Simmard and Musketier take on each other again in the Singspiel Stakes
Trainer Roger Attfield had had enormous success in his training career both in Canada and the U.S, as he has saddled horses to victories on both racing circuits, and countless times have come on top in unknown territories, but this time around he is very
much home, and in a race that he has mastered not once but twice.
The Hall of Fame trainer, Roger Attfield, is in familiar waters, when he sends out two of his most established runners in the 1 ½ mile Canadian Grade 3 Singspiel Stakes over the Woodbine Race Course’s turf footing on 25 June, 2012, as the event has reeled
in seven older horses.
Among those seven runners is the 10-year-old iron horse, Musketier, who has landed the Singspiel Stakes not once but twice. The Stella Perdomo’s Musketier has landed the 2009 and 2011 editions of the Singspiel Stakes.
The Germany bred son of Acatenango, Musketier will be accompanied by the 7-year-old stable mate, Simmard, who has been up to the mark this season for Attfield.
Co-owned by Roger Attfield and William K. Werner, Simmard is exiting a victory in the Grade 3 Louisville Handicap at Churchill Downs on 26 May, 2012, which is run over the same distance of Singspiel Stakes that is 1 ½ miles on grass.
The Kentucky bred son of Dixieland Band started off the 2012 season with a victory as well, as he downed the Grade 2 Mac Diarmida Stakes at Gulfstream Park’s turf course over a distance of 1 3/8 miles on grass.
Both of these runners have run against each other, and are no strangers to each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
They have run together in the 2011 edition of the Singspiel Stakes in which Simmard finished fourth to winner, Musketier.
In two more occasions, when Musketier took the Grade 2 William L. McKnight Handicap, and Simmard finished a strong second, while in the Mac Diarmida this year, Simmard won and Musketier finished third.
“They both really enjoy the mile and a half on the turf, and there’s quite a limited amount of races at that distance, so that’s why quite often they’ve run against each other,” Attfield remarked. “They’ve both been really good troupers for me.”
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