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Arco’s Gold
Jockey - Constant Montpellier
Constant Montpellier enjoyed his best money-won season ever in 2002, ranking sixth with Woodbine career-best 98 wins and more than $5.1 million in purses. That topped his previous Woodbine mark of 91 wins and $4.3 million in 2000.
Born August 30, 1961 in Dorion, Quebec, Montpellier began his riding career at 30, leaving behind a career as a newspaper and magazine photographer. He rode at Fort Erie in 1991 for trainers Rene Crete and Norm Bowles and scored his first win aboard Briartic Ruler on October 12, 1991. He was Ontario’s leading apprentice rider (in wins) in 1992 but finished second to Stanley Bethley in Sovereign Award voting. However, the following year he won 144 races and captured the Sovereign as Canada’s top “bug.”
He moved to Woodbine on a regular basis in 1994, winning 38 races that year. In 1995, Montpellier reached the $1-million mark in purse earnings for the first time, increasing that total over the next five years.
In 2001, Montpellier hooked up with Win City, guiding the Ontario-bred to five local stakes wins (Queenston, Marine, Plate Trial, Col. R.S. McLaughlin, Autumn) and a victory in Fort Erie’s Prince of Wales Stakes en route to Sovereign Award Horse of the Year honours.
Last year, the Brampton resident rode Lady Shari to year-end Sovereign Award honours in the three-year-old filly category, combining with the dark bay to capture the Canadian Derby (Northlands Park in Edmonton) and the Maple Leaf Stakes at Woodbine.
Still looking for his first Breeders’ Stakes win, after three seconds (Master Stuart in 2000, One Emotion in 1997 and Pagagar in 1994), Montpellier has 41 wins, including three stakes and over $2.3 million in purses through August 3 this year.
Ballerina’s Halo
Jockey - Jim McAleney
Born August 15, 1969 in Fort St. John, British Columbia, Jim McAleney won his first race in 1986 at Northlands Park in Edmonton. He was the leading rider in Alberta the following year, then came east to capture the Greenwood Fall meet title. Those accomplishments earned him a Sovereign Award as Canada’s top apprentice for 1987 as he won 160 races, good enough for fifth place in North America.
He successfully defended his title in 1988 , winning a second Sovereign as the nation’s top apprentice. In 1989, he was the regular pilot of Mr. Hot Shot, Canada’s champion sprinter. In 1995, he won 98 races, good for fourth place and over $2.4 million in purses.
After relatively modest 1997 and 1998 campaigns, McAleney returned to prominence in 1999, ranking 12th with 59 wins (including four stakes) and $1.9 million in purses.
But the past three seasons have far exceeded those numbers. In 2000, he rode 54 winners to $2.6 million in purses, including two stakes and a second place finish aboard I And I in the Queen’s Plate. In 2001, he won 56 races, ranking 11th with $2.8 million in purses. Among his four stakes wins were the Breeders’ Stakes and Wonder Where aboard filly Sweetest Thing.
Last year, however, was indeed a dream season for ‘Jimmy Mac,’ as the veteran pilot soared in the rankings, finishing the year fifth overall. He also posted career-best marks in several categories, including nine stakes wins and $5,747,948 in purse earnings. McAleney teamed with Mort Hardy’s Anglian Prince for a highly successful campaign, including a narrow loss in the Queen’s Plate and a third in the Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie.
With more than $36-million in lifetime purse earnings, McAleney is once again enjoying a banner season at Woodbine. Through August 3, the Ancaster resident sits third behind Todd Kabel and Patrick Husbands, with 54 wins (including four stakes) and over $3.2 million in purses.
Colorful Judgement
Jockey - Slade Callaghan
Last season turned into a career year for 32-year-old Slade Callaghan, who, at 5' 8", is one of the tallest riders on the grounds. The native of Bridgetown, Barbados won 54 races, tying for 10th place, as he recorded a personal best of over $3.4 million in purses.
His year was highlighted by four stakes victories, three of which came aboard Sam-Son Farm’s Sovereign Award winner Portcullis, including the Breeders’ Stakes.
In 2001, Callaghan ranked tied for 18th with 42 wins and over $2.3 million in purses, winning stakes aboard Hopeful Moment (Shepperton), Nowyouseeit (Juvenile Colts), and Atlantic Fury (Cup & Saucer). He scored 48 wins in 2000, including four stakes, for a then career-best $2,616,537 in purse earnings, despite missing a month due to a fractured vertebrae.
It was in 1999 that he enjoyed his breakthrough season, with 60 wins and just over $2 million in purses, ranking 11th at Woodbine. His six stakes wins included the Connaught and Hong Kong Jockey Club with Incitatus, trained by fellow Barbadian Ron Burke and the Kennedy Road with Great Defender in a six-furlong track record performance. He also finished second in the Breeders' Stakes with John the Drummer.
Earning his riding licence at age 16 in Barbados, Callaghan won his first race aboard a five-year-old gelding named Noble Run. His riding career soon came to a halt after an accident in which he sustained a major shoulder injury. He eventually came to Toronto for surgery and rehabilitation in 1987.
Ten months later, Callaghan pronounced himself fit and returned to the track to embark once again on what had begun as a promising riding career, potential now being realized by the Bolton resident.
“After the surgery, the neurosurgeon told Slade he would have to change his career,” said Callaghan’s mother, Maureen. “We had not left the doctor’s office when Slade said to us, ‘He does not know what he’s saying.’ Slade proved him wrong and won the first race he took part when he returned to the races in Barbados.”
This year, he has 19 wins and $1,178,203 in purse earnings through August 3 at Woodbine.
Parasail
Jockey - Robert Landry
Robert Landry enjoyed another hugely successful year in 2002, winning eight stakes with eight different horses and accumulating over $4.2 million in purses, the second-highest in his 21-year career. He ranked 12th overall in wins with 51. Through 2002, his career totals show over $45 million in purses and almost 1,700 races.
In 2001, despite dealing with a mid-season injury, Landry managed to post another solid season, winning 53 races and $3,361,586 (seventh-best amongst riders). He won five stakes that year, including the Durham Cup on Sovereign Award-winning Older Horse A Fleets Dancer.
Born September 18, 1962 in Toronto, Landry scored his first career win aboard Hammy Hubert, June 21, 1981 at Fort Erie. He won his first stakes race the following year aboard La Salle Park in the Fair Play. About 10 years later, he emerged as one of Canada’s top riders.
Landry earned Sovereign Awards as Canada’s outstanding jockey in 1993 and 1994 and led all Woodbine riders in stakes wins in 1993 (13), 1994 (18) and 1996 (18). He also rode five consecutive champion two-year-old fillies (Larkwhistle, 1996; Primaly, 1997; Fantasy Lake, 1998; Hello Seattle, 1999; Poetically, 2000) during their Sovereign Award-winning years.
Likely his biggest career win came in the 1999 Atto Mile aboard Sam-Son Farm’s Quiet Resolve ($91.10 to win), one of the biggest upsets in Woodbine stakes history when the gelding was elevated to top spot with the disqualification of Hawksley Hill.
The Toronto rider has yet to win the Queen’s Plate, but has won the other two legs of the Triple Crown, the Prince of Wales with Archers Bay in 1998 and the Breeders’ Stakes with Pinafore Park the same year.
In May, Landry was named the 2003 recipient of the Avelino Gomez Memorial Award for his contributions to the sport in Canada and was honoured in a ceremony on Oaks day on June 8. Several hours later, he won his third Labatt Woodbine Oaks, the premier event for three-year-old Canadian-bred fillies, with Too Late Now. His other wins came in 1997 with Capdiva and 2000 with Catch The Ring.
Through August 3, Landry has 35 wins, good enough for seventh place, and over $3.1 million in purses (fourth place), helped by major stakes wins aboard Perfect Soul (King Edward Breeders’ Cup) and Too Late Now (Labatt Woodbine Oaks).
Shoal Water
Jockey – Todd Kabel
For the past 11 years, Todd Kabel has ranked in the top four at Woodbine, both in wins and purse earnings. This year will be no different, as the 37-year-old Kabel leads all riders with 86 wins, including a leading 16 stakes and over $5.9 million in purses through August 4. He’s won three added-money events aboard Wando’s stablemate Mobil, as well as the rich Nearctic with Soaring Free, the Dominion Day on Phantom Light and the Chinese Cultural Centre Stakes with Strut The Stage.
Last year, Kabel established a career high in earnings with over $8.5 million, captured a leading 18 stakes races (including four Yearling Sales Stakes in one day) and finished second to Patrick Husbands in money and wins (130). His career totals now exceed 2,500 wins and $60 million in purses.
In 2001, he won 145 races, 11 stakes and $7,031,736 in taking his third riding title.
In 2000, he won 10 stakes, none bigger than the Queen’s Plate aboard Scatter The Gold. Kabel also captured Fort Erie’s Prince of Wales Stakes with the Sam-Son three-year-old before finishing third in the Breeders’ Stakes. In 1999, Kabel finished third at Woodbine with 126 wins and just over $4 million in purses, capturing 11 stakes races. In 1997, he won 20 stakes and finished second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile aboard 78-1 shot Dawson’s Legacy.
Born December 7, 1965 in McCreary, Manitoba, Kabel scored his first win aboard Forli’s Ainikel at Assiniboia Downs, July 4, 1984.
His rise to prominence began when he earned a Sovereign Award as Canada’s top apprentice jockey in 1986, winning 131 races (sixth in North America) while competing mostly at Assiniboia Downs in Winnipeg. He came east in 1987 and after splitting his riding between Winnipeg and Toronto during the next two seasons, moved to Toronto permanently in 1990. In 1992, he earned a Sovereign Award as top rider after winning 114 races.
His 1995 season was one for the record books. Kabel won 193 races (the second most ever at Woodbine behind Mickey Walls’ 221 in 1991), $5.1 million in purses and 28 stakes wins (second only to Avelino Gomez’ 32 added money victories in 1966). The season was highlighted by his first Plate victory aboard Regal Discovery and his second Sovereign Award as Canada’s top jockey.
Kabel has yet to win the Breeders’ Stakes, but did finish second with Patriot Love in 1998 and third with Mountain Beacon in 2002 and Scatter The Gold in 2000.
Strizzi
Jockey - Emile Ramsammy
Veteran Emile Ramsammy enjoyed an excellent 2002 season at Woodbine, finishing fourth in wins (122) and third in purses ($7,088, 188), a year in which he won a career high 11 stakes races, including four with Canada’s Horse of the Year, Wake At Noon.
It was only three years ago that he decided to return to the track where he had enjoyed his greatest moments, leaving California after competing there for two seasons.
After reeling off 106 wins in 2000, good enough for fourth spot in the rankings, the Brampton resident won 130 races in 2001 and eight stakes.
Ramsammy won his first Sovereign Award as Canada’s outstanding jockey for the 1996 season, when he won 175 races and over $4.1 million in purses, capped by his Queen’s Plate victory aboard Victor Cooley, the first time he’d competed in Canada’s most famous race.
In 1997, he captured his second straight Sovereign Award, leading all riders in wins (170), including 10 stakes and earnings ($3,572,704).
Born December 11, 1962 in Trinidad, Ramsammy rode his first winner in 1980 in the Caribbean and has proven to be one of the best jockeys ever produced there. He won the Cockspur Gold Cup three times and set several riding records. He began riding in Canada in 1990, but it took five years for him to reach his current elite status.
He enjoyed moderate success on the California circuit in the late 1990's, winning 68 races, $2.6 million and seven stakes in 1998. In 1999, his season was interrupted when he suffered a shoulder injury in a spill at Woodbine in the race following the Queen’s Plate, when he had finished third with Frank Stronach’s Euchre.
Through August 3, Ramsammy is currently fourth in wins (52) and purses ($2.9 million), with seven stakes wins to his credit. Wake At Noon is responsible for three of those added-money victories. He’ll be trying to win his first Breeders’ Stakes with Strizzi.
Ramsammy’s career totals, excluding Caribbean statistics, show more than 1,300 wins and lifetime earnings in excess of $42 million.
Tracy’s Tonka Toy
Jockey - Jono Jones
Born April 30, 1976 in Bridgetown, Barbados, Jono Jones made an immediate splash in his first full season at Woodbine in 2001, with 57 wins and over $2.6 million in purses, good enough for eighth place overall. He won one stake race, the Dance Smartly with Alexis.
He had an even better season last year, winning 54 races, including three stakes and almost $3 million in purses. His added money wins came on Byzantine (River Memories), Madame Roar (La Voyageuse) and Red Sea (Labeeb).
Jones arrived from Barbados in early May of 2001, after being leading rider there in 2000, a title he managed to defend in 2001 even while competing at Woodbine. He came to the Toronto oval hoping to follow in the footsteps of former Caribbean riders Patrick Husbands and Emile Ramsammy. One can certainly say so far, so good.
He credits former champion jockey Venice Richards and his father Challenor, himself a champion jockey in the 1960's before becoming a trainer, for his riding success. He received his apprentice riding licence in 1990 when he was only 14 years old. At age 15, he won the United Derby in his homeland on a horse named Overdraft, trained by his father. It was the first of four Derbies he would win before turning 21.
Jones, who resides in Brampton, has also ridden in England for Sir Michael Stoute and galloped horses in France for Nicholas Clement. He won the Stallion Stakes twice, in 1998 aboard El Vagabondo and in 1993 on Nobody Wants Me. He was also the leading rider in Martinique in 1994 and 1995.
So far this season (through August 3), Jones is ninth in the standings, with 31 wins and over $1.7 million in purses.
Wando
Jockey – Patrick Husbands
For the fourth year in a row, Patrick Husbands reached the pinnacle of his profession in 2002, winning another Sovereign Award as Canada’s outstanding rider. He was already the first jockey to win the award three consecutive years.
Husbands set a career best in purse earnings with over $9.2 million, to go with his 167 wins, for another number one ranking in the country, the third time he has accomplished this remarkable feat in the last four years. He finished second to Todd Kabel in stakes wins with 12, in a year highlighted by victories aboard Sovereign Award-winning juvenile colt Added Edge. He ranked 14th in North America in purse earnings for 2002.
In 2001, he won eight local stakes, including a thrilling Atto Mile with Numerous Times. He also won Belmont Park’s Grade 1 Metropolitan Mile with Exciting Story.
In 2000, Husbands set career highs for wins (178) and purse earnings ($8.1 million), eclipsing his previous best of 173 wins and $5.3 million for 1999 when winning his first Sovereign. He captured 14 stakes races and finished the year in 14th place overall in
earnings in North America.
Born in Bridgetown, Barbados, on May 22, 1973, Husbands has continued to build on the success he first enjoyed here in 1998, a breakthrough season when he finished third in wins (131).
The 30-year-old Husbands comes from a riding family. His father was a rider, his brother Anthony is a Woodbine outrider and another brother, Simon, also rides here with success. Before arriving at Woodbine in 1994, Husbands rode in Barbados. In 1990, at age 16, he became the youngest rider to win the Cockspur Cup with Vardar. He won the riding title there in 1993.
Last year, Husbands guided Questing Knight to a sixth-place finish in the Breeders’.
Through August 3, Husbands is second in the Woodbine riding colony with 76 wins, including seven stakes and over $4.8-million in purse earnings on the campaign.
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