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| (11/30) Carminooch captures inaugural running of Gander
Stakes Three Amigos Stable's CARMINOOCH ridden patiently by last year's Eclipse winning jockey John Velazquez charged to the lead midway in the stretch then drew off to a resounding 7-length victory in the Gander Stakes. Named after New York-bred millionaire Gander, the overnight stakes drew a very competitive field of 10-horses, which included 2-time winner of the Empire Classic Spite the Devil, open stakes winner Sort it Out, multiple stakes winner Naughty New Yorker, stakes winner Lord Langfuhr, and stakes winner Win With Beck. The race was runner over Aqueduct's inner track, listed "good," at a mile and seventy yards. Carminooch races for the Three Amigos Stable managed by co-owner Michael Sullivan, who heads a private security firm which oversees the popular HBO feature series "The Sopranos". The three-year-old 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 62 winners in 2005 sired by syndicated Tomorrows Cat (Storm Cat - Tomorrow's Child, by Al Nasr), who is managed by Questroyal Stud 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 8th 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. 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). Today's second race was a restricted maiden claimer ($25,000), a condition that hadn't been written since the mid-1980s but revitalized by NYRA Racing Secretary Paul J. Campo for the winter meet. The move, according to Campo, was to provide a venue for New York-bred horses that might otherwise ship out of state during the winter months and also to offer trainers and owners, the option of running their horses at a suitable level against state-bred company. The extra condition was well received as 11-state-bred horses were entered for the maiden claiming event, which was run over the inner-track at six-furlongs. Richard Bennett's CROOKED WOMAN was sent to the lead by apprentice jockey Kyle Kanel and won under a hand ride to the wire. Trained by Gary Contessa, the three-year-old bay filly was making her seventh career start, five of which have been run over Aqueduct's inner track. Crooked Woman was bred by Richard Simon's Sez Who Thoroughbreds, who qualified for a $1,440 breeder's award, and is by Straight Man, and out of the Imperial Falcon mare, Caravannsis. JUST JACK N' WATER defeated a field of state-bred maiden two-year-olds going a mile and sixteenth over the main track with a front running performance in which he drew off through the stretch to win by almost 10-lengths. Owned by Winter Park Partners, Just Jack n' Water is trained by Dominic Galluscio and was ridden to victory by Norberto Arroyo, Jr. The dark bay colt was bred by Anthony Grey, who qualifies for a $2,520 breeder's award for today's victory. Just Jack n' Water is by Vision and Verse, and is the first foal out of the War Deputy mare, Just Chirp, who's a half-sister to multiple Canadian stakes winner Festive Knight (Ascot Knight), who earned $236,031. Paul Vetrano's NOBLE ADVERSARY won a hard fought victory against open claimers battling head to head through the stretch prevailing by a head over Orwick. Trained by Frank Martin, the seven-year-old gelding was ridden to victory by jockey Fernando Jara. Noble Adversary was bred by Carl Lizza's Flying Zee Stables, who also owns the sire Key Contender, therefore qualifying for a combined $3,788 in breeder and stallion owner's awards. The stakes winning and stakes-placed performer Noble Adversary is out of the Noble Nashua mare, Noble Rondo. SPEEDJAMA closed out the Wednesday card with a rousing 7-length victory notching his second career victory in 12th lifetime start. Finishing second was fellow New York-bred Toora Loora Mukora completing state-bred exacta. Trained by John Terranova II and ridden to victory by Alan Garcia, Speedjama faced a field of open company claimers ($35,000) in a five and one-half furlong race and broke from the 2-post in the six-horse field. The four year-old chestnut colt is by Elusive Quality, and is out of Lhotse, by The Minstrel and was bred by Dr. Doug Koch's Berkshire Stud, who qualifies for a $1,440 breeder's award. Speedjama is owned by the racing partnership of Sovereign Stables and Gatsas Stables, who, also, qualified for an open company owner's award of $1,440. Coincidentally, the Gatsas Stables raced Gander, in who's honor the featured 8th race was named. |
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| (11/27) Fleet Indian flies home by 5 in 9-fur. Montauk Stan Fulton's four-year-old FLEET INDIAN picked up her first black-type in the $80,400 Montauk Handicap for New York-bred fillies and mares on the final day of Aqueduct's outside main track meet, cruising gate-to-wire to win by five lengths under a confident ride by Eclipse Champion jockey John Velazquez. Sent off at odds-on (.85-to-1) under co-top weight among six starters in the mile and an eighth event, the big filly increased her earnings by $48,240 to $216,393 for her first two-turn victory and her first stakes score, improving her record to 6 - 0 - 1 in 11 starts. Both her trainer, James Toner, and jockey, Ve lazquez, seemed relieved and please that everything went according to plan for the talented New York-bred who had won her first four consecutive starts back in the spring and summer of 2004. "That was pretty easy," acknowledged Velazquez, the New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) 2002 Jockey of the Year who also had ridden the Montauk winner in 1994. "All I wanted to do was to get her on her right lead in the stretch. She ran like she was supposed to." The Montauk marked the second consecutive stakes-winning ride on the card for Velazquez, who has now ridden Fleet Indian in three outings and two victories, having been aboard for her 6-1/4-length tally at the restricted N2X level at Belmont in June of 2004. For trainer Toner, the outcome was a confirmation of his previous assessment of Fleet Indian's ability: "It would have been a big disappointment if she got beat today," confessed Toner. "She was supposed to win this race. We are very happy to get black-type with her. She has had major excuses in the races that she got beat. I'm glad that everything worked out." Prior to the Montauk, Toner had revealed some of the unfavorable developments that had kept Fleet Indian from gaining stakes status: "When we sent her down to Florida last winter, she didn't do well there," Toner admitted. "We sent her for a freshening, but by the time she was ready to go, it was already the middle of the summer." Fleet Indian had come down with colic the night before her 2005 debut on August 5 at Saratoga, when she had been unplaced, but the dark bay had returned to competition with a 2-1/4-length victory in an open N2X allowance going seven furlongs at Belmont on September 30. On a sloppy track in the seven-furlong Iroquois Handicap on New York Showcase Day (October 22), she again had finished unplaced, leading Toner to conclude that the long-striding filly clearly has an aversion to wet tracks. A couple of sharp workouts at Belmont on November 9 and 18 -- the former a half-mile "bullet" drill in 47 seconds -- had Fleet Indian ready to attack the Montauk. Fleet Indian's owner, Fulton, also owns Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino in New Mexico and has raced such top runners as graded winners Uncle Denny (in 2005), Fire Slam, and Roll Hennessy Roll. Fulton frequently purchases at the sales under the name of Fleetwood Northwest Management, which was how he had bought Fleet Indian for $230,000 at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 2003 March sale of two-year-olds in training -- the top price at that auction's second session. At Fasig-Tipton's 2002 New York-bred preferred yearling sale at Saratoga, Fleet Indian had sold for $40,000. Bred by Becky Thomas and Lewis Lakin, who collectively qualified for a $4,824 breeder award, Fleet Indian was foaled at her breeders' Lakland North, LLC in Hudson. She is by Grade 1 winner Indian Charlie and is the third offspring and third winner produced from Hustleeta, who is by Afleet and is a half-sister to multiple stakes winner and graded-placed Cherokee Wonder ($284,005), dam of multiple stakes winner Cherokee's Bay ($601,836 through 2004). Lakland Farm had purchased Hustleeta for $39,000 at Keeneland's 2000 November sale when she was carrying Fleet Indian. My Sweething Stable's METALLIC MOON came from seventh place to win a restricted N2X allowance for three-year-olds and up by 4-1/4 lengths as the 20.40-to-1 eighth choice among 10 starters going a one-turn mile, boosting his earnings by $27,600 to $132,462. Now with a record of 3 - 4 - 3 in 17 starts, the four-year-old colt has scored all of his wins at Aqueduct, but this was his first tally on the Big A's outer main track. It was Metallic Moon's second outing under jockey Javier Castellano, under whom he had placed third at Belmont on October 19 after being bumped at the start, and he was coming off an unplaced turf experiment 17 days earlier at Aqueduct. Owned by the My Sweething Stable of James Porrazzo -- for which he has now won twice -- since the beginning of 2005, the high-headed runner is trained by Thomas Albertrani. Metallic Moon was bred by the Robert Candow Trust representing the interests of that late well-known Florida horseman, which qualified for a $2,760 breeder award. The dark bay is by three-time stakes winner Migrating Moon and is the third offspring and third winner produced from Winged Destiny, by Distinctive. Racing for Vincent Scuderi in partnership with Michael Dubb of Jericho (New York) and Sanford Goldfarb of Old Westbury, New York-bred STONEWOOD pushed his purse earnings and open race owner awards beyond his $45,000 July claiming price by winning Aqueduct's opener for claimers with prices of $50,000 to $40,000. All eight starters -- seven wagering interests -- in the six-furlong contest for three-year-olds and up competed with $50,000 tags, but for Stonewood it was no contest, as he broke on top from the outside post and led throughout in his first outing under pickup jockey Pablo Fragoso. The 3-1/4-length win increased the four-year-old gelding's earnings by $25,800 to $255,845 and improved his record to 10 - 6 - 6 in 30 starts and also collectively qualified Scuderi-Dubb-Goldfarb for an additional $5,160 owner award. Conditioned by NYTB 2002 Trainer of the Year Richard Dutrow Jr., who had given him moderate five-furlong workouts at Monmouth (November 3) and Belmont (November 17), Stonewood was bred by the late John Franks, whose estate qualified for a $5,160 breeder award. The chestnut gelding was the first of two consecutive winners on Aqueduct's Sunday card 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 Stud-managed syndicate qualified for a $1,806 stallion award. Grade 2 winner Tomorrows Cat has out at least 60 winners in 2005 with current-year progeny earnings approaching $2.3-million, and his cumulative progeny earnings have just gone over $6.3-million from four crops to race. Stonewood, who was sold for $11,000 as a weanling at Keeneland's 2001 November sale, is the first offspring and the first of two winners produced from Theheartofdixie, by Crafty Prospector. Theheartofdixie is a half-sister to Grade 2 winner Arabian Light ($431,944) and to the dam of multiple stakes-placed winner Western Roar ($163,590). Now two-for-two at seven furlongs, Thomas Mina's SHOOT THE BUGLER rallied four wide and pulled away handily in Aqueduct's restricted N1X nightcap for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and up, winning by 3-3/4 lengths in her first outing under pickup jockey Cornelio Velasquez. It was her first victory since breaking her maiden at Belmont in September of 2004, but it came 25 days after what probably had been her best previous effort, a second-place neck loss at the restricted N1X level going a two-turn mile on Aqueduct turf. Sunday's tally increased Shoot the Bugler's earnings by $25,800 to $92,005 while improving her record to 2 - 2 - 3 in 18 starts for owner Mina of Five Oak Farm in Saratoga Springs, who had purchased her for $13,000 at Fasig-Tipton's 2003 Saratoga preferred New York-bred yearling sale. Although the bay filly had been away from the winner's circle for more than 14 months and was coming off moderate-to-slow half-mile workouts at Aqueduct on November 12 and 20, she went off as the 3.30-to-1 second choice among 11 starters while breaking from the ninth post. For Velasquez, it was the third winning ride of the day and the second aboard a New York-bred three-year-old filly. Bred by Lawrence Goichman of Greenwich, Connecticut, who is in the computer and technology equipment leasing business and also is the owner-breeder of New York-bred juvenile turf filly star J'ray, Shoot the Bugler is from the first crop of Grade 1 sprint-winning millionaire Yes It's True. She is the first offspring produced from a New York-bred Lear Fan mare, Sinful Devotion, also bred by Goichman, who qualified for a $2,580 breeder award as a result of Shoot the Bugler's latest victory. Sinful Devotion is a full sister to New York-bred stakes-placed winner Learious and a half-sister to New York-bred stakes-placed winner Ayers Rock (dam of stakes-placed winner Alicita My Love) and to four-time route winner Tomahawk Lake ($117,666 through 2004) -- all bred by Goichman. Coming off a four-month layoff, Mary and Chester Broman Sr.'s homebred TOMORROWS DANCE dominated a seven-furlong maiden special for nine New York-bred fillies and mares, three-year-olds and up, pulling away to a 6-1/4-length victory despite drifting to the middle of the track through the stretch on her left lead. The three-year-old filly was odds-on (.65-to-1) and broke on top from the outside post in her third consecutive career outing under jockey Cornelio Velasquez, who rode three winners on Aqueduct's Sunday card. The victory increased her earnings by $24,600 to $35,050 in three starts, which includes a second-place neck loss in her debut going six furlongs at Belmont in July. In preparation for the dark bay filly's return to competition, NYTB 1979 Trainer of the Year Ramon (Mike) Hernandez had given her a couple of easy half-mile workouts over Belmont's training track on November 5 and 13. The filly's owner-breeders, the Bromans, also own Chestertown Farm in Chestertown and reside in Babylon, Long Island and qualified for an additional $4,920 breeder award as a result of the victory. The Bromans were honored by the NYTB as Breeders of the Year for 2004 and were named by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association as outstanding New York breeders for 2003. Tomorrows Dance was the second consecutive winner on Aqueduct's Sunday card sired by New York stallion Tomorrows Cat, and she is the first winner produced from New York-bred dirt and turf winner Eastern Dancer, by Seattle Dancer. |
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| (11/26) Casper Peterson steals open condition allowance
at Big A James McGowan's CASPER PETERSON scooted to the lead up the backstretch opening a three length lead, which he never relinquished and front ended $275.00 New York-bred exacta along with Big Apple Daddy. The only two New York-breds in NW-1X condition allowance and optional $75,000 claimer were part of 8-horse field, which raced over Aqueduct's main track, listed "fast", at six-furlongs. Overlooked at the windows, the Mike Hushion trained son of Victory Speech paid a healthy $73.50 under jockey Pablo Fragoso. The $27,000 winner's share of the purse boosts the five year-old horse's earnings to $153,360 and qualified his owner, McGowan, for a $2,700 open owner's award. Bred by Robert Entenmann of Riverhead, New York, Casper Peterson is by the Grade 1 winner New York-bred Victory Speech, also bred by Mr. Entenmann, and raced by Michael Tabor of England. Trained by Hall of Famer D. Wayne Lukas, Victory Speech won three graded stakes victories as a three year-old and also captured the $250,000 Empire Classic, which is run on New York Showcase Day each October. Victory Speech was voted the 1996 Three-Year-Old Divisional Champion and New York-bred Horse of the Year by the New York Thoroughbred Breeders. Victory Speech won the Grade 1- Strub Stakes as a four year-old and retired with earnings of $1,289,020. Casper Peterson is the third foal out of the allowance winning Relaunch mare, Ciro's Seductress. S J Bee Stable's MR. STAN ISRAELITE breaking from the outside 11-post position rallied wide around the last turn and while under a drive managed to forge to the lead in deep stretch winning by three-quarters of a length. The NW-1X condition allowance for state-breds was raced over Aqueduct's main track at seven-furlongs. Trainer Gary Contessa named journeyman jockey Joe Bravo, who was riding the three-year-old chestnut gelding for the first time in six starts. The $25,800 boosts Mr. Stan Israelite's earnings to $70,430 and qualified his breeder/owner Stephen J. Barberino of Massachusetts for a $2,580 breeder's award. The talented youngster is by Grand Slam, and is out of Val's Jazz, by Kentucky Jazz. Mr. Stan Israelite is the first foal out his dam, who was a multiple allowance winner and multiple stakes-placed performer who banked $145,378 in 28-starts. After two route races, WORLD CAT, was dropped into a sprint race by trainer Todd Pletcher and easily defeated a field of state-bred maidens going seven furlongs over the main track. Owned by R. Mary Zuckerman and Donald Zuckerman, World Cat was ridden to victory by last year's Eclipse Award winning jockey John Velazquez, who won with his three mounts of the day thus tying Edgar Prado as the leading rider at the meet. World Cat is by Tomorrows Cat, and is out of the multiple allowance winner and stakes-placed performing Marquetry mare, Amature Night, winner of $145,890. World Cat becomes the 59th winner of 2005 for his sire Tomorrows Cat, who is a Questroyal Stud syndicated stallion that stands at Metropolitan Stud in Pine Plains, N.Y. WinStar Farm's New York-bred Cinderella's Dream couldn't hold off the late charge of Wonder Lady Anne but held for second money in the 84th running of the Grade 2 - Demoiselle Stakes today at Aqueduct Racetrack. Never worst than second in her four lifetime starts, the stakes winning two-year-old filly qualified her owner for an open owner award of $4,000 and her breeder, Richard Simon's Sez Who Thoroughbreds, for an equal $4,000 breeder's award. Cinderella's Dream is among seven juvenile winners -- six of them New York-breds -- from the first crop of Prime Timber. Sez Who Thoroughbreds owns Grade 2 winner Prime Timber (Sultry Song - Wine Taster, by Nodouble) and has stood that promising freshman sire at its Stillwater facility since the 2004 breeding season. Cinderella's Dream is the first offspring produced from Broadway Hoofer, who is by former New York stallion Belong to Me and is a half-sister to multiple stakes winners Broadway's Top Gun ($243,158) and Broadway Chief ($193,354) and to graded-placed winner Celtic Warrior ($137,357). Leonard Friedman's Parkhimonbroadway making his first start around two-turns and second in graded stakes company finished third in the 92nd running of the Grade 2 - Remsen Stakes. Trained by Mike Hushion and ridden by journeyman jockey Pablo Fragoso, the two year-old bay colt is by Ecton Park, and is out of the Broad Brush mare, Miss Broad, a multiple allowance winner on the turf who earned $155,517. Mr. Friedman, also, bred the bay colt and thus qualified for matching open owner and breeder awards of $4,000 for each category. The experience of today's Remsen race bodes well for the future of Parkhimonbroadway for his three year-old campaign. |
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| (11/25) Schemer heads up New York-bred open company exacta SCHEMER and Magnolia Jackson, the only New York-breds in 10-horse field of open company allowance and optional $75,000 claimers finished 1-2 to complete $100.50 exacta. Owned by Margaret Carrothers and Patricia Parker, the four year-old bay filly Schemer, elevated her lifetime earnings above the double century mark to $203,874 in 25-career starts and qualified Carrothers and Parker for an open company owner's award of $2,700. Bred by Margaret Carrothers, who, also, qualifies for a $2,700 breeder's award, the stakes-placed Schemer is by Concern, and is out of the Crafty Prospector mare, Meg's Habit, dam of multiple allowance winner and multiple stakes-placed performer No Bad Habits (Roanoake), who earned $469,263 in a remarkable 75-race career. New York-bred BEHRNIK won for the second consecutive time since being claimed by trainer Mike Hushion for owners Marty Cunningham and Eugene Hauman and fourth straight claiming company victory. In for a tag of $45,000, Behnik was entered for main track only and when race was switched from the turf she was heavily backed at the windows going to the post as the odds-on choice. The one-turn mile affair had a field of small field of six-horses go to the starting gate with Behrnik, under rider Javier Castellano, breaking from outside post position. The open company victory qualifies Cunningham and Hauman for an open owner's award of $2,460 and also qualifies her breeder John T. Behrendt for a matching amount. The five year-old bay mare is by Chimes Band, and is out the stakes-placed Personal Flag mare, Lady Mondegreen, who placed in the 1995 running of the New York Oaks and is a half-sister to 8-time stakes winner Packett's Landing (Bates Motel). The $24,600 winner's share boosts her lifetime earnings to $323,613 in 37-career starts. Barbara Houck's FEAR THE CAPE shipped to Aqueduct from trainer Donald Barr's Laurel Racetrack barn and promptly captured the finale against state-bred NW-2X condition allowance horses. The six furlong race was run over the main strip with Fear the Cape breaking from the 9-post position in the 11-horse field. The four-year-old gray colt was ridden by Javier Castellano, who had piloted him to an allowance victory at Saratoga this past August 13th. Away from the races for almost two months, Barr worked the colt three-times within a 16-day span in preparation for today's race. The victory increased the Fear the Cape's earnings by $27,000 topping the century mark to $119,673 and improved his record to 3 - 3 - 2 in 14 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 $2,700 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. David Ahearn's FLASHY DAVID notched his second career victory in a state-bred NW-1X condition allowance race run at a mile and an eighth over Aqueduct's main track. Trainer Leah Gyarmati named Diane Nelson to ride the three year-old chestnut colt, who was making his 14th career start. Flashy David is by the former New York-based stallion Storm of Angels (Storm Cat), who stood at Anne Morgan's and Tim Little's Mill Creek Farm in Saratoga Springs, and is the third foal (all to race) out of the Exclusive Canadian mare, Sweet Moves. Anstu Stables' SPIN FACTOR fought back challenger Tommasi through the stretch to break his maiden in sixth career start and provided trainer Todd Pletcher with all-time seasonal earnings record in the process. Pletcher surpassed Bobby Frankel's 2003 mark of $19,147,129. Pletcher commented "It was a great year and a credit to the whole staff and the whole system working well." We did it without any bonuses, without any Dubai. As for his chance of winning the Eclipse Award as the nation's top trainer, Pletcher said: "I'm not too worried about those kind of things, but any time you can do something that's never been done before it's kind of extra special." The heavily backed (2-5) Spin Factor was ridden by Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey, who is contemplating retiring at end of season. The three year-old dark bay colt was purchased out of the 2004 March OBS two-year-old in-training sales by Anita and Stuart Subotnick (Anstu Stables), and has been a model of consistency since he began his career this past June 25th, hitting the board (1-2-3) in all his starts. Bred by Richard Simon's Sez Who Thoroughbreds, Spin Factor is by Indian Charlie, and is out of the multiple stakes-placed High Brite mare, Moonvain, who earned $135,208 in 35-career races. FIDDLERS PLEASURE streaked to an easy nine length victory to break her maiden against state-bred fillies and mares in a one-turn mile affair run over the main track. Part of trainer Gary Contessa's entry along with stablemate Fiddlers Star both fillies are owned by Joan T. Simpson's Fiddlers Green Stable, who bred Fiddlers Pleasure thus, qualifying for a $5,040 breeder's award. The winner's share of $25,200 elevates the three-year-old filly's earnings to $70,900 in 9-starts. Fiddlers Pleasure is by Tomorrows Cat, and is the third foal out of the Pleasant Colony mare, Patriotism. Tomorrows Cat is a Questroyal Stud syndicated stallion and stands at Metropolitan Stud in Pine Plains, N.Y. Fiddlers Pleasure is among Tomorrows Cat's 58-winners in 2005 and he currently is in fourth place among leading active New York-based stallions with progeny earnings surpassing $2.2-million for this season. Chester and Mary Broman's Seeking the Ante finished third in today's 66th running of the Top Flight Handicap - Gr. 2 picking up $15,000 for the effort, which raises the three-year-old New York-bred filly's earnings to $392,830 in 16-career starts. The Bromans, owners of Chestertown Farm in Chestertown and residents of Babylon, Long Island, were honored by the New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) as Breeders of the Year for 2004 and were named by the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association as outstanding New York breeders for 2003. Sired by Seeking the Gold, Seeking the Ante is a half-sister to New York-bred Grade 1 Florida Derby winner Friends Lake ($696,400), being the second winner, second stakes winner, and final offspring produced from the late three-time Grade 1 winner Antespend ($1,011,953), by Spend a Buck. Chestertown Farm had purchased Antespend as a four-year-old for $900,000 at Keeneland's 1997 April dispersal of Jack Kent Cooke's Elmendorf Farm. Antespend as a three-year-old had scored all of her Grade 1 victories by margins of at least two lengths, and she campaigned under Kimmel's care while racing for the Bromans as a four-year-old, when she became a millionaire. Antespend's dam is Argentine-bred multiple North American Grade 1 winner Auspiciante ($409,395). |
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