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(8/15) Love My Gal gallops to 3-1/2-length maiden
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Taking advantage of a huge inside opening at the top of the stretch, Max Hugel's homebred LOVE MY GAL shot through to a sudden big lead and cruised to victory in Saratoga's Monday nightcap for New York-bred fillies and mares, three-year-olds and up, going a two-turn mile on turf. The three-year-old filly went off favored at 1.85-to-1 among 10 starters, and although ducking in at the start and bumping with 8.30-to-1 sixth choice Time Heals on her inside, she had an uneventful trip thereafter while being rated in fourth place for a half-mile. For jockey Edgar Prado, who had race-ridden Love My Gal for the first time in an unplaced effort over Belmont turf on June 24, it was the second winning ride on Saratoga's Monday card aboard a filly. The dark bay had placed third going a mile and a sixteenth on Saratoga turf 15 days earlier on July 31 despite racing four wide into the first turn, after which trainer Vincent Blengs had given her an easy three-furlong workout over Saratoga's main track on August 10. Monday's victory increased Love My Gal's earnings by $27,000 to $32,860 in four starts and also qualified her owner-breeder, former Rockingham Park chairman Max Hugel of Windham, New Hampshire and Reddick, Florida, for an additional total of $7,290 in breeder ($5,400) and stallion ($1,890) awards. Hugel also owns Love My Gal's sire, stakes winner Manlove (Mr. Prospector - Thirty Flags, by Hoist the Flag), and stands him at Beverly Least's Foggy Bottom Farm in Geneseo, and the Hugel homebred is among at least eight winners in 2005 sired by that stallion. Love My Gal has five full siblings sired by Manlove, all winners, including Hugel's homebred Gal O Gal ($210,397 through 2004), who won Gulfstream's graded Herecomesthebride Stakes on grass in 2003, Puerto Rican stakes winner Brooklyn Bandit, and six-figure-earner Barnard Man ($134,170 through 2004). Her dam, two-time winner Barnard Gal, by Harvard Man (by Crimson Satan), is inbred 4 x 4 to both Phalanx and Balladier and was purchased privately by Hugel prior to having her first foal specifically to be bred to Manlove. "At the time, I didn't know too much about breeding, and others said it would be a good match, so I said 'OK'," recalled Hugel to The Blood-Horse magazine in 2003. Barnard Gal is a half-sister to stakes-placed six-time winner Cheri Creame ($120,580) and to dirt and turf winner Caramel Topping, who is the dam of 2003 stakes winner Caramel's Express. |
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| (8/14) Dave takes West Point - has 2 Spa wins in 4 days Scoring in his first stakes outing just four days after winning a restricted N2X allowance mile on turf at Saratoga, Joseph Gerrity Jr.'s homebred DAVE captured Saratoga's $113,600 West Point Handicap for New York-bred three-year-olds and up going a mile and an eighth on turf. It was the four-year-old gelding's seventh consecutive effort under New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) 2003 Jockey of the Year Jose Santos, who had ridden West Point winners in 1999 and 2002, and he went off relatively dismissed as the 8.10-to-1 fifth choice among nine starters. Dave broke on top from the number two post but was rated back inside by Santos, thereby avoiding a wide scramble on the first turn involving almost half the field when 2.65-to-1 favorite Certifiably Crazy drifted out. The bay gelding rallied through the stretch to take command from front-running 5.50-to-1 third choice Provincetown just inside the final furlong and though lurching back to his left lead still pulled ahead to win by a length, with Provincetown edging Certifiably Crazy by a neck for second place.
Santos, in turn, marveled at the conditioning feat that Hertler had pulled off with Dave: "John has done a tremendous job with this horse. It is obvious that he was still sharp off that win four days ago. He has become a much better horse coming off the pace. He showed that again today. We were in good position along the inside, and once we got through, we opened up and that was it." Dave is from the last crop of deceased New York stallion Ends Well, a Grade 1-winning son of Lyphard who had stood at Gus Schoenborn Jr.'s Contemporary Stallions in Coxsackie and whose syndicate owners qualified for a $4,771 stallion award. The rangy gelding 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 granddam of stakes winner Reside ($132,692). After four consecutive placed efforts (second or third) -- three since being claimed for $30,000 at Gulfstream last January -- Castle Village Farm's FIGHTING SPEEDY scored as the 1.10-to-1 favorite among seven wagering interests and eight starters in a restricted N1X allowance for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and up, going 6-1/2 furlongs. The three-year-old filly was race-ridden for the first time by NYTB 2002 Jockey of the Year John Velazquez and increased her earnings by $28,200 to $74,464 while giving Velazquez his first of two consecutive winning rides aboard fillies. Fighting Speedy also improved her record to 2 - 4 - 2 in 10 starts and boosted the bankroll that she has earned for the Castle Village Farm of Stephen Zorn of Hialeah, Florida to $49,980 after that owner had claimed her for $30,000. The chestnut filly had broken her maiden by 8-1/4 lengths at Calder last December while racing with a $25,000 tag for her breeder, Robert Perez of Haras Lucy Grace in Otisville, who qualified for a $2,820 breeder award as a result of Fighting Speedy's Sunday tally. She campaigns under the care of trainer Leah Gyarmati, who had given the New York-bred moderate workouts at Belmont on August 6 and August 11 following a close runner-up effort (losing by only a neck) going seven furlongs in restricted N1X allowance company at Belmont on July 23. Fighting Speedy is among 13 winners in 2005 sired by breeder Perez's now New York-based stallion Senor Speedy (Fast Gold - Quality Endures, by General Assembly), a multiple Grade 2 winner who stands at Haras Lucy Grace. She is among six winners produced from Scrapping, who is by Fight Over (by Grey Dawn II) and is a half-sister to Grade 1 and Grade 2 NYRA winner Agincourt ($338,483). Perez had purchased Scrapping for $2,800 at a Fasig-Tipton Kentucky 2001 February mixed sale when the mare was not carrying a foal. Obviously NY Stable's two-year-old METRO METEOR returned to action at Saratoga just 13 days after a runner-up effort at the Spa when he had blinkers on and Lasix medication for the first time, going off at odds-on (.70-to-1) among eight starters in his second consecutive 5-1/2-furlong restricted maiden special outing. The swift juvenile performed as expected, breaking on top from the seventh post position under jockey Cornelio Velasquez, who was riding him for the first time in competition, and leading most of the way to win by 3-1/2 lengths. Trained by Linda Rice, Metro Meteor had been bumped on the backstretch in his debut at Belmont on July 3 and had finished unplaced, but his third start and first victory increased his earnings by $27,000 to $36,274 for the Obviously NY Stable of Richard Benas. The bay gelding was bred by Gus Schoenborn Jr., who qualified for a $5,400 breeder award, and was conceived at Schoenborn's Contemporary Stallions in Coxsackie, being from the first crop of former Contemporary-based City Zip, whose syndicate owners when Metro Meteor was conceived qualified for a $1,890 stallion award. Prior to Sunday's racing, City Zip ranked as North America's third-leading freshman sire based on the performances of his New York-conceived first crop, of which Metro Meteor is a member. Metro Meteor is the first offspring produced from Here Comes Nikki, a moderately inbred (3 x 4 to Northern Dancer) eight-year-old daughter of The Prime Minister (by Deputy Minister) who was a winner at both two and four. Twenty-two days after placing a closing second in his debut at Belmont while racing five wide and missing victory by only a neck, Peter Karches' homebred AIR RACE rambled to a 5-3/4-length win in Saratoga's restricted maiden special nightcap for three-year-olds and up going six furlongs. The three-year-old colt again had NYTB 2004 Jockey of the Year Richard Migliore on board and although breaking from the 10th post among 11 starters went off at odds-on (.90-to-1) to give Migliore his second winning ride on Saratoga's Sunday card. The effort boosted Air Race's earnings by $27,000 to $35,200 in two starts and also qualified owner-breeder Karches, of Locust Valley and a Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association (TOBA) board member, for an additional $5,400 breeder award. He is trained by Lisa Lewis, who had given the big dark bay an easy half-mile workout on Saratoga's Oklahoma training track on August 8 following his July 23 runner-up debut. Air Race is among at least 52 winners in 2005 and 154 overall sired by syndicated New York stallion A. P Jet (Fappiano - Taminette, by In Reality), who stands at Howard Kaskel's Sugar Maple Farm in Poughquag and whose connections qualified for a $1,890 stallion award. The imposing-looking colt is the first starter and first winner produced from Blink, a Dynaformer mare who won on both dirt and turf and is a half-sister to three six-figure-earners (two in Japan). |
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| (8/13) The Daddy does it again - wins by 12 - is 2-for-2 Four weeks after winning his debut at Hollywood Park in 1:09.01 for six furlongs, Greg Norman's three-year-old THE DADDY romped by 12 lengths in a seven-furlong restricted N1X allowance at Saratoga for three-year-olds and up, clocking 1:22.36 and boosting his earnings by $28,200 to $55,200 in two starts. Ridden for the first time in competition by jockey Robby Albarado and odds-on (.40-to-1) among nine starters, the dazzling dark bay also qualified his breeders, William S. Farish Jr. and Gaillardia, LLC, for a $2,820 breeder award. He was the second winning three-year-old colt on Saratoga's Saturday card ridden by Albarado. Trainer Salvador Gonzalez had given The Daddy three workouts at Saratoga following his winning Hollywood Park debut on July 16, concluding with a three-furlong "bullet" drill of 35 2/5 from the gate just three days prior to Saturday's outing on Wednesday, August 10. Purchased by Norman, of Agoura Hills, California, for $125,000 at Fasig-Tipton's 2003 Saratoga preferred New York-bred yearling sale, the intriguing colt with a strong stamina-oriented female family was foaled at John Hettinger's Akindale Farm in Pawling. He was consigned through the Farish-owned Lane's End Farm to Keeneland's 2002 November sale, where he was sold as a weanling for $60,000, and nine months later he was sold to Norman at Saratoga for more than double his weanling price. The Daddy is the second winner produced from multiple stakes-placed With a Princess ($117,475), who is by With Approval and won on both dirt and turf. With a Princess is a full sister to stakes winner Regal Approval and a half-sister to stakes winner Miss Listo and to the winning dam of graded-placed winner Royal Moro ($177,808). In his first outing at Saratoga, a seven-furlong restricted N1X allowance for three-year-olds and up, Barbara Houck's FEAR THE CAPE got the early lead and the rail and pulled away through the stretch despite drifting out in the upper stretch and looking vulnerable to inside threats until the final furlong. The four-year-old colt was ridden by Javier Castellano, who had piloted him to a second-place beaten-by-a-nose finish going 7-1/2 furlongs at Belmont on July 4, and went off in the $47,000 contest as the 2.20-to-1 favorite among 10 starters. Twenty-five days earlier, Fear the Cape had tried two turns for the first time in an open N1X Delaware Park allowance at a mile and a sixteenth but had finished fifth, after which trainer Donald Barr had given him a five-furlong "bullet" workout at Laurel on August 7. The victory -- the first of two on the card for jockey Castellano -- increased the gray/roan colt's earnings by $28,200 to $75,723 and improved his record to 2 - 2 - 1 in 10 starts for Houck, who had purchased him for $53,000 at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's 2002 September-October yearling sale in Timonium, Maryland. Fear the Cape was bred by Monica Driver and Caroline "Bunty" Ferguson, who collectively qualified for a $2,820 breeder award, and he was foaled at the latter's Willowind Farm in Manlius. His breeders consigned him to Keeneland's 2001 November sale, where Herbert and Ellen Moelis' CandyLand Farm of Middletown, Delaware purchased him for $50,000 and the following year sold him at the Midlantic auction. Fear the Cape is a half-brother to New York-bred graded winners Scottish Monk ($688,701) and Wire Me Collect ($626,452) and to New York-bred stakes winner Electric Shock ($134,100), stakes-placed Silver Wire, and to the dam of New York-bred graded winner Scott the Great ($362,824). He is among eight winners produced from three-time New York Thoroughbred Breeders Broodmare of the Year Loose Wire, an Oklahoma-bred purchased at a 1982 Saratoga auction for $14,000 as a four-year-old while carrying the future dam of graded winner Scott the Great. Loose Wire died at age 25 in February of 2003 at Monica Driver's Kinloch Farm in New Woodstock. Thirteen days after finishing unplaced in a six-furlong Saratoga main track tune-up in restricted N1X allowance company in his first start off a year layoff, Steven Peskoff's FIDDLERS CAT used his quick strides to pull away in a restricted N1X allowance at a mile and an eighth on turf. He was the 4.20-to-1 second choice among 11 wagering interests and 12 starters with jockey Jose Espinoza race-riding him for the first time and broke from the ninth post to increase his earnings by $28,800 to $64,694 while improving his record of 2 - 1 - 0 in six starts. The four-year-old gelding had won a restricted maiden special in July of 2004 at Belmont in his third career start and first turf effort, racing under the colors of his breeder, the Fiddlers Green Stable of Joan Simpson of Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts. He had made his next start for Peskoff -- also owner-breeder of New York-bred 2004 open stakes winner Coined for Success -- finishing fourth in a restricted N1X allowance at a mile and an eighth on Saratoga turf prior to a year's absence from competition. Trainer Del Carroll II had given Fiddlers Cat a solid half-mile workout over Saratoga's turf training course on August 9 and had the chestnut New York-bred sharp for a victory that also qualified Fiddlers Green Stable for a $5,760 breeder award. Fiddlers Cat is among 41 winners in 2005 and 96 winners overall sired by Tomorrows Cat (Storm Cat - Tomorrow's Child, by Al Nasr), who stands at Metropolitan Stud (managed by Michael and Debra Lischin) in Pine Plains and whose Questroyal Stallions-managed syndicate owners qualified for a $2,016 stallion award. Saturday's victory pushed the 2005 progeny earnings for Tomorrows Cat to over $1.3-million, with cumulative progeny earnings from four crops of racing age (including current two-year-olds) well in excess of $5.3-million. Fiddlers Cat is the first offspring produced from New York-bred Carolina Kidnap, who is by former New York stallion Belong to Me and is a half-sister to two stakes-placed winners and to a six-figure-earner that equaled a Woodbine turf course record. Gary and Mary West's New York-bred SHAKY TOWN appears to have solidified his status as the star miler of the central Sun Belt for the summer of 2005, scoring his third consecutive eight-furlong victory and second stakes tally in the $100,000 Evangeline Mile Handicap on Saturday night, August 13. The five-year-old gelding was favored at 1.80-to-1 among five starters with jockey Jamie Theriot on board for the third successive time in competition and fourth outing overall, breaking from the outside post to press the pace while three wide to the second turn. He dropped back to third midway around the turn before coming again in the final furlong to overtake two six-figure-earning rivals that he had trailed by daylight margins at mid-stretch, winning by three-quarters of a length. The victory boosted Shaky Town's earnings by $60,000 to over the quarter-million mark at $253,767, making him a multiple stakes winner with a record of 7 - 3 - 1 in 17 starts. Less than 24 hours later on Sunday evening, his New York-bred ridgling half-brother by Carson City topped the first session of Fasig-Tipton's Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale by going for $165,000 to financial advisor Michael Marceda of New Jersey. Shaky Town's first stakes victory had occurred just 27 days prior to his Evangeline Mile win in Lone Star Park's $75,000 Bob Johnson Memorial at a mile, and the Fasig-Tipton catalog had him stakes-placed with five wins. A $150,000 purchase at Fasig-Tipton's 2001 Saratoga preferred yearling sale, the bay gelding had picked up his first black-type by placing third in Delta Downs' $75,000 Sam's Town Stakes going a two-turn seven furlongs in December. Although he had broken his maiden by 14-1/2 lengths at Belmont in his second career start as a three-year-old and had won restricted allowances at Belmont and Aqueduct by 4-1/2 and 5-1/2 lengths, Shaky Town a year ago was struggling in restricted Finger Lakes allowances, but now he appears reborn. After his Bob Johnson Memorial victory on July 17, trainer Cole Norman had given the gelding moderate workouts at Louisiana Downs on July 30 and August 6. Shaky Town was bred by the late New York Thoroughbred Breeders President Gerald Nielsen and wife Joanne of Darien, Connecticut and Sunnyfield Farm in Bedford. He is by Canadian champion Peaks and Valleys and is among four winners -- three New York-breds -- produced from Careful Approach, by Relaunch, being a half-brother to New York-bred six-figure-earning filly/mare Wild Cure ($169,040). Dam Careful Approach, who is a full sister to multiple stakes winner Great Escape ($196,580 and dam and granddam of at least three stakes winners) and a half-sister to stakes winners Glaring ($445,585) and Val D'Enchere ($231,609), was purchased for $70,000 by the Nielsens at Keeneland's 1996 November sale. Shaky Town is among 17 New York-bred winners of open (to horses bred anywhere) stakes in 2005, and the Evangeline Mile was the 23rd open stakes captured by New York-breds in this year. Those 23 stakes victories have been scored in seven U.S. states and two foreign countries. |
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| (8/12) Secret Troika rallies to win Spa allowance Austerbrook Farm's homebred SECRET TROIKA ridden patiently by jockey Cornelio Velasquez rallied from sixth at the top of the stretch to win going away against state-bred allowance fillies and mares, today, at historic Saratoga Race Course. The NW-1X condition race was run over the Mellon turf course, listed "firm", at a mile and an eighth and had a full field of 11-horses go to the starting gate. After finishing second in her last start, trainer Linda Rice, who's having an excellent meet winning with 36% of horses she's saddled, breezed the four year-old bay filly five-furlongs in 1:01 over the turf at the Oklahoma training track, which set the filly up perfectly for today's score. Secret Troika is by Grindstone, and is out of the Secretariat mare, Three Secrets. Bred by Eunice Raifstanger (Austerbrook Farm), who qualifies for a $2,880 breeder's award, Secret Troika's hypo-mating chart reveals and interesting cross 5 X 4 to Somethingroyal, dam of the immortal Secretariat (Bold Ruler) and brother Sir Gaylord (Turn To - Ire). The winner's share of the purse ($28,800) boosts the filly's earnings to $91,551 in 13-career starts. ELISA'S ENERGY shipped east from Delmar Turf Club to break her maiden against state-bred fillies and mares going nine-furlongs over the Mellon turf course. Disqualified from first to third in her last race at Hollywood Park, the three-year-old dark by filly trained steadily at Delmar before shipping to trainer Robert Frankel's Saratoga division barn. Bet down to the odds-on favorite, the daughter of Chester House was forwardly place while racing three-wide throughout but had plenty in reserve when the field hit the top of the stretch drawing clear at the eighth-pole on her way to an impressive victory. Owned by Oak Cliff Stable (Thomas Tatham) and Galatyn Stables (Al G. Hill, Jr.), the promising filly was bred by Oak Cliff Stable and Dr. Doug Koch's Berkshire Stud. Purchased out of the 2003 Saratoga Fasig-Tipton Select Yearling Sales for $150,000, the three year-old filly has finished 1-2 in her first four lifetime starts earning $49,300 to date and appears destined to be a stakes performer following in the steps of her sibling half-brother and half-sister. Her dam, Merion Miss by Halo, is the producer of Grade-2 Arkansas Derby winner Private Emblem (Our Emblem), who earned $783,152; and, to multiple stakes winning filly Rhum (Go for Gin), who earned $306,234. Her hypo-mating match reveals a 4 X 4 cross to Northern Dancer, considered the most influential sire in the 20th Century. Shore Six Racing Stable Inc.'s New York-bred PURE DESIRE has finished first in her last four consecutive starts -- although she was disqualified to second in a Monmouth starter allowance on July 10 -- and she kept that streak alive in a starter allowance at Monmouth on Friday, August 12. Race-ridden for the second consecutive time by Elvis Trujillo, the three-year-old filly went off as the 3.20-to-1 third choice among seven starters in the mile and 70-yard N1X allowance for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and up, which had broken their maidens for $35,000 or less. This time she came from further off the pace than in any of her previous victories, advancing from fifth place to take command from 1.60-to-1 front-running favorite Sophisticated Bit with less than five-sixteenths of a mile to go and prevailing narrowly following an extended lead-swapping duel. The victory increased Pure Desire's earnings by $18,000 to $62,127 and improved her record to 5 - 3 - 1 in 15 starts, with her record in her last eight starts being 5 - 2 - 1. The bay filly had been claimed by Shore Six Racing Stable Inc. from her breeders, Richard J. Troncone and Richard J. Troncone Jr., for $12,500 while winning a two-turn mile at Monmouth on June 29, which had been her second consecutive victory at the Oceanport, New Jersey track. Pure Desire has advanced steadily in class since breaking her maiden by 10-1/2 lengths at Philadelphia Park in April and currently is trained by John Tammaro III, who had given her an easy five-furlong July 30 Monmouth workout following her first-place July 10 finish (and disqualification for veering out). She is among at least two New York-bred three-year-old fillies that won for the Troncone father-son owner-breeder team this past June -- the other being Belmont allowance winner True Legend -- and both are by the Seattle Slew stallion and millionaire filly sire Gold Legend. Pure Desire is the 11th winner produced from her dam, Gold 'n Desire, by Gold and Myrrh, and her half-siblings include three-time stakes winners Greed Is Good ($312,068) and Ms. Gold Pole ($261,589), stakes-placed winner Gold n' Ship ($105,974), plus other earners of $181,720 and $121,598. |
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| (8/11) Detonating maiden debut by My Dynomite at Spa The aptly named MY DYNOMITE exploded on the scene today with an eye-opening performance against state-bred maiden two-year-olds, today, at Saratoga Race Course. Bet down to prohibitive odds of 2-5, My Dynomite rated just off sizzling opening quarter of 21 3/5ths seconds set by Silver Timber before charging to the lead and thereafter never gave his backers a bit of worry drawing off to a commanding six length lead through the stretch and while under a hand ride won by more than five-lengths crossing the wire. Owned by the partnership of Winged Foot Stables (Dennis Barbierri), Michael Gooch, Michael Dubb and Sanford Goldfarb, who together purchased the colt at this year's March OBS two-year-old in-training sales for $62,000, My Dynomite is trained by Richard Dutrow, Jr. and was ridden to victory by journeyman jockey Edgar Prado. The dark bay colt by Lite the Fuse is out of the Fortunate Prospect mare, Miss Monmouth, a 9-time winner and half-sister to multiple stakes winner Raging Love (Jeblar). Foaled on April 7th at Ed Gregory's Carapan Farm, who is also the breeder, thus qualifying for a $2,700 breeder's award, My Dynomite stopped the timer in a respectable 58 2/5ths seconds. The opening race on the card was won by ZIPPY MISSY who was making her second career start against state-bred maiden two year-old fillies. The five-furlong affair was run over the "fast" main track and had a field of 8 fillies go to the starting gate. Zippy Missy tracked the leaders through the opening half-mile before moving to the lead at the top of the stretch, winning comfortably by three-lengths. Owned by Team Five Star Stable, which is a racing partnership managed by Herb Oster, Zippy Missing was bred by Gus Schoenborn, Jr. at his Contemporary Stallions located in Coxsackie, N.Y. Trainer Dominic Galluscio selected the talented filly out of last year's Fasig-Tipton New York-bred Preferred Yearling Sales, signing the sales slip for $50,000. With two races under her belt, the bay filly has earned $36,000, qualifying Mr. Schoenborn for a $7,200 in breeder's awards and also qualifying the syndicate members of the sire, City Zip, for stallion owner's awards totaling $2,520. The multiple grade 1-winning City Zip (Carson City), stood at Contemporary Stallions through the end of the 2004 breeding season. Zippy Missy is out of the multiple allowance winning Carr de Naskra mare, Miss Halo Country, earner of $208,956 and a half-sister sister to 4-times stakes winner Image Maker (Distinctive Pro), a winner of $339,666 in only 9-races; and, to stakes winner Financial Lady (Distinctive Pro), who earned $171,016. CHOPPING WOOD closed strongly along the rail to capture today's finale at the Spa. The 12-horse field of state-bred maiden fillies and mares went five and one-half furlongs over the main track with Chopping Wood breaking from the 2-post position. Trainer James Ferraro named jockey Cornelio Velasquez to ride the three-year-old dark bay filly, who was making her 5th career start. Owned by the R R C and G Stables, Chopping Wood was bred by Molly Zweig Stables, who qualified for a $5,400 breeder's award. By Williamstown, who stands at Metropolitan Stud in Pine Plains, N.Y., Chopping Wood the second foal out of the Salt Lake mare, Salty Return, who is a half-sister to stakes winner Megachief (Naskra), who earned $137,078. |
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| (8/10) Dave captures NW-2X turf allowance at Saratoga Joseph W. Gerrity, Jr.'s homebred DAVE stalked the pace to the top of the stretch before unleashing his patented stretch run to capture a state-bred NW-2X condition allowance race by a length, today, at Saratoga Race Course. The one-mile turf affair was run over the inner turf course, listed "firm", and had a field of 9-horses go to the starting gate, which was positioned in front of the grandstand. After a three-month freshening starting in early January, Dave returned to the races on April 9th and has reeled off a very impressive string of performances, winning twice and finishing second on five other occasions. Ridden by jockey Jose Santos for trainer John Hertler, Dave picked up $30,000 for today's score, which boosts his earnings to $149,980 in 18-career starts. Mr. Gerrity, who breeds and races both standardbreds and thoroughbreds, owns Little Farm in Kinderhook, N.Y. and qualified for a breeder's award of $6,000 for Dave's success. By the late Ends Well, who stood at Gus Schoenborn, Jr.'s Contemporary Stallions in Coxsackie, N.Y., Dave is out of Commadore's Gold, by Commadore C., who's a half-sister to the Grade - 1 stakes-placed Gold Spruce (Lord Rebeau) and to stakes winner Sir Stephenmichael (Lord Rebeau). STEVEN'S THUNDER started the season over the jumps in a race run at an eighth-mile further than two miles, so today's 1-5/8ths mile race was not too much to ask of the seven-year-old bay gelding who hit his best stride through the stretch and caught Ross to Dublin nearing the wire for the victory. Owned by Henry T. Waring and Barbara Graham, the even money favorite is trained by Waring, who named leading jockey John Velazquez to ride. In winning his third career race, Steve's Thunder raised his earnings by $28,800, which pushes him past the century mark to $116,395, and also qualified Waring, who bred the son of Thunder Gulch, for a $2,880 breeder's award. Steve's Thunder is out of the multiple stakes-placed and allowance winning Vice Regent mare, Lucy Ellen, who earned $166,593 in 18-starts. State-bred two-year-old fillies going five furlongs over the main track, listed "fast", were carded on the Wednesday afternoon program with Thomas J. Farone, Jr.'s WILLSHEFIRE winning the first division in front running style stopping the timer in 59-seconds flat while on top by 2-3/4-lengths. Trained by Lisa Lewis, the two year-old dark bay filly finished second in her maiden voyage at Arlington Park before shipping east to Lewis' Belmont Park barn. Lewis worked the daughter of Williamstown lightly for today's appearance, and the strategy paid off as she streaked to the wire a three-length winner under jockey Richard Migliore. Bred by the partnership of Amherst Stable, Jeffrey Foong and Mun-Yet-Lum, who together qualified for a $5,400 breeder's award, Willshefire is out of Infantry (GB) mare, She's a Dragon (Ire), a half-sister to multiple two year-old graded stakes winner Distinct Habit (Distinctive Pro). Of the six-horses of racing age produced by the dam, five have raced including the multiple allowance winners Bay Dragon (Anjiz), who earned $189,292 and Micmaceuse (Lac Ouimet), who earned $122,995. MAMA THERESA, making her maiden debut, romped in the second division of state-bred two-year-old fillies going five furlongs winning by 8-lengths under journeyman jockey Cornelio Velasquez. Owner William J. Butler purchased the slick looking filly at this past April's OBS two-year-old in-training sales for $65,000 and picked up $27,000 for today's effort. Trained by Dominic Galluscio, who honed the filly through a three-work series in 13-days, Mama Theresa is by Carson City, and is out of the stakes winning and graded stakes-placed performing Tejabo mare, Nothing Special, who earned $266,589 in 30-lifetime starts. |
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