2011 Woodbine Mile Draw Set For Thursday

Court Vision will look to defend his 2010 Woodbine Mile victory on Sunday. Photo: WEG / Michael Burns Photography

 
The post position draw for the 2011 Ricoh Woodbine Mile will take place on Thursday, September 15, at Woodbine Racetrack in Toronto. Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender James Reimer will be the guest drawmaster for Sunday's big race.

A field of 11 looks likely to pass through the entry box for Sunday's Ricoh Woodbine Mile, which will grant the winner an automatic berth into the Breeders' Cup Mile at Churchill Downs in November. Pam and Martin Wygod's Courageous Cat and defending champion Court Vision headline the field.

Several local horses will also make up the field, headlined by Sam-Son Farm's Grand Adventure and Dominion Bloodstock and HGHR's Riding The River, bother of which had raced in the Grade II Play The King Stakes at Woodbine on August 28.

Here's the likely field of 11 for Sunday's race:

Horse/Owner/Jockey/Trainer

Courageous Cat/Pam & Martin Wygod/Bill Mott/Pat Valenzuela
Court Vision/Spendthrift Farm LLC/Dale Romans/Robby Albarado
Dance And Dance/Mohammed Rashid/Ed Vaughan/Jamie Spencer
Forte Dei Marmi/Stella Perdomo/Roger Attfield/John Velazquez
Grand Adventure/Sam-Son Farm/Mark Frostad/Patrick Husbands
Hollinger/Robert Harvey & Al Wortzman/Roger Attfield/Tyler Pizarro
Riding the River/Dominion Bloodstock and HGHR/David Cotey/Richard Dos Ramos
Right One/Ghislaine Head/Christophe Clement/Garrett Gomez
Side Glance/Pearl Bloodstock/Andrew Balding/Jimmy Fortune
Turallure/Donna Arnold/Charles Lopresti/Julien Leparoux
Woodbourne/The Very Dry Stable/Robert Tiller/Emma-Jayne Wilson

James Reimer, the outstanding second-year goaltender for the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs, will be the drawmaster when the post position draw for the Ricoh Woodbine Mile takes place at noon, on Thursday, September 15, at Woodbine's east-end VIP tent. Reimer, 23, took the league by storm in his rookie campaign with 20 wins in the last half of the season.

Thursday's Woodbine Mile draw from the VIP tent will be streamed live at www.woodbinemile.com.

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