One day after winning her first ever stakes race as an owner,
Mary Schrama of Millbrook, Ontario was still smiling from ear to ear.
Schrama's homebred 4-year-old filly Night Fishn fashioned a 22 to 1 upset over the boys in the $57,200 Ontario Sires Maturity at Ajax Downs on Sept. 2.
It was also the first stakes win for Night Fishn's young jockey Corrine Andros, who joined the Ajax Downs jockey colony this summer.
"I just got to screaming near the finish," said Andros, who also doubles a Thoroughbred rider.
Night Fishn, who was making only her second start of 2018 following a third-place finish in an allowance race on Aug. 5, broke cleanly from post seven and ran down 2015 Horse of the Year Fiesty Icon to win by a head in a sizzling time of :16.690 for the 330 yards, good for a career best 101 speed index.
Rick Kennedy's Fiesty Icon and jockey Tony Phillips held second place by a neck over Scott Reid's Albertt and rider Cassandra Jeschke.
Ice Witch, bred and owned by Schrama's husband Dan Giles, was a neck back in fourth place. Greg Watson trains both Night Fishn and Ice Witch.
Schrama and Giles entered Quarter Horse racing 15 years ago when they bought their first broodmare, whom they still own today. Night Fishn's dam, Fisher Lines, produced stakes winner Ice Fishn for Greg and Susan Watson before she was purchased privately by Schrama and Giles.
Night Fishn is a daughter of the top Ontario stallion Sugarman Perry and her dam is in foal to James Bogar's new stallion Caviar and Corona.
Night Fishn is now a winner of four of seven career starts with earnings of $45,913.
The $67,500 Ontario Sires Derby, for 3-year-olds by Ontario stallions, was also won by a filly as Elenorr, owned, trained and bred by Scott Reid of Bowmanville, took off from her nine rivals to win by an easy 1 1/4 lengths for her first stakes victory. The grey daughter of Mr Jess Tex was ridden by Cassandra Jeschke and the pair zipped 350 yards in :17.710 for a 97 speed index.
Reid's father Don sent out Chase This Yawl to finish second over Stephanie Keeble's Smoakn Gun.
Elenorr was winning for the fourth time in eight starts and she now has career earnings of $59,926.
Courtesy of Ajax Downs
Corrine Andros celebrates the Ontario Sires Maturity win on Night Fishn, also the first stakes winner for owner Mary Schrama. Laurie Overton Photo
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