{"id":407905,"date":"2025-09-08T13:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T13:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407905\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T13:29:14","slug":"inside-track-september-6-7-woodbine-racetrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/407905\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Track: September 6-7 &#8211; Woodbine Racetrack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">A look at some of the top highlights from the past weekend of racing at Woodbine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Fit For a Crown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under a textbook ride from Rafael Hernandez, Aristella successfully rallied to capture the $250,000 Wonder Where Stakes, the third jewel in the Canadian Triple Tiara, Saturday at Woodbine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bay daughter of More Than Ready\u2013Back to Love showed great poise before initiating a strong push for home to steer clear of the competition by 1 \u00bc lengths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Trained by multiple graded stakes winning conditioner Rachel Halden and bred by\u00a0Peter A. Berglar Racing Interests, LLC &amp; Anderson Farms (Ontario), Aristella paid $17.80 at 7-1.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39311\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/woodbine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Aristella2-scaled.jpg\"\/><strong>Aristella and Rafael Hernandez. Michael Burns Photography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Scary Good<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Haunted Dream\u2019s (IRE) first start on North American soil was one to remember, as the 6-year-old grey delivered a track-record triumph in Saturday\u2019s $150,000 HPIbet Singspiel Stakes (GT3), run over 1 3\/8 miles on Woodbine\u2019s inner turf course.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">No stranger to competition (38 starts coming in), Haunted Dream (IRE) looked more than comfortable away from home, speeding around the turf in 2:15.40 for the 1 \u00bd-length victory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The record-setting effort also represented a clean sweep of Saturday\u2019s two stakes events for rider Rafael Hernandez, who won the Wonder Where in race four.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Haunted Dream paid $4.80.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39312\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1200\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/woodbine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/HauntedDream1.jpg\"\/><strong>Haunted Dream (IRE) and Rafael Hernandez. Michael Burns Photography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>\u2018I Do\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">After paying her dues with a second and two thirds and over her last trio of starts, Shotgun Wedding proved a deserving winner in Sunday\u2019s third at Woodbine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Working out of post six with rider Keveh Nicholls aboard, the 3-year-old Mendelssohn filly out of Speightstown mare Reluctant Bride took the lead at the sixteenth pole and capped off the impressive rally by edging out 8-5 choice Promising by a half-length.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bred by Deron Pearson &amp; Patrick L Biacone LLC, and trained by Jamie Begg, Shotgun Wedding\u2019s first tally of 2025 paid $6.50.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39313\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/woodbine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ShotgunWedding-scaled.jpg\"\/><strong>Shotgun Wedding and Keveh Nicholls. Michael Burns Photography<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Stay tuned<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Live racing continues on Thursday. First post is 5:30 p.m. ET<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A look at some of the top highlights from the past weekend of racing at Woodbine. 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