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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
5. ASBURY PARK (GB), 6/6, SAR, Race 8, 1 1-16th (turf) Beyer Speed Figure- 85 (c, 4, by Frankel {GB}–Limonar {Ire} by Street Cry {Ire}) O-Peter Brant and St Elias Stable. B-St Elias Stable (GB). T-Chad Brown. J-Flavien Prat. Not surprisingly, Saratoga produced all five of these maiden graduates – three on Friday. Asbury Park got his race in just before heavy rain and powered away as much the best despite a slow pace, wide trip and an 9 1/2-month layoff due to shin issues. Brant bought the colt as a yearling for $318,526 from Vinny Viola in October 2023 at Tattersalls, with Viola opting to keep an ownership share. Brown emptied the barn at Saratoga, going 5-for-28 with Grade I and Grade II victories. 4. RAGTIME, 6/6, SAR, Race 2, 7 furlongs Beyer Speed Figure- 86 (f, 3, by Union Rags–Burmilla, by Storm Cat) O/B-Godolphin (Ky). T-Bill Mott. J-Junior Alvarado. Mott may be all-world, but he has never prioritized success with first-time starters: heading into Saratoga last weekend he had lost with 43 in a row. Then he unleashed winning debuters Friday and Saturday at 9-1 and 8-1 odds, respectively, and both make our top five. Ragtime rolled to the front in midstretch and drew off sharply by 3 3/4 lengths. Her now-22-year-old dam Burmilla had her own Saratoga highlight: in 2007 she earned a 107 Beyer in taking the Grade II Honorable Miss. 3. HIT THE POST, 6/6, SAR, Race 14, 7 furlongs Beyer Speed Figure- 87 (g, 3, by Kantharos–Memento d'Oro, by Medaglia d'Oro) O/B- Old Tavern Farm (NY). T-Melanie Giddings. J-Chris Elliott. In his fourth career start and first as a 3-year-old after 7 1/2 months sidelined, Hit the Post dashed to the front and splashed home a decisive 6 3/4 lengths ahead of New York-breds. Saddled by Giddings of Maple Leaf Mel fame, he became the first Saratoga winner for apprentice Elliott and the second for owners/breeders Walt and Melanie Borisenck, who in 2016 founded Old Tavern Farm in Saratoga Springs. 2. MAINSTREAM, 6/7, SAR, Race 2, 7 furlongs (2nd) Beyer Speed Figure- 92 (c, 3, by Speightstown–Lesley May, by Tapit) O-Jeffrey Drown, Don Rachel and Stonestreet Stables. B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings. T-Brad Cox. J-Luis Saez. Of those who have raced, Mainstream was perhaps America's fastest maiden before Saturday – and still is. At 3-5 odds, he battled head-to-head with Junior Alvarado and Stars and Strides for the final 3/16th as they leaned/rubbed/bumped repeatedly. A stewards' inquiry resulted in no change and Mainstream is 0-for-3 despite back-to-back 92 Beyers on sloppy tracks. Trip note: he stumbled at the break Saturday, and despite an impressively quick recovery may have been unlucky since the final margin was only a head. 1. STARS AND STRIDES, 6/7, SAR, Race 2, 7 furlongs Beyer Speed Figure- 92 (c, 3, by American Pharoah–Holiday Blues, by Ghostzapper) O-Pin Oak Stud. B-Four Pillars Holdings (Ky). T-Bill Mott. J-Junior Alvarado. This $475,000 yearling buy was Mott's second winning first-timer in two days, showing talent and determination to outfinish Mainstream. Aside from his 'Pharoah' genes, his half-brother Panther Island was a stakes sprinter on turf and he already shows a bullet work on grass at Payson, so the green is a nice future option. The post The Five Fastest Maidens, Presented By Taylor Made, For The Week Of June 2-9 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
In the early minutes of the first session of the under-tack show for the Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale Tuesday, a colt by Yaupon (hip 104) turned in what would be the day's fastest furlong time of :9 4/5 and that mark was matched later in the day by a filly by Leinster (hip 81) and a colt by Engage (hip 152). It was the second :9 4/5 work at OBS for the colt from the first crop of Yaupon, who put in a similar work ahead of the company's March sale. “It wasn't a big surprise that he went as fast as he did, because he'd already went :9 4/5 in March,” said consignor Julie Davies. “He had a P1 [chip] after the breeze in March, so we had to stop and take that out. We had plenty of interest in him in March, but people didn't want to fool with that. So obviously there was the question mark of what fitness he lost in the time that he was off, as he hasn't done much between then and now, but we had no reason to think that he wouldn't do as well as he did then. He showed up and he did it again.” When the colt was purchased for $85,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale, the name on the ticket was 'Happy Birthday, Chili.' “My boyfriend, Chalino, picked him out as a yearling,” Davies said. “He and Tami Bobo were together up in the back ring and they picked him out. Everybody calls him Chili, and it was his birthday, so Tami signed the ticket Happy Birthday Chili.” The colt is out of After the Party (Into Mischief) and from the family of Grade I winner Callback. “He has always been fast and he's always been very happy to train,” Davies said of the juvenile. “He enjoys training. He's a happy horse with a great mind.” A filly from the first crop of multiple graded winner Leinster, who is already sire of the Royal Ascot-bound Lennilu, equaled the furlong bullet for consignor Octavio Mejia. The bay is out of Wildcat Gaze (Wildcat Heir), a half-sister to stakes winners Saratoga Treasure (Treasure Beach {GB}) and April Gaze (High Cotton). Purchased for $13,000 at the OBS Winter sale last year, she RNA'd for $27,000 at the OBS October sale. Rounding out the trio of bullet workers was a colt by another first-crop sire in multiple graded winner Engage. Consigned by Blue Sapphire Stables, the juvenile hit the bullet mark Tuesday despite changing leads several times down the lane. “Three weeks ago, he kicked the stall at the farm and the leg went through it and he got a serious cut,” said Blue Sapphire's Jesus Avila. “It still bothers him a little bit, so that could be why he was switching leads there.” Avila continued, “He prepped :10 flat last week. So he could have gone :9 3/5, I think.” The bay colt is out of Bazinga B (Lion Hearted) and is a half-brother to stakes winner Bazinga C (Exaggerator). He was purchased for $3,500 at last year's OBS October sale. Blue Sapphire Stables also sent out the fastest quarter-mile worker of Tuesday's session when I'm Here For Grace (Combatant) (hip 45) covered the distance in :20 4/5. “She was fast, but she is kind of small,” Avila said. “I think she's 15.2, but she can run. She is a late April foal, so I think she is still going to grow.” The filly is out of stakes-placed True Religion (Yes It's True), a half-sister to graded winner Sharp Sensation (Sharp Humor), and she is a half to stakes-placed Monster Man (Unbridled's Song). She was purchased for $5,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October sale. “I want to buy the best ones for little money,” Avila said with a laugh when asked about his yearling purchases. “I buy inexpensive horses–under $10,000. So I look at the new sires and the [lighter] pedigree page.” Tuesday was the first of five sessions of the under-tack show and Davies said she thought conditions had remained consistent throughout the day. “It didn't get too hot, it rained a little, so I did feel like it stayed pretty consistent today,” she said. The under-tack show continues through Saturday with sessions beginning each day at 7:30 a.m. The June sale will be held next Tuesday and Wednesday. Bidding commences at 10 a.m. for each session. The post Trio of First-Crop Juveniles Share Furlong Bullet at OBS Tuesday appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
Day 2 Horse another NZ ripper. Points update : (Day 1 comp points : Rangatira 6 points with a clean sweep of the 6 answers ) With LEAP TO FAME winning the last Albion Park Interdominion Grand Final , and a Red hot favourite to repeat next month, we can find a better NZ result from earlier on at Albion Park. Todays horse seen here winning was part of a NZ Bred First 4. 1/ Who is todays winning horse and driver in photo ? 2/ 2nd home was a double heat winner bred in NZ , out of mare RAIN GIRL, who raced in a grand Final herself behind Gammalite at Auckland. 3rd home was a NZ trained and driven horses by a Pair of Famous Brothers . Can you name the Brothers ? Clue = they won the Trotting Grand Final very easily this same night. Who might that trotter of been ? n.b NZ trained trotters ran a terrific trifecta in a dominant display 3/ Name the 4th horse ? sorry he only got his nose in the photo 😁 . clue = a NZ champ who was series hot favourite and I think this stallion was undefeated in NZ , and won a swag in Aus after. This was as close as he got in 3 Grand Finals attempts though, which damaged his reputation a bit , trying to Win the greatest race there is for his CV. -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
First and foremost, let's salute Journalism (Curlin) and his connections for confirming that only feebleness in horsemen, not horses, menaces the Triple Crown schedule. In last weekend replicating his Churchill challenge to crop leader Sovereignty (Into Mischief), moreover actually moving up his numbers, the only horse to contest all three legs demonstrated precisely the prowess that breeders have long sought from this series. That deserves to be remembered once Journalism goes to stud. Obviously, the GI Belmont Stakes is not asking quite so exacting a question just now. By the same token, we cannot give full weight to what would otherwise represent a new horizon for the sire of the horse who denied Journalism a Triple Crown. Into Mischief's evolution as a Classic influence, having started as a purveyor of precocity round a single turn, has corresponded to the upgrading of his mares with uncommon neatness. For him to sire a Classic winner over 12 furlongs, however, would still feel almost as startling as when Scat Daddy did so in 2018. As it turns out, Justify has duly confirmed himself to have advertised genetic wares of great significance that day. Sadly his prospects of in turn slaking our thirst for a British Triple Crown winner were thwarted by Ruling Court's withdrawal at Epsom on Saturday. Nonetheless the horse who exploited his absence, Lambourn (Ire) (Australia {GB}), was still able to enhance the legacy of Scat Daddy-this time as a broodmare sire. Lambourn's dam Gossamer Wings (Scat Daddy) was a very sharp juvenile, beaten a nostril in the G2 Queen Mary Stakes. If her contemporaries matured past her, that scarcely disqualified her as a familiar kind of foil for that latent dourness that Coolmore managed so successfully in Galileo (Ire) and meanwhile in sons such as Australia. Many breeders can attest that matings intended to balance extremes mostly cancel out distinction of any kind, so there's nothing merely formulaic to the way Galileo conjured the best of both worlds from sprinting mares. True, you might argue that Sovereignty represents a broadly similar equation, in reverse: a mare laden with the Triple Crown endurance of Seattle Slew (sire of her third dam, while her own sire Bernardini is a grandson) sent for extra pep to Into Mischief. But remember that when Justify stretched for the Belmont, he could draw even on his sire for help: Scat Daddy's granddam was by the last horse to win that 8f-14f British Triple Crown. Nijinsky also recurs in the bottom half of the pedigree, Justify's third dam being by his son Baldski. One of his lesser sons, maybe, but one who certainly channelled aristocratic blood: his dam, inbred 2×3 to Nasrullah, also produced Capote and Exceller. Now these names lurk in a pretty deep seam. For some of us, however, one of the keys to pedigree breadth is seeding by sires that themselves represent good family. Because if you can't even be sure what color your foal's coat will be, then you want to be entwining as many strands of quality as possible. As grandsire and damsire of Gossamer Wings, for instance, neither Johannesburg nor Rubiano are necessarily limited by their individual stud records when it comes to an eligibility, in the right circumstances, to spark something special. (As Rubiano perhaps did already, for instance, as damsire of War Front.) Johannesburg is a conduit for the Narrate line, his dam being half-sister to Tale of the Cat and Minardi. And Rubiano's dam Ruby Slippers, who incidentally introduces another dose of her sire Nijinsky, additionally produced Tapit's dam Tap Your Heels (Unbridled). (Tapit, of course, is by another stallion representing the Narrate family in Pulpit.) Lambourn's third dam, meanwhile, was by Hero's Honor. Hardly one of Northern Dancer's more influential sons-but look at the other taps out of the same pipe: his siblings include Sea Hero and Wild Applause, herself dam of Yell, Eastern Echo and Roar. Again, then, his individual profile doesn't necessarily put a ceiling on the right of Hero's Honor to filter something special into the mix. Ultimately, indeed, the same holds true of Australia himself: if his overall performance cannot be considered electrifying, exceptional genetic embers remain available to be stoked up behind him (Ouija Board (GB)/Urban Sea/Park Appeal (Ire) etc). Few would bother with this kind of exercise when it comes to Crowned (Bernardini), the late dam of Sovereignty. Besides being by an outstanding broodmare sire, her grandsire and damsire are huge brands: A.P. Indy and Empire Maker. But let's not forget that both are out of mares, Weekend Surprise and Toussaud, that do not owe their celebrity exclusively to the sons who happen to put their names in this pedigree. In fact, it's much the same even with Into Mischief. When he went to stud, a dam by Tricky Creek looked a pretty tricky proposition-but then of course Leslie's Lady additionally produced Beholder (Henny Hughes) and Mendelssohn (Scat Daddy). Into Mischief's Sovereignty winning the Belmont Stakes | Tod Marks Now Sovereignty is plainly entitled to draw on much else besides, his first three dams all having been seven-figure yearlings. Crowned was the second foal of GI Spinster winner Mushka (Empire Maker), herself first foal of turf stakes winner Sluice (Empire Maker); and the latter, in turn, was second foal of Lakeway (Seattle Slew), winner of four Grade Is. Beyond this sequence of early foals, this family has admittedly produced plenty of expensive disappointments. It certainly hasn't lacked opportunity. We can seldom account for why one particular angle should have clicked, when so many others subsequently don't. But that's the point, really: the richer the seeding of those neglected third and fourth generations, the less it will matter which flavor ultimately percolates through. Mischief Nearing New Heights With another sophomore son Patch Adams winning the GI Woody Stephens Stakes on the same card, Into Mischief is already hurtling towards his seventh successive championship. That would match the streak put together between 1963 and 1969 by Bold Ruler, who added an eighth title in 1973. Even that modern record-we must leave Lexington's achievements the previous century as a case apart-scarcely feels safe from a 20-year-old of such freakish libido and fertility. Despite his intimidating fee, Into Mischief's last published book in 2024 actually moved back up to 193 after an outstanding 82 percent of 174 mares the previous year delivered live foals. His sheer volume makes it very hard to lay a glove on the Spendthrift phenomenon, now breathing down the neck of Tapit at the head of the all-time North American sires' table. Despite Tapit's four extra crops, the pair are virtually in step, Into Mischief having now just edged ahead by starters (1,458 over 1,453), winners (1,069 over 1,065) and stakes winners (175 over 168). Tapit's ratios in the elite indices remain clear, however, last weekend reaching another landmark with his 200th graded stakes performer, ahead of Into Mischief on 161. But that gap has steadily closed with the upgrading of his mares, and Into Mischief will shortly seize Tapit's crown. His lifetime earnings have now reached $216,254,446, with the venerable gray clinging on at $217,020,128. Well Dressed Family Cutting a Dash Like so many stallions, even Into Mischief finds himself indebted to Distorted Humor mares. In fact, Patch Adams brings them up to a startling one-in-five among his 25 elite winners. Back in 2021 the WinStar team had particular encouragement to send the dam of Patch Adams, Well Humored (Distorted Humor), over to Spendthrift. For just about then they were buzzing over the sensational emergence of Life Is Good, a yearling purchase with China Horse Club on the same cross. CHC are duly also partners in Patch Adams, the first foal out of Well Humored to reach the track. This family had quite a weekend. The day before the Woody Stephens, Well Humored's half-brother Parchment Party (Constitution) romped over twice the distance in the GIII Belmont Gold Cup-a freakish test, albeit transferred off the turf, for American Thoroughbreds. Well Humored herself won a stakes in a light career, while her brother Muqtaser managed a couple of graded stakes podiums. But the most accomplished foal out of their dam Life Well Lived (Tiznow) remains GI Maker's 46 Mile winner American Patriot. The latter joined Darley Japan on retirement, his third dam being sister to the mother of dual Japanese Horse of the Year Symboli Kris S. But the core of the dynasty spreads beneath Life Well Lived's dam, Well Dressed (Notebook), a stakes-winning sprinter whose $150,000 purchase at the 2001 Keeneland November Sale has proved outstanding value. The Awesome Again filly she was carrying that day has since become granddam of the top-class Cyberknife (Gun Runner). But Well Dressed in the meantime discovered a particular affinity to Distorted Humor and/or Tiznow, both of course resident at WinStar. Most obviously Well Armed (Tiznow) banked over $5 million; while the five Tiznow siblings inspired by his G1 Dubai World Cup success included not just Life Well Lived but also the dam of GI La Troienne Stakes winner Played Hard (Into Mischief). Well Dressed's three foals by Distorted Humor, meanwhile, all contributed to the page: graded stakes winner/producer Witty; GI Travers-placed Helsinki; and the unraced O'Toole, whose daughter by Tiznow produced multiple graded stakes winner Mr. Money (Goldencents). That formula (by a son of Into Mischief, first two dams by Tiznow and Distorted Humor) represents an especially strong echo of Patch Adams (by Into Mischief, first two dams by Distorted Humor and Tiznow). No patching up required by a family as Well Dressed as this one. The post Breeding Digest: Epsom Reminds Us Who’s the Daddy appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
Something ironic about an outfit called the Riccarton Turf Club racing on the synthetic today isn't there? Also, looks like the CJC have lost their new Clegg hammer already. Not much point having venue guidelines if the clubs ignore them and NZTR don't penalise them for doing so.
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