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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Though he was well aware of her pedigree, trainer Brad Cox said he didn't need a piece of paper to help him forecast Fille d'Oro's (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) future. “She didn't show us much on the dirt at Keeneland when she came in,” Cox said. “She struggled a little bit on the dirt. We transferred her over to the synthetic and she really improved. Then we breezed her up here on the turf last week and she was really nice, a really good move.” In her debut Friday at Saratoga Race Course, Gregory Hoffman's filly competed like she trained. In a stalk-and-pounce performance, she won the sixth race, a $100,000 maiden special weight for 2-year-old fillies, by a 11/2 lengths over Celebrity Warrior (Ire) (Saxon Warrior {Jpn}). Under jockey Manny Franco, Fille d'Oro completed the 1 1/16 miles over the inner turf course in 1:42.48 and paid $13.80. “She stepped up big-time today,” Cox said. Cox said that Clay Scherer purchased Fille d'Oro at the 2024 Arqana Deauville August sale. “Obviously, she's got a nice pedigree,” Cox said. “She's a Juddmonte family. Mandaloun (Into Mischief) is in there. That was something that, I think, caught Clay's eye at the sale as a yearling. When he bought her, he immediately sent her pedigree and I thought, 'Well, that's kind of cool.'” Cox said he believe Fille d'Oro is the first horse by Wootton Bassett he has handled in his career. Fille d'Oro spent most of the past two months at Turfway Park in Kentucky prepping for her first start. The pivotal breeze at Saratoga took place on Aug. 15 when she covered a half-mile on the turf course on the Oklahoma training track. She was caught in :50.41, the 41st of the 57 times that morning. “It was like, 'We probably better enter her off that work,'” Cox said. “She had a couple gate works. We knew she was quick enough out of the gate, and Manny did a great job of getting her to settle going into the first turn, and saving ground. He could easily have been caught three-wide going into that first turn. He gave her a good, smart ride.” Leaving from Post 7 in the field of eight, Franco soon had Fille d'Oro near the hedge, where she sat until the eighth pole. They followed Celebrity Warrior as she made her move to overtake pacesetter Curly Q Girl, snatched the lead by the sixteenth pole and faced no challenges in the final 100 yards. Fille d'Oro is likely headed to a stakes test in her next outing, Cox said, possibly the $400,000 GII Jessamine Stakes Oct. 3 at Keeneland. Fille d'Oro has proven to be a good communicator. After telling Cox that, for sure, she wasn't a dirt horse, she signalled that she was ready for the big stage at Saratoga with her breeze. “I expected a nice effort,” Cox said. “That still doesn't mean you're going to win, but I expected her to run well and she did. We didn't have to win for her to run well, but I expected her to step up and run big today.” The post Saratoga Maidens, presented by Keeneland: Fille d’Oro Launches Career with Solid Spa MSW Turf Score appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
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In this continuing series, we take a look ahead at US-bred and/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on pedigree and/or performance in the sales ring. Here are the horses of interest for this weekend running at Sapporo and Niigata Racecourses: Saturday, August 23, 2025 5th-SAP, ¥14,250,000 ($97k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1500mT MISS JADE (JPN) (f, 2, Blame–Asscher, by Harlan's Holiday) is set to become the second foal to the races for her dam, a half-sister to the late three-time Grade I-winning sprinter Lord Nelson (Pulpit), who was purchased for $50,000 with this filly in utero at the 2022 Keeneland November Sale. Lord Nelson was out of a daughter of Argentinian champion 3-year-old filly Miss Linda (Arg) (Southern Halo), winner at home of the G1 Argentina Oaks and later victorious in the 2001 GI Juddmonte Spinster Stakes for the Ackerley Brothers and John Kimmel. The mare's yearling filly by Pulpit's expatriated GI Forego Stakes-winning son Pyro fetched a bit more than $150,000 at the recent JRHA Select Sale. O-Turf Sport Co Ltd; B-Yuki Dendo; T-Yoshiaki Sugiyama Sunday, August 24, 2025 11th-NII, Niigata Nisai S.-G3, ¥59.1m ($403k), 2yo, 1600mT MESE (JPN) (f, 2, Disco Partner–Marquet Legacy, by Gio Ponti) opened her account at first asking with a narrow victory going 1200 meters at Fukushima June 28 (see below, SC 6) and has the rail for this step up in class. Marquet Legacy is one of seven winners produced by MSW & GSP To Marquet (Marquetry), whose most successful offspring was Discreet Marq (Discreet Cat), winner of the 2013 GI Del Mar Oaks and her MSW full-brother Too Discreet (Discreet Cat). O-Yoshihiko Koga; B-Yuki Dendo; T-Takanori Kikuzawa The post Disco Partner Filly Steps Into Group 3 Company at Niigata appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y.–As the hours shrink to minutes and the 156th running of the GI, $1.25 million Travers Stakes gets upon us, those closest to Sovereignty (Into Mischief), the 2-5 morning-line favorite, handle the agonizing moments until post time in different ways. Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott admitted he'll “probably” be nervous. “It's like being on the freeway,” he said outside his barn at the Oklahoma Training Track as Sovereignty munched on some grass a few feet away. “Defensive driving all the time. So far, everything has been good. That is the thing; you can't make one mistake.” Junior Alvarado, who has ridden Sovereignty in seven of his eight starts–including wins in the GI Kentucky Derby, GI Belmont Stakes and GII Jim Dandy Stakes–said he has been sleeping just fine, thank you, in the days leading up to the Midsummer Derby. He said he felt more pressure in the run-up to the Kentucky Derby because that was a race that was circled at the start of the season for the big colt. “You have to run the race,” Alvarado said at the Mott barn. “In my whole career, the hardest races have been the ones that look more easy. I have been saying all along that if he runs his 'A' race, that should be enough, he should be able to win. When he runs his 'A' race, he is just faster than everybody else. If he is on his 'A' game, 1 1/4 (miles) will be easy for him. I don't know how easy it will be for the other horses.” Godolphin's Sovereignty has won both his starts at 1 1/4 miles; none of the others in the Travers have tried it. Sovereignty is the leading 3-year-old colt in the country after winning four of five starts this year. He won the Kentucky Derby at odds of nearly 8-1 and the Belmont at 5-2. In those races, he defeated Journalism (Curlin), the favorite in both of them. In the Jim Dandy, Sovereignty was the 1-2 favorite and defeated Baeza (McKinzie) by a length. Now comes the Travers. And because he is such a heavy favorite against four rivals–none who have won a GI race–the pressure could be immense. “The Travers is like the Kentucky Derby of the summer,” Alvarado said. This is the biggest race for everybody in the summertime. I have never won it; Mr. Mott has never won it. I am more excited for Saturday to come so I can ride the big guy.” Patch Adams at Saratoga | Sarah Andrew Cox Has Strong Hand in Jerkens Patch Adams (Into Mischief) has already proven himself as he owns a GI win (Woody Stephens) and has three wins in six career starts. Verifire (Authentic) has not, but don't sleep on him. They are the two 3-year-olds trainer Brad Cox is running in Saturday's GI, $500,000 H. Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes. Patch Adams is the 3-1 morning-line favorite in the field of eight going seven furlongs; Verifire is the 4-1 second choice. Start with Patch Adams, who is owned by CHC Inc. and WinStar Farm LLC (WinStar also bred him), has won both his starts at seven furlongs, including the Woody Stephens on a muddy track. “He is a very talented horse,” Cox said this week from Kentucky. “He has shown he is a Grade I horse, and we thought that throughout the winter the way he was training.” Patch Adams started the season with a pair of fourth place finishes in the GIII Southwest Stakes and GIII Tampa Bay Derby. Following those two, Cox decided the colt would be better suited going one turn. He had broken his maiden by 10 1/2 lengths going seven furlongs in his second start. “He really moved forward when we cut him back to one turn,” Cox said. “We're excited about he has trained since the Woody Stephens, and he is ready to roll.” Verifire went for $1 million at the 2024 Ocala Breeders' March Sale of 2-year-olds in training sale. Owned by Resolute Racing and Cha Cha Chestnuts LLC, he has won all three of his starts by combined 15 1/2 lengths. The Jerkens will be his first start in a graded stakes race. “It took us a while to get him to the races and he has performed very well,” Cox said. “It's always tough when you go from a listed stake or an overnight to a Grade I, but look, he has been very solid and we're looking forward to giving him an opportunity on the big stage.” Verifire, who starts from post five, will be ridden by Flavien Prat, who has been aboard the first three starts. Doc Sullivan (red cap) | Sarah Andrew Ortiz Giving 'Doc' His Chance in Forego When a horse is doing good, you run. That's what trainer John Ortiz is doing with Doc Sullivan (Solomini) in Saturday's GI, $500,000 Forego on Saturday. Owned by Tristar Farm LLC, the 4-year-old New York-bred Doc Sullivan is coming off a victory in the John Morrissey Stakes on July 31 at Saratoga. From there, Ortiz started thinking about giving Doc Sullivan a shot with the big boys. And here he is. The Morrissey was the first start for Doc Sullivan running out of Ortiz's barn. It was his first start since March. “He came out of that race in fantastic form,” Ortiz said at his barn on the Saratoga backstretch. “We got him fit perfectly for that race. He did not miss one work. The fact that he got it done and did it the way he did it was incredible.” Doc Sullivan, who was ridden by Joel Rosario in the Morrissey–he will ride him in the Forego–navigated a muddy track and won the race by a head at 5-1 odds. In the Forego, he will be 20-1, which is understandable. This will be just his second try in a GI race; he was sixth in the GI Pennsylvania Derby last year when being trained by Mike Miceli. That is not detouring Ortiz. He likes what he sees from the horse in the mornings. “He gained weight off that last race,” Ortiz said. “We are taking a shot. Joel worked him in between races and he says he feels bigger and stronger than he did in the last one.” The post Saratoga Notebook, Presented By NYRA Bets: Mott, Alvarado Counting Down The Minutes Until The Travers 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
A pair of full siblings to Breeders' Cup winners square off in a competitive six-furlong maiden special weight for 2-year-old fillies Aug. 23 at Ellis Park.View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Retired jockey Ron Turcotte, remembered for riding Secretariat to win the 1973 Triple Crown during a Hall of Fame career, died of natural causes Aug. 22 in his Drummond home outside Grand Falls, New Brunswick, in Canada. View the full article
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