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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
A year after his father won the Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes (G2) with Roses for Debra, trainer Miguel Clement earned the top prize with West Point Thoroughbreds, Chris Larsen, and Titletown Racing Stables' Gal in a Rush at Presque Isle Downs.View the full article -
Those tasmanian racing people sure like to operate outside the box. this months story was you had the suspension of 1 full time and 4 casual stewards for betting on races. Now it turned out the story beneath the headline really wasn't as bad as it appeared. but if you did happen to read the story, you would have been left feeling sorry for one of the stewards. Over a 2 year period he spent $273.28 and lost $244.08. What a strike rate. Even the worst punters would go better than that. The best advice anyone could give that steward would be ,don't give up your day job,but too late,he now has.His bets were mostly on the dogs. Now as i read about that,i happened to stumble upon the robert walters story again,one of the fellas i mentioned in an earlier post. The fella who i said had forged documentation to show the stipes he had permission to get water through the neignbours property .Well here i was thinking his driving suspension i mentioned earlier, for 6 months,was for some sort of party drug or something to keep him buzzing on the long drive home from the races. But no.His 6 month suspension was because he thought himself too fat and had been on an appetite suppressant drug. Imagine that,one day your looking in the mirror and think to yourself,how did i get so fat. so he tried having a balanced balanced diet. Instead of one big mac in one hand he bought another big mac combo for the other hand,but that didn't work as the tyres on the sulky still looked deflated,despite the air guage saying they were fine. So thats when he consulted the wife and she said what a lot of wifes say,you eat and drink too much you fat b...... and recommends an appetite suppressant. I think we all know what mr walters was thinking when he returned a positive,..sometimes in life you just can't seem to win. -
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The royal blue of Godolphin continued to build on a banner year for the operation as Encino (Nyquist) proved too much for his Presque Isle Mile Stakes competition. Placed in the Mar. 22 GIII Twinspires Kentucky Cup Classic Stakes, and the winner of last season's GIII Stonestreet Lexington Stakes, Encino won the Listed Jonathan B. Schuster Memorial Stakes two back July 5 and hit the board last out Aug. 2 in the KY Downs Preview Mint Millions Turf Mile Stakes at Ellis Park. Supported here to the tune of 3-5 favoritism, he set up near the rear of the field as Grounded (Medaglia d'Oro) set the pace through :25.15, and a half in :49.78. With six panels sailing by in 1:13.04 and Encino rolling into the lane from five off the fence, he was the looming danger to the longtime leader. Overhauling that one not long after, he quickly put open air on his rivals and was 1 3/4 lengths ahead on the wire. Trademark (Upstart) had to settle for third when Grounded turned away his rally. Out of a half-sister to GI Kentucky Derby hero Street Sense (Street Cry {Ire}), the victor is her first to the races. He has a winning 3-year-old half-sister named Souk Plaza (Street Boss)–who herself has a juvenile full-sister named Tarzana. Glittering Angel has a 2025 filly by Midshipman and was bred to Nyquist for 2026. This is the extended female family of GISP Motown Lady (Uncle Mo) and the immediate one of MGSW & GISP Mr. Greeley. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV. PRESQUE ISLE MILE S., $150,000, Presque Isle Downs, 9-19, 3yo/up, 1 1/16m (AWT), 1:42.24, ft. 1–ENCINO, 122, c, 4, Nyquist–Glittering Jewel, by Bernardini. O/B-Godolphin (KY); T-Brad H. Cox; J-Flavien Prat. $90,000. Lifetime Record: GSW, 11-6-2-1, $650,005. 2–Grounded, 122, g, 7, Medaglia d'Oro–Home Rule, by Empire Maker. ($200,000 RNA Ylg '19 FTKOCT; $180,000 RNA 2yo '20 EASMAY). O-Long Shot Racing Stables, LLC; B-Fred W. Hertrich III & John D. Fielding (KY); T-Scooter Davis. $30,000. 3–Trademark, 120, g, 6, Upstart–Creative Trick, by Creative Cause. ($37,000 Wlg '19 KEENOV; $42,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP; $275,000 RNA 3yo '22 KEENOV). O-BBN Racing LLC; B-Brereton Jones (KY); T-Victoria H. Oliver. $15,000. Margins: 1 3/4, HF, HF. Odds: 0.60, 15.60, 19.10. Also Ran: Tapit Shoes, Twilight Dancer, The Wine Steward, He's a Mess, Anamnestic. Scratched: Boppy O, Read On, Skyro, Spellcast, Surly Furious. The post Encino All Class En Route to Presque Isle Mile Stakes Victory 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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By Michael Guerin It was the night of the big statements at Addington on Friday. Two young horses in Jumal and Ya Rite Darl sent messages to their age group rivals in two of the best races of the meeting and it was perhaps the one who actually triumphed by the smaller margin who left the greatest impression. Jumal was unbeaten going into the latest Woodlands Sires’ Stakes heat but it looked his biggest challenge, drawn the outside of the front line with two highly talented rivals in Zeus Lightning and Special Occasion drawn inside him. Driver Samantha Ottley made short work of that by leaning forward at the start and while she didn’t have to ask Jumal for his best he soon worked his way across the front of the field. That could have seen the race turned into a procession until Blair Orange launched Zeus Lightning starting the last lap but Ottley was awake to his impending challenge so let Jumal slide and he raced down the back straight in 26.5 seconds, rarified air for any mid-race 400m sectional in New Zealand. That opened up the gaps, allowing Zeus Lightning to drop into the trail but Ottley just kept going and so did Jumal, never looking in danger of defeat while Zeus Lightning’s fan club will only have expanded as he clung bravely to second. Special Occasion was distanced in third in one of the juvenile races of the season so far and one that suggested the first two are very good horses but maybe Jumal is the real deal. “I didn’t really go into the race with a plan but when I looked across at the start and saw a few weren’t coming out I let him run out a bit,” said Ottley. “He did it so easily to get there and then when I saw Zeus Lightning coming down the back I decided to let him run again. “He may have been closing on us at the finish but I think if he actually had another horse go with him he would have more left.” Jumal is turning into a real excitement machine for his connections and trainer Steven Reid, an equine reminder of Reid’s skills at the sales and in the stables. Next stop for most of last night’s main players in the NZBS Harness Million at Addington on October 10 and Jumal is now $2.10 to win that and $2.20 for the Sires’ Stakes Final on Cup Day. Ya Rite Darl may not have had the same level of competition in the Macca Lodge NZ Sires’ Stakes Trotters Classique, especially after second favourite Habibti Pat galloped at the start, but she destroyed her filly rivals. Sent straight to the front by John Dunn she roared clear down the back straight and won by 12 and a half lengths, one of the biggest wins in a group race at Addington this century. The times weren’t overly flash but it was still a brilliant win and one that suggested she will be taken seriously in both The Ascent and NZ Trotting Oaks. Earlier in the night the Brent Lilley-trained Kyvalley Ray was excellent winning his New Zealand debut in a juvenile trot Sires’ Stakes heat while Cath was super impressive winning the two-year-old pacing fillies race for the Hills, Benny training and Seth driving. The father and son team were at it again in the main handicap pace when Arthur Shelby overcame some early tap-dancing to win from a late-charging Rubira, the winner confirming what we have all suspected for a while: he is heading to open class. View the full article -
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By Michael Guerin It has taken just under eight years for the Purdons to pay Andre Poutama back for the outright Group 1 they cost him. But they paid that back, this time in full, when Shezsofast won the Caduceus Club Classic at Alexandra Park on Friday night. The Mark and Nathan Purdon-trained daughter of Vincent led throughout to hold off a brave Lizzie Borden in the Group 1, giving driver Poutama his first full win at the highest level. He won the Group 1 Rosslands Queen Of Hearts at Alexandra Park in 2017 with Jo’s Dream but had to share that in a deadheat with Partyon, co-trained by Mark. As harness racing tends to do, things change and so do staff and now Poutama finds himself driving often for Mark and Nathan and has snared a Group 1 he doesn’t have to share. Poutama is a good fit for the new northern stable, never scared to take a race by the scruff of the neck and show initiative but you still need the horse to do it and Shezsofast was good on Friday, even though the runner-up was just as brave. The winner is part-owned by thoroughbred training legend Jim Gibbs and his wife Ann, who have dived deep into the harness racing pool over the last decade or more. “They love it and have become good friends,” said Mark. “Jim is so knowledgeable so it is great to get a win like this for them and the other owners. It is a real thrill.” While Shezsofast showed the benefits of being in front in major races they were backed up again by Sooner The Bettor in the IRT Spring Cup, albeit after a few nervy moments. The wonderful sprinter defended his title from last season but had to overcome an early bobble before driver Harrison Orange let him roll to the lead. As well as that all worked out Sooner The Bettor looked likely to be a sitting duck a lap from home as favourite Merlin had secured the one-one from his 20m mark and was set to pounce. But Orange showed he has learned from his first-up win on Sooner The Bettor, knowing to keep him running on tight lines this time and not let his rivals get too close and those tactics proved the winning of the race. He paced his last 800m in 56.2 second and final 400m in 27.8 to hold out The Surfer by a neck with Merlin a good third but yet another favourite to fall victim to the early season curse of the backmarkers. Merlin will of course improve and heads to the Holmes D G on October 3 next and then south to contest the Canterbury Classic on October 17, an earlier than anticipated start to his southern campaign. The Purdon/Phelan stable had a great night with three wins, including War Chief in his Woodlands Stud Sires’ Stakes heat while Arna Donnelly trained two and had every reason to be happy with her open class horses in the Spring Cup. But one of the wins of the night came from intermediate grade trotter Westar Milly, who flew home making up two lengths in the last 100m to give trainers Derek and Neita Balle a double in around 24 hours after Conrad H won at Cambridge on Thursday. View the full article
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