Live Oak Plantation's Ticker Tape Home tallied her first graded success Aug. 24, taking the CA$153,240 Seaway Stakes (G3) at Woodbine.
It was the first graded victory for Ticker Tape Home—a daughter of Medaglia d'Oro , out of the War Front mare Journey Home—who took last year's restricted Fury Stakes at Woodbine.
Trained by Mark Casse, the 4-year-old dark bay or brown filly, who was bred by Sam-Son Farm, won her prior start to the Seaway, a 1 1/4-length score in an second-level allowance optional claiming race gong six furlongs on the E. P. Taylor turf July 21.
Owen's Tour Guide and Time Passage dueled soon after the gates opened in the Seaway, a seven-furlong main track feature for fillies and mares. Ticker Tape Home was a few lengths off the pacesetters in fourth through an opening quarter in :22.62.
It was status quo after a half in :45.98, while favored Gal in a Rush began to make some headway as the field started the turn for home.
Owen's Tour Guide and Time Passage found themselves under intense pressure from a host of rivals coming off the turn, including Gal in a Rush, who pounced on the outside, full of run. Ticker Tape Home began to make inroads along the rail, but still had work to do to collar the new leader.
With less than 70 yards to run, Ticker Tape Home reeled in Gal in a Rush and went on to notch a neck triumph in a time of 1:23.10. Queen Macha was third and Metaphysical finished fourth. Ticker Tape Home paid $12.40 to win.
"The two starts (earlier this year at Gulfstream) she had over the border were sprinting, and she doesn't really have speed going five-eighths," said winning rider Patrick Husbands, who was fourth with Ticker Tape Home in last year's Seaway. "But going six, six-and-a-half, and seven—she's deadly."
It was the fourth win in 15 starts for Ticker Tape Home, who was a $625,000 purchase at the 2021 edition of Fasig-Tipton's The Saratoga Sale.
