clearly peeled enough of the peloton that Maryland had room to put briefly in the bag that passed three -quarters in 1:24 and was ready for a stretch fight. But Maryland lost Stride to turn home and left emoticon alert on a broad lead when Roy finished him before crossing the finish to win with 7-1/4 lengths. PL Spencer gathered for the second with Fadeaway Hanover who settled for the third and Pierre in Paris celebrated.
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‘You don’t want to go too fast without reason, but I felt a bit bad. I felt he could have left [1:]49 Easy tonight, “said Roy after the race.” For a troubling stallion, [1:]49’s species of the catch number instead of [1:]50, but he will get another chance. He was so good tonight. It was just a training mile for him. ‘
The 1: 50.3 miles of emoticon legacy nevertheless lowered the Investigance in the Simcooe of 1: 51.3 that was founded last year in 2024 Hambletonian Runner-Up Highland Kismet. The 1: 50.3 Mile also comes a fifth of a second shy of the Canadian record emoticon legacy set when winning the GoodTimes Stakes earlier this year.
Luc Blais trains Emoticon Legacy, a homeboard Walner Colt from the champion Mare Emoticon Hanover, for the determination of the owner. The Colt won its fifth race from seven starts this season and its ninth race from 14 starts in his career, good for $ 871,271 in income. He paid $ 2.70 to win in his leader prior to the Canadian troubling classic eliminations on Saturday 13 September.
R Dutchess acquired a pocket ride, succeeded in the room at the top of the piece and made a formidable challenge against 8-5 second choice lasting dream to take the grade 3 $ 159.725 SIMCOE 3-year-old Merrieveeulen Trot in 1: 52.4.
Tim Tetrick sent R Dutchess forward from post 5 and brushed by the early leader Sprite Seelster to get the top after a: 27 first quarter. Once she crossed the lead, the lasting dream came from third place and zipped along the edge to grab the command and place R Dutchess in a slipstream in motion to A: 56.1 half.
Because of the distant turn, more challengers appeared with Highlandstarburst who hijed the mast outside, and she varied within a duration of the permanent dream on the march to three -quarters in 1: 25.3. But Highlandstarburst floated from the pass around the bottom corner, giving R Dutchess room to give outside and collect Momentum for a Homestretch sprint. R Dutchess Ground past lasting dream that the last eighth of a mile is approaching and slid away to win with two lengths. Sprite Seelster was chasing the Third and PL Sapphire stormed the center of the track to become the fourth.
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“I took a bit of a shot, but I followed one of the best horses in the race,” Tetrick said about his potentially locked journey in the race. “I had raced really hard, so I thought the sausage case scenario was that she would find too late and that she was and was lucky.”
Susie Kerwood took on training tasks at R Dutchess by John Boboenschoen for the Canadian campaign of the Merrievefeulen, which points alongside the Elegantimage elimination on Friday 12 September. R Dutchess, rented by M and L van Delaware and Armitage Farm, won her fourth race of eight starts this season and her seventh gentlemen of 20 Starts $ 515,627.
“She has been good,” Tetrick said too. “She just had a little hiccup on the Hambo elimination evening; we thought she would be a competition in the oak. She has been good every start; she has been a two every time. She really has a nice marefore. She starts to show it.”
R Dutchess paid $ 3.20 to win.
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Through Ray CotoloFor Woodbine Communications
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