Eurico Rosa da Silva knew time was running out, like sand in an hourglass. With three months left in his riding career, there was but one stakes race at Woodbine that he had never won. He had won two Queen’s Plates, and the Canadian International Championship Stakes two years ago on 43 to 1 shot, Bullard’s Alley, in a race dominated by non-local jockeys. But the … [Read more...] about The Last Pot of Gold
El Tormenta
Gail Cox Comes Full Circle
It’s funny how it works: trainer Gail Cox finds herself floating full-circle into the $1-million Ricoh Woodbine Mile, tackling the race for the first time in her career, for an outfit that brought her to horses in the first place: Sam-Son Farm. Cox has guided a 4-year-old Sam-Son homebred, El Tormenta to this epic grass race, where he is accorded 20 to 1 odds for … [Read more...] about Gail Cox Comes Full Circle