Big crowd for longshot win
Reminiscent of glory days as track enjoys big B.C. Day
Kent Gilchrist, The Province
Published: Tuesday, August 07, 2007
With the apron on the home stretch chockablock full and the
grandstand bursting, you'd have thought big-time horse racing was
back at Hastings Racecourse.
B.C. Cup XIII was No. 1 on B.C. Day where most of the races are
dedicated to B.C. breds, including $400,000 in purses for seven races
on the 10-race card.
"It's like the 1970s are back," said Jeff Sengara, one of the
longtime owners who have helped ensure the thoroughbred industry kept
a local pulse. "I think with the slots finally going ahead, it looks
like we're on our way back.
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Jockey Rocco Bowen (right), aboard Shacane, signals victory in B.C.
Cup Classic Monday at Hastings Racecourse.
Les Bazso, The Province
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Font: ****"It's a great day. It was tough to find a parking place.
There were lineups for everything, it feels just like the good old
days. It's a great day for racing."
Because there is no charge to get into the grounds, Hastings doesn't
keep attendance figures, but it was estimated there were 8,000 sun-
drenched folks out for the holiday Monday card.
It was particularly good for eight-year-old campaigner Shacane, who
went off at 39-1 in the $100,000 Peter Redekop Classic and against a
superior field that included 1-5 favourite and defending champion
Spaghetti Mouse, who had never been beaten at the 11/8th mile
distance.
Shacane paid $81.30 for the huge upset and when Timeless Passion, Act
of God and Forceful Intention were also able to finish ahead of the
favourite, backers got back $589.70 for the exacta, $4,345 for the
triactor and a whopping $18,182.60 for the superfecta.
Bred by owner Paul Shatzko, the principal of owner Bellevue Oaks,
Shacane was Hastings' top three-year-old after winning the Premiers
Stakes before he broke down and suffered through two tendon-repair
operations that kept him on the farm for his four and five-year-old
years.
"It's especially good to beat a field like this after what he's been
through," said Shatzko, whose brother Roy played for the B.C.
Lions. "Shauna [trainer Ferguson] got him into superb shape.
When Shacane got injured, Shatzko sent him to California to have his
tendon surgery where they take stem cells from the sternum and inject
them in the injured tendon.
"We bred him," said Shatzko, "so to get to see this is huge."
Sengara, meantime, watched last season's two-year-old of the year,
Suva, whom he named after his father-in-law'
year-old fillies race by a nose over favoured Napa in the closest of
the B.C. Cup's seven races.
It might not have been as much fun for Glen Todd and Patrick Kinsella
and their trainer Troy Taylor, who saddled entries in six of the
seven races without managing to get into the winner's circle. No need
to feel too badly for the pair. They are the local track's leading
owners and Taylor is second in the trainer standings.
You know things are going good for trainer Terry Jordan, who
conditions for owner Bob Cheema, when they enter 14-1 longshot Star
Prospector in the nursery stakes and he wins going away from
favourite and Todd/Kinsella'
The presenter of the nursery was Mike Boylan and T.D. Stables, from
whom Cheema and Jordan claimed Star Prospector.
Jordan and Cheema created a buzz back at Woodbine in Toronto earlier
this year with 2006 Hastings horse of the year True Metropolitan and
two-year-old Dancing Allstar. It's always nice to export some of
B.C.'s best and they show that not quite everything is better in the
Centre of the Universe.
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