{"id":216884,"date":"2025-06-26T21:27:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T21:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/216884\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T21:27:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T21:27:25","slug":"sophias-storm-wires-field-in-la-verendrye-stakes-at-assiniboia-downs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/216884\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia&#8217;s Storm Wires Field in La Verendrye Stakes at Assiniboia Downs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY STEVE KOCH<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Florida-bred <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/entries-results#searchby=horse&amp;search=sophia&#039;s%20storm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sophia\u2019s Storm<\/a> led from start to finish last night to capture the $36,613 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equibase.com\/premium\/chartEmb.cfm?track=ASD&amp;raceDate=06\/25\/2025&amp;cy=CAN&amp;rn=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">La Verendrye Stakes<\/a> at Assiniboia Downs in a final time of 1:12.99 for six furlongs. The 6-year-old bay mare, sent off as the second choice, broke alertly from post four under jockey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equibase.com\/profiles\/Results.cfm?type=People&amp;searchType=J&amp;eID=171231&amp;rbt=TB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sven Balroop<\/a> and never looked back. After setting fractions of :23.02 and :47.17, Sophia\u2019s Storm opened up a clear advantage turning for home and held on gamely to score by one-half length.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victory marked Sophia\u2019s Storm\u2019s fourth win of 2025 and boosted her seasonal earnings to over $57,000. The daughter of Handsome Mike, bred by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/entries-results#searchby=breeder&amp;search=just%20for%20fun%20stable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just For Fun Stable Inc.<\/a>, is trained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equibase.com\/profiles\/Results.cfm?type=People&amp;searchType=T&amp;eID=949181&amp;rbt=TB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Keplin Jr.<\/a> and owned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/entries-results#searchby=owner&amp;search=arnason%20farms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arnason Farms<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/entries-results#searchby=owner&amp;search=wallette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Parker Wallette<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftboa.com\/entries-results#searchby=owner&amp;search=keplin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Keplin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sophia\u2019s Storm returned $3.40 to win in the field of six fillies and mares.<\/p>\n<p>The La Verendrye Stakes was run over a fast track on a cloudy evening at the Manitoba oval.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Parts of this story were drafted by Claude.ai<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Return to the June 26 issue of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/conta.cc\/3GfLFxA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wire to Wire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BY STEVE KOCH Florida-bred Sophia\u2019s Storm led from start to finish last night to capture the $36,613 La&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-216884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114751789674473972","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}