Canadian Derby (G3) winner August Rain and four others from
that race are in the full field of a dozen 3-year-olds lining up Saturday for
the Grade 3, US$92,098 British Columbia Derby at Hastings.

Eleven geldings and one colt were entered for the two-turn,
1 1/8-mile race on the dirt oval in Vancouver. The 77th British Columbia Derby
will be the sixth of eight races Saturday. It is scheduled to start at 8:05
p.m. EDT.

Click here for Hastings entries and results.

Bred and owned by Peter Redekop, August Rain has won three
of his last four starts, including the Ross McLeod Stakes and Chris Loseth
Handicap. Both those races were at Hastings, where the Sungold gelding is 9:
5-1-2. Trained by Barbara Heads, August Rain has been favored in his last eight races, winning five
times. Amadeo Pérez, who is closing in on his fifth Hastings jockey title in
the last seven years, will ride from post 2.

Canadian Derby runner-up J Dutton, fourth-place Classy City,
sixth-place Lord of Battle and 10th-place Skipper’s Pride also are entered for
the B.C. Derby.

Stakes-winning frontrunner Tougherthantherest, who finished
second in the 1 1/16-mile Muckleshoot Derby on Aug. 11 at Emerald Downs, makes
his first start for trainer John Snow after being moved from trainer Blaine
Wright.

Shock the House, Diocles and What’s Shakin, who finished second
through fourth in that order in the 1 1/16-mile Canadian Thoroughbred Horse
Society Sales Stakes, come back from that Aug. 26 race in the Hastings slop.

Maiden winners Westminster, Horatio and Moneyshot also are
in the B.C. Derby field.

Saturday’s race ends the abbreviated Western Canadian Derby
Series, which began Aug. 24 with August Rain’s 1 1/4-mile victory at Century
Mile in Edmonton. The second annual series was supposed to include Bricklayer’s
win Aug. 5 in the listed, 1 1/8-mile Manitoba Derby in Winnipeg, but that race
was removed this summer when Assiniboia Downs was placed under a federal quarantine
for equine infectious anemia. A US$73,676 bonus for sweeping the series was
canceled, but an added US$18,419 will be awarded to the top three trainers and
owners.

Post	Silks	Horse / Sire	Rating	Trainer / Jockey	Last Start / Next Start	Status
1		Shock the House Sungold	0.00	Brian J. O’Connell Alexander Marti	2nd, CTHS Sales S. 2024 British Columbia Derby G3	Entered
Last Race Next Race		2nd, CTHS Sales S. 2024 British Columbia Derby G3
2		August Rain Sungold	0.00	Barbara Heads Amadeo Perez	1st, Canadian Derby 2024 British Columbia Derby G3	Entered
Last Race Next Race		1st, Canadian Derby 2024 British Columbia Derby G3
3		Classy City Classic Empire	0.00	Craig Robert Smith Dane Nelson	4th, Canadian Derby 2024 British Columbia Derby G3	Entered
Last Race Next Race		4th, Canadian Derby 2024 British Columbia Derby G3
4		Diocles Counterforce	0.00	Pat Jarvis Kerron Khelawan	3rd, CTHS Sales S. 2024 British Columbia Derby G3	Entered
Last Race Next Race		3rd, CTHS Sales S. 2024 British Columbia Derby G3
5		What’s Shakin Ralis	0.00	Samuel Morales Silvino Morales	4th, CTHS Sales S. 2024 British Columbia Derby G3	Entered
Last Race Next Race		4th, CTHS Sales S. 2024 British Columbia Derby G3
6		Westminster Bolt d’Oro	0.00	Robert Maybin Christopher Roy Mamdeen	2nd, HST MOC (08/16/2024-R2) 2024 British Columbia Derby G3	Entered
Last Race Next Race		2nd, HST MOC (08/16/2024-R2) 2024 British Columbia Derby G3
7		Lord of Battle Mastery	0.00	Milton Palma Brian Boodramsingh	6th, Canadian Derby 2024 British Columbia Derby G3	Entered
Last Race Next Race		6th, Canadian Derby 2024 British Columbia Derby G3
8		Tougherthantherest Take Charge Indy	0.00	John Snow Bebeto Deneiko Harvey	2nd, Muckleshoot Derby Presented by the National Thoroughbred League 2024 British Columbia Derby G3	Entered
Last Race Next Race		2nd, Muckleshoot Derby Presented by the National Thoroughbred League 2024 British Columbia Derby G3
9		Horatio Mendelssohn	0.00	Dino Condilenios Ridge Balgobin	2nd, HST CLM (08/16/2024-R1) 2024 British Columbia Derby G3	Entered
Last Race Next Race		2nd, HST CLM (08/16/2024-R1) 2024 British Columbia Derby G3
10		Moneyshot Frosted	0.00	Ian Jewell Kimal Santo	1st, HST MOC (08/16/2024-R2) 2024 British Columbia Derby G3	Entered
Last Race Next Race		1st, HST MOC (08/16/2024-R2) 2024 British Columbia Derby G3
11		J Dutton Smiling Tiger	0.00	Robert J. Anderson Antonio Reyes	2nd, Canadian Derby 2024 British Columbia Derby G3	Entered
Last Race Next Race		2nd, Canadian Derby 2024 British Columbia Derby G3
12		Skipper’s Pride Klimt	0.00	Karline Kingston Antonio Whitehall	10th, Canadian Derby 2024 British Columbia Derby G3	Entered
Last Race Next Race		10th, Canadian Derby 2024 British Columbia Derby G3