REXDALE, ON — When the two-year-old pacing fillies make their Gold Series debut at Woodbine Racetrack on Thursday, trainer Carl Jamieson will harness a serious contender in all three eliminations.
Jamieson trained freshman pacing colts captured two of three Gold Eliminations at the Rexdale oval on Monday evening and the Princeton resident is hoping the fillies can follow suit. Trillium Series winner Ingrid Bergrin leads off the parade of green and yellow from Post 1 in Race 1, Lucks Mistress gets Post 4 in the third race and Three Kilo will start from Post 7 in Race 6.
“Lucks Mistress is likely the best of them,” says Jamieson. “Ingrid Bergrin is kind of a surprise. She’s got two great big juicy curbs on her, but she’s got a really long stride and a good attitude. I think Three Kilo is going to get better as she goes along. She’s only a June foal, so she’s only two now and she’s growing by leaps and bounds. She was kind of small when we bought her, now she’s getting to be on the high side of medium.”
Jamieson acquired Lucks Mistress for $110,000 at last fall’s Canadian Classic Yearling Sale after being the under-bidder on two of her older brothers. The royally bred filly is by Camluck out of Mystic Mistress and is a full-sister to $779,728 winner Camystic.
“I thought she really was one of the nicer ones of the whole bunch conformation wise, and she’s the first filly out of the mare so she’s worth $110,000 as a broodmare,” says Jamieson. “I put a little syndicate together in the first couple of days after I bought her and there are still people calling me wanting a piece of her.”
The Lucks Mistress Stable includes Jamieson, his son Jody, and eight of his regular owners all looking forward to seeing their investment make her first start. The filly heads into her Canada Day debut off a pair of easy wins in qualifying action at Mohawk Racetrack on June 5 and 19.
Ingrid Bergrin arrived in the Jamieson barn when breeder Dr. Robert Boyce of London elected not to send her through the yearling sales due to the imperfections on her hind legs. She qualified at Mohawk on June 5, finishing second in a 1:59 mile, and then captured a Trillium Series division at Georgian Downs on June 22 with a front-end effort in 1:58.3.
“She’s a nice big filly. She didn’t go through the sale because she had big curbs on her,” says the Princeton resident. “She qualified in 1:59 pretty handy, she came home in :27 and change, and that was a pretty good mile over that five-eighths mile track in her first start.”
Jamieson and Boyce share ownership on the Grinfromeartoear daughter with Jerry Jamieson of Blenheim and Thomas Kyron of Etobicoke.
The final member of Jamieson’s pacing filly dream team is Three Kilo, who finished second in her Trillium debut at Georgian Downs.
“She cut it all out the other night and just got a little tired at the end,” says Jamieson. “She hadn’t qualified since June 5 and I hadn’t trained her any fast miles so she was a little short.”
The Dexter Nukes daughter is owned by Jamieson, Boyce, Karl Ungerman of Toronto and Ted Smith of Milton, who changed her name from Emerald Flash to Three Kilo.
“Ted Smith changes their names. He named her after his barber’s mother. They call her Three Kilo,” says Jamieson with a chuckle. “She’s out of a real strong family too, a millionaire family. She’s another one that would make an excellent broodmare.”
A daughter of Armbro Breeze, Three Kilo’s siblings include $771,177 winner Armbro Global, $314,051 winner Armbro Local and $245,129 winner Shipps Commander. She was a comparative bargain at the 2003 Canadian Classic Sale, hammered down to Jamieson for just $20,000.
Jamieson’s talented trio take on 21 of their peers at Woodbine Racetrack on Thursday evening. The first Gold Elimination takes centre stage at 7:40 pm with the other two $38,153 contests going postward as Races 3 and 6.