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| (7/31) Mayo Post posts second front-running win in July The first weekend of Saratoga's 2005 meet has been a good one for Austin Delaney's New York homebreds. On Saturday, Delaney's Continental Reins won a restricted N1X allowance at a mile and a sixteenth on turf by advancing from seventh place, and on Sunday, Delaney's MAYO POST led throughout in a restricted N1X allowance at six furlongs on Saratoga's main track, winning by five lengths. It was Mayo Post's second six-furlong victory in 29 days under jockey Javier Castellano, coming off of a 9-1/4-length Belmont maiden special win in 1:08.89, and he scored it as the 124-pound topweight and odds-on (.85-to-1) choice among 11 starters while breaking from the 10th post. For Castellano, it was the second winning ride of the day. Trainer James Jerkens had given Mayo Post two workouts on Belmont's training track after the five-year-old gelding's dominant maiden victory on July 2, including a half-mile "bullet" drill in 47-flat. The Delaney homebred boosted his earnings by $28,200 to $67,175 while improving his record to 2 - 0 - 2 in 11 starts (and two-for-two since returning from a 230-day layoff to break his maiden), and he also qualified Manhattan restaurateur Delaney for an additional $2,820 breeder award. Mayo Post is by Dixieland Band and is the first offspring produced from Delaney's New York homebred turf stakes winner Irish Daisy ($364,197), who is a half-sister to another New York-bred stakes winner (in Kentucky) bred by Delaney, Irish Silence ($328,230 through 2004). Other New York homebreds that have carried the colors of Irish native Delaney include Irish Actress ($571,525 and maternal granddam of Delaney's homebred winner on Saturday at Saratoga, Continental Reins) and Irish Linnet ($1,220,179 -- see New York-bred Millionaires Club). Tried on turf for the first time and stretched out to a two-turn mile and a sixteenth, Flying Zee Stable's homebred CLASSIC EXPRESSION led throughout after breaking from the eighth post in a restricted maiden special for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and up, prevailing under jockey Edgar Prado's left-handed urging. It was the second consecutive winning ride on the card for Prado, who had piloted the three-year-old filly in two of her three previous outings. Classic Expression went off as the 5.80-to-1 fifth choice among 11 wagering interests and 12 starters and increased her earnings by $27,600 to $39,130 in four starts, which also includes a second-placing under Prado in her June 2 debut going six furlongs on Belmont's main track. The chestnut filly's longest previous outing had been in a one-turn off-the-turf mile at Belmont 18 days earlier, when she had been bumped at the start and faded to fourth -- after which trainer Philip Serpe had given her a slow half-mile Saratoga workout on July 26. Her victory also qualified the Flying Zee Stables of Carl Lizza Jr. of Wharton, New Jersey for a total of $7,452 in breeder ($5,520) and stallion ($1,932) awards, since Flying Zee Stables owns Classic Expression's sire, Western Expression, and stands him at Lizza's and Joseph Bartone's Highcliff Farm in Delanson. The filly is the 13th of 14 winners in 2005 and 19th winner overall from the first crop of Grade 1-placed Western Expression (Gone West - Tricky Game, by Majestic Light), who was never tried extensively on turf but also sired Flying Zee Stable's Sunday nightcap turf winner, Square Dancing. Classic Expression is the first offspring produced from New York-bred winner Class of Fifty Six, who is by former New York stallion Belong to Me and is a half-sister to New York-bred stakes-placed winner Track Topper ($147,272). Lizza had purchased Class of Fifty Six for $116,000 from Stonehenge, Thomas J. and Nadine Gallo, agents, at Fasig-Tipton's 1998 Saratoga New York preferred yearling sale, and that had been the sale's only six-figure transaction. A Hypo-Mating check of Classic Expression's pedigree reveals that both her sire and dam are slightly inbred: Western Expression is 3 x 4 to Raise a Native, and Class of Fifty Six is 3 x 4 to Northern Dancer. The second Flying Zee Stable New York homebred three-year-old filly -- also sired by Western Expression -- to win going a mile and a sixteenth over Saratoga's turf course on Sunday was SQUARE DANCING, who came from last to capture the open nightcap for three-year-old fillies with $35,000 claiming prices. Race-ridden for the second time in 24 days by jockey Chantal Sutherland and sent off the 17.70-to-1 seventh choice among 11 starters, the gray/roan filly trailed everyone with 4-1/2 furlongs to go and had six rivals ahead of her when New York-bred Shoot the Bugler took command at mid-stretch. She closed with a rush on the outside to win by a length and three-quarters even though the final sixteenth of a mile went in 6.25 seconds. Square Dancing had placed third under Sutherland in her only outing on dirt when a restricted N1X allowance at Belmont on July 7 was switched to a one-turn main track mile, and following that effort trainer Carlos Martin had given her a moderate half-mile Belmont workout on July 17. The victory increased the New York-bred filly's earnings by $23,400 to $55,723 while improving her record to 2 - 0 - 1 in six starts and also qualified Fly Zee Stables for an additional total of $10,998 in owner ($4,680), breeder ($4,680), and stallion ($1,638) awards. The $51,000 purse total earned by Square Dancing and Classic Expression at Saratoga on Sunday pushed the first-crop progeny earnings for Western Expression to more than $870,000. Square Dancing is the third starter and third New York-bred winner that Flying Zee Stables has bred from Dancing Approval, who is by With Approval and was an open Aqueduct allowance winner going a mile and an eighth on a muddy track but never won on turf. Dancing Approval is a half-sister to the winning dam of two stakes-placed winners, and her dam is stakes winner Dancing Tricia ($115,011). |
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| (7/30) Continental Reins reins in win under top weight Looking like a new racehorse since returning from a year's layoff and being introduced to new trainer James Jerkens, jockey Michael Luzzi, and to turf racing, Austin Delaney's homebred CONTINENTAL REINS shouldered top weight of 124 pounds and fought to his second victory in 58 days in Saratoga's opener. He went off as the 3.70-to-1 third choice among 11 wagering interests and 12 starters in the restricted N1X allowance for three-year-olds and up going a mile and a sixteenth on turf with Luzzi on board for the fourth consecutive time in competition. At mid-stretch, 8.90-to-1 fifth choice Retribution looked like the apparent winner, but that three-year-old seemed to duck in slightly a few strides from the finish and lost his advantage when he lurched over to his left lead, while Continental Reins maintained a steady drive on the outside to prevail. The victory, coming 29 days after a runner-up effort in a restricted N1X allowance going a mile and an eighth on Belmont turf and just under two months after a 4-1/2-length Belmont maiden special win, increased the four-year-old gelding's earnings by $28,800 to $79,720. It also qualified his owner-breeder, Irish native and Manhattan restaurateur Austin Delaney, for an additional $5,760 breeder award while improving Continental Reins' record to 2 - 2 - 2 in seven starts. The chestnut gelding is among 33 winners in 2005 and 92 overall sired by New York stallion Tomorrows Cat, who stands at Metropolitan Stud (managed by Michael and Debra Lischin) in Pine Plains and whose syndicate (managed by Questroyal Stallions) owners qualified for a $2,016 stallion award. The victory pushed the cumulative progeny earnings for Tomorrows Cat (Storm Cat - Tomorrow's Child, by Al Nasr) to over $5.2-million and advanced the stallion's 2005 offspring earnings to close to $1.2-million. Continental Reins is the second offspring and second New York-bred winner that Delaney has bred from homebred mare Irish Rainbow, by former New York stallion Missionary Ridge. Delaney also bred and raced the gelding's three-time stakes-winning maternal granddam, New York-bred Irish Actress ($571,525), who might have been voted New York Thoroughbred Breeders championship honors for Turf Female except for competition from another Delaney New York homebred, millionaire Irish Linnet ($1,220,179 -- see New York-bred Millionaires Club). In the second race at Saratoga on Saturday, a seven-furlong restricted maiden special for three-year-olds and up, West Point Stable's SARATOGA VIEW went to the front under a hold and pulled away to win his debut by 8-1/2 lengths as the 5.50-to-1 third choice among 12 starters. The three-year-old was one of four first-time-starters in the contest and had the shortest odds of those four, and he scored with obvious authority even though jockey Eibar Coa could not get the greenly-running gelding to switch to his right (and correct) lead in the stretch. For Coa, it was the first of three winning rides aboard three-year-olds on Saratoga's Saturday card. The victory earned $27,000 for the West Point Stable that is managed by Terry Finley and is based in Mount Laurel, New Jersey and was represented by back-to-back Saratoga maiden special winners for the day -- both trained by Richard Violette Jr. In preparing Saratoga View for his winning debut, Violette had given the New York-bred 10 workouts over distances of three to five furlongs from April 12 through July 20. The chestnut gelding had been purchased for $65,000 by Grey Flight Bloodstock as a "winter yearling" at Keeneland's 2003 January mixed sale in Lexington, Kentucky. His debut tally also qualified his breeder, Allan Dragone of December Hill Farm in New Jersey and former chairman of The Jockey Club Information Systems, for a $2,700 breeder award. Saratoga View is by English champion and champion-siring Distant View (by Mr. Prospector) and is the second starter and second winner produced from Prologue, who is by Theatrical and is a half-sister to stakes winner Saratoga Summer ($219,025). Breeder Dragone had raced New York-bred open stakes-placed winner Bicentennial ($191,302) under the banner of December Hill Farm a few years ago. |
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| (7/29) Royal Fudge gives odds-on favorite the royal slip in Spa allowance Alnoff Stable's ROYAL FUDGE, sans blinkers, charged through the stretch leaving 1-4-favorite Quick One in her wake on way to a three-length victory in a NW-1X condition allowance race run over the main track at Saratoga Race Course. Roger Horgan, former steeplechase rider and ex-assistant trainer to Ken McPeek, who retired from training earlier in the month, saddled his first horse at the Spa naming Gary Stevens to ride the three-year-old bay filly. Bred by Donald and Mary Zuckerman, who qualified for a $2,820 breeder's award, the two-year-old stakes-placed Royal Fudge is by Carson City, and is out of the Pine Bluff mare, Chocolate Fudge, who's a half-sister to the graded stakes winner Gerrie Singer (L'enjoleur), who earned $360,211. Royal Fudge was sold at the 2003 Keeneland September Yearling Sales for $200,000, and with today's victory boosts her earnings by $28,200 to $95,710 in 13-career starts. Happy Hill Farm's homebred WAMPUM got all the money while facing an 11-horse field of state-bred two-year-old maiden fillies. After finishing second in her second-career start, trainer Peter Pugh three-times in 13-days registering two "bullet" works going three-furlongs during that period. Pugh named journeyman jockey Jose Santos to ride the gray filly, who broke from the 8th post position. Rated four wide up the backstretch of the 5-1/2-furlong race run over the main track, Wampum moved up to collar the front running first time starter Zippy Missy at the top of the stretch and then raced clear to win by more than a length. The gray filly is by the Maryland based sire Two Punch, and is out of the stakes-placed and allowance winner My Necessity, by Ziggy's Boy. Wampum is the sixth-foal to race out of the dam and is a half-sister to stakes-placed allowance winner Self Rising (Hansel), who earned $164,931 in 22-starts. Peter Wetherill of Happy Hill Farm qualified for a $2,700 breeder's award for today's score. Donna Janis' ONE GOOD MAN, who had been knocking at the door of the winner's circle finishing second in three of his five-lifetime starts, put it all together in today's Spa finale under a rousing ride by jockey Jose Santos to break his maiden against state-bred horses. The 1-1/16th mile affair was run over the inner-turf course and had a full field of 12-horses load into the starting gate with One Good Man breaking from the one-post position. One Good Man rated along the hedge in the early going before angling off the rail turning for home and while charging down the middle of the course hooked Of All Times inside the sixteenth pole. After a brief duel One Good Man forged to the front winning by a half-length under the wire. The consistent gelding is trained by William Perry, who tuned up One Good Man at his Monmouth Park home base. Bred by Be Stables, who qualifies for a $5,520 breeder's award, One Good Man is by the unraced stallion Storm of Angels (Storm Cat), who stood at Tim Little and Anne Morgan's Mill Creek Farm in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The three-year-old gelding is out of the Muscovite mare, Dugga Rose, who's a sister to multiple stakes winner Muskrat Rose, who earned $159,744. |
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| (7/28) TIFFANY TOUCH captures NW-1X allowance at Spa Dogwood Stable's TIFFANY TOUCH, patiently ridden by last year's Eclipse award winning jockey John Velazquez, closed strongly through the stretch to defeat a 12-horse field of state-bred fillies and mares. The NW-1X condition allowance race was run at 1-1/16th mile over Saratoga's turf course, listed "firm". Tiffany Touch was sent to the gate as the lukewarm 2-1 betting favorite and the victory boosts her earnings by $28,880 to $83,846 in 10-career starts and qualified her breeder, Mrs. Marlene Brody of Gallaghers Stud for a $2,880 breeder's award. The three-year-old bay filly is by Deputy Minister, and is out of the multiple graded stakes winning Runaway Groom mare, Careless Heiress, who retired to the breeding shed with over $393,000 in earnings. Consigned to the 2003 Keeneland Yearling Sales, Tiffany Touch was purchased by Cot Campbell's Dogwood Stable for $90,000. Little Brother Farm's WEBMISTRESS rated close to the pace before moving to the lead around the far turn and after a ding dong stretch duel with Sweeping Glance drew off to win by three-quarters of a length. Finishing second in her June 23rd maiden debut, in which she was bumped coming out of the gate and raced greenly, trainer Todd Pletcher removed the blinkers and worked the three-year-old bay filly three-times at Delaware Racetrack for today's state-bred maiden race; naming his go-to jockey John Velazquez to ride. Bred by Richard Simon's Sez Who Thoroughbreds, who qualifies for a $2,700 breeder's award, Webmistress is by Mazel Trick, and is out of the stakes-placed allowance winner Adelaide, by Twilight Agenda. Webmistress was purchased at the 2004 March OBS two-year-old in-training sales for $230,000. CRYPTOVINSKY held off the late charge of Drizzly to break his maiden over the turf at Saratoga Race Course. Owned by Fab Oak Stable and Kin Hui, Crytovinsky is trained by Patrick Biancone and was ridden to victory by jockey Eibar Coa. The four-year-old bay gelding was one of 10-state-bred horses that loaded into the starting gate for the one-mile turf affair, which was carded as today's finale. Cryptovinsky was bred by Howard Kaskel's Sugar Maple Farm and is by Stravinsky, and out of the allowance winning Cryptocari, by Cryptoclearance. Cryptocari is a half-sister to graded stakes winner Big Stanley (Distinctive Pro) and multiple Grade 1 - winner Itsallgreektome (Sovereign Dancer). |
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(7/27) Blues Highway captures open claimer in Saratoga
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Joanne T. Nielsen's homebred BLUES HIGHWAY making his second start of the year roared off the far turn to hook even money favorite Kathir and after a brief duel drew clear to capture today's Saratoga finale. Only two New York-breds were entered in the $35,000 open claiming race, which had a full field of 12-horses going 1-1/8th mile over the Mellon turf course listed "firm". The other New York-bred in the race, Lethimthinkhesboss, closed strongly to be third. Trainer H. James Bond, four-time winner of the NYTB Trainer of the Year honors, named jockey Javier Castellano to ride the five-year-old bay gelding, who raised his lifetime earnings by $23,400 to $137,844 in 14-career starts. Castellano had a banner opening day winning three-races on the card. The open company victory qualified his owner-breeder Joanne T. Nielsen of Darien, Connecticut, and owner of Sunnyfield Farm in Bedford, New York, for a $4,680 owner's award and $4,680 breeder's award. Mrs. Nielsen bred Blues Highway in partnership with her late husband, Gerald, former President of the New York Thoroughbred Breeders. The victory also qualified Michael Watral of Central Islip, Long Island, who had owned the now-deceased New York-based sire, Dixie Brass, for a stallion award of $1,638. Grade 1 NYRA winner Dixie Brass had raced for Watral, a fire-fighting veteran of 40 years who owns an excavating business. Blues Highway is a half-brother to 2001 New York-Bred Champion Turf Male I'm All Yours ($385,912) and 2002 Grade 3 Bay Shore Stakes winner Roman Dancer ($267,949), being the fifth winner bred by the Nielsens in New York from their New York homebred multiple allowance winner, Phalanopsis, by Cormorant. Phalanopsis, who won twice at Aqueduct, was named after a butterfly orchid. A crowd of 25,818 attended the opener for the 137th season with the usual opening day glitches occurring at the historic track. Aside from two power outages, which caused malfunctioning at the mutuel windows, the "new" terminals proved problematic for the fans and management. Another cause for concern for trainers and owners were the new detention barns, with the main complaints being that the tent-stalls were too small - 9' X 9' and were simmering from the hot and humid conditions and no fans were provided causing some of the horses to wash-out. Todd Pletcher's Purge, winner of last year's Jim Dandy Stakes - Gr. 2, was a victim of the unusual conditions and scratched from 7th race. |
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| (7/24) Yankee Mon dominates Evan Shipman with front-running victory Overcoming a tangled start, Windmill Manor Farm's YANKEE MON was allowed by jockey Edgar Prado to sprint to the lead in Belmont's $109,900 Evan Shipman Handicap for New York-bred three-year-olds and up going a one-turn mile and a sixteenth and never surrendered his advantage, scoring his first stakes victory. The big, powerful four-year-old went off favored at 1.90-to-1 among eight starters in his fourth consecutive outing under Prado and was pursued determinedly through the stretch by the gritty 2.25-to-1 second choice, West Virginia, who could not seriously threaten the larger and longer-striding frontrunner. Third choice Chowder's First (3.15-to-1) finished third, followed by fourth choice Rogue Agent (5.60-to-1) in what was a remarkably formful race even for a stakes event. The victory boosted Yankee Mon's earnings by $65,940 to $171,761 and improved his record to 5 - 0 - 1 in eight starts for the Windmill Manor Farms of Richard and Susan Imbert of Bayshore. For Prado, who finished Belmont's 2005 spring-summer meet as the leading rider and has been aboard the last three consecutive Evan Shipman winners, the key to success was in not trying to fight Yankee Mon's competitive nature: "He took me to the front easily," observed Prado. "He is a big horse, and I think we made a mistake taking him back (in Aqueduct's Kings Point Handicap at a mile and an eighth on May 1, in which Yankee Mon tired to fourth in his first outing beyond seven furlongs). He had a right to get a little tired today, considering the track is pretty heavy, and he has been running in short races. He gave me an extra gear at the top of the stretch." Yankee Mon campaigns under the care of trainer Juan Rodriguez, who had given the chestnut colt four stamina-inducing workouts at Aqueduct following his front-running open N2X allowance score 43 days earlier at Belmont going seven furlongs in 1:21.84. Bred by Suzanne Collins of Ocala, Florida, who qualified for a $6,594 breeder award, the big New York-bred 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. He is by Grade 1 winner and sire Maria's Mon and 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," remarked Francis Vanlangendonck, who as agent had consigned the yearling Yankee Mon to the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky sale. Chester and Mary Broman's homebred CHESTERTOWN SLEW ran his turf record to three straight in 2005 in a Belmont restricted N2X allowance for three-year-olds and up, venturing out to a mile and an eighth and two turns and winning by four lengths as the 3.05-to-1 second choice among nine starters. For the fifth time in as many starts, the three-year-old had New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) 2004 Jockey of the Year Richard Migliore on board. In the stretch, he looked like a stakes colt, scampering exuberantly through his final furlong in 11.63 seconds to clock a final time of 1:46.60 while switching to his left lead three strides from the wire. The victory increased Chestertown Slew's earnings by $27,600 to $87,674 and improved his record to 3 - 1 - 0 in five starts and also qualified his owner-breeders, the Bromans of Chestertown Farm in Chestertown and residents of Babylon, Long Island, for an additional $2,760 breeder award. The Bromans, who were honored as NYTB 2004 Breeders of the Year and were named by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association as outstanding New York breeders for 2003, also campaign New York homebred Seeking the Ante ($260,930), winner of Belmont's Grade 2 Nassau County Breeders' Cup on May 7. Chestertown Slew was the least-experienced and only three-year-old in his contest and was coming off the longest period of time since previously competing, which had been 71 days earlier when he had won at a virtual one-turn mile and a sixteenth at Belmont. In the interim, trainer John Kimmel had given the dark bay colt six workouts at Belmont from May 30 through July 10. The son of Seattle Slew is the first winner produced from Grade 2-placed five-time route winner Hansel's Girl ($237,980), who raced for the Bromans after they had purchased her for $80,000 at Keeneland's 1996 September yearling sale. Hansel's Girl is by former New York stallion Hansel and is a half-sister to stakes winners Guided Tour (multiple Grade 2 winner of $1,964,253) and Primetimevalentine ($138,589) and to graded-placed winner Open Sesame ($346,178). More seasoned, fitter, and stretching out to a one-turn mile, William Lanyi's homebred L C TIFFANY romped in a restricted maiden special for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and up, scoring under new jockey Javier Castellano in her third career start after runner-up efforts at Belmont in May and June. The three-year-old filly drifted out in the stretch in response to Castellano's left-handed urging, but her effort added $25,200 to her new bankroll of $41,600 in three starts. It also qualified owner-breeder Lanyi, a longtime participant in the Standardbred industry and owner of Clove Farm in Dutchess County, for an additional $2,520 breeder award, and it provided Castellano -- who was race-riding the filly for the first time -- with his second winning mount of the day. Trained by Bruce Levine, who sent out two winners at Belmont on Sunday, L C Tiffany was given easy-to-moderate half-mile workouts at Belmont on July 13 and July 19 following her second consecutive greenly-run runner-up effort at Belmont on June 26, which had been at 7-1/2 furlongs. In her Belmont debut a month earlier, the chestnut filly had missed victory by only a neck while racing 6-1/2 furlongs in the slop. L C Tiffany is by Carson City and is the second offspring and second winner produced from winner Sleepless, by Seattle Slew, being a half-sister to French stakes-placed four-time winner Sleepless Joy ($118,220 through 2004). Owner-breeder Lanyi, who also raced New York-bred five-time-winning filly/mare Stephanie's Angel, had purchased Sleepless for $77,000 at Keeneland's 2000 November sale when she was carrying a full sibling to future stakes-placed winner Sleepless Joy, but the mare apparently lost that foal. Sleepless is a half-sister to stakes winners Mystic Night ($194,635 through 2004 and by Carson City) and Wacky Becky. Both L C Tiffany and her dam Sleepless are inbred: L C Tiffany is 3 x 4 to Nijinsky II, and Sleepless is 3 x 4 to Boldnesian. On the other side of the continent at Del Mar, Patti and Hal Earnhardt III's New York-bred BEHAVING BADLY scored her second victory in as many starts as the odds-on (.90-to-1) favorite among six starters in a six-furlong $56,400 N1X allowance for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and up, clocking 1:09.03. Race-ridden for the first time by Victor Espinoza, the four-year-old filly pursued pace-setter and 1.20-to-1 second choice Simply Because while off the rail and caught the frontrunner leaving the turn, after which she was hand-ridden to the lead and edged away under a hold at the finish. Forty-seven weeks earlier on August 29 at Del Mar, Behaving Badly had debuted with an eight-length victory in 1:09.26 for six furlongs while carrying five pounds less than her 124-pound impost on Sunday. Trained by Bob Baffert, who had given her six workouts from June 18 to July 21 -- including three "bullet" drills -- the swift bay filly was the first of three winners piloted by Espinoza at Del Mar on Sunday, two of which were saddled by Baffert. The victory increased her earnings by $33,600 to $63,000 in two starts. Purchased at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's 2003 sale of two-year-olds in training in Timonium, Maryland for $150,000 by Hal Earnhardt of Gilbert (near Phoenix), Arizona, Behaving Badly was bred by Becky Thomas and Lewis Lakin. She was foaled at her breeders' Lakland North, LLC, in Hudson, which as agent had sold her for $50,000 at Fasig-Tipton's 2002 Saratoga preferred New York-bred yearling sale. The undefeated filly is by Pioneering (by Mr. Prospector) and is the sixth starter and sixth winner -- five of them New York-breds -- produced from Timeleighness, by Sir Raleigh, being a half-sister to New York-bred Lavish Numbers ($105,727), who set a stakes record in Belmont's 1997 Maid of the Mist Stakes. Behaving Badly also is a half-sister to two six-figure earners in addition to Lavish Numbers: stakes-placed eight-time winner Light Up the Town ($259,751) and Light Up the Sky ($111,450). 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| (7/23) Say Cousin Lenny goes from 6th to 1st in open allowance -
tops $200K Given 90 days off and introduced to his 11th jockey in three years, Sanford Bacon's homebred SAY COUSIN LENNY passed five rivals in the final three-eighths of a seven-furlong open N1X allowance for three-year-olds and up, winning under jockey Eibar Coa as the 16.50-to-1 fifth choice among seven wagering interests. The six-year-old gelding boosted his earnings by $27,000 to over $200K at $216,640 while improving his runner-up-heavy record to 4 - 10 - 2 in 33 starts and also qualified Bacon, of Boca Raton, Florida, for a total of $5,400 in owner and breeder awards ($2,700 each). Say Cousin Lenny's last previous victory had been in a mile and a sixteenth restricted N2X allowance at Belmont in October under the care of trainer Stanley Hough, who reassumed the gelding's conditioning last spring and gave him a three-month layoff following a fourth-place April 24 Aqueduct effort. In the interim, Hough had given Say Cousin Lenny six workouts at Belmont from May 14 through July 19, including "bullet" drills on May 21 and July 2. The dark bay gelding resembled his multi-millionaire half-brother, Say Florida Sandy ($2,085,408 -- see New York-bred Millionaires Club) in the stretch of Saturday's race -- in which a total of eight started -- running with his head up and his ears pinned. Say Cousin Lenny, Say Florida Sandy, and their New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) champion half-sister, Dancin Renee ($490,258), are among six starters, six winners, and five six-figure (or more) earners bred by Bacon from his three-time NYTB Broodmare of the Year, Lolli Lucka Lolli, by Venezuelan champion Sweet Candy. Lolli Lucka Lolli, a $4,500 weanling purchase at a Fasig-Tipton Kentucky 1984 November mixed sale in Lexington, was a Calder allowance winner for Bacon, dividing her four victories equally between sprints and routes. Say Florida Sandy, who is by recently-deceased New York stallion Personal Flag, was claimed from Bacon for $70,000 while winning a mile contest at Belmont by four lengths as a three-year-old in September of 1997. Say Florida Sandy stood his second season at stud as a New York stallion (after being purchased by Walter Downey and syndicated) in 2005 at Amy Boll's Buckridge Farm in Hudson. Henry Waring's WAYTOTHELEFT appeared to have regained the form that she had exhibited as a promising twice-placed two-year-old and two-length Aqueduct maiden special winner this past April, advancing three wide to overtake heavy favorite Fighting Speedy in a seven-furlong restricted N1X allowance for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and up. The three-year-old filly had been basically dismissed as the 9.10-to-1 fourth choice among six starters while breaking from the outside post, but she advanced three wide to collar odds-on (.80-to-1) Fighting Speedy in mid-stretch and gain a narrow, hard-fought victory. That effort increased Waytotheleft's earnings by $25,800 to $59,487 and improved her record to 2 - 0 - 2 in seven starts. Trained by Del Carroll II, who had given her moderate-to-slow workouts at Belmont on July 7 and July 15 following her third consecutive unplaced effort on June 24 at Belmont, Waytotheleft is by former New York stallion Abaginone. Waring, who resides in Lexington Park, Maryland, also is the owner -- and breeder -- of New York-bred 2005 open stakes-winning mare Grab Bag, who likewise is by Abaginone. Questroyal Stud in Hudson had been the home of syndicated Abaginone for six seasons until that stallion was sold to Mexican breeders in September of 2003, and Questroyal also is the breeder of Waytotheleft, thereby qualifying for the $5,160 breeder award and participating in the $1,806 stallion award. Waytotheleft is the second starter and second New York-bred winner produced from winner Waywayanda, who was bred in New York by Questroyal Stable and is by former New York stallion Belong to Me, who had stood at Questroyal Stud. Waywayanda is a full sister to hard-knocking New York-breds Belongs Fast ($270,120 with 53 starts) and Alarm Code ($204,461 with 71 starts), and she is a half-sister to 15-time winner Private Code ($146,733 with 106 starts) and four-time winner Smart Tap ($132,615). Jockey Jose Espinoza obviously acquired considerable confidence in Team Tristar Stable's SULTRY CITY when race-riding him for the first time three weeks earlier to a second-placing at Belmont, because in Saturday's restricted maiden special nightcap, there was no room between rivals in the stretch -- but Espinoza sent him through anyway. The result was a sixth-to-first tally as the 4.90-to-1 third choice among 11 three-year-old starters -- although the six-furlong contest was open to three-year-olds and up -- with 3.20-to-1 second choice Air Race a half-length back on the outside in second place and 2.30-to-1 favorite Blutarsky finishing third. The victory increased Sultry City's earnings by $24,600 to $39,737 with a record of 1 - 1 - 1 in seven starts and provided Espinoza with his second winning ride of the day. The chestnut colt races for the Team Tristar Stable of Glenn Lostritto, which along with trainer Joseph Lostritto had purchased the New York-bred as a weanling for $35,000 at Keeneland's 2002 November sale. Following Sultry City's rallying runner-up effort under Espinoza at Belmont on July 2, trainer Lostritto had given the colt Belmont workouts a week apart on July 13 and July 20. Sultry City was bred by NYTB President Barry Ostrager of Lexington Avenue in New York City, who qualified for a $2,460 breeder award. He is the fifth starter and fifth winner produced from two-time route winner Sultry Lass, who is by Private Account and is a half-sister to Italian stakes-placed winner Fairday and to the dam of 1996 Eclipse Champion Juvenile Filly Storm Song ($1,020,050). Breeder Ostrager had purchased Sultry Lass for $40,000 at Keeneland's 2001 November sale when she was carrying Sultry City, who is by Carson City -- also sire of New York-bred Grade 1 and Grade 2 winners Carson Hollow and Ormsby as well as New York-based stallion Good and Tough. |
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| (7/22) His Beauty captures Jena Jena Stakes at Belmont Park Ms. Marlene Brody's Gallagher's Stud continues to have a banner spring meet at Belmont Park as her homebred HIS BEAUTY closed strongly through the stretch to capture the Jena Jena Stakes, an overnight stakes for New York-bred three-year-old fillies. The 1-1/16th mile affair was run over the Widener turf course and had a field of 8-fillies go to the starting gate with His Beauty part of an entry along with Rahy's Appeal, who was beaten a nostril for third money. Trained by Howard Morgan Tesher, the three-year-old chestnut filly was making her sixth career start and first against stakes company. Rated off the pace by jockey Pablo Fragoso, His Beauty was still sitting fifth at the eighth-pole before unleashing a powerful late kick down the middle of the course just getting by front runner Cayuga's Waters in the final stride. Sired by another Gallagher's Stud homebred, Adcat (Storm Cat), who stands at Farnsworth Farm in Ocala, Florida, His Beauty is the second foal out of Mine Forever, who is by the former New York-based stallion Belong to Me. Adcat was a multiple stakes winner including a victory in the Grade 3 - New Hampshire Sweepstakes Handicap and retired with earnings of $458,607 in 28-lifetime starts. Today's $36,960 winner's share of the $60,000 added purse boosts the three-year-old filly's earnings to $81,990 and when considering the black-type it adds to her pedigree makes it an overall splendid afternoon for all her connections. Castle Village Farm had their second winner of the week as ANGEL DANCER glided under the line a five-length winner against NW-1X state-bred allowance fillies and mares. Seaside Salute, also owned by Castle Village Farm, won a similar condition against state-bred company on Wednesday afternoon. The one-turn mile affair had a field of seven go to the post with Angel Dancer breaking from the outside post position. Trainer James Ferraro named journeyman jockey Jean Luc-Samyn to ride the four year-old dark bay filly, who was bred by Ms. Vivian Amiriati. Ms. Amiriati qualified for a 5,280 breeder's award and John and Theresa Behrendt, owners of Incurable Optimist, qualified for a $1,848 stallion owner's award. Incurable Optimist was voted the 1998 two-year-old New York-bred Divisional Champion and was North America's only juvenile to win graded stakes in New York and California in 1998, capturing Belmont's Grade 3 Pilgrim Stakes by 4-lengths prior to winning the Grade 3 Generous Stakes by 9-lengths. The son of Cure the Blues, also, captured the World Appeal Stakes at the Meadowlands by 1-length. WHEREFORARTTHOU closed with a flourish to break his maiden against state-bred company in a race run at a mile over the Widener turf course. Owned by the partnership of Edouard Mann, Ezra Mann and Faraj Mann, the three-year-old bay colt is trained by Leah Gyarmati, who gave a leg-up to journeyman jockey Jose Santos. The three-year-old son of River Keen (Ire) was making his seventh lifetime start and second over the turf. Changing tactics for today's turf race, Santos rated Whereforartthou near the back of the 11-horse field before swinging his mount wide around the far turn for a clear run down the middle of the course. Under strong handling, Whereforartthou charged through the stretch and caught Haze My Man in the final few strides. Haze My Man had shook loose inside the sixteenth-pole and seemed to be the race winner, before being overtaken in the last few strides. Bred by Hallie McEvoy and Thom McEvoy, Whereforartthou is the second winner and third foal of racing age for his dam, Lyphard's Theatre, by Theatre Critic (Ire). River Keen (Ire), a multiple grade one stakes winner, which includes victories in the Woodward Stakes (Gr. I) and Jockey Club Gold Cup (Gr. I) retired with earnings of $1,585,802 in 24-career races and stands at Metropolitan Stud in Pine Plains, N.Y. TRADING PRO, owned by Seth Klarman's Klaravich Stable, hooked up in a three-way battle to the top of the stretch before drawing off to win by almost six-lengths in a two-year-old state-bred maiden race going 5-1/2-furlongs. Trainer Richard Violette, Jr. added blinkers for Trading Pro's second career race and named jockey Eibar Coa to ride. Bred by Sue and Gary Lundy's Cedar Ridge Farm, located in Pine Plains, N.Y., Trading Pro is by the late Distinctive Pro, and is out of the 100-percent producing Valid Appeal mare, Danielle's Jewel. Consigned by Jimmy Miranda, agent, to the 2003 Fasig-Tipton New York-bred Preferred Yearling Sales held each August in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Trading Pro was purchased for $100,000. Distinctive Pro stood at Sugar Maple Farm since moving to New York in 1989 and was owned by a syndicate. |
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| (7/21) Key Event wins featured event at Belmont Park Backwards Stable's KEY EVENT roared off the last turn to collar the leaders on his way to an impressive six-length score in today's Belmont Park featured 8th race. The NW-1X condition allowance for state-breds was run at 1-1/8th mile over the inner-turf course, listed "firm." Trainer Pat Kelly added blinkers for the three-year-old bay colt's seventh lifetime race and had the horse treated with lasix for the first time, both with apparently satisfactory results. Kelly made another change for the son of Royal Anthem naming jockey Pablo Fragoso to ride for the first time. The $26,400 winner's share of the purse boosts Key Event's lifetime earnings to $68,170 and qualifies his breeder Edward McEneaney (Backwards Stable) for a $2,640 breeder's award. Key Event is the second foal out of the Missionary Ridge (GB) dam Sugarkey, a half-sister to multiple stakes-placed and allowance winner Alyshena (Alysheba), who earned $239,962 in a 38-race career. Summer Wind Stable's homebred, CLASSIC MARILYN, chased down front runner Fiddlers Star through the stretch and then held off the late charging Alley Singer by a diminishing length to break her maiden. Making her 15th career start the four year-old bay filly broke from mid-pack in the 12-state-bred maiden field for fillies and mares and was ridden to victory by jockey Jose Espinoza. It was the second victory of the afternoon for trainer John Hertler and Espinoza, having won earlier on the card with Gebb's Chequer. Classic Marilyn was bred by television and radio talk show host Mike Francesa, who teams up with Mad Dog (Chris Russo) and the immensely popular WFAN radio and Yes cable channel sports shows. Francesa has been a longtime supporter of the New York Breeding and Racing Program and qualified for a $2,640 breeder's award for today's score. Classic Marilyn is by Sky Classic, and is the first foal out of Upstate Kate, a half-sister to stakes winner and graded stakes placed performer Marisa Go (Go and Go-Ire) and to multiple European stakes-placed performer Instant Affair (Lyphard). GIANT'S PROMISE, bred and owned by Chester and Mary Broman, rated smartly by jockey Chantal Sutherland to the top of the stretch swept to the lead as the field straightened for the home and held off race time favorite Queen of Battle by a length to post her maiden victory. Trained by John Kimmel, the three-year-old dark bay filly was making her second career start and first over the turf. The state-bred maiden race for fillies and mares was run at a mile over the Widener turf course and had a field of 11-horses go to the starting gate with Giant's Promise breaking from the outside post position. Giant's Promise is by the 5-time European Grade 1 winner Giant's Causeway (Storm Cat) who finished a close up second in the 2000 running of the Breeder's Cup Classic - Gr. 1. Out of the stakes-placed Affirmed mare, Affirm Promise, Giant's Promise is a half-sister to multiple allowance winner Alpine Pass (Polish Numbers). Richard Englander's homebred LUCKY S. LORENTI, away from the races for more than 10-months closed from six-lengths off the pace at the eighth-pole to run past first time starter Busters Rodeo nearing the wire winning by a length. The five and one-half furlong maiden race was run over the main track with a field of 9-state-breds going to the post. The three-year-old son of Regal Classic was making his second lifetime start and first for trainer Richard Schosberg, who gave a leg up to jockey Richard Migliore. Schosberg worked the colt steadily over both the Belmont training and main tracks and had the chestnut colt sharp for his three-year-old debut. Lucky S. Lorenti is the second foal out of Bye My Love (Runaway Groom) and is a half-brother to open handicap winner and stakes-placed performer S. Cherry Legacy (Private Talk), a 9-time winner with earnings surpassing $180,000. Bicycle Stable's homebred GEBB'S CHEQUER put in a powerful stretch run to overtake Fiddler's Pleasure inside the sixteenth pole to break her maiden against state-bred fillies and mares going 1-1/8th mile over the inner turf course. Making her seventh career start, trainer John Hertler named journeyman jockey Jose Espinoza to ride the three-year-old chestnut filly, who broke from the two post position in the 10-horse field. Gebb's Chequer is out of the Halo mare, Gebb's Halo, and was sired by Chequer, who stood at McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds through the end of the 2002 breeding season. |
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| (7/20) Penny Dream captures open $50,000 claimer in Belmont finale
New York-bred PENNY DREAM, making her first start for new connections after being claimed for $35,000 in last race, charged to the lead turning for home and coasted to victory under a hand ride. Entered for a $50,000 claiming tag in the one-mile affair, the five year-old dark bay mare was ridden to victory over the Belmont Park Widener turf course by jockey Eibar Coa. Trained by Steven Asmussen, Penny Dream was saddled by his assistant trainer Toby Sheets. Penny Dream is owned by Chrome Cowboy Stable, who because of the open company victory qualify for an owner's award of $2,640 as does her breeder, Ming Y. Li, who lost the mare through the claim box. Mr. Li will continue to earn breeder award money for any purse earnings (1st through 4th) while racing in pari-mutuel races New York State. While winning her 5th race in 20th-lifetime start, Penny Dream elevated her earnings by $26,400 to $169,642. Castle Village Farm's SEASIDE SALUTE, who's previous three races in 2005 were all run over the turf, stalked front runner Cat's Lad to the head of the stretch before cruising to the lead and drew off to win by three-lengths. The NW-1X condition allowance race for state-breds was run around a one-turn mile over Belmont Park's main track. Ridden by jockey Javier Castellano and trained by William H. Turner, Jr., of Seattle Slew fame, Seaside Salute is by Sea Salute, and is out of the Mining mare, Love Tunnel, who is a 100% producer of four foals of racing age, which includes the grade 3-stakes placed Devine Angel (Matty G). The $26,400 winner's share of the purse boosts the four year-old gelding's earnings to $79,852 in 12-career starts and qualifies his breeder Roger Toffolon for a $5,280 breeder's award and, as owner of the sire, a $1,848 stallion owner's award for a total pay day of $33,528. Sea Salute stands at Liberty Stud in Ghent, New York and with six crops to race has progeny earnings approaching $5-million. Two divisions of state-bred two year old filly maidens going five and one-half furlongs over the main track were run earlier on the card both with full fields loading into the starting gate. In the first division, DOLL BABY closed strongly down the middle of the stretch on her way to a two-length victory in her first career start. Owned by the E El R Stable, managed by Richard Balfour, the two year-old bay filly is trained by Bruce Levine and was ridden to victory by journeyman jockey Mike Luzzi. By Citidancer, Doll Baby is the third foal out of the 100% producing Desert Wine mare Sand Pirate, a 7-time winner. Bred by television and stage star David Cassidy, Doll Baby was consigned by Denali Stud, acting as agent, to last year's Saratoga Fasig-Tipton New York-bred Preferred Yearling Sales and was purchased by E El R Stable for $55,000. The second division was won by the most experienced filly in the field CAUGHT INTHE ZIP, who had two previous races under her girth. Ridden by the meet's leading rider Edgar Prado, Caught Inthe Zip was sent winging as soon as the starting gate opened and led throughout to register her first career victory. Trained by Juan Rodriguez and owned by the partnership of Landson Robbins III, and Kevin Callahan, the bay filly is by the first crop sire City Zip (Carson City), only the fourth horse in history to sweep Saratoga's three major juvenile stakes races, the Hopeful Stakes - Gr. 1, the Sanford Stakes - Gr. 2 and the Saratoga Special - Gr. 2, and is a half-brother to last year's Eclipse Horse of the Year Ghostzapper (Awesome Again). City Zip stood at Gus Schoenborn Jr.'s Contemporary Thoroughbreds in Coxsackie, New York through end of 2004 breeding season. Caught Inthe Zip, who is out of the stakes producing Cove Hill Miss, by Fit to Fight, was bred by Willard C. Freeman, who qualifies for a $4,920 breeder's award. Owned by a syndication, City Zip qualified for a stallion owner's award of $1,722. The speedy filly was consigned by Jeffrey Minton, acting as agent, to last year's Saratoga Fasig-Tipton New York-bred Preferred Yearling sales with Hidden Brook, acting as purchasing agent, signing the ticket for $65,000. Flying Zee Stable's homebred QUEEN FOR A KNIGHT, making her sixth-career start went gate to wire, in today's opener, to break her maiden against a field of state-bred fillies and mares. By second crop sire Western Expression, who is owned by Carl Lizza, Jr. and stands at his Highcliff Farm in Delanson, New York, Queen for a Knight is trained by Carlos Martin, who's winning with over 31% of the horses he's saddled at the meet. Out of the Tom Rolfe mare, Fairy Queen, the three-year-old dark bay filly is a half-sister to multiple stakes winner Kevin's Decision, who recently won the second division of the $85,100 Mount Vernon Handicap, which is run at nine-furlongs over the turf. |
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| (7/17) Carminooch gets second sloppy track mile victory Although he was the youngest and least-experienced among six starters in Belmont's Sunday one-turn N2X allowance mile for New York-bred three-year-olds and up and was coming off a 31-week layoff under a pickup jockey who had never race-ridden him before, three-year-old CARMINOOCH was favored at 1.30-to-1 and did not disappoint. The sloppy track conditions did not faze the dark bay colt, who advanced on the outside under jockey Michael Luzzi's urging to score a hard-fought but decisive victory over front-running 8-to-1 fourth choice Metallic Moon, giving Luzzi his second consecutive winning ride of the day. Carminooch also was the second winner on the card sent out by New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) 1999 Trainer of the Year Todd Pletcher, who had given the late-foaled (May 26, 2002) three-year-old six workouts on Saratoga's Oklahoma training track from June 8 to July 11. As a two-year-old in 2004, Carminooch had won his 5-1/2-furlong Saratoga debut by 3-3/4 lengths, then two starts later had placed third behind future 2005 graded-placed New York-breds Galloping Grocer and Naughty New Yorker in Belmont's $100,000 Sleepy Hollow Stakes on New York Showcase Day (October 23). He followed up that effort a month later at Aqueduct with a five-length score going a sloppy one-turn mile in a restricted N1X allowance, and his second one-turn mile tally in the slop increased his earnings by $27,600 to $92,136 in six starts. Carminooch races for the Three Amigos Stable managed by Carmine Sirico, brother of actor Tony Sirico of television's "The Sopranos" and movies "The Godfather" and "GoodFellas". The colt was purchased twice as a yearling for $5,000 -- the second time by Rob Webster at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's October yearling sale in Lexington on the reported advice of agent and consultant Jack Brothers of Breezy Point, New York, who had recommended the New York-bred to Three Amigos Stable. The slop-loving stalker is among 31 winners in 2005 and at least 92 winners overall sired by syndicated Tomorrows Cat (Storm Cat - Tomorrow's Child, by Al Nasr), who is managed by Questroyal Stallions and stands at Metropolitan Stud (managed by Michael and Debra Lischin) in Pine Plains. Carminooch, whose four-year-old half-brother, Boundary Bay, had won a restricted N2X allowance mile in Belmont slop by 20-1/2 lengths on July 8 off a 188-day layoff, is among seven winners produced from Open Flap, a two-time California-winning daughter of former New York stallion Carr de Naskra. Carminooch's breeder, Washington, D.C.-based realtor Gary Mottola of Glen Gray Farm in Oakland, New Jersey, had purchased Open Flap for $10,000 at Keeneland's 2001 January mixed sale when she was carrying Boundary Bay, and Mottola also is the breeder of recent Grade 1 Prioress winner and New York-bred Acey Deucey. Open Flap is a half-sister to Grade 1 winner Catatonic ($437,431), whose winning offspring include stakes winners Alynar ($116,548) and Dactylic plus stakes-placed D' Coach ($138,438). Two hundred days after an unplaced effort going six furlongs on Aqueduct's inner track, four-year-old TAKEH returned to competition for his first outing on a sloppy track in an off-the-turf mile and an eighth restricted maiden special for three-year-olds and up at Belmont on Sunday, winning by 15-3/4 lengths. The bay gelding had jockey Shaun Bridgmohan -- now riding regularly at Arlington Park -- on board for the first time since an unplaced sprinting effort at Saratoga in 2004, and he went off sufficiently respected as the 2.10-to-1 second choice among six starters after three runners were scratched out. Takeh's only previous top-three finish had been a second-placing on Belmont turf 12-1/2 months earlier at a mile and a sixteenth, and his first winning effort increased his earnings by $25,200 to $38,729 in ten starts -- six on dirt and four on turf. In preparing the sloppy track standout for his first start since December 30, trainer Richard Violette Jr. had given him four solid though not sensational workouts at Aqueduct from June 18 to July 10. Takeh is at least the 31st winner of 2005 to represent his New York-based sire, syndicated Take Me Out (Cure the Blues - White Feather, by Tom Rolfe), and is among at least 167 winners overall sired by that stallion, who stands at Dr. Jonathan Davis's Milfer Farm, Inc. in Unadilla. The syndicate owners of Take Me Out, whose cumulative progeny earnings have just exceeded $11.7-million, qualified for a $1,764 stallion award as a result of Takeh's victory. Owned by Adele Epstein, Susan Schneider, and Linda Dinkes and bred by Lori McGinnis (who qualified for a $5,040 breeder award), Takeh is the first winner produced from stakes-placed seven-time winning sprinter Alaura, by Raja Native. Alaura is a half-sister to three-time stakes winner Shake Rag Ruthie ($151,922) and to the three-time winning dam of Michigan-bred factory-strength stakes winner Secret Romeo ($865,790), who won 23 races, including 17 stakes. Although Takeh's dam was a sprinter, his long-winded dosage profile (3-5-7-2-3) suggests that routing might be the gelding's forte. In his 14th start, everything came together for Salvatore Fantasia's homebred GUIDANCE UP in a restricted maiden special for three-year-olds and up going a one-turn off-the-turf mile and an eighth at Belmont on Sunday, as he came from fifth (and last) place to win by 3-1/4 lengths. Sent off the 7-to-1 fourth choice with jockey Jose Espinoza race-riding him for the fifth -- and second consecutive -- time, the four-year-old gelding increased his earnings by $25,200 to $45,262 with his first better than third-place finish -- although he has placed third four times (three on dirt; three on turf). His victory also qualified his owner-breeder, NYTB member Fantasia of Grafton, Massachusetts, for an additional $2,520 breeder award. Trained by Robert Ribaudo, Guidance Up had been given easy half-mile workouts over Belmont's training track on June 26 and July 3 following an unplaced effort under Espinoza on Belmont's turf course five weeks prior to Sunday's victory. The bay gelding is by English-French Group 1 winner Green Dancer and is the first winner produced from Seven of Diamond's, who is by Prospectors Gamble and won three races -- both routing and sprinting. In his first effort against open stakes company, Gumpster Stable LLC's New York-bred Clever Electrician closed from fifth on the outside to place third in Belmont's Grade 2 Tom Fool Handicap at seven furlongs on Sunday for three-year-olds and up. The six-year-old was ridden for the first time in competition by jockey Eibar Coa and went off in the $150,000 event as the 4.10-to-1 fourth choice among six starters, increasing his earnings by $15,000 to $356,690 off a record of 8 - 5 - 6 in 29 starts. He also qualified the Gumpster Stable of Andrew Berg of Roslyn, Long Island for an additional $1,500 owner award. Since Berg's claim of Clever Electrician for $30,000 at Churchill Downs two years ago when the New York-bred placed second while missing victory by a head, the bay horse has gone on to win restricted stakes at Saratoga and Belmont and an open Aqueduct allowance, earning $325,540 for Gumpster Stable. Trained by Bruce Levine, who had given him sharp Belmont workouts on July 5 (a three-furlong 35-flat "bullet" drill) and July 11 following a 3-1/2-length six-furlong tally in a restricted Belmont handicap on June 23, Clever Electrician is still eligible for open N2X NYRA allowance competition. He had been purchased as a weanling for $75,000 at Keeneland's 1999 November sale, to which he had been consigned through agent Fred Seitz/Brookdale Farm by co-breeders Monica Driver and Caroline "Bunty" Ferguson -- joint qualifiers for a $1,500 breeder award as a result of the Tom Fool. The son of Clever Trick is among eight winners produced from Driver-Ferguson's late three-time NYTB Champion Broodmare, Loose Wire, by Ruritania, being a full brother to New York-bred graded winner Wire Me Collect ($626,452) and a half-brother to New York-bred graded winner Scottish Monk ($688,701). With open (to horses bred anywhere) stakes-placings by New York-breds Bestowed and High Peaks in Woodbine's $132,096 (U.S. funds) Toronto Cup and Belmont's Shine Again Stakes, respectively, the day before, Clever Electrician is the 38th New York-bred to win or place in an open stakes in 2005. His third-placing in the Tom Fool represented the 61st on-the-board finish by a New York-bred in open stakes competition this year. |
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| (7/16) Mikethemoondog shines in Belmont turf mile Now two-for-two in 2005 over Belmont grass under jockey Richard Migliore, four-year-old MIKETHEMOONDOG led throughout in Belmont's second of two restricted N1X turf mile contests for three-year-olds and up on Saturday, scoring for the second time in 23 days as the 4.90-to-1 third choice among nine starters. After the bay gelding had broken his maiden going a mile and an eighth over Belmont's lawn on June 23, New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) 2003 Trainer of the Year Barclay Tagg had given him two moderate Belmont workouts. The second victory increased the earnings for Mikethemoondog -- whose trainer and jockey both are NYTB champions in their respective professions (Migliore was NYTB 2004 Jockey of the Year) -- by $26,400 to $51,930 while improving his record to two wins in four starts. The gelding has three ownership entities: The Three Colleens Stable of David Stack of Oak Ridge, New Jersey, Fredrick Gorsline's Fred Gorsline Stable, and the Saratoga Springs-based Partingglass Stable of racing partnerships coordinated by Thomas Gallo. He had been consigned to Fasig-Tipton's 2002 Saratoga preferred New York-bred yearling sale by the Thomas J. Gallo Sales Agency, where he initially was purchased by Dennis and Deborah Petrisak's Langpap Stable of Honeoye Falls for $34,000 and then sold privately to the current owners. Mikethemoondog was bred by Patricia Calandro of Barely Able Farm in Holmes in partnership with Mia Gallo, collectively qualifying those two for a $2,640 breeder award. Sired by former New York stallion Belong to Me, Mikethemoondog is among seven starters, all winners, produced from his New York-bred Aqueduct-winning dam, NYTB 2003 Broodmare of the Year Final Accord, by pensioned New York stallion D'Accord. The emerging turf standout's New York-bred half-siblings include Grade 1 winner Buy the Sport ($356,581 in the U.S. and England) and other stakes winners Haggs Castle ($296,262), Try N Sue ($236,590), and Winter Dreams ($142,824). A yearling half-sister to this glittering array of stakes winners and to Mikethemoondog, Hip No. 284 (from the first crop of Eclipse Champion Sprinter Orientate), has been consigned by breeder Calandro to Fasig-Tipton's 2005 Saratoga New York-bred yearling sales and is scheduled to sell Sunday evening, August 14. Returning from a 233-day layoff with blinkers off for the first time since his 2002 juvenile season, RED DOWN SOUTH broke from the eighth post in Belmont's Saturday opener, a restricted N1X allowance for three-year-olds and up going a virtual one turn mile on turf, and won by two lengths. The five-year-old gelding was coming off a series of six workouts at Saratoga from May 21 to July 4 -- two on turf, including a five-furlong "bullet" drill of 59 4/5 on June 3 -- and had jockey Norberto Arroyo Jr. on board for the first time in competition. His drawing-away victory as the 15.90-to-1 fourth choice among nine starters increased his earnings by $26,400 to $90,801 and improved his record to 2 - 3 - 2 in 18 starts. Owned by NYTB Executive Director Dennis Brida in partnership with Thomas Novotny, Lincoln Miller, and Charles Reiss, Red Down South is trained by co-owner Brida's wife, Juliane Brida, who elected to keep a shadowroll on the gelding while taking the blinkers off. He had broken his maiden in an off-the-turf contest in Belmont slop in June of 2004 (off a 4-1/2-month layoff) but had placed second once and third twice in eight starts over grass at Belmont and Saratoga. Bred by Albany-area television news anchor Tracy Egan of Seven Furlong Farm in Ballston Lake, who qualified for a $5,280 breeder award, Red Down South is by Michael Watral's late New York stallion Dixie Brass, who had won Belmont's Grade 1 Metropolitan Mile under Dennis Brida's training supervision. Former firefighting veteran Watral, who operates an excavating business in Central Islip, Long Island and also had campaigned 1989 Champion New York-Bred Three-Year-Old Male Packett's Landing ($799,769), qualified for a $1,848 stallion award as a result of Red Down South's Saturday victory. The flashy chestnut is among five New York-bred winners bred by Egan from Redeye Rain, a turf-winning Instrument Landing mare who had raced for Egan's Seven Furlong Farm. Red Down South's two winning half-sisters are Belmont open (to fillies and mares bred anywhere) stakes winner Message Red ($240,722) and recent (May 13, 2005) Belmont maiden special winner Rodeo'sbeenspotted. Returned to Belmont's main track after three tries on turf, Castle Village Farm's BRAVE SIR ROBIN broke his maiden in Saturday's nightcap for New York-bred three-year-olds and up going 7-1/2 furlongs, hanging on after coming from next-to-last under his jockey for his last four consecutive outings, Jean-Luc Samyn. The victory, scored despite drifting in through the stretch while staying on his left lead as the 4.40-to-1 second choice among nine starters, increased the three-year-old gelding's earnings by $24,600 to $41,830 in seven starts, which includes second-place and third-place efforts on Aqueduct's main track this past spring. Owned by the Castle Village Farm of Stephen Zorn of Hialeah, Florida, which had purchased him for $28,000 at Fasig-Tipton's 2003 Saratoga preferred New York-bred yearling sale, the late-foaled (May 7, 2002) Brave Sir Robin was the youngest starter in the contest. He campaigns under the care of trainer William Turner Jr., who had given the bay gelding three workouts at Belmont following his latest turf outing on June 12. Brave Sir Robin is the third winner that the Gallagher's Stud in Ghent of Marlene Brody and the late Jerry Brody has bred from juvenile main track winner Brave Hearted, a British-bred mare that Gallagher's Stud had purchased as a yearling for $105,000 at Keeneland's 1991 July sale. His two winning half-brothers include New York-bred Brave One ($350,288), who won Belmont's 2001 Ashley T. Cole Handicap. Unraced for 18 weeks after winning Aqueduct's $82,350 restricted Broadway Handicap on March 12 under jockey Norberto Arroyo Jr., Berkshire Stud's homebred High Peaks returned to competition to place second in Belmont's Saturday Shine Again Stakes for older fillies and mares that had not won a graded stakes in 2004-2005. Sent off the 6.40-to-1 fourth choice among four starters in the $63,150 six-furlong event with Arroyo again on board and top-weighted under 123 pounds according to the contest's allowance conditions because of her Broadway victory, the four-year-old filly broke on top and led almost to the wire. In the final strides, heavily favored (.40-to-1) Souris, a five-year-old mare who had eight previous sprint stakes victories on her resume but was carrying two pounds less than High Peaks, surged past the New York-bred to win by a half-length. It was 7-1/2 lengths from High Peaks back to the third-place finisher. High Peaks' effort increased her earnings by $13,308 to $244,409 off a record of 5 - 6 - 3 in 21 starts and also qualified her owner-breeder, the Berkshire Stud in Pine Plains of Dr. Douglas Koch, for an additional total of $2,661.60 in owner and breeder awards ($1,330.80 each). Trained by Thomas Bush, who had given the bay filly six workouts at Belmont following her Broadway victory, including a five-furlong "bullet" drill of 59 4/5 on June 30, High Peaks also had placed second in Aqueduct's open six-furlong Ruthless Stakes in January of 2004. She is by Canadian champion Peaks and Valleys and is the first offspring and first of two consecutive New York-bred winners produced from New York-bred Phari, a Black Tie Affair mare that Berkshire Stud also bred. High Peaks is the 36th New York-bred to have won or placed in an open (to horses bred anywhere) stakes event in 2005, and her runner-up effort in the Shine Again represented the 59th on-the-board finish by a New York-bred in open stakes competition this year. |
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