(SOLD, Gelding, Exaggerator – I’m the Reason) North Warden’s name is a tribute to Halifax: a city that earned its nickname and reputation as Warden of the North by hanging pirates on its beaches, repelling hostile warships, and guarding against privateer attacks.
(Gelding, Audible – Queen Martha) Canadian Scotty Bowman’s run in the NHL is legendary as the winningest coach in the league’s history and the “greatest coach ever in professional sport”.
(Filly, Souper Speedy – Here’s Mud Inyr Eye) A 14x winner of the Canada Soccer Player of the Year award, Christine Sinclair is clearly Canada’s best soccer player ever and one of the foremost women soccer players in history.
(Filly, Souper Speedy-Mona Moon) Vandoo’s name is a tribute to the 22nd Regiment: the most highly trained, disciplined fighting force in the Canadian military.
(Filly, Danish Dynaformer – Morning Tale) War Painter’s name is a tribute to Mary Riter Hamilton, a Canadian painter who travelled alone onto devastated, dangerous WWI battlefields to record the landscapes where so many of her countrymen fought and died.