August 4, 2023
TORONTO — Aim for the Sky aims for the top prize in Saturday’s $150,000 Vice Regent Stakes, a five-furlong inner turf race for Ontario-bred 3-year-olds and up, at Woodbine.
Trained by Steven Chircop, who co-owns with Eric Ross, Aim for the Sky, a 6-year-old son of Sky Mesa-Pohdi Pohdi, will test the stakes ranks for the first time in a prosperous career that has produced a 3-12-5 mark from 28 starts, along with $290,993 (U.S.) in earnings.
Chircop, well on track to eclipse his career-best 2022 campaign, claimed the gelding last October.
“We didn’t claim him for a lot,” said the lifetime winner of 210 races. “We got him for $25,000. He was running good races. I had to run against him with my horse Uncle Joe one time, but the races didn’t go. I remember being scared of this guy. He didn’t like to win, but he was always there. He can go five-eighths, he can go seven-eighths, he can sit off it, or be on the lead. I started watching him and when I saw the opportunity to claim him, I said, ‘Here we go.’
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