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Trainer Sara Baillargeon like many horsepeople stymied by the temporary shutdown of racing in Ontario has taken part of her family’s stable south into the United States, where she will bunker for the foreseeable future.
In a feature for COSA TV, Sara Baillargeon spoke to host Greg Blanchard about her move from Ontario and how she has adjusted to the culture of racing stateside. She brought down nine horses from her father Ben Baillargeon’s barn and is currently stabled at Magical Acres in Chesterfield, N.J. However, the decision to ship the stable was anything but a simple one.
As a number of Canadian-based horses and participants are making plans to race in various stateside jurisdictions, two O Brien Award winners that were slated to return to Canada after training down in Florida will be heading north but not back home to Canada just yet.
Dr. Ian Moore told
Trot Insider that 2020 Somebeachsomewhere Horse of the Year Century Farroh and 2020 Two-Year-Old of the Year Lawless Shadow will be headed to Ohio after logging their final prep miles against each other on Friday (April 23) at the Southern Oaks Training Center. Century Farroh (Dale Spence) cut fractions of :27.1, :54.3 and 1:22.3 with Lawless Shadow right on his helmet. Lawless Shadow paced home with a :28.1 final quarter to comfortably pace by his accomplished stablemate and trip the timer in a sharp lifetime best 1:51 one of the fastest miles in the history of Southern Oaks. Moore was very pleased with Lawless Shadow while not being concerned that Century Farroh was bested: