Grand Island provide the first crop of stallions Always dreaming with the winner of his original stake when he draws to win 5 1/2 lengths of the $100,000 Ohio Best Juvenile Share prize. October 29 at Hollywood Game at Mahoning Valley Racecourse. The Best of Ohio Juvenile is one of many stakes in Saturday’s show there for horses raised in the Buckeye State.
Always dreaming, the winner of the Florida Xpressbet Derby (G1) and the Kentucky Derby presented by Yum! Brands (G1) in 2017, standing at WinStar Farm in Kentucky. As a stallion in the first top 20 in 2022, he has an advertising fee of $10,000 in 2023.
In addition to the Grand Isle, Always Dreaming is also the path of Don’t lose CruzThe second winner is the New York girl of the Belmont at the Big A meet on October 27.
Grand Isle ($14), owned and bred by WinBlaze, had previously won black in her previous two starts with runner-up results in the Hoover Stakes and the Best of Ohio Cleveland Kindergarten Stakes. Seventh, he took his bets win with an extended lead, placing fifth below Jeffrey Sanchez. Practitioner Tim Hamm raced 1 1/16 miles in 1:49.14.
Out of deposit Bob and John mare Grand Mere , Grand Isle is one of two winners produced from her dams from four races. Two of the dam’s ponies are underage for racing: a hungry pony Ensign and a Yoshida born this year
