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| (8/31) Cayuga's Waters rises in Saratoga's feature Laue Ranch's CAYUGA'S WATERS, obviously liked the "sloppy" track conditions leading at every call of the mile and a sixteenth affair, coasting to victory under a hand ride to win by more than 15-lengths. Saratoga's featured 8th race was moved to the main track after heavy rains pelted the Capital region of New York for the last several days. Trained by William Mott, Cayuga's Waters was ridden by Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey who hand rode the three year-old bay filly throughout the length of the stretch winning much as she pleased. Bred by the partnership of John W. Fenton and Gustav Schickendanz, who together qualify for a $3,000 breeder's award, Cayuga's Waters is by Langfuhr, and is out of the Apalachee mare, Tomahawkstress. Consigned by the Thomas J. Gallo Sales Agency to the 2003 Fasig-Tipton New York-bred Preferred Yearling Sales, Brant Laue was the winning bidder paying $45,000 for the filly. With today's $30,000 winner's purse, the talented filly elevated her earnings above the century mark to $105,284 with a very respectable Lifetime Record: 7-3-3-0. Making his 11th career start, YOUGONOW splashed home in front by more than five lengths to break his maiden against a 9-horse field of state-breds. Originally carded for the turf the race was moved to the main track, which was listed as "sloppy", and run at nine-furlongs. Trained by Juliane Brida, Yougonow was making his second start of the year and was ridden to victory by Javier Castellano. Owned by the partnership of Adam Madkour, Margaret Miller, Richard Bomze, James Tar, Dennis Brida, Dan Schmidt, Deborah Morris, Joseph and Michael McMahon, the four year-old dark bay gelding was bred by WinStar Farm, who qualify for a $2,760 breeder's award. Yougonow is by Victory Gallop, who raced two of the more memorable races at Saratoga winning the Whitney Handicap (Gr.-I) in 1999 and finishing second in a thrilling three-horse photo with winner Coronado's Quest and New York-bred Raffie's Majesty in the 1998 running of the Travers Stakes (Gr.-I). Foaled at nearby McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds, Yougonow is out of the multiple stakes winning Elocutionist mare La Feria, who to date has produced graded stakes winner and multiple graded stakes-placed performer Freeport Flight (Conquistador Cielo); and, multiple stakes winner and graded stakes-placed performer Satellite Signal (Valid Appeal). |
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| (8/29) Continental Reins captures finale at Spa The Austin Delaney bred and owned CONTINENTAL REINS roared off the last turn to take command and drove to a convincing three-length victory under a skillful ride by jockey Mike Luzzi. The NW-2X condition allowance affair for state-breds going a mile and an eighth had a field of 11-horses go to the starting gate in a race run over Saratoga's inner turf course, which was listed "good". Trained by James Jerkens, who's winning with 40-percent of horses he's saddled at meet placing him in a three-way tie for third in the trainers standings, Continental Reins has now won three out of five races and placed second on two occasions in 2005. The $30,000 winner's share of the purse boosts the chestnut gelding's earnings above the century mark to $109,720 lifetime in 8-career races. As breeder, Mr. Delaney qualifies for a $6,000 breeder's award for today's score bringing his total breeder's award earnings for his homebred to $21,944. Continental Reins becomes the 46th winner sired in 2005 and 170th winner overall by the Storm Cat stallion Tomorrows Cat, who is a Questroyal Stallions syndication and stands at Metropolitan Stud in Pine Plains, N.Y. The talented four year-old is the second foal out of Irish Rainbow, by Missionary Ridge (GB). KING GLACKEN overcame a bumping incident at the break to register his first career victory against state-bred maiden two-year-olds going five and one-half furlongs over the main track, listed "muddy". Making his third start, the two-year-old gray colt was ridden by Eibar Coa, who received a "leg-up" from trainer Gary Contessa. Owned by the partnership of John Marrone and Steven Barberino, Jr.'s S J Bee Stable, who purchased the handsome colt out of the May 2005 Fasig-Tipton Midlantic two-year-old in-training sales for $95,000, King Glacken, is by Smoke Glacken, out of multiple allowance winning Waquoit mare, Linquoit, who is a half-sister to five stakes placed siblings. King Glacken was bred and raised in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. at Barbara and Ellen Bongard's Rojan Farms, who qualify for a $2,700 breeder's award. |
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| (8/28) West Virginia takes G3 Iselin - 3rd graded win by a NY-bred
in August Donald and Mary Zuckerman's homebred WEST VIRGINIA became the third New York-bred graded winner within a 22-day span -- at Saratoga, Del Mar, and now Monmouth -- when he captured the Grade 3 Philip H. Iselin Breeders' Cup Handicap at Monmouth Park as the 16.10-to-1 sixth choice among eight starters. The four-year-old almost always performs well at two turns on a main track, and in the venerable (70th running) Iselin at a mile and an eighth for three-year-olds and up, he also benefited from a blistering pace set by multiple graded winner and 3-to-1 second choice Presidentialaffair. Race-ridden for the first time by jockey Jose Velez Jr., West Virginia drifted out somewhat in the upper stretch in response to Velez's left-handed urging, prompting an objection from the rider of 65.40-to-1 runner-up Zoffinger, Edwin King Jr., but the claim was disallowed by the stewards. The dark bay colt's first graded victory to go along with four stakes tallies in restricted competition and four stakes-placed efforts (including a Grade 2-placing as a two-year-old) boosted his earnings by $90,000 to $590,870 and advanced his already impressive record to 6 - 3 - 1 in 16 starts. He has now won stakes at two, three, and four. For jockey Velez, it was the third winning ride on Monmouth's Sunday card. Five weeks earlier, West Virginia had overcome a rough start and a wide trip to place second among eight behind the equine version of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Yankee Mon, in Belmont's $109,900 Evan Shipman Handicap for New York-breds going a one-turn mile and a sixteenth. Following that effort, New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) 1999 Trainer of the Year Todd Pletcher had given the colt solid five-furlong workouts at Belmont on August 10 and Saratoga on August 22. West Virginia is among five stakes winners from the first two crops of syndicated Tomorrows Cat (Storm Cat - Tomorrow's Child, by Al Nasr), who is managed by Questroyal Stallions and stands at Metropolitan Stud in Pine Plains, but he is that stallion's first graded winner. His victory pushed Tomorrows Cat's 2005 progeny earnings to over $1.5-million, with cumulative progeny earnings now approaching $5.6-million. West Virginia is among four winners produced from Wild and Wonderful, a route-winning Kennedy Road mare that the Zuckermans, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, had purchased for $39,000 at Keeneland's 1999 November sale. Wild and Wonderful is a half-sister to Grade 2 winner Pampered Star ($339,221 and dam of multiple stakes-winning Japanese millionaire Silver Cockpit) and to stakes winner Special Kinda Guy ($133,620). West Virginia is the 19th New York-bred winner of an open (to horses bred anywhere) stakes in 2005, and the Iselin was the 25th open stakes won this year by a New York-bred. He is the 10th New York-bred graded or group winner in 2005, with the Iselin being the 11th graded/group event captured by a New York-bred during the current calendar year. New York-breds in 2005 have won open stakes in eight different U.S. states and two foreign countries. Getting her second Saratoga victory in 17 days and looking like a future router, R R C and G Stables' CHOPPING WOOD made up almost five lengths on frontrunner April True in the final furlong to win a six-furlong restricted N1X allowance for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and up. The three-year-old filly was race-ridden for the fifth consecutive time by Cornelio Velasquez and broke from the outside post as the 11.20-to-1 fifth choice among eight wagering interests and nine starters -- eight of which were three-year-old fillies. Although she closed from seventh place on the far outside, Chopping Wood on August 11 had rallied inside from near the pace to break her maiden by two lengths at 5-1/2 furlongs, after which trainer James Ferraro had given her a moderate three-furlong Saratoga workout on August 25. Sunday's effort increased her earnings by $28,200 to $59,760 off a record of 2 - 0 - 1 in six starts for the R R C and G Stables of Gary Stein and also qualified the Mollie Zweig Stables LLC (Park Avenue, New York City) for a $5,640 breeder award. Chopping Wood is among 25 winners in 2005 and 173 winners overall sired by syndicated Williamstown (Seattle Slew - Winter Sparkle, by Northjet), who stands at Metropolitan Stud (managed Michael and Debra Lischin) in Pine Plains and whose lifetime progeny earnings recently topped $10.8-million. The dark bay filly who had never competed over an off track prior to Sunday is the first starter produced from winner Salty Return, who is by Salt Lake and is a half-sister to stakes winner and Grade 3-placed Megachief ($137,078). Chester and Mary Broman's homebred ARTISTIC EXPRESS might eventually prove proficient over a variety of surfaces, but in her debut in a 5-1/2-furlong maiden special for New York-bred two-year-old fillies running through showery weather and mud, she looked like a wet track specialist. Overlooked as the 12.10-to-1 fifth choice among eight wagering interests and nine starters -- six making their debut efforts -- the chestnut filly leveled out impressively under jockey Edgar Prado to prevail over what appeared to be the stronger half of the 1.30-to-1 favored entry, $190,000 sales two-year-old Cinderella's Dream. Her effort was worth $27,000 in purse money and qualified the Bromans, of Chestertown Farm in Chestertown and residents of Babylon, Long Island, for an additional $5,400 breeder award. The Bromans were honored as NYTB Breeders of the Year for 2004 and were named by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association as outstanding New York breeders for 2003. NYTB 1979 Trainer of the Year Ramon (Mike) Hernandez had given Artistic Express seven workouts beginning in mid-May at Belmont and concluding with an easy five-furlong drill at Saratoga on August 18 in preparation for the filly's successful debut. Artistic Express is the first winner from the second crop of Western Expression (Gone West - Tricky Game, by Majestic Light) and the 20th winner overall by that stallion, who had been represented at Saratoga by three-year-old winners Classic Expression and Sideways Glance (allowance) on July 31 and August 20, respectively. Western Expression, whose owner, the Flying Zee Stables of Carl Lizza Jr. of Wharton, New Jersey, qualified for a $1,890 stallion award as a result of Artistic Express's victory, stands at Lizza's and Joseph Bartone's Highcliff Farm in Delanson and now has progeny earnings exceeding $1-million. Artistic Express is the second starter and second New York-bred Saratoga winner produced from the Bromans' New York homebred Nureyev mare, Dancing Marylee, whose dam, Rich Marylee, had been purchased by Robert Folsom for $90,000 at Keeneland's 1995 November sale when she was carrying Dancing Marylee. As the only starter with a second-place credential (twice) among 10 participants in Saratoga's six-furlong maiden special nightcap for New York-bred fillies and mares, three-year-olds and up, Dutchessviews Farm's homebred REAL KNOWSY deservedly went off as the 2.35-to-1 favorite -- and romped by five lengths. It was the May-foaled three-year-old filly's third consecutive outing under jockey Eibar Coa, increasing her earnings by $27,000 to $49,450 and improving her record to 1 - 2 - 1 in 5 starts, with her only unplaced effort coming in her June 20 Finger Lakes debut when she finished fourth among 11. Sent to the NYRA circuit for her next outings, Real Knowsy placed second at Belmont and Saratoga and then third at Saratoga just eight days prior to Sunday's victory -- racing wide for the third time in her career. The rangy dark bay (she looks almost black) provided Coa with his second winning ride on Saratoga's card aboard a maiden filly while also qualifying her owner-breeders, Michael and Debra Lischin (racing as Dutchessviews Farm and breeding as Dutchess Views Farm, Inc.) for an additional $5,400 breeder award. She was the second three-year-old filly sent out to victory at Saratoga on Sunday by trainer Dominic Galluscio. Real Knowsy is among at least six winners in 2005 sired by syndicated Grade 3 turf winner Gone for Real (Gone West - Intently, by Drone), who stands at Metropolitan Stud (managed by the Lischins) and whose progeny earnings just went over $1-million as a result of the nightcap victory. The long-striding filly is the second starter and second New York-bred winning daughter of Gone for Real produced from Knows First, who is by Cefis (by Caveat). A Hypo-Mating check of Real Knowsy's pedigree reveals that she is inbred 3 x 4 to Drone. |
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| (8/27) Megatrend takes N1X Spa allowance by 5-1/2 In his third start off a brief 52-day layoff, Silvernails Farm's homebred MEGATREND seemed to find new life, taking command almost immediately in a six-furlong N1X allowance for New York-bred three-year-olds and up and settling the issue decisively in the upper stretch en route to a 5-1/2 length victory. It was the four-year-old's second outing in two weeks under New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) 2004 Jockey of the Year Richard Migliore, and he went off as the 3.60-to-1 second choice among 11 starters with three-year-old Witch Ways West narrowly favored at odds also of 3.60-to-1. The effort increased Megatrend's earnings by $28,200 to $86,014 and improved his record to 2 - 2 - 2 in 13 starts while also qualifying his owner-breeders, James and Lorna Mack of Westport, Connecticut, who race under the banner of Silvernails Farm, for an additional $5,640 breeder award. After a fourth-place effort under Migliore going seven furlongs in restricted N1X allowance company at Saratoga on August 13, NYTB 2003 Trainer of the Year Barclay Tagg had given the bay gelding a solid half-mile workout at the Spa on August 23. Megatrend's owner-breeders, the Macks, owned Silvernails Farm in Pine Plains, which currently comprises part of Metropolitan Stud (managed by Michael and Debra Lischin), and Megatrend's now-deceased sire, Grade 1 winner Dixie Brass, had stood at that facility the year Megatrend was conceived. As a result of Megatrend's Saturday Saratoga victory, Dixie Brass's owner, former fireman and current excavating business owner Michael Watral of Central Islip, Long Island, qualified for a $1,974 stallion award. Megatrend is the fourth offspring and fourth winner -- and second winner bred in New York by the Macks -- produced from multiple stakes-placed winner Mooncoin, by Conquistador Cielo, being a half-brother to dirt and turf stakes winner (as a three-year-old) Moonlight Affair ($460,602). Dam Mooncoin, whom Questroyal Stable had purchased for $40,000 at a Fasig-Tipton Kentucky 1998 November sale when Moonlight Affair was a weanling, is a half-sister to the dam of stakes winners Deputy Cures Blues ($282,388 through 2004) and Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk ($200,000-plus following an August 20 Woodbine allowance victory). Coming off a 222-day layoff, John Becker's homebred NIMBLE WIT pulled clear in the final furlong to win Saratoga's Travers Day Saturday opener, a six-furlong restricted maiden special for three-year-olds and up, in his first outing under jockey Ramon Dominguez. The three-year-old went off as the 5.40-to-1 second choice among 12 starters and boosted his earnings by $27,000 to $66,573 while improving his fairly consistent money-earning record to 1 - 2 - 4 in 12 starts and also qualifying owner-breeder Becker of Greenwich, Connecticut for an additional $2,700 breeder award. In preparation for Nimble Wit's return to competition after being idle since Aqueduct's winter meeting, NYTB 1979 Trainer of the Year Ramon (Mike) Hernandez had given the bay colt four non-taxing workouts beginning at Belmont in late July followed by three Saratoga drills in August. The improving runner is by the Mr. Prospector stallion Pioneering -- also sire of recent New York-bred Grade 3 California winner Behaving Badly -- and is the first of two starters, both New York-bred winners, produced from Empire State-bred multiple stakes winner Three Pack ($179,197), by former New York sire Stacked Pack. Nimble Wit's two-year-old New York-bred half-brother, Classic Pack, won first-out at Belmont in June, covering five furlongs in 57.23 for owner-breeder Becker and trainer Hernandez. Nimble Wit is inbred 3 x 5 to Raise a Native. Dam Three Pack also raced as a homebred for Becker under the care of trainer Hernandez, winning Belmont's Joseph A. Gimma Stakes as a juvenile and capturing the Schenectady Handicap at the Big Sandy as a four-year-old. Three Pack is a full sister to Becker-bred juvenile stakes-placed winning filly/mare It's a Lark ($136,055) and a half-sister to Becker-bred stakes-placed winning filly/mare She La Rose. |
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| (8/26) Drinkwater captures finale at Spa DRINKWATER made his third start of the meet a winning one rallying from off the pace at the top of the stretch to win going away by 3-lengths. Owned by Newcal Stable, managed by David Nolan, the three year-old bay colt is trained by Robert Barbara and was ridden by Hall of Fame jockey Gary L. Stevens, who was guided Drinkwater to a third place finish in his last outing. Trainer Barbara, who got off to a slow beginning at the prestigious Saratoga meet, has been hot of late winning with better than 40-percent of the horses he's saddled the last 14-days and with today's victory notched his 5-winner. Bred by John Hettinger at his beautiful Akindale Farm in Pawling, N.Y., Drinkwater is by Joyeux Danseur, and is out of the multiple stakes producing Damascus mare, Syrian Dancer. Although unraced, Syrian Dancer is a full sister to multiple graded stakes winners Honorable Miss ($437,973), and Bailjumper ($119,363) and to graded stakes winner and multiple graded stakes performer Syrianna ($143,412). Thus far, Syrian Dancer has produced multiple stakes winner Angel in the Night (Bet Twice), and stakes winner and multiple stakes-placed performer Exotic Moves (Miswaki). Drinkwater was purchased as a yearling at the 2003 Fasig-Tipton New York-bred Preferred sales for $32,000 and with today's victory boosts her earnings to $66,361 in seven-career starts. WITH A PASSION wisely sat off the sizzling 21 1/5ths first quarter set by Rachel's Sister, who led by three-lengths at the top of the stretch after a half-mile in 44 2/5ths, before moving to the lead holding off a late charge by Sweet Lil Lolly by a length at the wire. The NW-1X condition allowance race for state-bred fillies and mares was run over the Mellon turf course at five and one-half furlongs. Final time was an eye opening 1:02 2/5ths seconds, which is a full second off the track record set earlier in the month. Five and one-half furlong races run over the turf was initiated by the new NYRA Racing Secretary Paul J. Campo. With a Passion is owned by Anthony Lenci, who purchased the gray filly at the 2004 March OBS two-year-olds in-training sale for $87,000 and with today's winner's purse of $28,200 elevates her lifetime earnings to $78,410 in six-career starts. With a Passion is by Honour and Glory, and was bred by Frank Stella's Delahanty Stock Farm in Millbrook, N.Y. The talented filly is out of the Family Doctor mare, Southern Tradition, a 3-time graded stakes winner, who earned $379,125 in 35-career starts and half-sister to multiple graded stakes winner Ski Dancer (Balski), winner of $578,344. Leonard Friedman's PARKHIMONBROADWAY exploded to the lead around the far turn on his way to an overwhelming 10 1/2 victory today against state-bred two year-old maidens. After finishing third, beaten four-lengths in his debut, trainer Mike Hushion aggressively entered him in the Grade 2 Saratoga Special where the bay colt ran a credible fourth to two year-old undefeated sensation Henny Hughes. Hushion also saddled the winner of today's sixth race, Madame Diva, giving him four winners in last two days. Today's race was run over the main track at six-furlongs and had a field of nine go to the starting gate. Bred by his owner, who qualifies for a $2,700 breeder's award, Parkhimonbroadway is by Ecton Park, and is the first foal out of the Broad Brush mare, Miss Broad, a multiple allowance winner on the turf who earned $155,517. |
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| (8/25) Quick One takes turf allowance sprint at Spa QUICK ONE tracked speedster Citrine through sizzling fractions of 21 2/5ths and 44 4/5ths seconds to the half-mile pole before taking the lead at the top of the stretch. Under a strong drive by leading jockey Edgar Prado, the three-year-old bay filly held off the late charge of New York Dream by a half-length to capture a NW-1X state-bred condition allowance, which was run over Saratoga's Mellon turf course. Trainer Mike Hushion, who saddled the winners of the 8th and 9th race, worked the filly over Saratoga's main track on the 17th of August for today's affair, which carried a purse of $47,000. Owned by the partnership of Barry K. Schwartz and Robert Breier, and bred by Barry K. Schwartz' Stonewall Farm and Jay Weiss, Quick One is by Afternoon Deelites and is the second winner out of three foals of racing age from the dam, Right About Now, who is a full sister to stakes winner Puma ($217,058). With today's winner's purse of $28,200, Quick One boosts her earnings to $62,200 in three-starts. The first and sixth races on the Thursday card were both for state-bred maiden fillies and mares going one-mile over the inner-turf course. In the first race, Flying Zee Stable's CONTENDERS EMOTION charged to the front inside the sixteenth-pole to break her maiden under a patient Chantal Sutherland. Trained by Frank Martin, who has now won with 30-percent of the horses he's saddled at the meet, Contender Emotion was making her 11th career start and today's winner's share of the purse ($27,600) boosts her earnings to $53,972 and qualified her breeder, Carl Lizza, Jr. (Flying Zee Stable) for a $5,520 breeder's award. As owner of the sire, Key Contender, Mr. Lizza, also, qualifies for a $1,932 stallion owner's award. The four year-old dark bay mare is the 21st winner of the season sired by Key Contender, who stands at Highcliff Farm, and is the first foal out of the allowance winning Wild Again mare, Old Emotions. The second division of state-bred maiden fillies and mares going a mile over the turf, was won by the favorite DANCY'S ANGEL, owned by Michael McGuire and bred by Joseph C. Sansone, Sr. A bridesmaid in her last two outings, trainer Barclay Tagg named journeyman jockey Eibar Coa to ride the three-year-old dark bay filly and after a one-race experiment decided to re-outfit Dancy's Angel with blinkers. Breaking from the far outside post position Dancy's Angel moved steadily up the backstretch before swinging three wide around the last turn and after a brief battle with Fiddlers Pleasure to the eighth-pole drew off to win by three going away lengths. Purchased as a weanling at the 2002 December Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Mixed Sale for only $2,200, Dancy's Angel has now banked $46,150 in four lifetime starts. |
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| (8/24) Naughty New Yorker nails Albany - best in 2 legs of Big Apple
Triple Again advancing from last to first, Fox Ridge Farm's NAUGHTY NEW YORKER rallied out of the second turn in Saratoga's mile and an eighth Albany Stakes for New York-bred three-year-olds, edged ahead of Carminooch as the two battled near the middle of the track, and scored by a half-length. Carminooch, the 11.70-to-1 last choice among six starters, finished nine lengths ahead of 2.70-to-1 second choice Gold and Roses, with 3.70-to-1 third choice Naughty New Yorker lurching to his left lead about six strides from the wire in response to jockey Jean-Luc Samyn's right-handed urging but still prevailing. It was Samyn's 14th ride on Naughty New Yorker in the colt's 15 career starts, including all of the big bay's wins in a record that improved to 4 - 4 - 3 while boosting his earnings by $90,000 to $360,607. Naughty New Yorker also became the first horse ever to win the shortest and longest legs of the OTBs' Big Apple Triple -- Belmont's seven-furlong $108,000 Mike Lee Stakes on June 26 and the Albany. In his only start under a jockey other than Samyn, the colt had placed third in Finger Lakes' $168,400 New York Derby at a mile and a sixteenth in his latest previous outing on July 16. As a two-year-old, Naughty New Yorker had won Aqueduct's restricted Damon Runyon Stakes by 8-1/2 lengths going a mile and 70 yards and had placed second in Belmont's $100,000 Sleepy Hollow Stakes on New York Showcase Day. Early in his three-year-old season, he had placed second in a couple of two-turn open stakes at Aqueduct, the Whirlaway (to New York-bred Sort It Out) and the Count Fleet.
"We could put that 'duck' thing away," commented Kelly in reference to racetrack terminology for getting shut out at a meeting. "I was getting a little worried. We were hoping to get a lot of money from the bonus (for sweeping all three legs of the OTBs' Big Apple Triple); I guess no one has won it yet, so we'll try it again next year. I don't know what happened to him at Finger Lakes. He may have not liked the track. "He's a nice horse. He tries hard," continued Kelly, who indicated that the next goal for Naughty New Yorker would be Belmont's $250,000 Empire Classic at a mile and an eighth against older New York-breds (three-year-olds and up) on New York Showcase Day, Saturday, October 22. Jockey Samyn pointed out Naughty New Yorker's typical late-running style (even though, prior to the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 2004 March sale of two-year-olds, he had worked a 21 4/5 quarter-mile): "...we all know (he) has one style, and you've got to hope that the speed backs up in front. Sometimes, they don't, sometimes, they do. And when they do, we benefit. It's nothing you can change; it's his style of running, and it worked out for | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
