by B. Jason Brooks
Phipps Stable’s homebred Dreams of Tomorrow has shipped to Canada in seek of his first graded stakes win on Sunday, July 23rd in the grade 2 Connaught Cup Stakes, a seven-furlong turf race at Woodbine Racetrack with a purse of C$175,000.
The six-year-old Speightstown horse will break from post № 6 in a field of 10 with jockey Patrick Husbands aboard. Post time for the eighth race on the card is 4:48 pm Eastern.
Dreams of Tomorrow has 5 wins and 8 placings from 21 career starts, with earnings of nearly $350,000. He earned blacktype at the age of four for placing in the Henry S. Clark Stakes at Pimlico on the 2021 Preakness undercard. Among graded stakes company, he finished fourth in the grade 2 Bernard Baruch Handicap at Saratoga Race Course in 2021 and, most recently, fifth in the grade 3 Poker Stakes at Belmont Park last month.
He experienced a significant setback that delayed the start of his five-year-old campaign last year due to some bone-bruising that forced a nine-month layoff. Since his return last September, he has two wins, both allowance optional claiming races, with one at Tampa Bay Downs in December 2022 and the most recent at Belmont Park in May of this year.
Dreams of Tomorrow is the first foal out of Medaglia d’Oro mare Sabbatical, from the Get Lucky branch of Phipps foundation mare Baby League. Get Lucky, by Mr. Prospector, is the ancestress of Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver, as well as grade 1 winners Bluegrass Cat, Callback, Chocolate Gelato, Girolamo, Got Lucky, and Imagining. Get Lucky’s juvenile great granddaughter Pipit recently broke her maiden in the listed Victoria Stakes at Woodbine on July 16th.
Photo: Dreams of Tomorrow in the 2021 Lure Stakes at Saratoga. ©Phipps Stable Fan
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