Dun Drum ready for Steady Growth
At 0h03, on December 11, 2022 • By WOODBINE
The $100,000 Steady Growth, a 1 1/16-mile main track stakes for Ontario-sired stakes 3-year-olds and upward, headlines the final live race card of the 2022 Thoroughbred season, Sunday at Woodbine.
Multiple stakes winner Dun Drum, a 6-year-old son of Bold n’ Flashy, brings a record of 6-2-4 from 31 starts into his latest test.
Owned by Joan Addison, Janet Black and Barbara Brown, the gelding finished fourth in last year’s running of the Steady Growth.
Trained by Ian Black, Dun Drum’s successes include stakes wins in the 2018 Kingarvie, 2019 Vice Regent, and this year’s Overskate.
“He’s been very good to us, especially this year,” said Ian Black. “I knew his best chance would come in an Ontario-sired race, the Overskate, and he certainly ran a great race. We were looking for opportunities to run him, and we ended up running him in a mile and a quarter race [on August 14], which surprised me that he won that day. And then two races later, he won the Overskate, at 7 ½ furlongs on the Inner Turf, so that is pretty versatile stuff right there. After the Overskate, Emma [jockey, Wilson] came back and said, ‘I love this horse.’ We all do.”
Wilson, in the midst of another strong campaign at Woodbine, has long been a fan of the dark bay.
Dun Drum, who arrives at Sunday’s race off a fifth in a 1 ¼-mile trek over the Tapeta, worked 5 furlongs in 1:02.00 over the Woodbine Tapeta on November 26.
First post time for the 14-race card is 12:55 p.m.
