The Life Changer

Some horses have the potential to change somebody’s life. A superstar in Quebec, the mare initially named Fontaine Angus was invincible at 2 and became a life changer for her trainer. After a stellar career, Emilie Cas El followed up as a broodmare by producing a Hambletonian-winner.

The story starts in 1992, the year of her birth when young trainer Dustin Jones wanted to buy yearling colt Emile Angus. The plan fell through. However, he had discovered the most powerful trotting family in the Canadian province of Quebec: Emile Angus was a younger brother to Canne Angus and Amour Angus. When the latter’s first-born became for sale, Jones was automatically interested.

“The year before I bought her, in 1992, I wanted to buy Emile Angus, but the partner that was going to buy him with me backed out and said he was too small. Emile Angus sold for $12,000. The summer of 1993 I watched him race every start and I liked the way he raced, so in the fall of 1993 I went to Angus farm. Emilie Cas El was the one I especially went to look at as her mother was a half-sister to Emile Angus. I thought she was perfectly made and I was going to go up to $15,000 to buy her. She was the first foal and she was small, so I guess that’s why I was able to buy her for $13,000. The summer of 1993 I was training a trotting filly for Wendell Cass and she won the Coupe Des Éleveurs, which was the Super Final for Quebec-bred 3-year-old trotting fillies. After I bought Emilie Cas El I asked him if he would buy half with me,” Jones recalls.

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