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| (7/15) Fillies and mares on display on Belmont's Twilight card Two divisions of state-bred conditional allowance races for fillies and mare races run at a mile and a sixteenth over Belmont Park's Widener turf course were carded for the Friday twilight card. The first division went to Jujugen Stable's URBANE HUSTLE making her third start of the year and second under the tutelage of trainer Bradley Wallace. Gliding up to the leaders around the last turn, Urbane Hustle accelerated to the lead to win by three-lengths crossing the wire. Ridden by Jose Santos, Urbane Hustle was bred by Martin Scheinman, who also manages the Jujugen Stable. The $26,400 winner's share of the purse boosts the four year-old bay filly's earnings to $84,234 in 13-career races. In the second division, FINLANDIA squeezed through a narrow opening inside the sixteenth pole before drawing off to win by two-lengths for her second consecutive open length victory. Finlandia provided trainer Tom Bush with his second winner of the day, having saddled maiden winner Chamonix earlier on the card. The three-year-old dark bay filly qualified breeders Kathleen O'Connell and Ruth Bedford, who together race under the name of Nyala Farm, for an additional $2,640 breeder award. Finlandia's victory boosts her earnings by $26,400 to $68,605 in six-career starts. The talented filly is by Royal Anthem and is out of the allowance winning Ends Well mare, It's a Gherkin. Two state-bred maiden races for fillies and mares going six-furlongs over the main track were also carded for the Friday twilight card with Berkshire Stud homebred CHAMONIX winning the first division after a hard fought stretch duel with Tomorrows Dance to break her maiden at first asking. Bred by Dr. Doug Koch at his beautiful Berkshire Stud in Pine Plains, N.Y., the three-year-old bay filly is by Louis Quatorze and is out of the multiple stakes producing Double Negative mare, Passive Action. The 100% producer's most notable progeny to date is stakes winner and multiple stakes-placed Sherpa Guide (Ends Well), a 7X-winner who's earned $388, 699 to date and Chamonix' full-sister Fait Accompli, winner of the Saratoga Dew Stakes and open company stakes placed performer, who earned $178,976.. Passive Action has a 2004 filly by Bahri and a 2005 filly by Giant's Causeway. The second division for state-bred maiden fillies and mares was won by SISTER CONCERN, who swept to the lead around the last turn under jockey Eibar Coa, the meet's second leading rider, and drew off to win by more than two-lengths. The three-year-old gray filly was making her first start in more than 10-months but trainer Bruce Levine, who's winning with 29-percent of horses he's saddled, had Sister Concern ready for her return. Making her fourth lifetime start, Sister Concern was bred by her owner Frank Stella at his pristine Delehanty Stock Farm, located in Millbrook, New York. Sister Concern is by Concern, and out of the Grade 2-winning Fortunate Prospect mare Fortunate Faith, a 100-percent producer. |
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- July 14, 2005
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| (7/14) Nurse Culkin is strong in the stretch in nightcap Twenty-five days after gaining her first black-type by placing a game second in a $85,100 division of Belmont's Mount Vernon Handicap for New York-bred fillies and mares going a mile and an eighth on turf, Barbara Santangelo's homebred NURSE CULKIN won Belmont's restricted N2X grass nightcap at that same distance. The four-year-old filly was favored at 1.25-to-1 among ten starters with Cornelio Velasquez race-riding her for the second time since a fourth-place Keeneland allowance effort in April, and her length and three-quarters victory over 3.35-to-1 second choice Irish Princess boosted her earnings by $27,600 to $160,550. For Velasquez, it was the second winning ride on Belmont's Thursday card aboard a four-year-old filly on turf. Now with a record of 3 - 7 - 2 in 17 starts, Nurse Culkin also qualified the estate of Barbara Santangelo's late husband, Francis Santangelo, for a $5,520 breeder award. The bay filly is among at least 31 winners in 2005 sired by syndicated New York stallion Take Me Out (Cure the Blues - White Feather, by Tom Rolfe), who stands at Dr. Jonathan Davis' Milfer Farm, Inc. in Unadilla, where his 2005 fee was $5,000, live foal. Multiple graded winner Take Me Out, whose syndicate connections qualified for a $1,932 stallion award as a result of Nurse Culkin's victory, has cumulative progeny earnings of more than $11.7-million with seven crops to race. Nurse Culkin is the second New York-bred six-figure-earner bred by Francis Santangelo from Rent Free, a daughter of deceased leading New York sire Talc that Francis Santangelo also bred, being a half-sister to 13-time winning (through 2004) filly/mare Me Me Anna ($113,063 through 2004). Dam Rent Free is a half-sister to New York-bred three-time stakes winner Cavanagh Special ($381,069), who was Francis Santangelo's first homebred stakes winner. Owner Barbara Santangelo is a resident of Harrison, New York. This also is the immediate female family of graded winner and New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) 1997 Champion Turf Male Draw Shot ($615,890). Steeplechase Farm's homebred WILD BERRY notched her first victory since winning by seven lengths at Belmont in her third career start in September of 2003 in a six-furlong restricted N1X allowance, again scoring decisively in a restricted N2X allowance for fillies and mares going 5-1/2 furlongs on Thursday. Favored at almost even money (1.10-to-1) among seven starters and race-ridden for the third time -- second consecutive -- by jockey Edgar Prado, the four-year-old filly boosted her earnings by $27,000 into six figures at $126,086 while improving her open stakes-placed record to 3 - 3 - 2 in 16 starts. It was the second winning ride of the day for Prado, who had piloted Wild Berry to a game second-place effort in restricted N2X allowance competition going six furlongs at Belmont four weeks earlier, which had been her second start off a seven-month layoff. Wild Berry also qualified her owner-breeder, the Steeplechase Farm of computer software businessman John Gorham -- who lives on Steeplechase Corner in Westford, Massachusetts and whose brother, Michael Gorham, trains the New York-bred filly -- for a breeder award worth $2,700. Other fillies or mares raced by Steeplechase Farm include Mandy's Gold ($1,081,744), who won Belmont's Grade 1 Ruffian Handicap in 2002. Wild Berry, who placed third in Delaware Park's 2004 Legal Light Stakes, is by Grade 1-winning turf router Wild Event and is the first offspring produced from Deer Berry ($100,774), who scored four of her six career wins on grass -- but Wild Berry has never been tried on turf. Belmont's Thursday opener for maiden New York-bred two-year-olds going five furlongs was controlled and dominated by Albert Fried Jr.'s homebred RAW CAT, who was hustled to the front by apprentice jockey Channing Hill and held the rail position to win his debut drawing away by 2-1/4 lengths. The quick-striding gelding had been sent off as the 6.40-to-1 fourth choice among seven starters and six making their debuts, and the race's only participant with a previous outing, odds-on (.70-to-1) Imperial Zip, placed second. For jockey Hill, who rides with a five-pound apprentice allowance, it was the first of two consecutive winning rides, with the next victorious trip coming aboard New York-bred Seeking the Money against open claimers in Belmont's second race on Thursday. Raw Cat was a late foal (May 14, 2003) but was among three May-foaled juveniles in the opener. His victory earned $24,600 in purse money for Fried, who owns Buttonwood Farm in Rhinebeck and received the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association award as outstanding 2002 New York breeder, and it also qualified Fried for an additional $2,460 breeder award. Trained by Steven Asmussen, who had given the chestnut gelding ten workouts at Belmont from April 26 to July 10 in preparation for Thursday's successful debut, Raw Cat is out of Fried's New York homebred Raw Beauty, who is a half-sister to Fried's New York homebred stakes-winning filly Moonlightandbeauty ($228,053). Raw Beauty and Moonlightandbeauty are out of Stolen Beauty ($303,894), who won Aqueduct's Grade 2 Demoiselle Stakes at a mile and an eighth as a two-year-old after having been purchased by Fried for $30,000 at Keeneland's 1990 September yearling sale. Just five days earlier at Belmont, Fried's New York homebred three-year-old Time to Launch had won a maiden special by 4-1/4 lengths. Belmont's second of two maiden specials for New York-bred juveniles going five furlongs came down to a near dead heat between Mrs. Niels Johnsen's odds-on (.85-to-1) HOLD YOUR PATIENCE and 13.50-to-1 fifth choice Minority Leader, with the former surviving the photo-finish and a foul claim by Minority Leader's rider. Hold Your Patience broke from the outside post among eight starters as one of six participants making his debut and managed to lead at all calls although seriously threatened at the wire by Minority Leader on his outside and by 2.35-to-1 second choice Ready Enough at the rail. Ridden by jockey Harry Vega and brought up to his successful debut by trainer Edward Allard off four workouts at Philadelphia Park, including a five-furlong "bullet" drill on July 4, the dark bay colt earned $24,600. He also qualified his breeders, Dennis and Deborah Petrisak of Langpap Stable in Honeoye Falls, where Hold Your Patience was foaled, for a $2,460 breeder award. Hold Your Patience was sold for $175,000 at Fasig-Tipton's 2004 Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale by Thomas J. Gallo Sales Agency, LLC, Agent, to Robert J. Harris, agent, of Williston, Florida. The talented and impressive-looking colt is the seventh winner produced from Holdyoursuspicions and has three six-figure-earning half-brothers, including stakes-placed 15-time winner Instant Panic ($149,400). Dam Holdyoursuspicions, who arrived in New York around early 2001, is a full sister to Grade 1 winner and prominent sire Meadowlake ($308,580) and a half-sister to Grade 2 winner Leo Castelli ($274,497). Four days -- that was all the time between starts allowed to New York-bred SEEKING THE MONEY, who dropped into a seven-furlong contest for open claimers with $20,000-to-$18,000 tags and went gate-to-wire to win by three lengths as the 8.70-to-1 fourth choice among six starters -- and was haltered for $20,000. On Sunday, July 10, the six-year-old Grade 2-placed gelding had tired after setting most of the pace in a one-turn mile at Belmont while racing with a $25,000 tag, finishing fifth for his owners through five starts since May 4, trainer Robert Young and co-owner Vincent Varvaro. Seeking the Money's new owner is Nat Krohn, and his new trainer is Gary Gullo. The dark bay gelding was piloted for the third time in competition by apprentice jockey Channing Hill, who rides with a five-pound allowance and had two winning New York-bred mounts in a row at Belmont on Thursday. His victory increased his earnings by $16,800 to $262,906 while improving his record to 6 - 11 - 8 in 40 starts, which includes four second-place stakes efforts -- one them Saratoga's Grade 2 Sanford -- and it also qualified his breeder, Barry Schwartz's Stonewall Farm in Granite Springs, for a $1,680 breeder award. Seeking the Money is among five winners -- four of them New York-breds -- that Schwartz has bred from Grade 2 Saratoga winner Seeking Regina. He is a half-brother to Grade 3 winner Seeking the Sky ($143,589) and to Grade 1-placed winner Seeking It All ($176,930) -- the latter also a New York-bred. Seeking Regina, who is a full sister to one stakes winner and a half-sister to another, had been purchased by Schwartz for $470,000 at Keeneland's 1995 November sale when she was carrying Seeking the Sky, who is now a broodmare. |
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| (7/13) Sabellina charges last to first in open allowance Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey rode two New York-bred winning fillies at Belmont on Wednesday -- his only mounts for the day -- guiding one gate-to-wire and piloting the second, SABELLINA, from last to first by 2-3/4 lengths in the open N3X allowance optional claiming feature for fillies and mares. Sabellina's impressive stretch charge on yielding turf as the 1.90-to-1 second choice among seven distaff starters, four-year-olds and up, in the $50,000 mile and an eighth feature boosted her earnings by $30,000 to $228,323 and improved her record to 5 - 1 - 3 in 14 starts. Owned by Jay Lieberman of Island Park, who also qualified for a $3,000 owner award, the now four-year-old filly had debuted under Bailey at Belmont in May of 2004, placing third in a seven-furlong main track maiden special after being bumped at the start and racing three wide. When Sabellina was introduced to turf, she put together a four-race win streak that included Saratoga's restricted $114,800 Yaddo Handicap, and she later placed second in Belmont's $150,000 Ticonderoga Handicap on New York Showcase Day, garnering Champion Turf Female honors from the New York Thoroughbred Breeders. In the dark bay filly's latest previous start 24 days earlier, she had placed a closing third in Belmont's restricted mile and an eighth Mount Vernon Handicap, after which trainer Joseph Aquilino had given her a 59 4/5 five-furlong workout over Aqueduct's main track on July 4. Placing third in Belmont's Wednesday feature was New York-bred Kevin's Decision (now $218,374), who less than a year ago was a four-year-old maiden, as the two New York-breds qualified for a total of $8,350 in owner, breeder, and stallion awards. Sabellina's victory qualified the late John Valentino's estate for a $3,000 breeder award; she is the second six-figure-earner produced from Valentino's New York homebred Restored Hope ($287,266), who won her first six starts by 38 lengths, including Aqueduct's Grade 3 Next Move Breeders' Cup and Rare Treat Handicaps. Jay Em Ess Stable's three-year-old YANKEE MAGIC scored his second consecutive victory at Belmont in 27 days when he tallied by 7-1/2 lengths in a restricted N1X allowance for three-year-olds and up going a one-turn mile and a sixteenth. On June 16, the bay colt had won a restricted mile and a sixteenth Belmont maiden special by 6-1/2 lengths in his first outing under jockey Edgar Prado, and for Wednesday's win Prado was again on board, getting his first of four winning rides for the day -- all aboard three-year-olds. Yankee Magic's second big-margin victory was scored as the 2.45-to-1 second choice among four wagering interests and five starters, coming off moderate June 30 and July 10 Aqueduct workouts to increase his earnings by $26,400 to $57,955 while improving his record to 2 - 0 - 1 in five starts. Purchased for $220,000 by the Jay Em Ess Stable of Samantha Siegel of Santa Monica, California at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's (OBS) 2004 February sale of two-year-olds in training at Calder, Yankee Magic had been a $55,000 acquisition at Fasig-Tipton's 2003 Saratoga preferred New York-bred yearling sale. He was foaled at James Edwards' Keane Stud in Amenia and is among at least 22 winners in 2005 sired by the late syndicated New York stallion Distinctive Pro, who stood at Howard Kaskel's Sugar Maple Farm in Poughquag and whose connections qualified for a $1,848 stallion award. A half-brother to two stakes-placed winners, Yankee Magic is the seventh offspring and seventh winner produced from juvenile stakes winner Cherokee Mist, whom one of the colt's breeders, James Didonato, had purchased for $28,000 at the OBS 1999 October mixed sale. It took 14 starts for Mitre Box Stable's three-year-old ABBAGIONE to break her maiden, but when she got around to winning at Belmont on Wednesday, she scored by a astounding 13-1/4 lengths. Race-ridden for the first time by Cornelio Velasquez and sent off the 3.60-to-1 second choice among eight starters in an off-the-turf one-turn mile restricted maiden special for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and up, the three-year-old filly increased her earnings by $25,200 to $61,572 off a record of 1 - 3 - 1. Thirty-three days earlier, she had finished fourth at Belmont following back-to-back second-place efforts at Aqueduct and Belmont, after which trainer Richard Schosberg had given her moderate workouts on Belmont's training track on July 1 and July 10. Abbagione campaigns for the Mitre Box Stable of Robert Jacoff, who had purchased her for $37,000 at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's 2004 May sale of two-year-olds in training in Timonium, Maryland. As a yearling, she had been bought for $28,000 by McMahon Bloodstock, agent, at Fasig-Tipton's 2003 Saratoga preferred New York-bred sale. The gray/roan filly was bred by Gus Schoenborn Jr., who owns Contemporary Stallions in Coxsackie and qualified for a $2,520 breeder award, and she is a half-sister to Grade 2-placed winner Fly to the Wire ($196,071), being out of eight-time winner Heather's Apparel ($179,065). Heather's Apparel is one of two six-figure-earners produced from her own winning dam and had been purchased for $13,000 by agent Joseph Brocklebank at Fasig-Tipton's sale of Adena Springs' broodmares in Lexington, Kentucky when she was carrying Abbagione, who is by record-setting Breeders' Cup Classic winner Alphabet Soup. Wearing blinkers for the first time and tightened up with solid Belmont workouts on July 3 and 10, Robert Cohen's homebred SAMSINCHARGE overcame a four-way bumping at the break to win Belmont's nightcap for maiden New York-bred fillies and mares, three-year-olds and up, by 5-1/4 lengths. The late-foaled (June 6, 2002) three-year-old filly was the youngest of nine starters in the off-the-turf one-turn main track mile contest, but she was favored at 1.95-to-1 with jockey Jean-Luc Samyn on board for the third time in three career starts since June 10. Her victory -- coming 20 days after a third-place maiden special effort going six furlongs on Belmont's main track -- increased her earnings by $25,200 to $30,530 and also qualified owner-breeder Cohen for an additional $5,040 breeder award. Samsincharge is among at least 34 winners in 2005 sired by the late New York stallion Dixie Brass, whose owner during that stallion's racing and breeding careers, excavating business operator and former fireman Michael Watral of Central Islip, Long Island, qualified for a $1,764 stallion award. She is a half-sister to four New York-bred winners, including stakes-placed filly Sam's In Control ($131,136), and she also is a half-sister to the unraced dam of New York-bred stakes-placed winner Robbie's Rockin ($194,209). The bay filly's dam is Chilean Group 1 winner Wagers Delight, who is by Premiership (by Exclusive Native). Jerry Bailey's first winning ride on Wednesday came in Belmont's opener aboard Winter Park Partners' two-year-old filly NO REASON in a five-furlong maiden special for seven New York-bred juvenile fillies -- all first-time starters -- in which she broke on top and drew off continuously to win by 11-1/2 lengths in 58.83. Although No Reason's seven preliminary Belmont workouts starting in late May were moderate-to-slow, the word obviously was out, as she went off the 1.15-to-1 favorite and was unchallenged even though prematurely switching to her right lead in the sloppy going while still on Belmont's big turn. The quick bay filly had been purchased for $50,000 by the Winter Park Partners of Anthony Grey of Winter Park, Florida at Fasig-Tipton Florida's March 1 sale of two-year-olds in training at Calder, to which she had been consigned by co-breeder Becky Thomas's Sequel Bloodstock, agent. No Reason is among at least 20 winners in 2005 sired by former New York stallion Precise End, who had stood at Lakland North, LLC in Hudson that Thomas owns in partnership with No Reason's co-breeder, Lewis Lakin, and whose former partnership owners qualified for a $1,722 stallion award. No Reason is the second named offspring and second winner produced from two-time winner Tammany Hall, being a half-sister to New York-bred Aqueduct allowance-winning filly Pro Occident. Tammany Hall, whose dam is multiple stakes winner Tammi's Pal, had been claimed as a four-year-old in 1999 while winning her final career start and a year later was purchased by Lakland for $21,000 at Keeneland's 2000 November sale while carrying Pro Occident. |
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| (7/10) R B's Token rolls to Belmont allowance win Honed with three solid Belmont workouts following her close runner-up effort at the Big Sandy 32 days earlier, E El R Stable's R B'S TOKEN galloped to a 2-1/2-length victory under a hand ride in Belmont's six-furlong Sunday N1X allowance nightcap for New York-bred fillies and mares, three-year-olds and up. The three-year-old filly was odds-on (.60-to-1) among nine starters with jockey Michael Luzzi in the irons for the fourth time in her six career starts, and her score provided Luzzi with his third winning ride of the day at Belmont -- two aboard New York-breds. Luzzi had been on R B's Token when she had placed a closing second in a six-furlong N1X allowance at Belmont on June 8, after which trainer Bruce Levine had put her through a series of workouts that included a half-mile "bullet" drill of 47 1/5 on June 22. R B's Token increased her earnings by $25,800 to $68,305 while improving her six-start record to 2 - 2 - 0, giving trainer Levine two winners from his stable at Belmont for the day -- both ridden by Luzzi. A 6-1/4-length winner at Aqueduct under Luzzi in mid-March in her second career start, R B's Token races for the E El R Stable that is managed by Richard Balfour, who had purchased her for $30,000 at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's 2003 September yearling sale in Timonium, Maryland. The bay filly is the second offspring and second winner produced from winner Wee Like U, being a full sister to New York-bred multiple 2004-2005 allowance-winning filly Gold Like U ($152,420), who is now a four-year-old. R B's Token and Gold Like U are among 32 winners in 2005 sired by record-setting stakes winner Gold Token (Mr. Prospector - Connie's Gift, by Nijinsky II), whose 2005 progeny earnings have just gone over $1.2-million, with cumulative progeny earnings from his first three crops now approaching $3.4-million. Gold Token is owned by a syndicate managed by Questroyal Stallions, stands at Howard Kaskel's Sugar Maple Farm in Poughquag for a fee of $3,500 live foal, and his syndicate connections qualified for a $1,806 stallion award as a result of Sunday's victory by R B's Token. Wee Like U, the dam of R B's Token and Gold Like U, is by Great Above and out of stakes winner Illaka, by Riva Ridge. Eugene Hauman's big, muscular homebred MUSTANG RANCH powered his way to victory in a restricted maiden special for three-year-olds and up going a one-turn mile and a sixteenth, scoring off an 86-day layoff as the 3.15-to-1 second choice among six starters in his eighth career outing. Reunited with pickup jockey Michael Luzzi, who had ridden him in three Aqueduct outings in 2005, the four-year-old colt increased his earnings by $25,200 to $43,917 while improving his record to 1 - 2 - 0, providing Luzzi with his second of three winning rides for the day -- two aboard New York-breds. The victory also qualified the colt's co-breeders, owner Hauman of Shoreham and Ernest Dahlman, for an additional $2,520 breeder award. In bringing Mustang Ranch up to his first outing since mid-April, New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) 2000 Trainer of the Year Michael Hushion had given the bay colt six workouts at Belmont from June 5 to July 7, including a half-mile "bullet" drill on June 25. Mustang Ranch is by Eclipse Champion Sprinter and classic sire Gulch and is the sixth starter and sixth winner produced from Greening, by Greinton, being a half-brother to Hauman's New York homebred graded winners Turnofthecentury ($474,236) and Best Friend Stro ($196,579) and to Grade 2-placed winner Noteasybeinggreen ($155,032). Mustang Ranch's winning dam, Greening ($133,040), also raced for Hauman and was trained by Hushion, capturing six consecutive races at Aqueduct in early 1993 at distances ranging from a one-turn mile to a mile and five-eighths on the inner track. Greening is a half-sister to stakes winners Jack of Clubs ($406,357) and Queen's Bridge and to the dam of graded winner Crystal Symphony ($289,759). The wonder of Belmont's six-furlong second race on Sunday for open three-year-old claimers with tags of $25,000 to $20,000 was how Michael Martin's New York homebred SUMMERLAND kept from being claimed -- while romping gate-to-wire to an eight-length victory in 1:09.88 as the 1.15-to-1 favorite among five starters. Race-ridden for the third consecutive time by NYTB 2004 Jockey of the Year Richard Migliore, the quick-striding colt boosted his earnings to $108,911 and improved his record to 3 - 1 - 1 in eight starts. He also qualified Martin, of Madison Avenue in Manhattan, for an additional $3,840 breeder award. Summerland is now a six-figure-earning multiple stakes-placed (second and third in Aqueduct's 2004 New York Stallion Great White Way Stakes and Damon Runyon Stakes, respectively) three-year-old who is eligible for state-bred restricted stakes and the New York Stallion Stakes series -- and still eligible for restricted N2X allowance competition. With New York Breeding and Racing Program owner bonus awards of 20 percent of purse earned (for registered New York-bred-and-conceived runners) kicking in at the $30,000 claiming level at New York tracks, Summerland probably will not run for a $25,000 tag again anytime soon. After a tiring fifth-place effort on June 4 in Belmont's six-furlong Say Florida Sandy Stakes for New York-bred non-stakes-winning three-year-olds, trainer Richard Violette Jr. had given Summerland a half-mile "bullet" workout of 47 4/5 at Aqueduct. Summerland is the second New York-bred Belmont winner within four days sired by Western Expression (Gone West - Tricky Game, by Majestic Light) and is at least the 11th first-crop winner of 2005 sired by that stallion, who stands at Carl Lizza Jr.'s and Joseph Bartone's Highcliff Farm in Delanson. As a result of Summerland's victory, Lizza's Flying Zee Stables qualified for a $1,344 stallion award. The bay colt is the first offspring produced from New York-bred stakes winner Laken ($209,655), whom Martin had purchased privately from W. Alec Martusewicz -- also the breeder and owner of Laken's multiple stakes-winning dam, NYTB 1986 Champion Three-Year-Old Filly Anniron ($539,476). Laken is by Martin's Highcliff Farm-based stallion Scarlet Ibis, who was NYTB Champion Juvenile Male of 1988. |
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