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    • I note after acceptances the Rich Hill has an 89 rated top weight. How on earth does that race hold Group 2 status? The Timaru Cup a 96 topweight and three rated in the 90s. Even the Kurow Cup has a rating 100 top weight that has won $2.5m.
    • The Houston racetrack cut purses due to uncertainty about distribution from a state-run incentive fund. The track also will cut 18 races out of its schedule.View the full article
    • A shortage of pace in the Robert J. Frankel Stakes (G3T) essentially turned the $100,000, 1 1/8-mile turf race Dec. 27 at Santa Anita Park into a three-furlong test of late-quickening ability, and Mrs. Astor passed with high marks.View the full article
    • Cooey (Girvin) was all the rage from a pari-mutel perspective in Friday's eighth race from Santa Anita, but the more lightly regarded first-time starter Our Moonlight (f, 2, Tapit–Mannerly, by Unbridled's Song) confronted the odds-on choice a sixteenth of a mile from the wire and rolled home to an impressive 2 3/4-length victory to become yet another 'TDN Rising Star' for her all-conquering sire. Off at 8-1 from a 6-1 morning line with Cooey taking the lion's share of the action at 4-5, Our Moonlight–a $325,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase–was one of the first to break the line, but Juan Hernandez was dead-set on making the front with Cooey from her inside alley and the pair headed off their rivals a furlong into the proceedings. Between horses for the run around the turn, Our Moonlight didn't appear entirely comfortable and came off the bridle, leaving herself in a vulnerable position if she was to reel in the front-runner. Surf Song (Maclean's Music) also loomed a threat at midstretch, but by this time, Tiago Pereira had Our Moonlight in full flight and she collared Cooey with about 100 yards to race en route to a visually impressive victory. Our Moonlight is the second high-profile winner for her dam in the last several days, as her the mare's 3-year-old gelded son Upstanding (Curlin) broke his maiden by an imposing nine-length margin going the one-turn mile configuration at Gulfstream Park Dec. 22. Stonestreet purchased Our Moonlight's dam for $360,000 at the 2015 Keeneland September Sale and raced her to four victories and a third-place effort in the GIII Locust Grove Stakes while banking in excess of $175,000. The 54th 'Rising Star' for Tapit, Our Moonlight is bred on the exact same cross as champion and fellow 'Rising Star' Unique Bella and on a similar cross to 'Rising Star' Scylla, whose broodmare sire First Defence is a son of Unbridled's Song. Second dam Mary Elise is a full-sister to MSW and GISP Spring Awakening, herself the dam of Tapit's Grade III winner Walk Close. Mannerly is also represented by a yearling Twirling Candy filly who fetched $42,000 at this year's September Sale and the mare was not bred last season. 8th-Santa Anita, $60,500, Msw, 12-27, 2yo, f, 6f, 1:10.45, ft, 2 3/4 lengths. OUR MOONLIGHT, f, 2, by Tapit 1st Dam: Mannerly (GSP, $175,925), by Unbridled's Song 2nd Dam: Mary Elise, by In Excess (Ire) 3rd Dam: Catchofthecentury, by Carson City Sales history: $325,000 Ylg '23 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $36,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart and VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. O-Lawrence T Jett & Ann Jett; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Dean Pederson.   The post Our Moonlight Becomes a 54th ‘TDN Rising Star’ for Tapit at Santa Anita appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article
    • Take Charge Tom (Tom's d'Etat) rolled by 9 1/4 lengths in his unveiling in a $30,000 maiden claimer over course and near distance Dec. 4 and jumped into stakes company Friday. The 4-5 favorite had plenty of company up front, dueling with Roman Gratis (Stanford) and Manzoni (Lotsa Mischief) early and having to put away a determined Candy Caballo around the far turn. Narrowly ahead of that rival into the stretch, he just edged away in the late stages to win ahead of a closing Don't Fly Stand By (Upstart). The first stakes winner for his freshman sire (by Smart Strike), Take Charge Tom has a yearling half-brother by Candy Ride (Arg) and a weanling half-sister by Twirling Candy. Gorgeous Ginny is due back to Army Mule for 2025. Click for the Equibase.com chart.   LOST IN THE FOG JUVENILE S., $40,000, Turf Paradise, 12-27, 2yo, 6 1/2f, 1:15.61, ft. 1–TAKE CHARGE TOM, 119, c, 2, Tom's d'Etat–Gorgeous Ginny (MSP, $143,020), by Take Charge Indy. 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O/B-Randy Howg (KY); T-Robertino Diodoro; J-Orlando Mojica. $23,600. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $36,200. 2–Don't Fly Stand By, 121, c, 2, Upstart–Miss Emelina, by Big Brown. ($35,000 RNA Ylg '23 SARAUG; $35,000 2yo '24 EASMAY). O-Wallstreet Racing Stables IV, Clifford Thygesen and EIK Ranch, LLC; B-H&H Farms, Inc. (NY); T-Kevin Eikleberry. $7,600. 3–Candy Caballo, 119, c, 2, Twirling Candy–Viva Malala, by Malibu Moon. ($25,000 Ylg '23 KEESEP). O-George Todaro; B-JSM Equine, LLC (KY); T-Wade Rarick. $4,000. Margins: HF, 2HF, 7. Odds: 0.80, 1.90, 4.30. Also Ran: Roman Gratis, Just Trust Me, Manzoni, Border Vigil, F B I Bob, Colonel Ludlow. Scratched: Tommy Hockey. The post Take Charge Tom Is First Stakes Winner For Tom’s d’Etat 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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