Alywon Stakes: Last Call gets back on turf
At 0h20, on June 25, 2023 • By WOODBINE
Grade 1 winner Last Call returns to the turf for Sunday’s 6 ½-furlong Alywow Stakes at Woodbine, a race that also attracted Brendan Walsh trainee Secret Money.
Nine 3-year-old fillies, including Last Call, last year’s upset winner of the Natalma (G1T), a Breeders’ Cup ‘Win and You’re In’ event, will take to the E.P. Taylor Turf Course in the $100,000 Alywow.
Trained by Kevin Attard for X-Men Racing 2 LLC and SF Racing LLC, the daughter of English Channel-Over Served, who was a finalist for Canada’s champion 2-year-old female award, heads into her latest test off a second in the Ruling Angel Stakes, a seven-furlong Tapeta race run on May 20 at Woodbine.
“It was good to get her 3-year-old season underway with the second in the Ruling Angel and now we’ll get her back on the turf,” said Attard, who is closing in on 700 career wins. “She’s been working well and we’re hoping she can get it done on Sunday.”
A $30,000 (U.S.) purchase at the 2021 Keeneland Association September Yearling Sale, Last Call had a prosperous rookie campaign, one that produced a win and a second from four starts.
The Alywow is named for the talented turf performer who was Canada’s Horse of the Year in 1994 for owner Kinghaven Farms and trainer Roger Attfield. Alywow was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2009.
