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January
29, 2006
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(1/29) In a performance deemed "absolutely superlative" by track announcer Trevor Denman, Patti and Hal J. Earnhardt III's New York-bred BEHAVING BADLY broke on top and romped to a 4-1/2-length victory in Santa Anita's Grade 1 Santa Monica Handicap for older fillies and mares on Sunday, zipping seven furlongs in 1:21.93. The frighteningly-fast five-year-old mare was favored at 1.30-to-1 among eight starters, including four Grade/Group 1 winners, and came out of the seventh post with jockey Victor Espinoza keeping her under wraps through early accelerating fractions of 22.14, 44.12, and 1:08.62. Grade 1 winner Alphabet Kisses pursued in vain and dropped back after a half-mile, after which Grade 1 winner Leave Me Alone took up the futile chase as the New York-bred cruised home under a hand ride. The victory increased Behaving Badly's earnings by $150,000 to $347,200 while improving her record to 5 - 1 - 0 seven starts, which includes a score in Del Mar's Grade 3 Rancho Bernardo Handicap at 6-1/2 furlongs last August. Jockey Espinoza, who has now ridden Behaving Badly four times to four victories in a pair of consecutive two-race sets, indicated that his only thought was to get the super-quick mare out of the starting gate efficiently: "The main thing with this horse was to get out of the gate. Once she did, that was it. "There was never any real concern," Espinoza continued in reference to how he felt after Behaving Badly had darted out of the starting gate and was running her opening quarter-mile with Alphabet Kisses (breaking from the number one post position) on her inside. Three-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Bob Baffert, represented by his first Santa Monica winner, expressed reservations about trying two turns, even though three of Behaving Badly's five winning half-siblings have won at a mile or longer: "I think that's as far as she wants to go with this company," Baffert observed. "I'm just glad she ran today like she's been working." During the 44-day span following Behaving Badly's 4-1/2-length Hollywood Park allowance victory in 1:08.13 for six furlongs on December 16, the bay mare had worked four times at Santa Anita, including "bullet" drills at a half-mile (47-flat) and five furlongs (58 1/5) on December 30 and January 19, respectively. Forty-one days prior to her Hollywood Park December tally, she had placed second in her only turf effort going 6-1/2 furlongs "down the hill" at Oak Tree/Santa Anita, missing by less than a length to a turf specialist that was in receipt of five pounds from her. Purchased at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's 2003 sale of two-year-olds in training in Timonium, Maryland for $150,000 by the Earnhardts of Gilbert, Arizona, Behaving Badly was bred by Becky Thomas and Lewis Lakin. She was foaled at her breeders' Lakland North, LLC, in Hudson, which as agent had sold her for $50,000 at Fasig-Tipton's 2002 Saratoga preferred New York-bred yearling sale. The daughter of Pioneering is the sixth starter and sixth winner -- five of them New York-breds -- produced from Timeleighness, by Sir Raleigh. Behaving Badly is a half-sister to New York-bred Lavish Numbers ($105,727), who set a stakes record in Belmont's 1997 Maid of the Mist Stakes at a mile, and to two other six-figure earners: stakes-placed eight-time winner Light Up the Town ($259,751) and Light Up the Sky ($111,450). Dam Timeleighness is a full sister to stakes winner Timelessleigh and is out of a New York-bred mare. Behaving Badly is the third New York-bred open stakes winner of 2006 -- in Florida, New York, and now California -- and the ninth New York-bred to hit the board (first, second, or third) in an open stakes event during January. |
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January
26, 2006
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(1/26)Fourteen New York-breds from four different crops captured allowance races in coast-to-coast competition during a five-day span from Thursday, January 19 through Monday, January 23, with Nick Siounis's homebred turf sprinter mare, LETTHEFREEDOMROAR, taking the biggest prize while going "down the hill" on Santa Anita grass. Letthefreedomroar's first effort on the West Coast came off a three-month layoff, during which time she had been given two November workouts at Belmont followed by main track Santa Anita drills under the guidance of California conditioner Melvin Stute on December 31 and January 7, 12, and 17. Sent off on Friday, January 20 as the 23.10-to-1 seventh choice among eight equally-weighted starters in a $53,200 N2X allowance/optional claiming contest at about 6-1/2 furlongs for older fillies and mares, Letthefreedomroar showed startling speed in her new surroundings and first outing under jockey Victor Espinoza. Sprinting to a length and a half opening-quarter lead in 21.26, the six-year-old mare set a blistering pace along the inside through a 42.71 half-mile but veered out crossing the main track into the stretch, where 1.30-to-1 favorite Dream Lady appeared to gain command with a half-length advantage. The New York-bred refused to yield, and with ears pinned fought back to even terms with Dream Lady through the final furlong while on the inside and pushed her nose in front at the wire. Closing with a rush to take third-place money was the 4.20-to-1 co-second choice, 2005 Group 2-winning Brazilian import New Regina. Letthefreedomroar's final 6-1/2-furlong clocking of 1:12.28 was a stakes-caliber time over the downhill course -- faster than the 2005 open $140,625 Irish O'Brien Stakes for older fillies and mares over a firm course in 1:13.08. For jockey Espinoza, it was the first of two allowance-winning Friday rides at Santa Anita. The victory increased Letthefreedomroar's earnings by $31,200 to $152,260 and improved her record to 5 - 2 - 3 in 26 starts for owner-breeder Siounis of Hercules Farm in Howard Beach, who also bred the mare's New York-bred stakes-placed and turf-winning half-brother, World of Wonder ($148,357). The daughter of Grade 2 winner Roar had qualified for her first black-type last July by placing a closing third in Monmouth's five-furlong Klassy Briefcase Stakes on turf and competed at Santa Anita with a $62,500 claiming price because she already was beyond the N2X allowance condition level. Letthefreedomroar's wins include turf tallies as a three-year-old at Belmont going a mile and then a mile and an eighth followed by a one-mile victory on Aqueduct's lawn in an open N2X allowance that was two tiers above her then-existing condition level. The bay mare is the third winner produced from winner Champagne Patti, a daughter of Lear Fan and a half-sister to New York-bred stakes-placed dirt sprint winner Soulman and to New York-bred main track filly/mare router Patti's Purse ($148,357). If Siounis is considering graded turf stakes to dramatically enhance Letthefreedomroar's broodmare value, two possibilities for fillies and mares are Santa Anita's Grade 2 Buena Vista Handicap at a mile on February 20 (Presidents' Day) and Grade 3 Las Cienegas Handicap at 6-1/2 furlongs on April 16. Another recently-winning New York-bred older mare with stakes-placed black-type who has an older stakes-placed half-sibling is Margaret Carrothers' and Patricia Parker's homebred SCHEMER, winner of an open N2X Aqueduct allowance going six furlongs under top weight of 123 pounds on Sunday, January 22. Sent off the 3.70-to-1 third choice among eight filly and mare starters, the five-year-old mare increased her earnings to $239,169 while improving her record to 5 - 7 - 5 in 27 starts. Schemer has placed in three stakes, the most recent being a third-place effort in Aqueduct's open six-furlong Interborough Handicap on New Year's Day 2006, and she is a half-sister to five winners and three six-figure-earners, including New York-bred 10-time winner and five-time stakes-placed No Bad Habits ($469,263). The bay daughter of multiple Grade 1 winner Concern races for her breeder, Carrothers of Boca Raton, Florida, in partnership with Parker of Christinasted, Vermont. Four-year-old homebred daughters of New York-based stallion Tomorrows Cat ran one-two in an Aqueduct N2X allowance/optional claimer for nine New York-bred fillies and mares on Thursday, January 19, as Donald and Roberta Zuckerman's 6.20-to-1 third choice TOMORROWS LADY beat co-topweighted odds-on (.80-to-1) Tomorrows Dance at a mile and 70 yards. Tomorrows Lady boosted her earnings into six figures at $102,568 while improving her record to 3 - 2 - 0 in 11 starts, and Chester and Mary Broman's Tomorrows Dance moved her never-worse-than-fourth record to 2 - 2 - 0 in five starts. The two fillies also qualified the syndicate connections of Tomorrows Cat (Storm Cat - Tomorrow's Child, by Al Nasr), who is managed by Questroyal Stud, LLC and stands at Metropolitan Stud (managed by Anya Sheckley and Michael Lischin), for a total of $2,576 in stallion awards. Hypo-Mating checks of the two fillies indicate that both are out of mares with crosses to Northern Dancer (to whom Tomorrows Cat is inbred 3 x 4) and that both have inbreeding on their dams' sides. The dam of Tomorrows Lady is inbred 3 x 4 to Raise a Native and is by the closely inbred Quiet American (2 x 3 to Dr. Fager), and the maternal granddam (second dam) of Tomorrows Dance is inbred 3 x 3 to Bold Ruler. Tomorrows Cat already has out five winners in 2006 and has cumulative progeny earnings of more than $6.8-million. Tomorrows Lady is the first winner produced from Quiet Strike, who is a half-sister to stakes winners Kalookan Queen (multiple Grade 1 winner of $1,044,474), Klondike Strike ($227,871), Sir Hutch ($195,275), and Cape Royale ($136,089). Other New York-bred-and-conceived restricted allowance-winning fillies at Aqueduct on January 19 were four-year-old R B'S TOKEN (by Gold Token) and three-year-old NIKKI'S HALO (by Rizzi). Favored R B's Token (1.20-to-1), now with earnings of $122,705 off a record of 3 - 3 - 4 in 12 starts, races for the E El R Stable that is managed by Richard Balfour, who had purchased her for $30,000 at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's 2003 September yearling sale in Timonium, Maryland. Nikki's Halo, unbeaten and unchallenged after two starts (she had debuted in her only previous outing, a 6-1/4-length juvenile romp at Aqueduct on November 19), races for the Our Canterbury Stables of racing partnerships that is managed by Thomas Daly of New Fairfield, Connecticut. Nikki's Halo, who won by five lengths as the curiously overlooked 5.30-to-1 fourth choice among eight wagering interests and nine starters, had been a $43,000 purchase at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 2005 April sale of two-year-olds in training. R B's Token is among 58 winners sired by Gold Token, whose cumulative progeny earnings are approaching $4.3-million, and is the second offspring and second six-figure-earning filly/mare produced from winner Wee Like U, being a full sister to five-time winner Gold Like U ($152,420). Nikki's Halo is among six winners in 2006 sired by Rizzi, including four during a three-day span from January 19-21, pushing that stallion's progeny earnings to over $14.1-million. She is the third offspring and third winner produced from dirt and turf winner Chap Slewy, whom the New Dawn Stud of breeder Richard Simon (Sez Who Thoroughbreds) had purchased for $18,000 at Keeneland's 2000 November sale when she was carrying her first foal. New York-bred Aqueduct allowance winners on January 20 were MELODEEMAN ($129,097) -- beating Seeking the Glory ($146,161) and Impeachthepro ($690,899 and claimed for the optional $25,000 price) -- along with REMORSE (by New York-based Regal Classic), and ROAD TO GLORY (by New York-based Williamstown). New York-bred-and-conceived Aqueduct allowance winners on January 21 were three-year-old PSYCHOTIC REACTION (by five lengths; two wins and two seconds in four starts; among nine winners from first crop of Freud) and four-year-old BLUTARSKY (by 3-3/4 lengths; was among 10 winners in 2005 sired by Mighty Magee). The following day (January 22) -- in addition to the aforementioned Schemer -- New York-bred-and-conceived distaff competitors NO REASON (by former New York sire Precise End) and AVE'S PRINCESSA (by Key Contender) won allowance races at Aqueduct (restricted) and Laurel (starter allowance), respectively. Barbara McNulty's Ave's Princessa ($145,180 with a record of 10 - 6 - 4 in 37 starts), an improving six-year-old mare, was the second of two New York-bred-and-conceived Sunday winners at Laurel, preceded by a five-year-old son of Tomorrows Cat, co-topweighted winner FANCATSTIK. In addition to the aforementioned Letthefreedomroar and Ave's Princessa, other recent New York-bred out-of-state allowance winners -- both five-year-olds -- were Horsevestors' SILVER THUNDER by 3-3/4 lengths in Sam Houston's Friday evening feature and David Herrmann's versatile mare, CAMP ON WOOD, in Tampa Bay's Monday (January 23) turf feature. Camp On Wood ($129,415 with a 4 - 3 - 4 record in 19 starts), winner of two dirt sprints plus a mile and a sixteenth Monmouth turf contest last August, broke last among 10 in an allowance/optional claimer at about a mile and a sixteenth but overtook the two top choices. She is by former New York stallion Signal Tap. New York-bred maiden special winners at Aqueduct during January 19-22 included MISS COPELY HALL on January 19, SWEET LA RIZZI (by Rizzi) on January 20, and LION AT THE GATE on January 22. Anstu Stables' (Stuart and Anita Subotnick) homebred IRVING'S DOERS, a half-brother to graded winners Irving's Baby ($763,022) and Deeliteful Irving ($479,472), won as the only first-time-starter among nine in a Tampa Bay turf maiden special for four-year-olds and up going about a mile and a sixteenth on January 19. Three New York-bred-and-conceived runners won at Laurel on January 20, including three-year-old favorite (1.50-to-1 among 12 starters) CANYOUCATCHMENOW, who ran with a $40,000 claiming price and won by 3-3/4 lengths. |
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January
23, 2006
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| New features added to website racing coverage (1/23) Coverage of New York-breds at NYRA tracks and across the nation advanced to the next level during the third week of January with the introduction of BRIS (Bloodstock Research and Information Systems) pedigree reports on winners along with daily results featuring updated racing lines, types of races, margins, and times. BRIS pedigree reports are now available on all New York-bred NYRA winners as well as New York-bred out-of-state stakes winners and offer three-cross pedigrees, sire blurbs, racing and produce records of dams, and tabulated racing records prior to the winners' latest victories. These new features are all accessible through the "Daily Summary" of designated New York-bred winners that also provides photos, videos, names of winning owners, trainers, jockeys, and breeders, plus New York Breeding Fund awards and any applicable "farm links" -- such as where New York-based sires of winners currently stand. To access BRIS pedigree reports on New York-bred winners at NYRA tracks (or New York-bred stakes winners anywhere), go to the home page feature on the New York Breeding & Racing Program's website (www.nybreds.com) titled "New York-Bred Daily Racing Action" and to its "Daily Summary including Photos & Videos" option. Click on the "Daily Summary" to bring up names, photos, and basic information on each featured winner (according to chronological order). Clicking on the "Bris Pedigree Report" link next to "Pedigree" brings up a first-dam catalog-style pedigree report on the winner that is complete up to (but not including) the designated winner's latest victory. Also available in the Daily Summary -- as before -- are links for Brisnet charts of the races as well as video race replays plus links for farms and New York-based stallions -- when applicable. Although Bris Pedigree Reports provide three-cross pedigrees, if winners are by New York-based sires, their dams' names can be entered into the "Hypothetical Mating" feature (home page) next to their sires' names for more extensive five-cross Hypo-Mating reports (also available on other websites regardless of sire residency). Another new feature to the New York Breeding & Racing Program's website is the "Daily New York-bred Results" that offers an alphabetical and chronological listing of how New York-breds have performed at all North American tracks. Daily alphabetical listings (updates are posted following completion of West Coast racing) provide breeding lines (sire, dam, broodmare sire), finish positions, tracks, margins of victory/defeat, odds, distances, winning times, class and conditions of races, purse shares, updated racing lines with cumulative earnings, plus names of owners, breeders, and trainers. This feature is an alphabetical variation of the "Daily Entries and Results" option that continues to be offered, although complete racing lines (lifetime starts, wins, seconds, and thirds in addition to lifetime earnings) represent a new enhancement. Martin G. Kinsella, Executive Director of the New York State Thoroughbred Breeding & Development Fund Corporation, indicated that these improvements represented an ongoing enhancement: "We're very pleased with the new features, which will continue to maintain the nybreds.com website as one of the premier 'Go-To' internet sites in the industry." As a follow-up to the Daily Summary, each week an editorial recap will be posted featuring New York-bred stakes winners, allowance winners, and high-end claiming winners at NYRA tracks and across the nation and world. Recaps will focus on owners and/or breeders plus possible particulars about winners' previous racing histories and other in-depth information, such as racing/progeny records of New York-based sires of winners and how owners might have acquired the winners or how breeders might have acquired those winners' dams. |
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January
19, 2006
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Edward Behringer's and Thomas Murray's homebred STRUMMER and Madoca Establo's One Way Flight became the seventh and eighth New York-bred open stakes horses of 2006 when they finished first and third, respectively, in Aqueduct's $70,135 Jimmy Winkfield Stakes on the Martin Luther King Jr. Monday holiday, January 16. Strummer ($101,201 with a record of 3 - 0 - 1 in five starts) broke on top from the outside post as the 7.10-to-1 third choice among six three-year-olds in the six-furlong Jimmy Winkfield and led throughout to win by four lengths in his first outing under jockey Norberto Arroyo Jr. Top-weighted One Way Flight ($108,580 off a record of 2 - 1 - 0 in three starts), the odds-on (.45-to-1) favorite, had to be checked twice -- at the start and again nearing the turn -- before belatedly rallying for third in his first effort under jockey Ramon Dominguez. These were the only two New York-breds in the Jimmy Winkfield, and both were also conceived in New York. Strummer was conceived at Dr. Jonathan Davis's Milfer Farm, Inc. in Unadilla, where his late sire, Phone Trick, had stood for four seasons. One Way Flight was conceived as well as foaled at Lakland North, LLC in Hudson that is owned by his breeders, Becky Thomas and Lewis Lakin, and where his now Japanese-based sire, Precise End, had stood since entering stud in 2001 through the 2004 season. Strummer is the fourth New York-bred winner produced from his stakes-placed 11-time winning dam, Manor Queen ($320,155), by Wavering Monarch, and is a half-brother to 2002 New York Breeders' Futurity winner Infinite Justice ($186,704) and 2005 stakes-placed winner Blue Sunday ($113,900). Dam Manor Queen had placed second to New York-bred millionaire Lottsa Talc ($1,211,996) in Aqueduct's 1995 open Garland of Roses Handicap. Two days prior to the Winkfield on Saturday, January 14, Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey's New York homebred On the Bus placed second behind multiple turf stakes winner My Lordship in Gulfstream's $75,000 Marshua's River Stakes for fillies and mares going a mile and a sixteenth on grass. The six-year-old mare was coming off a 51-day layoff and was half of an entry that was the 7.80-to-1 seventh choice among 11 wagering interests and 12 starters, with pickup jockey Edgar Prado race-riding her for the fourth time in her last five starts. Her three-wide stalking effort in an event that was run in a quick 1:40.48 increased her earnings to $291,913 off a record of 5 - 4 - 2 in 18 starts. On the Bus has two restricted turf stakes victories on her resume: Belmont's $150,000 Ticonderoga Handicap on New York Showcase Day (October 23) for 2004 and an $82,650 division of Saratoga's Yaddo Handicap under Prado this past August. The daughter of Grade 1 turf winner Ghazi was foaled at Dawn Lane's Victory Lane Farm in Millbrook and is out of Calder allowance winner (and Belmont maiden winner) Just Like Jill, a Dynaformer mare that Kenneth Ramsey had purchased as a Keeneland September yearling for $65,000 in 1994. New York-bred allowance winners from Thursday through Saturday, January 12-14, were CAROLYN FRANCES at Evangeline Downs and INTERIOR DESIGNER at Aqueduct on Thursday, CRYING POVERTY at Charles Town and PUZZLE at Tampa Bay Downs on Friday, and HARRY THE ROCK at Aqueduct and PRECISELY BELLA at Evangeline Downs on Saturday. Carolyn Frances, who races for Robkat Racing Stable LLC, was the 121-pound topweight among seven starters in a one-mile non-winners-of-four allowance/optional claiming contest for older fillies and mares and was one of three with 4.50-to-1 odds behind 1.40-to-1 favorite Dodd, who was coming off a stakes-placing at Sam Houston. Although eventual third-place finisher Bittersweet Bonnie edged ahead of Carolyn Frances on the second turn, the New York-bred mare led most of the way and won by a length and three-quarters in her ninth outing -- seventh consecutive -- under jockey Brian Hernandez, who had two winning rides on the card. The victory boosted Carolyn Frances's earnings to $167,880 while improving her record to 6 - 7 - 7 in 31 starts, which includes allowance wins on dirt and turf. The six-year-old daughter of the late New York stallion Personal Flag out of three-time winner Princess Luisa, by Chicago, was bred by John Hulak Jr. and was coming off a N2X allowance victory going a mile at Evangeline Downs on December 11. She had been claimed at Monmouth in September of 2004. Paraneck Stable's homebred Interior Designer scored his second Aqueduct victory in 13 days when he advanced from seventh among 10 starters to tally by three lengths in a restricted N1X allowance for four-year-olds and up going a mile and a quarter on the inner track. It was also his second consecutive outing under apprentice jockey Kyle Kaenel, who rides with a five-pound apprentice allowance and had guided the dark bay gelding to a 2-1/4-length win in a restricted maiden special at a mile and an eighth at the Big A on December 30. Without Kaenel's apprentice allowance, Interior Designer would have been co-topweighted under 123 pounds, and he went off somewhat overlooked as the 5.30-to-1 third choice, increasing his earnings by $26,400 to $53,260 for his second score in five starts. The four-year-old races for the Paraneck Stable of Ernie Paragallo of Lloyds Neck, Long Island, who breeds in the name of Paraneck Stallions and also owns Interior Designer's sire, 1999 Wood Memorial winner Adonis, who was last reported as standing at Paragallo's Center Brook Farm in Climax. Interior Designer is out of seven-time sprint winner Finely Decorated, whom Paragallo/Paraneck had purchased for $80,000 at Keeneland's 1994 April sale of two-year-olds in training in Lexington, Kentucky. Crying Poverty, a four-year-old son of Eclipse Champion and New York stallion Artax owned by the Renpher Stable of Robert Oliva, was the 2.60-to-1 second choice among six starters in a N2X allowance that was the richest open (not restricted to West Virginia-breds) race on Charles Town's Friday evening card. Ridden in the 4-1/2-furlong contest by Carlos Nieto -- his only jockey in 11 career starts -- the New York-bred led at all calls and won by 2-1/4 lengths, increasing his earnings to $69,411 and improving his record to 4 - 3 - 1. Forty-four days earlier, the dark bay colt had scored a front-running three-length victory in a 5-1/2-furlong non-winners-of-three allowance feature at Penn National. Owner Oliva had purchased Crying Poverty for $20,000 at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's 2004 May sale of two-year-olds in training in Timonium, Maryland. The three-time open allowance winner was bred by the JP Racing Stable of Ralph Bianculli of Mill Neck, who had purchased the colt's dam, stakes-placed winner Misty Harbor ($109,318), by Danzig Connection, for $85,000 at Keeneland's 2001 November sale when she was carrying Crying Poverty. Puzzle, whose victory came about 4-1/2 hours prior to Crying Poverty's tally, scored her first turf victory in a N1X allowance for fillies and mares going a mile and a sixteenth at Tampa Bay, advancing from seventh among 10 starters to prevail by three lengths as the 3.60-to-1 second choice. Her first outing under jockey Joseph Rocco Jr. increased her earnings to $64,120 while improving her record to 2 - 3 - 0 in seven starts, which includes an off-the-turf restricted maiden special score going a mile and an eighth at Saratoga in August of 2004. Owned by Lambholm Stable and trained by Roy Lerman, under whose ownership she had broken her maiden at Saratoga, the five-year-old daughter of multiple Grade 1 turf-winning millionaire Subordination had been a $35,000 yearling purchase at Fasig-Tipton Midlantic's 2002 September-October sale in Timonium, Maryland. She was bred by Gary Mottola of Oakland, New Jersey, who in the name of his Glen Grey Farm had purchased Puzzle's graded-winning and track record-setting dam, She's a Mystery ($253,546), by Bold Dun-Cee, for $5,000 at Keeneland's 2000 November sale when she was carrying Puzzle. For a five-year-old who was a maiden until last Labor Day weekend, Astorian Stable's Harry the Rock has hit the board under a wide variety of conditions, but both of his wins have been at 5-1/2 furlongs -- the distance of his restricted N1X Aqueduct allowance victory on Saturday. Never in 25 previous starts had the gray/roan gelding led all the way, though he successfully used that tactic in his two-length tally as the 4-to-1 third choice among 10 starters, four-year-olds and up, while being race-ridden for the 10th time -- eighth consecutive -- by jockey Pablo Fragoso. The victory increased Harry the Rock's earnings by $25,800 to $159,518 while improving his record to 2 - 9 - 5, which includes NYRA runner-up efforts at a mile and an eighth on dirt (mud) and turf, a mile and a sixteenth, a mile (twice), 7-1/2 furlongs, seven furlongs, and 5-1/2 furlongs. Owned by Maria Esposito's Astorian Stable, the versatile gelding was bred by the Foxrace Farm of Nan Cassidy on Fox Race Lane in Amenia. He is by Grade 1 Metropolitan Mile winner Honour and Glory and is the second New York-bred NYRA winner bred by Foxrace Farm from Status Quo, a two-time turf-winning daughter of Strawberry Road. Leon Savoy's Precisely Bella reached the winner's circle about 6-1/2 hours after Harry the Rock's score, rallying four wide to take command on the turn of a six-furlong non-winners-of-two allowance for three-year-old fillies at Evang eline Downs and winning as the 3.20-to-1 second choice among seven starters. Reunited with jockey Sylvester Carmouche Jr., under whom she had won first-out three starts earlier at Evangeline Downs in August, the bay filly improved her record to 2 - 0 - 1 in four starts for owner Savoy, who had purchased her for $1,500 at Keeneland's 2004 September yearling sale. Precisely Bella was bred by Richard Simon's Sez Who Thoroughbreds, which maintains Sez Who Thoroughbreds North, LLC in Stillwater, and is by former New York stallion Precise End. Her dam, Nelda Brown ($110,131), by Prospector's Halo, was a durable campaigner who won 13 races at a variety of distances from ages two through seven and placed in another 23 races -- in 74 career starts. New York-bred maiden-breakers of note from Wednesday, January 11 through the Martin Luther King Jr. Monday holiday of January 16 included the following: DEVIL'S CONCIERGE, JODI'S CALL, Aqueduct, January 11; GONE GOODBYE, Aqueduct, January 12; RUNAWAY COZZENE, Santa Anita, January 13; BABY GRAY, WIN EARLY, FIREMIST, TREATED WOOD, Aqueduct, January 13-14; TOP RADIO STAR, Santa Anita, January 14; THUNDER PROOF, Tampa Bay, January 15; JUMPING JACK LOUIE, FEROCIOUS WON, Aqueduct, January 16. |
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January
12, 2006
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| Sez Who Thoroughbreds North and Flying Zee Stables
top 2005 owner and breeder awards lists by Rab Hagin (1/12) Richard Simon's Sez Who Thoroughbreds North and Carl Lizza Jr.'s Flying Zee Stables were the leading recipients of breeder and open race owner awards for 2005, respectively, with Flying Zee Stables also the runner-up in breeder awards, followed by Becky Thomas and Lewis Lakin (et al) of Lakland North. Two of the top three recipients of 2005 breeder awards -- Sez Who Thoroughbreds North and Thomas/Lakin -- had been primarily Florida breeders prior to 2000 but have become increasingly involved in the New York program in recent years -- both as breeders and as stallion owners and managers. Breeder awards, distributed by the New York Thoroughbred Breeding and Development Fund Corporation, are determined as percentages of purse money earned for finishing first through fourth in New York races -- 20 percent for New York-breds conceived from registered New York stallions and 10 percent for all other registered New York-breds. Open race owner awards are determined by the same formula and criteria as breeder awards but apply to first-through-fourth-place finishes in open (not restricted to state-bred or state-conceived) New York races with a minimum claiming price of $30,000 through stakes. There is a $10,000 cap (maximum award) per horse/per race for breeder awards and a $20,000 cap per horse/per race for open race owner awards. Breeder and open race owner awards -- along with seven percent (of purse earnings) stallion awards to owners of registered New York sires of New York-breds finishing first through fourth in all New York races (with a $10,000 cap per horse/per race) -- are all distributed in addition to regular purse earnings. Sez Who Thoroughbreds North, LLC, which is located in Stillwater and stands Rizzi (among New York's top-10 sires for 2005) and Prime Timber (New York's leading first-crop sire for 2005), is owned by Simon of Aventura, Florida, who also maintains a division of Sez Who Thoroughbreds in Ocala, Florida. Standouts bred by Sez Who Thoroughbreds North included the following 2005 stakes winners: Sovereign Stable's and Gatsas Stables' Champagne Ending (by former New York stallion Precise End) and WinStar Farm's Cinderella's Dream (by Prime Timber) plus homebreds Accountforthegold (won New York Derby) and Princess Sweet (by Precise End). These and other 2005 six-figure-earners boosted the total breeder awards that Sez Who Thoroughbreds North qualified for throughout the year to $410,188. Sez Who Thoroughbreds North had been the runner-up in breeder awards for 2004 -- behind Flying Zee Stable -- with a total awards figure of $168,799. Flying Zee Stables (Carl Lizza Jr.), which along with Joseph Bartone co-owns Highcliff Farm in Delanson and uses that facility as the base for its breeding operations, was represented as an owner by 2005 six-figure-earning homebred Taking the Redeye, who is by semi-pensioned Highcliff Farm stallion Scarlet Ibis. Other runners also contributed to Flying Zee Stables' leading 2005 open race owner awards total of $63,685. As the runner-up in breeder awards with a total figure of $371,158, Flying Zee Stables was represented by 2005 six-figure-earners Show Ready (by the late Highcliff Farm stallion Prosper Fager), Factual Contender (by pension Highcliff Farm stallion Thunder Puddles), Lethimthinkhesboss, and Taking the Redeye. As the leading recipient in breeder awards for the previous year (2004), Flying Zee Stables had qualified for awards totaling $250,322. Ranking close behind Flying Zee Stables in 2005 breeder awards were Thomas and Lakin of Lakland North, LLC, who bred 2005 New York-bred open stakes-winning three-year-old Sort It Out ($304,746 -- of which $255,661 was earned in 2005) and 2005 unbeaten juvenile stakes winner One Way Flight (by Precise End). Other 2005 six-figure-earning three-year-olds bred by Thomas and Lakin at Lakland North were multiple stakes-placed Big Apple Daddy ($224,246) and open Aqueduct allowance winner Dynamo Hum -- the latter a three-year-old daughter of Precise End owned by Dr. Douglas Koch's Berkshire Stud of Pine Plains. Runner-up recipient behind Flying Zee Stables in 2005 open race owner awards was Jeffrey Tucker of Stone Bridge Farm in Saratoga Springs and New York City, whose outstanding New York-bred three-year-old filly, Acey Deucey, won three open NYRA stakes, including Belmont's Grade 1 Prioress and Aqueduct's Grade 2 Comely. Acey Deucey, a daughter of former New York stallion Abaginone purchased privately by Tucker after breaking her maiden as a two-year-old at Belmont in October of 2004, had been a $35,000 acquisition at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 2004 April sale of two-year-olds in training in Florida. She has earned $382,752 -- picking up $345,652 in 2005 -- and accounted for most of the $59,230 in open race owner awards that Tucker qualified for in 2005. Acey Deucey was bred by the Glen Grey Farm of Gary Mottola of Oakland, New Jersey. Please click here for complete listing of leading Breeder, Owner, Jockey, and Trainer Awards for 2005. |
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January 8, 2006
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(1/8) New York-breds CASPER PETERSON and MAGNOLIA JACKSON won back-to-back open Aqueduct allowances on Sunday, January 8 (see Racing Front News), followed minutes later by New York-bred allowance winner ELISA'S ENERGY at Santa Anita and preceded on Saturday by open stakes-placed efforts from New York-breds Friendly Island, Platinum Couple, and Song Dancer. The stakes-placed performances occurred at Aqueduct, Gulfstream, and Sunland Park. Elisa's Energy, who races for her co-breeder, Tom Tatham's Oak Cliff Stable, in partnership with Al G. Hill Jr.'s Galatyn Stables, is a turf specialist, and with the close of Aqueduct's turf course in early December was shipped out to Santa Anita. Prior to Sunday, the just-turned-four-year-old filly was eligible for restricted N2X allowance followed by open N1X allowance competition at Aqueduct, and for Santa Anita's $57,200 N2X allowance mile on grass for fillies and mares, she was the 6.30-to-1 fifth choice among eight starters -- two stakes winners and two stakes-placed. The New York-bred was reunited with jockey Patrick Valenzuela, under whom she had finished first at Hollywood Park in July but was disqualified to third for drifting out in the stretch, and advanced from fifth to third while between rivals in the run down the backstretch. Elisa's Energy came three wide outside of stakes-placed Ligacao Direto and stakes winner Island Escape into the stretch, gaining command in the final furlong and holding off challenges from 3.70-to-1 second choice Danclare, Grade 2-placed Sagitta Ra (the 4.10-to-1 third choice), and Ligacao Direta. Stakes winner and previously unbeaten Heavenly Ransom, the 2.70-to-1 favorite, finished fifth. The victory boosted the earnings for Elisa's Energy by $33,600 into six figures at $118,920 and improved her never-unplaced record (and never finishing worse than second) to 3 - 3 - 1 in seven starts. Trained by five-time Eclipse Award winner Robert Frankel, she was coming off a restricted N1X Aqueduct turf allowance score on November 2 and had broken her maiden on Saratoga's lawn in August following her disqualification from first to third the previous month at Hollywood Park. Frankel had given the dark bay filly a half-mile November 28 workout over Belmont's training track followed by five more workouts over Santa Anita's main track from December 6 through January 5. His future options include four Santa Anita distaff turf stakes: the one-mile $75,000-added Tuzla Handicap (January 26) and the Grade 2 Buena Vista (February 20), Santa Ana (March 26), and Santa Barbara (April 22) Handicaps at a mile, a mile and an eighth, and a mile and a quarter, respectively. Elisa's Energy is a half-sister to New York-bred Grade 2 Arkansas Derby winner Private Emblem ($783,152) and New York-bred open turf stakes winner Rhum ($306,234) as well as to New York-bred stakes-placed winner Taghkanic. Sired by the late Grade 1-winning turf router Chester House ($1,944,545), she is the seventh offspring and seventh New York-bred winner produced from New York-bred Merion Miss, by Halo. All of her half-siblings (by six different sires) have won at a mile or longer. Elisa's Energy was bred by Dr. Douglas Koch's Berkshire Stud in partnership with Oak Cliff Stable (the partnership that also bred her dam, Merion Miss) and was foaled at Berkshire Stud in Pine Plains. She brought a final bid of $150,000 from co-breeder Tatham's Oak Cliff Breeders at Fasig-Tipton's 2002 Saratoga select yearling sale. Less than 50 minutes after New York-breds Platinum Couple and Friendly Island had placed third in open Saturday stakes at Aqueduct and Gulfstream (see January 7 Racing Front News), New York-bred Song Dancer placed third in Sunland Park's black-type Winsham Lad Handicap -- his first career stakes effort in 38 starts. The saga of owner-trainer Steven Asmussen's regally-bred and peripatetic Song Dancer -- an eight-year-old stallion with earnings of $207,033 and a record of 19 - 9 - 1 at 13 different tracks in seven states -- is intriguing. By Unbridled's Song - Lizeality, by Hold Your Peace, he was bred by New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) 2002 Breeder of the Year Patricia Staskowski Purdy of Ivy League Farm in Ithaca and is a half-brother to Grade 1 winner and NYTB Horse of the Year Carson Hollow ($500,110). Before any of Lizeality's offspring had won and when Carson Hollow was a yearling, Song Dancer was purchased for $200,000 by the Thunderhead Farm of Bill and Margie Peters of Des Moines, Iowa at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's 2000 June sale of two-year-olds in training. He won four of his first seven starts at three and four, all at Oaklawn Park but delayed after his second outing by a ten-month layoff. The colt subsequently was away from competition for almost 23 months and was not the same when he returned. In Song Dancer's sixth consecutive unplaced effort from February to June of 2004, he was claimed at Churchill Downs for $8,000 by Asmussen, for whom he won by 10-1/2 lengths in 1:09.40 for six furlongs at Lone Star Park a month later while racing with a $4,000 tag. He has not run for a price since. Later that summer at Ellis Park, the born-again competitor won a seven-furlong starter allowance in 1:22.62. Asmussen is familiar with New York-breds, having trained the aforementioned Private Emblem, who as a five-year-old had won Oaklawn Park's Grade 3 Essex Handicap a few months prior to Asmussen's claim of Song Dancer. Twice a main track winner at a mile and 70 yards, Song Dancer also has won or placed in all his turf outings, scoring this past August on Ellis Park grass in 1:02.07 for 5-1/2 furlongs after close-finishing mile and a sixteenth lawn efforts at Fair Grounds and Sam Houston. Following consecutive big-margin tallies at Churchill Downs and Sam Houston in November and December, the gray/roan horse was sent into Sunland Park's Winsham Lad, a one-mile event won in 2005 by New York-bred Streak of Royalty. Song Dancer got boxed in among his five rivals nearing the second turn and had to swing three wide into the stretch but closed to finish third -- less than a length behind the winner, 2005 stakes winner Don't Strike Out. Song Dancer is the fifth New York-bred to win or place in an open stakes in the first seven days of 2006. |
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January 7, 2006
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NY-breds Friendly Island and Platinum Couple place 3rd in Open Stakes
Platinum Couple, a homebred for Glenn Lostritto's Team Tristar Stable
and trained by Joseph Lostritto of Old Brookville, was coming off a
December 11 victory in Aqueduct's $85,250 Damon Runyon Stakes for New
York-bred two-year-olds going a mile and a sixteenth -- at 16.50-to-1.
For the Count Fleet, he was the 10.20-to-1 fifth choice among 10 starters
with jockey Jose Espinoza race-riding him for the fourth consecutive
time. The just-turned-three-year-old's third-place effort increased
his earnings to $90,211 off a record of 2 - 0 - 2 in six starts and
also qualified his owner-breeder for a total of $1,497.60 in owner and
breeder awards. The stakes record-setting winner of the Count Fleet,
Achilles of Troy, became the 44th stakes winner sired by the late New
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| J'ray stays unbeaten on turf - wins Tropical Park
Oaks under top weight by Rab Hagin Confirming her status as the best young turf filly in America, Lawrence Goichman's New York homebred J'RAY carried top weight to a length victory in Calder's $100,000 Tropical Park Oaks for three-year-old fillies going a mile and a sixteenth on grass, prevailing as the odds-on (.50-to-1) favorite among nine starters. The stretch-running chestnut collared front-running recent Calder $100,000 stakes winner Stolen Prayer in the final furlong and edged clear in her first outing under 2004-2005 Eclipse Award-winning jockey John Velazquez, who also was New York Thoroughbred Breeders (NYTB) Jockey of the Year for 2002. Her fourth consecutive turf victory in four outings on grass -- following 2005 juvenile scores in Keeneland's Jessamine Stakes in October and Laurel's Selima Stakes in November, increased her earnings by $60,000 to $217,245 in five starts. Two-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Todd Pletcher summarized J'ray's record and looked to the future: "With her pedigree, we pretty much knew her future would be on turf, but she was ready to run early this summer, so we went ahead and ran her on the dirt in her first start. Then she was impressive winning on turf against New York-breds, and that encouraged (us) to go on into open company. She had a perfect trip today. The way this course has been playing, you don't want to be too far back early. "There isn't much for her for the first six weeks at Gulfstream, so we'll probably take the opportunity to give her a little break," concluded Pletcher, who had given the New York-bred filly three turf workouts at Palm Meadows in Florida during December. Jockey Velazquez was obviously please with the outcome: "I knew that the filly of (trainer) Eddie Plesa (Stolen Prayer) had a pretty sharp work and should show the most early speed. I just wanted to get into a good position to make a run at her. It worked out very well for us, I was able to save ground and get a clean trip and that was all it took." J'ray's owner-breeder, Goichman of Greenwich, Connecticut, is in the computer and technology equipment leasing business and also is the breeder of such New York-bred stakes winners as multiple Grade 2 winner Read the Footnotes (now a New York stallion standing at Lakland North, LLC in Hudson). Goichman makes a practice of acquiring broodmares with European bloodlines and breeding them to North American stallions, which is the pattern he followed in breeding both Read the Footnotes and J'ray, who was foaled at James F. Edwards' Keane Stud in Amenia. J'ray is by 1994 English champion three-year-old male Distant View (by Mr. Prospector) and is a half-sister to stakes winner and champion older female in Saudi Arabia, Dadeland, who also has won races in England and France. Her dam, French winner Bubbling Heights, by Darshaan, is a half-sister to the winning dam of Grade 3 turf winner Millennium Dragon ($503,604 through 2005), who won in England before coming to North America. Goichman purchased Bubbling Heights privately in Europe and brought her to New York between the 2001 and 2002 breeding seasons. Although he was coming off a restricted N1X allowance win on Aqueduct's inner track just 29 days earlier, Team B Stable's FAST IZ A TURTLE was dismissed as the 28.50-to-1 tenth choice among 11 starters in a restricted N2X allowance/optional claiming contest for four-year-olds and up going six furlongs. Advancing from next-to-last after the opening quarter-mile, the four-year-old gelding rallied along the rail in his seventh outing -- second consecutive -- under jockey Jose Espinoza to beat 2.85-to-1 favorite Rapid Rickey despite conceding five pounds to that rival. The result increased Fast Iz a Turtle's earnings by $27,000 to $86,791 while improving his record to three wins in 10 starts for the Team B Stable of Jacqueline O'Brien. Trained by Colum O'Brien, who had given him a solid half-mile workout over Belmont's training track on December 23, Fast Iz a Turtle was bred by the Bona Fortuna Stable of Donald Nitchman of Caladon Farms in Schuylerville, which qualified for a $5,400 breeder award. He is among 22 winners sired by multiple stakes winner Goldminers Gold (Crafty Prospector - Miss Secreto, by Secreto), who stands at Metropolitan Stud (managed by Michael Lischin) in Pine Plains with cumulative progeny earnings of more than $1.5-million and whose 2001 partnership owners qualified for a $1,890 stallion award. The dam of Fast Iz a Turtle, the Quiet American mare Turtle, had been purchased for $40,000 as a Keeneland 1996 September sales yearling by bloodstock agent and equine geneticist David Foye. Her dam (Fast Iz a Turtle's maternal granddam), two-time winner Foolish Reality, is a half-sister to stakes winner Foolin Spruce ($234,282) and to the stakes-placed dam of multiple Grade 1 winner Jostle ($1,389,932). Fast Iz a Turtle is inbred 3 x 4 to Mr. Prospector. Scoring a front-running 7-1/4-length victory in Aqueduct's New Year's Day nightcap, a restricted N1X allowance for four-year-olds and up going a mile and a sixteenth, was LIQUID ROMANCE in his first outing under NYTB 2003 Jockey of the Year Jose Santos and favored at 1.95-to-1 among 11 starters. The victory increased the four-year-old colt's earnings by $26,400 to $79,837 while improving his record to 2 - 2 - 2 in 12 starts for a four-party partnership, of which two partners -- Sanford Goldfarb and Ira Davis -- also owned part of New York-bred maiden winner Paige Nicole five races earlier. The trainer of both winners was Anthony Dutrow, who had given Liquid Romance three workouts over Belmont's training track during December following the colt's third-placing at Aqueduct on November 26. That effort had been the dark bay's first outing off a layoff of more than seven months. Liquid Romance was bred by the Sabine Stable of Joseph Greeley Winifred of Micanopy, Florida, which qualified for a total of $7,128 in breeder and stallion awards, since Sabine Stable had stood the colt's sire, multiple Grade 2 turf winner Rob 'n Gin, in New York. He was sold at the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's (OBS) 2004 April sale of two-year-olds in training in Florida for $21,000 and is the third winner produced from route winner How's Everything, who is by Secret Hello and out of graded winner Holy Mount. Another front-running winner was Oliva Stable's CONQUEST BOUND, who was favored at 1.50-to-1 among nine wagering interests and 10 starters in a restricted six-furlong maiden special for fillies and mares, four-year-olds and up, and won by 4-3/4 lengths with jockey Fernando Jara on board for the sixth time -- fourth consecutive. Favored at 1.50-to-1 among nine wagering interests and 10 starters, the four-year-old filly increased her earnings by $24,600 to $39,817 while improving her record to 1 - 1 - 1 in nine starts for the Oliva Stable of Anthony Oliva Jr. of Andover, New Jersey. Oliva had purchased Conquest Bound for $51,000 at Fasig-Tipton's 2003 Saratoga preferred New York-bred yearling sale. The quick-striding chestnut was bred by NYTB president Barry Ostrager, who qualified for a $2,460 breeder award, and is by the multiple graded-winning Danzig stallion, Boundary. The muscular filly is the first offspring produced from multiple stakes winner Conquestality, who is by Conquistador Cielo and out of multiple stakes winner Damality. The fourth consecutive winning mount -- including two New York-breds -- for jockey Norberto Arroyo Jr. was also the first of two Aqueduct winners sent out on New Year's Day by trainer Anthony Dutrow and owned in part by Sanford Goldfarb and Ira Davis -- maiden special winner PAIGE NICOLE. Almost even money (1.10-to-1) among 10 wagering interests and 11 starters -- all New York-bred fillies that had just become three-year-olds -- and one of seven making their first starts, the May 30-foaled filly closed with a rush on the outside to win the 5-1/2-furlong contest by a length and three-quarters. In preparation for her debut, Dutrow had given Paige Nicole a dozen workouts over four different tracks from early October through December 27 (on Belmont's training track). The first-out tally also qualified breeder and part-owner Goldfarb, of Old Westbury, for an additional $2,640 breeder award. Paige Nicole is by Pennsylvania-based multiple Grade 1 winner Lite the Fuse -- also sire of Goldfarb's New York homebred (owned in partnership) allowance winner Frank's Fuse on New Year's Eve at Aqueduct. She is the second homebred winner bred by Goldfarb from 10-time winner Motel Malibu ($201,400), a Bates Motel mare that Goldfarb apparently acquired privately a few years ago. The first winner bred by Goldfarb from Motel Malibu, New York-bred now four-year-old Zim and Torre, races for many of the same partners who own Paige Nicole and had won twice at Aqueduct in February and April of 2005, including a restricted N1X allowance at a one-turn mile. Dam Motel Malibu is a half-sister to stakes winner Lombardi's Romance. Despite sporting the best six-furlong resume on Aqueduct's inner track among his competitors for the second time in 22 days, Winning Move Stable's New York-bred UNSWEPT again was the third choice -- this time among six wagering interests and seven starters -- in a six-furlong open claiming contest and again won. The six-year-old gelding again had a $35,000 tag and the services of jockey Norberto Arroyo Jr., who has ridden the hard-knocking veteran 12 times in the past 22 months, but this time he won by 3-1/2 lengths verses a nose margin under similar conditions at Aqueduct on December 10. The victory increased Unswept's earnings by $22,800 to $296,052 while improving his record to 9 - 6 - 3 in 32 starts and also qualified the Winning Move Stable of Brian Sigler for an additional $2,280 owner award. For jockey Arroyo, it was the third of four consecutive winning rides on Aqueduct's New Year's Day card. Since being claimed for $35,000 at Saratoga on September 5, Unswept has earned $54,090 in purse money and qualified for an additional $5,280 in owner awards ($59,370 total). The multiple stakes-placed campaigner is conditioned by NYTB 2004 Trainer of the Year Gary Contessa and was bred by Dr. Jerry Bilinski of Waldorf Farm in North Chatham, Martin Zaretsky of Old Chatham, and Marc Roberts, who jointly qualified for a $2,280 breeder award. Dr. Bilinski had purchased Unswept's dam, four-time winner Dress, by Topsider, for $27,000 at the 1999 Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's October mixed sale in Florida when she was carrying Unswept, who is among five winners produced from that mare. Unswept's winning half-siblings include non-black-type stakes winner Diablo His Due and seven-time winner Valid Redress, who set a five-furlong track record at Santa Rosa near California's Bay Area, clocking fractions of 21.25 and 44.18 and stopping the timer at 56.20. Their dam, Dress, was an allowance winner on turf and a three-time winner on dirt, and her half-brother, Brunswick ($412,960), won Saratoga's Grade 1 Whitney Handicap in 1993. Placing third in Aqueduct's open $70,955 Interborough Handicap at six furlongs for fillies and mares, three-year-olds and up, was Margaret Carrothers' and Patricia Parker's New York homebred five-year-old mare, Schemer, who had never previously raced in open stakes company. Dismissed as the 26.50-to-1 sixth choice among seven starters and re-united with jockey Pablo Fragoso, the durable campaigner bumped with fellow New York-bred So Sweet a Cat at the break but closed from fourth place to beat the 1.15-to-1 favorite, 2005 multiple Grade 2 winner Bank Audit. The effort increased Schemer's earnings to $210,969 off a record of 4 - 7 - 5 in 26 starts and qualified her breeder and co-owner, Carrothers, for an additional $709.50 breeder award. Carrothers, of Boca Raton, Florida, races Schemer in partnership with Patricia Parker of Christinasted, Vermont, and those two also qualified for an additional $709.50 owner award. Schemer is trained by John Hertler and has placed in restricted stakes at six furlongs and a mile. In her latest previous start 37 days earlier at Aqueduct, she had won going six furlongs in open N1X allowance/optional claiming company. The New Year of 2006 is only one day old, and already two New York-breds have hit the boards in open stakes in New York and Florida. |
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