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| (6/15) Slew Motion wires Dancin Renee Stakes at Belmont Park SLEW MOTION, overwhelming backed at odds of 1-9, easily defeated a small field of state-bred three-year-old fillies in the overnight Dancin Renee Stakes, today, at Belmont Park. Raced at six and one-half furlongs over the main track, listed "fast", Slew Motion streaked to the lead as the gate opened and set the pace throughout. What's Your Point made a brief run at Slew Motion in mid-stretch but was turned back emphatically as Slew Motion drew off to win by four lengths once asked by jockey Edgar Prado, who sits atop the jockey standings at the current meet. Slew Motion was making her fourth start for the partnership of Michael Iavarone's IEAH Stable, Michael Devlin and New York Yankee manager Joe Torre's Diamond Pride, LLC and first start after finishing second in Grade 2 - Nassau County Stakes. Trainer Juan Rodriguez, who took over the duties while Richard Dutrow, Jr. serves a suspension, prepped the talented filly over the Saratoga Race Course's Oklahoma training track and had the filly sharp for her first start in five weeks. Bred by Bill Terrill and Bob Noble, Slew Motion is by Slew Gin Fizz, out of the Proper Reality mare, Inthemiddleofitall, producer of multiple Puerto Rican stakes winner Concert's Crown (Concerto), winner of $145,806 through end of 2004 season. Now the winner of four out of her seven lifetime starts banking $134,486, to date, Slew Motion was sold at the 2004 May Fasig-Tipton Midlantic two-year-old in-training sales for $60,000. Joseph W. Gerrity, Jr.'s homebred DAVE, who finished second in his last four outings, held off a late charge by Sicilian Boy by a head to win his first state-bred allowance race. Ridden by Jose Santos and trained by John Hertler, the four year-old gelding increased his earnings by $26,400 to top the century mark in earnings to $110,700 in sixteen starts; and, qualified his breeder (Joseph W. Gerrity, Jr.) for a $5,280 breeder's award. Gerrity owns Little Farm in Newtonville, New York and has raced both Thoroughbreds and Standardbreds for the past 30-years and is principle owner of Saratoga Gaming and Harness Track in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Dave is from the last crop of deceased New York stallion Ends Well, a Grade 1-winning son of Lyphard who had stood at Contemporary Stallions in Coxsackie, N.Y. and whose syndicate owners qualified for a $1,848 stallion award. Dave is the third starter and third New York-bred winner that Gerrity has bred from an indestructible (81 starts and 22 wins, three through nine) non-black-type stakes-placed mare, Commadore's Gold $133,210), by Commadore C. (by turf champion Mongo). His winning half-siblings include another "iron horse" sprint campaigner, 12-time winner Cabin Boy ($121,571), but Dave is the first offspring out of his dam whose sire (Ends Well) was a major winner at a route distance. Dam Commadore's Gold is a half-sister to stakes winner Sir Stephenmichael ($133,250) and to Grade 1-placed winner Gold Spruce ($105,895), who is the dam of stakes winner Reside ($132,692). Puglisi Stable's LITTLE MISS ZIP became her sire's second winner from his first crop with a sparkling 7-1/4-length victory performance against state-bred two-year-old maiden fillies stopping the timer in snappy 57-4/5ths seconds for the five-furlong affair. Trained by Steve Klesaris, the first time starter raced with lasix for debut and was ridden by journeyman jockey Norberto Arroyo, Jr. Bred by Bloodstock Agent Nick De Meric, the January filly was sold at the 2004 Saratoga Fasig-Tipton New York-bred Preferred Yearling Sales for $75,000. Sired by multiple graded stakes winner City Zip, a half-brother to 2004 Horse of the Year Ghostzapper, Little Miss Zip is out of the graded stakes-placed and allowance winning Meadowlake mare, Meadow Dream; and, is linebred 4 X 4 to Raise a Native. The sire, City Zip, retired with earnings of $818,225 and stood at Contemporary Stallion in Coxsackie, N.Y. through end of 2004 season before being shipped to Lane's End in Kentucky. The precocious son of Carson City won four graded stakes victories as a two-year-old including the Hopeful Stakes - Gr. I, Saratoga Special Stakes - Gr. II, Sanford Stakes - Gr. II and the Tremont Stakes - Gr. III. WITH A PASSION, owned by Anthony Leuci and trained by Michael Rogers, shipped up from Delaware Park to easily break her maiden against state-bred fillies and mares in a six and one-half furlong race run over the main track. Ridden by Eibar Coa, the three-year-old gray daughter of Honour and Glory, dictated the early pace before dancing away from the field at the top of the stretch winning by almost twelve lengths under the wire. Bred by Frank Stella's Delahanty Stock Farm in Millbrook, N.Y., With a Passion is out of the Family Doctor mare, Southern Tradition, a 3-time graded stakes winner, who earned $379,125 in 35-career starts and a half-sister to multiple graded stakes winner Ski Dancer (Balski), winner of $578,344. |
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| (6/12) Sensibly Chic takes G2 Vagrancy by 3-3/4 Scoring her third open stakes victory but first graded tally, Lois Nervitt's SENSIBLY CHIC captured Belmont's Grade 2 Vagrancy Handicap for fillies and mares by 3-3/4 lengths as the 2.55-to-1 favorite and only New York-bred among nine starters, soundly defeating her recent nemesis, 2005 multiple Grade 2 winner Bank Audit. The five-year-old mare was ridden for the first time in competition by New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) 2002 Jockey of the Year John Velazquez and pulled away from Bank Audit through the stretch of the 6-1/2-furlong event despite a bobbled start, boosting her earnings by $90,000 to $452,477. Now with a record of 8 - 5 - 2 in 19 starts, she also qualified Nervitt for a $9,000 owner award while adding a Grade 2 victory to a resume that includes wins in Laurel's What a Summer Stakes in January, Pimlico's Stefanita Stakes, and Aqueduct's restricted Broadway Handicap. It was the third Vagrancy win for jockey Velazquez, who had piloted New York-bred Dat You Miz Blue to victory in the event's 2001 running, and Velazquez seemed to be impressed with his latest Vagrancy-winning mount: "We had a good post (number seven). We were sitting in a good spot. I didn't want to get her caught up in a speed duel. She broke, and I gave her a chance to get going. At three-eighths pole I said, 'It's time, Mommy,' and she took off." Trainer Timothy Tullock Jr., who had given Sensibly Chic a solid five-furlong Laurel workout on June 5 following her second consecutive runner-up effort behind Bank Audit in Belmont's Grade 2 Genuine Risk (May 14), indicated the mare was due for a top performance: "She's been working on a good race. The last couple of times we've been up here, we've gotten a little unlucky. In her last race, she was close to a ridiculous pace. She got a good setup today. I'm glad the chips fell the right way for us today. She wears aluminum pads because she has sensitive feet; she has a thin-soled foot. The pads just keep her feet off the ground a little more."We're going to give the Summit of Speed (at Calder July 9, Grade 2 $500,000 Princess Rooney Handicap at six furlongs for fillies and mares) a try," Tullock added. "We'll also take a look at the Saratoga stakes schedule. She could run up there in the Ballerina, although I don't think seven furlongs is her best distance." Acquired privately by Nervitt after being a $4,700 "reserve not attained" Keeneland yearling in October of 2001 from the consignment of her breeders, Joe and Anne McMahon's McMahon Thoroughbreds in Saratoga Springs and Bill Casner's and Kenny Troutt's WinStar Farm LLC, Sensibly Chic was foaled at the McMahon facility. The chestnut mare is by Distorted Humor -- sire of other New York-bred open stakes winners Funny Cide, Go Rockin' Robin, Commentator, and Then She Laughs -- and is among three starters, all winners, produced from Rajana's Honor, by Hero's Honor. Rajana's Honor, who broke her maiden by eight lengths and finished fourth in a stakes at Hoosier Park as a 1995 four-year-old, is a full sister to French Group 1-placed and Belmont Grade 2-placed winner Honor Rajana ($167,883), being out of Puerto Rican multiple Group 2 winner Rajana. Prestonwood Farm -- which became WinStar Farm when it later changed ownership to Casner and Troutt -- had purchased Rajana's Honor for $40,000 at Keeneland's 1996 November sale. Sensibly Chic was the second New York-bred open black-type stakes winner over the weekend -- following the victory by Puglisi Stables' three-year-old Accurate under top weight in Suffolk's Rudy Baez Breeders' Cup the previous day -- and the Vagrancy was the 13th open stakes victory of 2005 scored by 11 New York-breds. Getting his third victory at Belmont in three starts at the Big Sandy was West Point Stable's and Savario Pugliese's THUNDERPRINCE, who set all fractions while winning by 2-3/4 lengths as the 1.50-to-1 favorite among seven starters in a restricted N2X allowance for three-year-olds and up going seven furlongs. It was the three-year-old colt's fourth outing -- second consecutive -- under NYTB 2004 Jockey of the Year Richard Migliore, and the effort increased his earnings by $27,000 to $82,394 and improved his record to 3 - 0 - 1 in five starts. Twenty-three days earlier, Thunderprince had come off a six-month layoff to win a seven-furlong Belmont allowance at the restricted N1X level under Migliore, and following that victory trainer Kiaran McLaughlin had given the colt a half-mile "bullet" workout over Saratoga's Oklahoma training track on Monday, June 6. A late (May 18, 2002) foal, Thunderprince had been purchased for $240,000 by agent Buzz Chace for the West Point Thoroughbreds of Mount Laurel, New Jersey that is managed by Terry Finley after being a $75,000 purchase at Fasig-Tipton's 2003 Saratoga preferred New York-bred yearling sale. He is by Grade 1 winner Indian Charlie and is the second winner produced from multiple winner Princess Robyn, who is a half-sister to stakes winner My First Fling, dam of English champion Miss Secreto and granddam of such stakes winners as New York stallion Goldminers Gold. Thunderprince was bred by Leo Chasse of Dracut, Massachusetts, who had purchased Princess Robyn for $10,000 at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's 2002 February mixed sale when she was carrying Thunderprince and who qualified for a $2,700 breeder award as a result of the bay colt's latest victory. In his first turf start and first outing beyond six furlongs, Inniscarra Stable's homebred GOODTIMES AT HOME rallied three wide and held on for a nose victory over odds-on (.50-to-1) Brother Scott in a mile and a sixteenth maiden special for New York-bred three-year-olds and up. The three-year-old gelding was race-ridden for the second consecutive time by jockey Jose Enrique Sierra and went off as the 12.60-to-1 fourth choice among nine starters in the turn-and-a-half grass contest even though he was coming off a half-mile "bullet" workout over Saratoga's training turf course six days earlier. Goodtimes at Home's first victory in four starts increased his earnings by $25,200 to $37,664 while qualifying the Wonderland Breeding, LLC of his owner-breeder, Alyce McCoon Stevens of Saratoga Springs (racing as Inniscarra Stable, Inc.), for an additional total of $6,804 in breeder ($5,040) and stallion ($1,764) awards. Thirty-nine days earlier, the gray/roan gelding had tired in a six-furlong restricted maiden special at Belmont in his first start off a 172-day layoff, and in two six-furlong efforts at Aqueduct as a juvenile in the fall of 2004 he had placed second (in his debut) and third. Goodtimes at Home is by Wonderland's New York stallion Let Goodtimes Roll (Black Tie Affair - Recharged, by Key to the Mint), who also has sired Inniscarra Stable's New York homebred 2004-2005 stakes winner Chowder's First ($303,498). Let Goodtimes Roll is a big (16.3 hands) five-time winner who likewise campaigned for Inniscarra Stable, placing third in NYRA's Grade 2 Kelso and Knickerbocker (missing by a nose and a head) Handicaps -- both on turf -- for trainer Philip Serpe, who also conditions Goodtimes at Home and Chowder's First. Goodtimes at Home is the second offspring and second New York-bred winner produced from five-time sprint winner Home Kathleen, who is a half-sister to stakes winner Questionable Past ($136,316 through 2004 and stakes-placed in 2005). Home Kathleen had been purchased for $19,000 by McMahon Thoroughbreds at Keeneland's 1999 November sale when she was carrying her first foal, who turned out to be Wonderland-bred winner Shifti Terms. A Hypo-Mating check of Goodtimes at Home's pedigree reveals that he is inbred 3 x 4 to Mr. Prospector. |
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| (6/11) Yankee Mon gets dandy open N2X Belmont win Gaining a clear early lead and grimly refusing to yield it in a $57,000 open N2X allowance for three-year-olds and up going seven furlongs on Belmont Stakes Day was Windmill Manor Farm's YANKEE MON, who won by a half-length as the only New York-bred among seven starters. The four-year-old had jockey Edgar Prado on board for the third consecutive time in competition and second victorious outing and went off as the 5.80-to-1 third choice, boosting his earnings by $34,200 into seven figures at $105,822 and improving his record to 4 - 0 - 1 in seven starts. Yankee Mon has now won at Fair Grounds (by 2-1/4 lengths last year in first start), Gulfstream (open N1X allowance on February 19 by seven lengths), Aqueduct (restricted N2X allowance on March 25 by 3-1/4 lengths under Prado), and Belmont. After a fourth-place effort in Aqueduct's restricted Kings Point Handicap on May 1, trainer Juan Rodriguez had given the chestnut colt five workouts at Aqueduct, including five-furlong "bullet" drills on May 20, June 2, and June 8. Yankee Mon's latest victory also qualified the Windmill Manor Farms of Richard and Susan Imbert of Bayshore for an additional $3,420 owner award and qualified Suzanne Collins of Ocala, Florida for a $3,420 breeder award. For jockey Prado, it was the second of three winning rides on the day, and for trainer Rodriguez, Yankee Mon was the first of two winners saddled on the Belmont Stakes Day card. Yankee Mon was foaled at Questroyal Farm in New Hampton and brought the sixth-highest price for a colt at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's 2002 July selected yearling sale -- $395,000 -- from the consignment of Francis and Barbara Vanlangendonck's Summerfield, agent. The big, strapping colt had lit up the sales pavilion, once literally hauling his handler out of a sneaker in the pre-sale walking ring. By Grade 1 winner and sire Maria's Mon, Yankee Mon is a half-brother to multiple allowance-winning sprinter Zophie, being the third winner produced from Sodeo Sodeo, whose three stakes-winning half-siblings include Grade 1 winner Croeso and the dam of multiple graded winners Super May (Grade 1) and Ide. Questroyal Stable had purchased Sodeo Sodeo for $21,000 at Keeneland's 2000 November sale when she was carrying Yankee Mon. "He's a big athlete with a lot of leg and a body to go with it," consignor Francis Vanlangendonck had remarked prior to the 2002 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky July yearling sale in reference to Yankee Mon. "He's like a Patrick Ewing. He's athletic, and he's big." And as Yankee Mon demonstrated on Saturday, he also is competitive. In the nightcap, Robert Spiegel's three-year-old ULTRA POP remained unbeaten after two starts with a come-from-behind four-wide rallying victory as the 8.60-to-1 third choice among nine New York-bred starters, three-year-olds and up, in a seven-furlong N1X restricted allowance with a $53,000 purse. Again ridden by Jose Espinoza, who had been aboard for the gelding's winning debut by a length and three-quarters going 5-1/2 furlongs at Belmont 23 days earlier, the late-foaled (May 31, 2002) gray/roan increased his earnings by $31,800 to $56,400. Following Ultra Pop's first-out victory on May 19, trainer David Donk had given him one solid five-furlong workout over Belmont's training track on Sunday, June 5. In addition to first-place purse money to owner Spiegel of Weston, Connecticut, the win also qualified John Hettinger of Akindale Farm in Pawling for a $6,360 breeder award. Ultra Pop is from the first crop of New York stallion Millions (Dehere - Liturgism, by Native Charger), a graded-winning multiple stakes winner who stands at Joe and Anne McMahon's McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds, LLC in Saratoga Springs for $3,000, live foal, as the property of a partnership. As a result of Ultra Pop's victory, the connections of Millions qualified for a $2,226 stallion award. Ultra Pop had been purchased as a weanling by McMahon Bloodstock for $6,500 at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's 2002 December mixed sale in Timonium, Maryland and is the fourth offspring and fourth New York-bred winner bred by Hettinger from Sugar Blues, who is by pensioned New York stallion Personal Flag. Sugar Blues is a half-sister to New York-bred multiple and open stakes winner Jazzing Around ($448,399) and to New York-bred stakes-placed winner Final Bow (dam of a stakes winner) and to yet another dam of a stakes winner. A Hypo-Mating check of Ultra Pop's pedigree reveals that he is inbred 4 x 5 to both Damascus and Bold Ruler. In the second running (contrary to Daily Racing Form, not the first) of Belmont's White Carnation Stakes for older fillies and mares that have not won an open stakes in 2004-2005 -- captured in 2004 by New York-bred Board Elligible -- New York-bred Judy Soda finished first but was disqualified to second. The allegation was "interference in deep stretch" because a weary Judy Soda had drifted out slightly as she neared the wire at the end of her five-sixteenths of a mile head-to-head duel with 7.20-to-1 fourth choice Madonna Lily, who was carrying two pounds less weight. With ears pinned, the New York-bred finished first by a half-length over Madonna Lily in the $70,700 one-turn mile and a sixteenth event, for which she was the 2.10-to-1 second choice among five starters with Norberto Arroyo Jr. race-riding her for the third time and second time consecutively. Arroyo implied afterwards that the bumping was inconsequential in terms of the White Carnation's order of finish: "I think his filly (jockey Eibar Coa's mount, Madonna Lilly) bumped my filly on the high end. She (Madonna Lilly) had every chance to get by, and she couldn't get by." Judy Soda's trainer, Thomas Bush, acknowledged that the New York-bred had drifted out but was unreserved in his praise for her: "She ran her heart out. I saw her come out, and it looked like it took momentum from the other filly. But I thought it was more mental than physical contact from my filly. She's a real game filly when she gets out there on the lead. She's got a lot of heart." Judy Soda's third career stakes-placing and first black-type-placed effort outside New York-bred competition increased her earnings by $14,140 to $257,213 off a record of 6 - 4 - 3 in 23 starts and qualified her owner-breeder, Scott Solar, for an additional total of $5,656 in owner and breeder awards ($2,828 each). Already a winner of three open allowance (one allowance optional claiming) NYRA contests in 2005, including her latest previous outing by 5-1/4 lengths at Belmont on May 20, Judy Soda also qualified the syndicate owners of her now-pensioned New York-based sire, Personal Flag, for a $989.80 stallion award. Personal Flag resides at Joe and Anne McMahon's McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds, LLC in Saratoga Springs, and his daughter Judy Soda appears to have the same competitive tenacity as his best son, New York-bred (and now New York-based stallion) Say Florida Sandy ($2,085,408). Judy Soda Video Replay Following the running of Belmont's $250,000 Brooklyn Handicap at a one-turn mile and an eighth, top-weighted New York-bred Funny Cide was moved from fifth to fourth with the disqualification of longshot (23.50-to-1) Cuba, who had come in on the turn, forcing jockey Jose Santos to check Funny Cide. The five-year-old gelding increased his earnings by $12,500 to $3,216,985 (see New York-bred Millionaires Club) and also qualified his owners, the 10-partner Sackatoga Stable, for an additional $1,250 owner award and his breeder, Bill Casner's and Kenny Trout's WinStar Farm, LLC, for a $1,250 breeder award. The Brooklyn was won by 2.90-to-1 third choice Limehouse, with 2.30-to-1 favorite Gygistar second and Royal Assault moved to third following the disqualification of Cuba from third to fifth. New York Thoroughbred Breeders 2003 Trainer of the Year Barclay Tagg -- never one to be overly cheerful -- was less than pleased with the outcome of the Brooklyn, in which Funny Cide was the 2.55-to-1 second choice among nine starters: "I'm not happy about the finish. (Funny Cide) came into the race absolutely perfect and strong. He was running well, and then I saw Jose (Santos) pull back. He damn near fell down." Jockey Santos echoed Tagg's observations: "We were in good position, and he (Funny Cide) was running his race. When Norberto (Arroyo, aboard Cuba) came in on me going around the far turn, I had to pull back. That did us in." |
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| (6/10) Cayuga's Waters rushes to state-bred allowance victory at
Belmont Park Laue Ranch's CAYUGA'S WATERS, making her fifth-career start and second over the turf, roared off the far turn and responded to Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey's handling through the stretch to capture the second division of state-bred NW-1X condition allowance for fillies and mares. The three-year-old bay filly stopped the timer in 1:34.1 seconds, which is 8 ticks faster than previously run division. The one-mile affair was run over Belmont Park's Widener turf course and had a field of 11-horses go to the post. Trained by Bill Mott and bred by the partnership of John W. Fenton and Gustav Schickendanz, Cayuga's Waters is by Langfuhr, and is out of the Apalachee mare, Tomahawkstress. The $26,400 winner's share of the purse boosts the talented filly's earnings to $62,964. The John Quiles owned and trained MY NINA ROSE swung six wide around the far turn and while under a vigorous ride by jockey Jorge Chavez caught the field nearing the wire winning by a length. The state-bred NW-1X condition allowance for fillies and mares race was run over the Widener turf course at a mile. My Nina Rose has shown an affinity for the grass, having now hit the board (1-2-3) in four out of five attempts. Bred by the late Gerald Nielsen and his wife Joanne, who sits on the NYTB board of directors, My Nina Rose has now earned $82,848 in 20-career races. Mr. Quiles has had success with other members of My Nina Rose's dam, Careful Approach, having trained Wild Cure (Cure the Blues), who earned $169,040 in a 45-race career. Two year-old Speed of Sound was beaten two-noses in the 105th running of the $100,000 Flash Stakes (Grade III), today, at Belmont Park. The five-furlong race run over the main track was very contentious considering the small five-horse field of two-year-olds with New York-bred Speed of Sound and George Steinbrenner's Beacon Shine hooking up soon after the gate opened. Battling head-to-head through quick fractions to mid-stretch Speed of Sound pinned down on the rail showed no quit as three-horses crossed the wire together with Beacon Shine, Union Course and Speed of Sound finishing first, second and third, respectively. Final time was 58.1 seconds. "That was a great horse race. I think if he had gotten away a little cleaner, it would have helped" said Speed of Sound's trainer Steve Klesaris, adding: "When I watched the head-on, it looked like he slammed his shoulder on the side of the gate. In three strides, he was right in the game." Jockey John Velazquez validated the troubled start, stating: "He ran hard. He put his toes down in the gate and wasn't standing properly. The gate opened and he hit it coming out. He ran big and put up a good fight." Speed of Sound is by Phone Trick, who stands at Milfer Farm in Unadilla, New York, and is out of the multiple stakes-placed Meadowlake mare, Lark Creek ($150,045). Speed of Sound was purchased by Puglisi Stables and Steve Klesaris for $550,000 at the February 2005 OBS two-year-old in-training sales. The talented colt was bred by the partnership of Barry Ostrager and Steven S. Mukamal. Both owners and breeders qualify for a $2,156 for third-place finish. CHRISTINA'S MELODY making her second career start put in a professional performance under jockey Edgar Prado to break her maiden against state-bred fillies and mares in today's finale. Owned by the partnership of The Three Colleens Stable and Partingglass Stable, a racing partnership managed by Thomas J. Gallo, Christina's Melody broke alertly to gain forward positioning in the seven-furlong race run over the main track and when asked glided to the front and held off a late challenge by Precise Strike for a two-length victory. Bred by Mia Gallo of Blue Stone Farm in Cambridge, N.Y. and Deborah Petrisak, who along with husband Dennis, own the beautiful Langpap Farm in Honeyoye Falls, which is south of Rochester, N.Y., Christina's Melody is by Unbridled's Song, and is out of the Deputy Minister mare, Adorable Minister, who's a half-sister to Gratiaen (Cure the Blues) winner of the 2000 Albany Stakes run at Saratoga Race Course. |
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| (6/9) Dixie Can Can captures state-bred allowance at Belmont Park DIXIE CAN CAN, crying out for racing room at the top of the stretch, forged through an opening along the rail and powered to the lead in deep stretch to defeat NW-2X condition allowance fillies and mares. The state-bred affair was raced over Belmont Park's main track, listed "fast", and had a field of 8-horses go to the post. Trainer John Hertler, saddling the five year-old bay mare for the second time named journeyman jockey Ferando Jara to ride. Owned by the partnership of Phyllis Kruger and Jerry Kil, Dixie Can Can was bred by Andrew Kruger, who qualified for a breeder's award of $5,520. Dixie Can Can, who pushed her lifetime earnings to $117,524 with today's victory, is out of the hard-hitting Secret Prince mare, Patsy McCann Can, who won 10 races in a 42-race career, earning $143,472 and has produced two stakes performers including One N Three (Dixie Brass) winner of the 2003 running of the Hudson Handicap on Showcase Day. Mike Watral, owner of the late Dixie Brass, qualifies for a stallion owner's award of $1,932. Our Canterbury Stable's DEELITES GOLD made his third start of the 2005 season a winning one with a gate-to-wire effort under the skillful handling of jockey Richard Migliore. The state-bred NW-1X condition allowance race was at a mile and a sixteenth over a "firm" inner turf course, and had a field of 10-horses go to the starting gate. After conservative early fractions Deelites Gold sprinted clear at the top of the stretch for the victory. Purchased for $40,000 at the April 2003 OBS two-year-old in-training sales by Our Canterbury Stable, a racing partnership managed by Tom Daly of New Fairfield, Connecticut, the four year-old dark bay gelding is trained by Gary Contessa. Bred by New Dawn Stud, who qualified for a $2,520 breeder's award, the three year-old dark bay colt is by Afternoon Deelites, out of the stakes-producing Caveat mare, Jolie Britt, dam of Call Her Caller I. D.), winner of the 1997 Revidere Stakes run at Monmouth Park. Today's winner's purse of $26,400 boosts Deelites Gold's earnings to $69,714 in 7-starts. Akindale Farm's homebred, LAND OF DREAMS, broke her maiden today against a 12-horse field of state-bred fillies and mares in a race run over the inner-turf course at 1-1/8th mile. Trainer Kathleen Feron, who bases her training operation off Akindale Farm's training center in Pawling, New York, named journeyman jockey Mike Luzzi to ride. The beautiful Akindale Farm is owned by John Hettinger, who bred the four year-old filly. Land of Dreams is out of the Miner's Mark mare, Petronia, a half-sister to graded stakes winner Warfie (D'Accord), who earned $418,490 in 35-starts; and, a half-sister to multiple stakes-placed and allowance winner Duplicitous (Unaccounted For), who ended his career with earnings of $337,626 in 36-starts. RODEO RUNNER, owned by the partnership of Charles Petigrow and Robert Misa, Jr., broke his maiden today in his second lifetime start. The Mitchell Friedman trained three-year-old chestnut gelding finished a close-up second in his first race back on May 4th and was kept sharp with a pair of works at Belmont Park. Ridden by Eibar Coa, Rodeo Runner went to the front while in hand and was under heavy pressure to the top of the stretch, but once roused drew off from the field to win by five-lengths. By the former New York-based Rodeo, Rodeo Runner is out of the multiple stakes winning mare Run With Netti, who earned $234,024 in 59-starts. |
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| (6/8) Party Maker takes Belmont Park allowance with classy performance PARTY MAKER, a multiple stakes-placed performer, held off a late charge by R B's Token to notch her second career victory, today, at beautiful Belmont Park. Facing a field of state-bred fillies and mares in a NW-1X condition allowance, Party Maker went to the gate as the odds-on 4-5 favorite. After breaking her maiden at Belmont last July 22nd, the three-year-old dark bay filly was beaten a half-length over a muddy track in the $126,000 Lady Finger Stakes run at Finger Lakes Gaming and Racetrack in Farmington, N.Y. Trainer John Terranova II gave the daughter of Smart Strike an 8-1/2-month respite before entering her in the $100,000 Bouwerie Stakes where she finished a game third after being bumped leaving the starting gate. Party Maker was ridden for the second time by journeyman jockey Javier Castellano. Owned by the partnership of Sovereign Stables, a racing partnership managed by Matthew Gatsas and Gatsas Stables, owners of the beloved New York-bred gray gelding Gander, Party Maker was purchased by the partnership at the Saratoga 2003 Fasig-Tipton Select Yearling Sales for $110,000. With today's $25,800 winner's share of the purse, Party Maker raised her lifetime earnings to $87,226 in just four-starts. The dam, Meu Paixao (Arg) is a full sister to multiple South American graded stakes winner Hallada (Arg) and full sister to South African grade 1 winner Obsessao (Arg). The dam is also a half-sister to multiple North and South American graded stakes winner Leger Cat (Arg), by Logical. Leger Cat posted 14-career victories out of 50-lifetime races and retired with earnings of $955,789. CASSETTE CASE, sporting blinkers for the first time, went gate to wire to defeat state-bred fillies and mares in a NW-1X condition allowance race run at six furlongs over Belmont Park's main track, listed "fast". Owned by Nassau CC Stables, managed by Luca Williams, the three-year-old chestnut filly is trained by Joseph Imperio and was ridden to victory by Jorge Chavez. Purchased as a yearling at the 2003 Saratoga Fasig-Tipton New York-bred Preferred Sales for $33,000, Cassette Case has now earned $60,372 in 7-starts. Cassette Case was bred by the partnership of Dr. Jerry Bilinski and Martin Zaretsky, who both have farms in the North Chatham area of New York State. Mighty Magee stood at Dr. Bilinski's Waldorf Farm before relocating to the State University of New York at Cobleskill, where he stands for a $2,000 stud fee. Paul M. Keating, Sr.'s GEMMIE A SATELLITE powered off the far turn of a mile and a sixteenth state-bred maiden race to assume command and went on to win by almost five-lengths crossing the wire. Run over the Widener turf course, listed "firm", a field of 10-horses went to the starting gate with Gemmie a Satellite, who was making his tenth career start, going to the post at odds of 5-2. Trained by Christophe Clement, the four year-old dark bay gelding was ridden to victory by last year's Eclipse Award winning jockey John Velazquez. Bred by Michael C. Hanafin, Gemmie a Satellite was sired by Satellite Sun who stands at the breeder's Four Greenfields Farm located in Greenfield Center, which is west of the town of Saratoga Springs. Unraced, Satellite Sun (Seattle Slew - Sultry Sun, by Buckfinder) is regally bred being a half-brother several graded stakes winners including Solar Splendor (Majestic Light) a multiple grade 1-winner including the 1991 running of the Turf Classic and Man o' War Stakes, which he won again in 1992 and to Sultry Song (Cox's Ridge), also a multiple grade 1 winner. Solar Splendor retired with earnings of $1,386,468 in 42-starts while Sultry Song retired with $1,616,276 in 23-starts. The stakes placed producing dam, Gemmie, is a half-sister to a grade 1 winner Southern Appeal (Valid Appeal) winner of $313, 924. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
