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| (10/21) Meniscus at a mile is a popular Belmont winner In his first start off an 80-day layoff and first effort at a mile, Majesty Stud's homebred MENISCUS dropped back and then rallied three wide through the stretch to win a restricted N2X allowance for three-year-olds and up as the 1.25-to-1 favorite among six starters at Belmont on Friday. It was the three-year-old gelding's fifth outing under jockey Cornelio Velasquez and third Belmont victory with that rider in the irons, but with a quarter-mile to go he appeared too far back to be a contender following searing fractions set by 3.90-to-1 second choice Rapid Rickey. Victory in the one-turn contest increased Meniscus's earnings by $27,600 to $98,668 and improved his record to 3 - 1 - 0 in six starts and also qualified his owner-breeder, the Majesty Stud Inc. of Digby Barrios of Ridgefield, Connecticut, for an additional $5,520 breeder award. The bay homebred had started off promisingly last May and June at Belmont, winning his debut at 7-1/2 furlongs and taking a restricted N1X allowance at a mile and a sixteenth by 10-1/4 lengths before placing second -- beaten a neck -- in a restricted N2X allowance at that same distance. Put into stakes company in the latter half of last summer, Meniscus had finished fifth in both Finger Lakes' $168,400 New York Derby and Saratoga's $250,000 New York Stallion Cab Calloway Stakes. Trainer Dominic Galluscio subsequently had given the May-foaled three-year-old a brief break before bringing him back to competition off moderate half-mile workouts at Belmont on September 25, October 4, and October 17. Meniscus is by Raffie's Majesty (Cormorant - Raffinierte, by Surumu), the New York Thoroughbred Breeders' Champion Three-Year-Old Male of 1998 who stands at Howard Kaskel's Sugar Maple Farm in Poughquag and whose partnership connections qualified for a $1,932 stallion award. Runners by Raffie's Majesty improve with age and are obviously durable and consistent, as exemplified by the fact that of that stallion's 28 winners from four moderate-size crops, 24 have won in 2005, with Meniscus's latest victory pushing his sire's 2005 progeny earnings to almost $1-million. The eight-year-old dam of Meniscus, the Rahy mare Imaginary, is a half-sister to 10-time winner Mt. Blake ($201,386) and had been purchased by Majesty Stud for $27,000 at Keeneland's 2000 November sale in Lexington, Kentucky. Jockey Edgar Prado gave a masterful demonstration of tactical riding aboard Puglisi Stables' MAGIC BELLE in a restricted N1X allowance for fillies and mares going a mile and an eighth on Belmont's inner turf, leading through two sluggish quarter-miles before urging her to a stakes-caliber split and a daylight-margin victory. The three-year-old filly was the contest's only participant that had never previously raced on turf, and she went off as the 9-to-1 fifth choice among nine wagering interests and 10 starters -- all three-and-four-year-old fillies -- with Prado race-riding her for the fifth time and fourth consecutive outing. After maintaining a short lead through quarter-mile splits of 26.23 and 26.49, Magic Belle suddenly exploded with a third quarter in 23.80, gaining a 2-1/2-length mid-stretch advantage before reaching the wire with a winning margin of a length and a half. Magic Belle's turf debut increased her earnings by $26,400 to $91,630 and improved her record to 2 - 4 - 1 in eight starts for the Puglisi Stables of Jeffery Puglisi of New York City. Puglisi Stables had purchased the dark bay filly for $425,000 at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's (OBS) March 2004 sale of two-year-olds in training -- the sale's second highest-priced filly. As a weanling at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's 2002 December mixed sale and a yearling at Fasig-Tipton's 2003 Saratoga preferred New York-bred sale, Magic Belle had sold for $12,000 and $45,000, respectively, but prior to the OBS auction she had clocked a 10 2/5 furlong and a 21 1/5 quarter-mile. She is trained by Steve Klesaris, who after second-place efforts at Saratoga going six furlongs and a mile and an eighth and a third-placing at Belmont going a mile and a sixteenth in the mud had given the versatile filly a half-mile "bullet" workout at Delaware Park on October 17. Magic Belle was bred by Arthur Watson Jr.'s Bright Dawn Farms, Inc. of Charlottesville, Virginia, which qualified for a $2,640 breeder award, and was foaled at Questroyal Stud in Hudson. By undefeated multiple stakes-winning sprinter Gold Case and inbred 4 x 4 to influential stamina sire Tom Rolfe, she is the first winner and first New York-bred produced from stakes-placed juvenile winner Magical Thinking, by Pirate's Bounty. Magical Thinking is a full sister to stakes winner Pirate's Outlook ($105,005) and to the dam of stakes winner Honeymooner ($141,090 through 2004) and had been purchased for $22,000 by Burning Daylight Farm at Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's November 1998 mixed sale while carrying her first foal. |
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| (10/20) Sarahisittrue takes state-bred allowance at Belmont
Park SARAHISITTRUE making her first start at Belmont Park defeated a field of state-bred two-year-old fillies in a NW-1X condition allowance run over the main track at six-furlongs. Owned by the racing partnership of IEAH Stables, managed by Michael Iavarone and Resolute Group Stables, managed by John D. Roberts, the dark bay filly started her career at Calder Racetrack in Florida before trying state-bred company in the Lady Fingers Stakes run at Finger Lakes Gaming and Racetrack where she finished 6th in a 12-horse field. Trainer Dominick Schettino, saddling the filly for the first time, didn't lean on the filly working her three-times since August 20th with the last work being a useful 48 4/5ths seconds for four furlongs on Monday over the main track. Bred by Herman Wilensky, who qualifies for a $2,580 breeder's award, Sarahisittrue is by Is It True, and is the first foal out of the 5-time winning dam Sarah Rosebud, by Unreal Zeal. MISS WEST swept four wide around the far turn and charged through the stretch to take command inside the sixteenth pole on her way to three-length victory. The state-bred maiden race for fillies and mares was run around one-turn at a mile and a sixteenth over the main track. Bred and owned by Ms. Paula Cohn-Hallman's Merrylegs Farm, the three-year-old dark bay filly was making her third career start and first at the distance. Trainer John Hertler named journeyman jockey Fernando Jara to ride Miss West, who is by Western Expression, and out of the graded stakes producing Caro (Ire) mare, Douce Carotte, dam of Kashatreya (Daring Groom) a five-time stakes winner including victories in the Gr. 2 - True North Handicap and Gr. 2 - Fall Highweight Handicap; retiring with earnings of $541,589. The sire, Western Expression, has two crops to the races and is establishing himself as one of New York's top based stallions with progeny earnings of over $800,000 for 2005. Western Expression stands at Highcliff Farm in Delanson, New York. |
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| (10/19) Signore William takes Belmont Park feature SIGNORE WILLIAM under a patient Fernando Jara captured today's Belmont Park featured 8th race notching his third career victory in 21st lifetime start. Breaking from rail position in the seven-horse state-bred condition allowance field, Signore William rated kindly behind the early speed saving ground throughout the one-turn mile and an eighth-race run over the main track. After cutting the corner at the top of the stretch, Jara urged his mount through a narrow opening along the rail inside of Mr. Malaprop and once clear drew off to win by two-lengths. Owned by the partnership of Vincent Racanelli and Hari C. Marwaha, and bred by James and Lorna Mack, who qualify for a $5,520 breeder's award; Signore William is trained by last year's NYTB Trainer of the Year Gary Contessa, who is winning with more than 21-percent of horses he's saddled at the Belmont Fall Championship Meet. The four-year-old dark bay gelding is by Williamstown, who stands at Metropolitan Stud in Pine Plains, N.Y., and is out of the Cormorant mare, Cindy's Song, who's a sister to multiple graded-stakes placed and allowance winner Whiz Bang, winner of $581,115 in an amazing 80-race career. JET PROSPECTOR battled the length of the stretch to overcome a stubborn Stetter Jr. at the wire to win an open claiming race ($50,000), which was run over the main track at six-furlongs. Part of the Richard Dutrow, Jr. trained entry along with stablemate Stonewood, Jet Prospector was ridden by veteran rider Cornelio Velasquez and broke from the outside post position in the small six-horse field. In winning his seventh race in 18-career starts, Jet Prospector boosts his earning by $25,800 to $248,837. Owned by Jerry D. Campbell's Team Equest Racing Stable, who qualified for a $5,160 open owner's award, the New York-bred was purchased by his owner for $50,000 at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's May 2003 sale of two-year-olds at Timonium, Maryland. In addition, Jet Prospector qualified the John A. Nerud Revocable Trust for a $5,160 breeder award and the syndicate that owns his New York-based sire, A. P Jet (Fappiano - Taminette, by In Reality), for a $1,806 stallion award. The four year-old dark bay gelding is a half-brother to New York-bred Belmont and Aqueduct allowance winner Byback ($138,512 through 2004), being the fourth of five winners -- three sired by A. P Jet -- produced from four-time winner Eastern Connection, who is by Danzig Connection. Eastern Connection is a half-sister to stakes winners Carrolls Favorite ($323,711) and Our Friend Hidayet (dam of $518,710-earning stakes winner Your Out) and was purchased for $115,000 by Frankie O'Connor (former manager of Sugar Maple Farm in Poughquag, N.Y., where Hall of Famer Nerud maintains breeding stock) at Keeneland's 1998 November sale. SURFING IAN overtook the lead midway on the far turn and opened daylight on the field through the stretch winning by six-lengths crossing the wire. The five and one-half furlong state-bred maiden affair had a field of seven colts and geldings go to the post with Surfing Ian being ridden by last year's Eclipse Award winning jockey John Velazquez. Owned by Anita and Stuart Subotnick's Anstu Stable, Surfing Ian is a two-year-old dark bay colt by Rizzi, who stands at Richard Simon's Sez Who Thoroughbreds, and is out of the Megaturn mare, Bigger Half, who's a half-sister to multiple graded stakes winners Top Secret (Afleet) winner of $997,647; and, a half-sister to multiple stakes winner Tate (Afleet), who earned $199,787 in 21-career starts. Surfing Ian becomes the 55th winner of the year for his sire Rizzi, whose progeny earnings have surpassed $1.5-million in 2005. SHE'S GOT ZIP battled head to head with Magnolia's Sister soon after the gate opened and into deep stretch before drawing clear in final few yards to register her maiden victory. Owned by the partnership of Michael Oliveto's Hibiscus Stable, Kathleen Demasi-Crook and Robert Safian, the two year-old chestnut filly faced a field of 8-state-bred fillies for her third career start and broke from the four-post position. The talented filly was ridden by journeyman jockey Eibar Coa, who was aboard for the first time. She's Got Zip was purchased at this year's April OBS two-year-old in-training sales for $50,000 and the $24,600 winner's share of the purse boosts her earnings to $37,300. Trained by Demasi-Crook, She's Got Zip is by City Zip, and is out of the allowance winning Private Account mare, Sultry Lass. Patrick Leuci's homebred SEVEN BELLSFORBABA made his eighth career-start a winning won under jockey Javier Castellano. Trained by Patrick Reynolds, the three-year-old bay gelding stalked front runner Eyes On Target down the backstretch before taking command at the half-mile pole reached in 461/5th seconds and danced away from the field to win by six-lengths. Bred by Leuci, who qualifies for a $4,960 breeder's award, Seven Bellsforbaba is by Ormsby, and is out of Beaux Belle, by Wet Reel. The sire, Ormsby, won the Grade 2 - Excelsior Breeder's Cup by 12-lengths and registered a 121 Beyers Speed Figure for the effort. The son of Carson City stands at Sugar Maple Farm in Poughquag, N.Y. for a $3,000 stud fee. Country Life Farm's P. J. INDY closed out the Wednesday card under a confident ride by apprentice jockey Kyle Kaenel, who qualifies for a 5lb weight allowance. Shipped into race by trainer Flint Stiles, who's based out of Penn National in western Pennsylvania, the three-year-old gray gelding was making his second career start and first with the medication lasix, a diuretic used to prevent exercised-induced pulmonary hemorrhage. The once banned medication is now more the norm in New York racing. P. J. Indy finished third in his debut at Charlestown Racetrack in West Virginia after a troubled start on Oct. 7th and Stiles reeled him right back into a race without seeing a need to work the youngster. Bred by Templin Thoroughbreds and Jan Ledford, who together qualify for a $2,460 breeder's award, P. J. Indy is by Malibu Moon, and is the second foal out of the Two Punch mare, Punchin' Judy. |
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| (10/16) High Peaks defies wind - takes 6F open Belmont
race by 2-1/4 in 1:09.45 Breaking on top and gaining the rail position, Berkshire Stud's homebred HIGH PEAKS charged into a 27-mph westerly headwind that was gusting to 37-mph as she dueled down the backstretch with even-money Fortress Hill in Belmont's six-furlong open optional claiming N3X allowance for six fillies and mares, three-year-olds and up. The two equally-weighted four-year-old fillies bucked the breeze through fractions of 22.30 and 45.24, with 3.10-to-1 second choice High Peaks maintaining a slight advantage under jockey Norberto Arroyo Jr., and in the stretch Arroyo's New York-bred mount drew clear, winning by 2-1/4 lengths in 1:09.45. The victory increased High Peaks' earnings by $29,400 to $303,429 while improving her record to 6 - 7 - 4 in 25 starts and also qualified her owner-breeder, Dr. Douglas Koch's Berkshire Stud in Pine Plains, for an additional total of $5,880 in owner and breeder awards ($2,940 each). High Peaks had earned her first black-type by winning Aqueduct's $82,350 Broadway Handicap at six furlongs for New York-bred fillies and mares in March under Arroyo, who has now ridden the bay filly in five races and three victories. She has placed second twice and third once in restricted NYRA stakes since the Broadway, including a narrow neck loss to 2005 multiple open stakes winner Travelator in Belmont's $109,800 Schenectady Handicap for New York-breds going six furlongs on September 18. Trainer Thomas Bush had given the Berkshire Stud homebred a solid half-mile workout over Belmont's training track on October 1, which was 13 days after her runner-up effort in the Schenectady. High Peaks is by Canadian champion Peaks and Valleys and is the first offspring and first of two New York-bred multiple-winning fillies in 2005 produced from New York-bred Phari, a Black Tie Affair mare that Berkshire Stud also bred. Her New York-bred two-year-old half-brother by More Than Ready, now named More Than Most, also was bred by Berkshire Stud and was sold for $102,000 at Fasig-Tipton's 2004 Saratoga New York-bred yearling sale. Finally regaining the fall form she had shown in 2004 under the guidance of jockey Cornelio Velasquez, MS. WILL A WAY was reunited with Velasquez and came from dead last to win Belmont's Sunday opener, a restricted N1X allowance for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and up, going seven furlongs. The five-year-old mare has a mind of her own and had to be loaded into the starting gate without Velasquez on board, and although she broke well, she trailed the field by several lengths down the backstretch against a 27-mph west/northwesterly wind that was gusting to 38-mph. On the turn, Ms. Will a Way made a five wide sweeping rally that carried her from seventh (and last) to first within three-sixteenths of a mile, and she then rambled home while maintaining a two-length margin over 3.25-to-1 favorite Summer in Saratoga. Sent off the 6.40-to-1 fifth choice among seven starters, it was the big mare's seventh outing under Velasquez and second win with that jockey in the irons, increasing her earnings by $25,800 to $97,951 and improving her record to 2 - 5 - 0 in 14 starts. Four of Ms. Will a Way's five second-place efforts also have come with Velasquez at the helm. The dark bay mare races for Thomas Miceli's Capstone Stables and Debra Lebarron and is trained by Melvin Winney, who had given her moderate workouts over Saratoga's Oklahoma training track in early October following a fifth-place September 17 Belmont outing that had been her first start off a 178-day layoff. Winney had purchased Ms. Will a Way for $2,600 as a weanling from the consignment of Thomas J. and Nadine Gallo, agents, at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's 2000 December mixed sale in Timonium, Maryland. The late-running sprinter is from the first crop of Saratoga two-time Grade 1 winner Will's Way and is the second winner produced from Filimint, a Key to the Mint mare who is a half-sister to a Group 3-placed winner and out of multiple stakes winner Really Royal ($167,058). Ms. Will a Way's breeders, Questroyal Stable, Inc. and Richard Gallagher, jointly qualified for a $2,580 breeder award as a result of the mare's Sunday victory. Co-breeder Gallagher had purchased her dam, Filimint, for $15,000 at Keeneland's 2000 January sale in Lexington, Kentucky when she was carrying Ms. Will a Way. As the 3.70-to-1 second choice among eight New York-bred maiden juvenile fillies but the most highly-regarded of five first-time starters, Brian and Kerry Novak's VASA showed tenacity that is more typically exhibited by veteran runners, coming back at a rival that had passed her to prevail by a head. The smallish bay filly was ridden by New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) 2004 Jockey of the Year Richard Migliore and earned $24,600 in purse money for her effort in the 5-1/2-furlong contest. Purchased for $51,000 at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's 2005 May sale of two-year-olds in training, Vasa is trained by Richard Stoklosa, who had given her eight Aqueduct workouts starting in mid-August following a quick quarter-mile drill at the end of April -- one of them a five-furlong "bullet" work on September 25. She was bred by Gus Schoenborn Jr., who qualified for a $4,920 breeder award, and was conceived at Schoenborn's Contemporary Stallions in Coxsackie, where her sire, current leading North American freshman sire of winners City Zip, had stood from 2002 through 2004. Vasa is the 15th first-crop juvenile winner conceived in New York to represent City Zip in 2005 -- no other North American freshman sire is even close in number of 2005 winners. She is the first offspring produced from six-time winner Canadian Flagship, by the closely inbred Northern Flagship (3 x 3 to Native Dancer). Vasa herself is more distantly inbred (4 x 4) to Native Dancer's son Raise a Native, and her dam, Canadian Flagship, is a half-sister to stakes-winning router Soldieroffaith and out of stakes winner Key Bid ($275,046), by Key to the Mint. Belmont's maiden special nightcap for New York-bred three-year-olds and up going a one-turn mile on Sunday ended in a dead heat between two homebred three-year-olds that had faced off in unplaced efforts 37 days earlier under similar conditions: Chevalier Stable's PREMINGER and WinStar Farm LLC's HARD IRON. In the interim, Preminger had been given three sharp half-mile workouts at Belmont, was put on Lasix medication, and equipped with blinkers by trainer Bruce Levine. Hard Iron had raced again, placing second in a one-turn mile and a sixteenth restricted maiden special at Belmont on September 30, and for Sunday's nightcap trainer Bob Dunham had named apprentice jockey Channing Hill, whose allowance is five pounds, to race-ride the dark bay for the first time. The two closely-regarded geldings (3.30-to-1 and 3.60-to-1 among nine starters) were about two lengths apart after a half-mile -- with second choice Hard Iron second and third choice Preminger fourth -- and were closer than that for most of the race, with Preminger catching Hard Iron at the wire. Both earned $16,800, which increased Preminger's earnings to $27,816 off a record of 1 - 1 - 0 in seven starts (he had been disqualified from first to second at Saratoga) and brought Hard Iron's bankroll to $32,310 off a record of 1 - 1 - 1 in five starts. Both qualified their owner-breeders -- the Chevalier Stable of Edward and Joanne Shapoff of Pelham and the WinStar Farm LLC of Texas business partners and entrepreneurs Bill Casner and Kenny Troutt -- for $3,360 breeder awards. For jockey Eibar Coa, who has ridden Preminger in three consecutive races (two firsts, including the disqualification at Saratoga in August), it was the second winning ride on Belmont's Sunday card in a maiden special. Preminger's effort qualified the syndicate connections of Grade 1-winning millionaire Forever Silver (Silver Buck - Disabled Maid, by Correlation) -- at the time he was standing at Carl Lizza Jr.'s and Joseph Bartone's Highcliff Farm in Delanson -- for a $1,176 stallion award. Forever Silver currently stands at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Cobleskill and has progeny earnings of over $3,870,000. Hard Iron is the 76th winner in 2005 and 516th winner overall sired by champion millionaire Regal Classic (Vice Regent - No Class, by Nodouble), who stands at Joe and Anne McMahon's McMahon of Saratoga Thoroughbreds, LLC in Saratoga Springs and whose syndicate connections also qualified for a $1,176 stallion award. Preminger was foaled 13 days after Hard Iron (March 8, 2002) as the first offspring produced from Margin for Error, who is a daughter of the late New York stallion Dixie Brass and is a full sister to stakes-placed winner Clear Margins ($116,487). Hard Iron is the fifth winner and second New York-bred winner produced from his dam, Miswaki Rose, who is by Miswaki and is a half-sister to multiple stakes winners Desert Darby ($408,904) and Inagroove ($118,370) and to stakes-placed 10-time winner Frankly Tee Riffic ($149,086). |
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