Live Oak Plantation's 3-year-old colt Global Access scored arguably his most impressive win to date with a record-setting performance in the $125,000 Ontario Derby (G3) Sept. 28 at Woodbine.

The victory gave the homebred son of Giant's Causeway three graded victories and upped his record to 5-1-4 in 12 starts, with earnings of $373,401. He won the Saranac S. (G3) on the Saratoga turf and the Marine S. (G3), also on Woodbine's synthetic surface, earlier this year.

Getting an ideal ride by Patrick Husbands, Global Access tracked Avie's Flatter through a half-mile in :48.53 and six furlongs in 1:12.07 before sweeping to the lead in upper stretch, then holding off Armistice Day to win by 1 1/4-lengths in 1:48.24 for the 1 1/8 miles, lowering the track mark by .06.

“We took the blinkers off of him (before winning the May 25 Marine) and he's a different horse on the [synthetic],” said Husbands. “Eurico [Da Silva] had a class horse [Avie's Flatter] and I'm not going to let him get things his way. My horse carried 124 pounds, I'm not scared of that, to me he looked like the best horse, so I kept pressuring the whole way and when he answered, he gave me everything.”

Pedigree Notes from the TDN

In addition to Global Access, dual graded stakes-winning and Grade I-placed dam Daveron also boasts another graded winner -- March to the Arch (Arch), winner of Churchill's GII Wise Dan S. From the family of champion 3-year-old colt and GI Kentucky Derby hero Animal Kingdom, the talented turf mare is also responsible for the juvenile Tiznow filly Pretty and Fast in addition to Live Oaks Triumph, a yearling colt by Kitten's Joy. After foaling a filly by Quality Road earlier this season, she was bred back to Uncle Mo.