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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
A 3-year-old filly bred by Spendthrift Farm and sired by one of the nursery's top stallions gutted out the victory in Friday's seventh race at Del Mar. That in itself was unremarkable and not unexpected, but the result was, as 21-5 third choice Sandy Bottom (Omaha Beach)–making her first start since running her record to two-for-two in the Anoakia Stakes some 390 days ago–was quickly into stride from the outside gate in a field of six and made every yard of the running to just hold an equally game effort from comebacking 'TDN Rising Star' Tamara (Bolt d'Oro–Beholder) in a race neither really deserved to lose. Returning to the races for the first time since a fading seventh as the 4-5 chalk in last year's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, the 2023 GI Del Mar Debutante victress was off a half-step slowly from the inside gate beneath Mike Smith and was ridden along to remain relatively handy to the pace set by Umberto Rispoli and Sandy Bottom, who took them along through an opening quarter-mile in :22.14 as Tamara, off at 2-5, tugged her way into a share of third approaching the turn. Asked to come after the front-runner in earnest passing the five-sixteenths, Tamara was guided away from the rail and into the two path with every conceivable chance if good enough. Tamara came to tackle at the top of the lane, was a fraction late swapping her leads and ran hard through the wire, but fell just short. The final time was a crisp 1:10.06. The winner was maintaining a perfect record from three runs, having graduated at first asking last Sept. 10, one day after Tamara took out the Debutante. Spendthrift acquired Sandy Bottom's stakes-winning and Grade III-placed second dam Five Star Daydream (Five Star Day)–the dam of GSW Gas Station Sushi (Into Mischief)–for $100,000 in foal to Macho Uno and Starlit Daydream is the only one of her dam's nine starters to have not won a race. The latter is the dam of a yearling colt by Cloud Computing, a weanling filly by Greatest Honour (Tapit) and is due to Omaha Beach for her 2025 produce. 7th-Del Mar, $61,500, Alw (C), Opt. Clm ($100,000), 11-15, 3yo/up, f/m, 6f, 1:10.06, ft, nose. SANDY BOTTOM (f, 3, Omaha Beach–Starlit Daydream, by Can the Man) Sales history: $145,000 Ylg '22 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 3-3-0-0, $140,622. Click for the Equibase.com chart and VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV. O-James M & Donna Daniell; B-Spendthrift Farm LLC (KY); T-Michael W McCarthy. The post Tamara Falls Just Short In Game Comeback Effort at Del Mar appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Tragedy Beat · Posted
One segment hes trying to think hes funny eating an icecream. The next time hes being a buffoon on a rocking horse. What the #$%& has our sports coverage become in NZ? Im embarrassed. And hes the same on SENZ radio. Most of the time if I switch on theyre talking about pies or how to do a roast! Stephen Donald tried tipping a draw in the first cricket test in Sri Lanka. The venue had seen outright win results in the last 28 tests!!!! -
borrisokane. Interesting how some owners come up with names. I suppose its named after the small town in ireland.i think i heard or read that somewhere one time. I wonder if the breeders or owners who named him took a liking to the place when visiting it.Who knows. its in the province of munster and munster of course is famous in rugby for being the first irish team to ever beat the all blacks. I remember that,even though i was just a kid.From memory thats when they used to have the mid week games and we saw them on tv the next night.The all blacks back then were the first side to win the grand slam. They seemed to have much tougher and more touring games scheduled back then,but lost just the one game on the tour. Graham mourie even played in that game.The Munsters captain famously found out after the game his father had died suddenly during the game. I see they made the all blacks work hard in the recent match. charlie sheens grandmother was from borrisokane. Maybe that explains some things,maybe not. anyway,back to the horse,i remember it starting off very well for bruce negus and sheree tomlinson used to drive it then. Then it started breaking and they put big spreaders on. Bruce negus has been able to get a lot of horses going well through how he does the spreaders. I'm not sure whether he sets them up any different,but he has had good success with horses who have gone to his stable. but negus was obviously having trouble with borrisokanes breaking in its races and then regan todd got him and he also put spreaders on,but obviously came to think that borrsokane went better without them and thats how hes raced recently and hes certainly going very well. The head on replays do show he moves one front leg in a bit and it gets closer than normal to the other front leg,but Todds obviously worked it all out. -
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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
By Michael Guerin This one meant just that little bit more. Maybe it was because Merlin’s win in the $200,000 Allied Security New Zealand Pacing Free-For-All came at the end of a statement day for trainers Barry Purdon and Scott Phelan. They had earlier won New Zealand’s first $500,000 slot race, the Hill Lee and Scott THE VELOCITY with Better Knuckle Up and the $120,000 IRT Sires’ Stakes Trot with Meant To Be, both also driven by Zachary Butcher. After a frustrating last fortnight that felt good, the exclamation mark Butcher’s rare salute at the line. It also feel that little more special because Tuesday had not gone how the stable had dreamed, their horses good but not good enough. “I said to the boys on Wednesday this is Cup week and the best of the best are here so it is a privilege to win any race so let’s go back on Friday and try and do better,” said Purdon. They did. But Merlin’s win also meant that little but more to Purdon and his two partners/mates because of how he won it and what had happened in Tuesday’s Cup. Merlin was expected to finish closer than fourth in the Cup, which shows just how highly he is rated that fourth in a Cup isn’t good enough. It appeared the searing pace of the Cup didn’t suit Merlin but Purdon is adamant it wasn’t from a lack of staying ability. So to see him sit parked and beat Better Eclipse and Catch A Wave spoke to his determination albeit over the more-speed based 1980m mobile. “Nobody will convince me he can’t stay,” says Purdon. “I have put sulkies on too many good horses to know the difference and he tried his heart out up the straight on Tuesday. “That is why we are still happy to aim him at the Auckland Cup (Dec 31) because I know he will be able to get 3200m. “And as he gets older maybe he can handle the 3200m of the Cup here, even though it is a very different 3200m.” Merlin was all muscle and power after sitting parked on a cold and bleak Friday night, one which kept the spectators inside but the action was red hot on the track. Merlin will now stick around Canterbury for the new $200,000 Christian Cullen in December before that Auckland Cup and then and eventual defence of the $1million slot race at Cambridge he won last year when it was known as the Race by Grins. His last leg of that major race treble on Friday may have capped a frustrating fortnight in which the stable has lost the services of Cold Chisel with injury while a few others have had no luck or lost their best form. But often perception and reality are two different things. Because in the last three weeks the Purdon/Phelan team has won nearly $1million worth of races. And they have now won the only two pacing slot races run in New Zealand this year. View the full article
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