Favored Ciunas won the ninth race feature @WoodbineTB over Paynes Spirit and Next Pitch. He was the second winner on the card for both @RachelHalden and jockey Pietro Moran.
Congrats 👏 to Kentucky breeder Grantley Acres on earning a $3,000 KBIF Breeder Award 💰!
Dakotah Blue graduated by 1 1/4 lengths in @WoodbineTB's Race 3, going seven furlongs on the synthetic track at 5/2.
🐎 A winner in just her 2nd start, the 3yo filly by Mendelssohn out of Empire Lady (Empire Maker), was trained by @RachelHalden and ridden by Jose Luis Campos for Flying Zee Racing Stables LLC.
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Dakotah Blue @RachelHalden shows great turn of foot to collar the favorite at the top of the stretch @WoodbineTB going on to win and was a featured tout @WoodbineClocker with a $7.20 return.
@NiallHarbison Beautiful, I am an animal person but my heart broke for this elderly lady the other day and I have been thinking about her ever since. So happy to see them reunited 💕
Niall you are a blessing.
Magical Factor’s Sizzling Turf Win for Chiefswood, Rachel Halden
The Ontario-bred three-year-old gelding beat a solid field of maidens at @keeneland on April 11 and quickly tops #KingsPlate list. #horseracing
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#4 MAGICAL FACTOR ($19.18) got to the lead in the stretch and pulled away to easily win race 5 at @keenelandracing. The son of The Factor (@LanesEndFarms) was ridden by @kazushi0096 and is trained by @RachelHalden. Chiefswood Stables Limited owns.
After more than 1,500 wins and 36 years in the saddle, Steve Bahen https://t.co/vROqEy0thx has officially retired from racing. Best remembered for guiding 82-1 shot T J’s Lucky Moon to a stunning Queen’s Plate victory in 2002. Explore more on Jockey's Canada!
King's Plate Stakes winner Mansetti led for most of the race, but it was Chiefswood Stables' homebred Borealis Trail who finished strongest to win the Ontario Derby (G3) Oct. 18 @WoodbineTB. https://t.co/MP5Y8kTjst @petedenk
Borealis Trail @RachelHalden builds on his close second @WoodbineTB in the Breeders Stakes to go one better in the Grade III Ontario Derby to wear down the Kings Plate winner in a show of true stamina.
Breeders' Stakes runner-up Borealis Trail (6-1) collared the favored front-runner Mansetti in the final sixteenth to take the G3 Ontario Derby @WoodbineTB with Jose Campos riding for Chiefswood Stables and @RachelHalden.
#5 BOREALIS TRAIL ($14.90) turned back 2025 King's Plate hero Mansetti to win the $150,000 Ontario Derby (G3). Jose Campos up for trainer @RachelHalden on the son of @LanesEndFarms Quality Road.