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According to figures found online, their horses have earned more than $20.5 million between 2000 and 2021. But let’s backtrack. Why are some of the horses named after somewhat-smaller Saskatchewan cities? So we bring Grenfell into the picture. Robert Krembil grew up in Grenfell, located east of Regina along the TransCanada Highway. Here’s a brief explanation from Stacey Krembil, the wife of Mark, who is the son of Grenfell’s own. Because of that, Stacey said, “We pick a lot of Saskatchewan towns and cities in honour of that. Our silks are the Saskatchewan flag colours.” Weyburn isn’t the first.
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Weyburn surges back on the inside to win the Gotham Stakes under Trevor McCarthy
Chiefswood Stables Weyburn had plenty of built in excuses to wilt in the stretch when making both his stakes – and 3-year-old debut on Saturday at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, N.Y. But Weyburn proved his mettle in the longest race of his young career, running eye-to-eye with Crowded Trade in a thrilling duel before edging his rival by a nose to win the Grade 3, $300,000 Gotham for sophomores going a one-turn mile as a 46-1 longshot.
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Weyburn breaks his maiden at Aqueduct on the Cigar Mile undercard
Chiefswood Stables homebred Weyburn, a 20-1 morning-line assessment for Saturday s Grade 3 Gotham, breezed three-eighths in 35.42 seconds Thursday on the Belmont dirt training track.
Rob Landry, a Canadian Hall of Fame jockey and general manager for Chiefswood, said the Jimmy Jerkens trainee will be ready to fire fresh off a third-out maiden win in December when sprinting seven furlongs over a sloppy and sealed Big A main track that garnered a 69 Beyer.
“Jimmy said he s been training well. He went in 35 and change this morning,” said Landry. “We had him entered a few weeks back in a stakes at Aqueduct [Jimmy Winkfield on Jan. 31] but he had a foot abscess and had to scratch, so we re looking to get him started back.”