Fear of the Cat, a two-year-old British Columbia-bred gelding sired by El Dorado Farms LLC’s Abraaj out of Imaflashycat, by Tale of the Cat, upped his earnings to $15,142 after he added his second stakes placement with a third place finish in the $38,210 New Westminster Stakes run at Hastings Racecourse on Aug. 21.
2015 Washington Racing Hall of inductee trainer Wesley Ward continued to make his mark internationally when he entered his two-year-old 2015 Group 2 Queen Mary Stakes winner Acapulco against older runners in the Group 1 Coolmore Nunthorpe Stakes at England’s York course on August 21 and came away with a second place finish, beaten two lengths, by four-year-old filly Mecca’s Angel, by Dark Angel, in the five-furlong turf sprint.
On the same day, but across the Atlantic at Saratoga, Ward trainee Bruised Orange, a juvenile filly by City Zip, ran second by a head to the colt Too Discreet in the second division of the Schenectady Stakes. The following day at the New York summer meet, Ward-trained two-year-old Sheikh of Sheikhs, by Discreetly Mine, took a six-panel maiden special weight race by nearly two lengths in his race debut.
