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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Last year's GI Preakness S., GI Santa Anita Derby and GI NYRA Bets Haskell S. winner Journalism (Curlin), back in training with Michael McCarthy at Santa Anita since mid-January, is nearing a return to the worktab. Campaigned in partnership by Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Bridlewood Farm, breeder Don Alberto Stable, Robert LaPenta, Elayne Stables Five, and the Coolmore partners, the $825,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga yearling concluded his brilliant sophomore season with a fourth-place finish in the GI Breeders' Cup Classic at Del Mar Nov. 1. “Journalism has been back with Michael McCarthy for about three weeks and we're very pleased with how he's returned from his freshening at Bridlewood Farm,” Eclipse President and Founder Aron Wellman said. “He put on about 50 pounds and he's returned with a controlled enthusiasm, which is exactly what we want to see. Meda Murphy, George Isaacs and their staff at Bridlewood did an awesome job during his downtime in Ocala and Michael is just biding his time before allowing Journalism to stretch his legs on the wood. If all goes well and the weather cooperates, he should hit the worktab within the next week or so, but we're in no rush.” Journalism's throwback, eight-race sophomore campaign also included a win in the GII DK Horse San Felipe S. and runner-up finishes in the GI Kentucky Derby, GI Belmont Stakes and GI Pacific Classic S. He was an Eclipse finalist as outstanding 3-year-old-male of 2025 and was the only horse to compete in all three legs of the Triple Crown. Any targets in mind yet for 2026? “The (GI) Met Mile (at Saratoga June 6) is very intriguing to us as a first half of the season major goal, and, of course hope to be able to structure the second half of the season working backwards from the Breeders' Cup,” Wellman said. “It's a long season and with the manner in which he's come back and his body language, he's postured for a serious, serious campaign.” The post Journalism Nearing Return to Worktab, ‘Postured for a Serious, Serious Campaign’ 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
EASY DECISION (c, 3, Charlatan–All Laced Up, by Bernardini) was unveiled as the 9-5 choice here. The chalk initially took on longshot pacesetter Lord King (King for a Day), but was reigned in to stalk up the backstretch. Taking aim at the leader and Complex Charlie (Complexity) around the far turn and into the lane, the 3-year-old was forced to tip to an outside lane. The bay became uncorked, struck the front with a furlong left and graduated by 6 1/4 lengths. Complex Charlie was the runner-up. A $120,000 buy for Gainesway at the 2022 Keeneland November Sale while Easy Decision was in utero, All Laced Up produced back to back siblings–a filly and a colt–by Olympiad starting in 2024. The winner's dam was bred to Muth for this spring. The Repole color bearer is part of an extended female family which includes MGISW Got Stormy (Get Stormy), MSW Sir Alfred James (Munnings) and recent $2.5-million Keeneland November grad & MGISW Randomized (Nyquist), who is off to Japan. 7th-Aqueduct, $80,000, Msw, 2-11, 3yo, 6 1/2f, 1:19.30, ft, 6 1/4 lengths. EASY DECISION, c, 3, Charlatan–All Laced Up, by Bernardini Sales History: $300,000 Ylg '24 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $44,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV. O-Repole Stable; B-Angela Beck (KY); T-Amelia J. Green. The post Charlatan’s Easy Decision Off The Mark In Aqueduct Maiden 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
Sometimes, you might as well just buy the factory. It was the fall of 2023 and Glenn Bennett already had two of Adorabella (Ghostzapper)'s three foals, the oldest of which (Girl Trouble, by Fast Anna) was a stakes winner for him and partner Swilcan Stable at Parx, and the youngest of which he'd just bought as a yearling at Fasig-Tipton's Midlantic sale. He'd twice tried to make a deal for the third, the mare's then-2-year-old named Book'em Danno (Bucchero), who'd caught his eye after winning his first three starts at Monmouth and Aqueduct. “They weren't selling, which I understood,” said Bennett, “but I just loved the way he ran, so then I tried to buy the mom. At first she wasn't for sale until they decided to run her through Fasig-Tipton. “I was lucky before with some Pennsylvania-breds, had some success buying siblings and it worked out. I think I had seven different ones–from the same mom and dad each time–and the worst one won like $300,000 and the best one won over $1 million. That was pretty cool and a different story, but I guess that was in the back of my mind that this mare might be the same way and throw nothing but runners.” Bennett called Walnut Green Bloodstock's Mark Reid, who boards his mares, to ask what he thought about the then-7-year-old Adorabella. Reid and his wife, Barbara, who have Westerly Farm near Unionville, Pennsylvania, caught a flight to Kentucky. “We got there at dinner time,” said Reid, “went out back and looked at her. She was the only horse I bid on that night. “I was just blown away by her physically. She was a big, broad mare,” he remembered. “She'd already had three foals by then, but her body tone was great. Physically, I couldn't pick her apart and she had that look in her eye that I always go for. I've been fortunate to have been around some good horses and she's one of them.” Reid bought her on behalf of Bennett's LC Racing in foal to Medaglia d'Oro for $550,000 at Fasig-Tipton's November sale. “Then we had a bad thing happen in that she came home and promptly aborted the Medaglia d'Oro, which set the place into a tizzy,” said Reid. “I told Glenn Medaglia d'Oro was getting old, but let's go right back to him. She now has a beautiful colt by him that's a yearling here.” Adorabella, shown in December | Sarah Andrew Reid, a former trainer, was not only involved with Medaglia d'Oro as a young horse, but he also knew Adorabella's broodmare sire intimately. “A lot of my work was done with Bobby Frankel and I was there when Ghostzapper was in the barn,” said Reid. “He's as brilliant a horse as I've ever seen. On his 'A' game, Ghostzapper ran the fastest numbers of the last 20-some years or more and that includes Flightline, so you can't fault her on that. Then Adorabella is out of an Arch mare, so I thought there would be some route in her added to the brilliance of Ghostzapper.” Of course, in the two years since buying Adorabella, the mare's son, Book'em Danno, has become one of the nation's most popular horses, has won multiple graded races, including the GI Woody Stephens and GI Forego Stakes, and was named Champion Male Sprinter at the Eclipse Awards last month. “It's nice to buy one and have a prior mating come up with an Eclipse champion,” said Reid. “We were rooting hard that night. That doesn't happen much.” Bennett concurred. “For a bunch of obvious reasons, it was extremely exciting to watch him and just keep rooting and keep hoping that the next one is better than him. I'm an optimist here.” The 2023 yearling out of Adorabella is now a 4-year-old named Coach Bennett (Classic Empire)–after Bennett's 91-year-old father–and made his first career start Feb. 3 at Parx in an optional allowance. Trained by Reid's brother, Butch, the gelding has gotten a slow start to his career and the goal was simply to get a race into him although there wasn't a maiden available. He finished off the board, but both Bennett and Reid are optimistic that he might have some talent down the road. The mare with farm manager Marie Lagault | Sarah Andrew Adorabella is due in a month or so to Forte and will go to Not This Time this spring. “The mom's exciting,” said Bennett. “Might as well take a shot while you're hot. Not This Time has been on fire and the nicking part of it was really good with Adorabella. Mark loved the match, so we'll see what happens. See if we get lucky.” Reid agreed. “Glenn is a player. He's going to step up her breeding and really attack it. Look at what Adorabella did with her first dates, so let's take her uptown and see what happens. We're going to give her every opportunity to keep producing. Every stakes winner you look at in the TDN is by Not This Time. He's poised to be the next Into Mischief, it looks like. There are no bad ones out there.” Reid said he picks out two or three matings for each of Bennett's mares, presents them to him over lunch, and Bennett makes the final decision. Even so, Reid said it was a little daunting to suggest Not This Time for Adorabella. “I was a little timid about asking Glenn,” said Reid with a laugh.” I said, 'Glenn, here's a great match for her, but he's a quarter of a million bucks.' He said, 'Well, every time I pick up the paper I see Not This Time. Let's do it.'” Reid continued, “Genetically, it's such a wonderful match. She has the size and the bone to handle anybody. I hadn't seen Not This Time in person, but I figure they're all runners and she'll do the rest. Doesn't she deserve the chance to see if she can do it with a big fella? You've got to give her every opportunity and I feel like that's what Glenn is doing at this point.” Bennett does not sell his horses, but Reid said he had to do his due diligence by suggesting a sale. “I've already approached Glenn and said Adorabella would look good in foal to Not This Time at the Night of the Stars,” said Reid with a laugh, “but he said not to even think about it. My background is in buying and selling and the salesman in me jumped out so I had to ask. She'd be a monster! The dam of a champion in foal to Not This Time and only 10 years old…it would be great!” Bennett also had a hearty laugh over the possibility of a sale, but reiterated he likes to race. “Financially it would be great,” he said, “but unfortunately, I don't sell them. I like to run them. I'm in it for the action. I'd have to kill myself if I sold one and it wins the Derby or something!” Book'em Danno wins the Woody Stephens at Saratoga | Sarah Andrew The two affable men clearly love what they're doing and enjoy their time together. Each enthuses about the other, with Reid adding, “I've worked with a lot of great guys, but we're really having fun. Glenn does it right. If anybody deserves this mare, he does. You look up 'good guy' in the dictionary and there's his picture.” While Reid has had a long career in racing, involved in not only Medaglia d'Oro, Saint Liam, City of Light, Plum Pretty, You, and many others, Bennett is newer to the game. His 91-year-old father always enjoyed the sport, but Bennett can pinpoint 2012 as his start. The paving of the path began in his college days when he met Larry Ciletti, who hired him off a chance meeting on a fishing boat. Bennett, who is based in New Jersey, worked for Ciletti his entire professional life, ended up taking over the business–“doors, frames, hardware, some security, but not houses, we do big stuff like the Freedom Tower in New York”–and is now in the process of retiring at 62 after it's been sold multiple times. When Ciletti passed away in 2012, Bennett and some partners bought his racehorse holdings and Bennett named his Thoroughbred interests LC Racing to honor the mentor with his initials. “I got hooked and it just kept going from there,” said Bennett. “It really has evolved from maybe five or six horses who were very average to trying to get into big races. I just counted and I have 87 horses right now and that doesn't count the ones I have with Jason Werth. I just have trouble saying no, it's terrible. And now I have 10 more babies due in the coming months, but it's great. We've been so fortunate.” Adorabella | Sarah Andrew Bennett said he has 13 mares he owns outright and another one with Chuck Zacney, who is his main partner. “He's not as into the breeding as I am,” said Bennett. “I'm not sure how I got so into it, but I like when they send me the pictures of the little ones. It's pretty cool. Each one you're hoping is the one. Everything has worked out. Now we just need to top it off with a Derby winner.” Among the horses he's owned, whether alone or in partnership, are 2018 GII Remsen Stakes winner Maximus Mischief, now a young stallion at Spendthrift, and Kappa Kappa (Omaha Beach), who won last fall's GII Lexus Raven Run Stakes at Keeneland. “My one daughter was with me at that race,” he said, “and it was unbelievable. There's nothing like it when they're coming down the stretch in a big race and you've got a shot.” Bennett said Reid has been a tremendous part of his success thus far. “I don't claim to be a horseman,” he said. “To me, all the horses look pretty, but I do like going to the sales and to listen to the guys talk about all the different attributes, how this one is toeing in or that one's clipping his heel. I leave it to the experts, especially because I'm trying to get into the deep water now and I don't want to be screwing something up because I think I know what I'm doing when I don't. I'm still not making money, but I'm having fun.” Bennett and Reid both hope Adorabella is going to help move him to the next level. “She has a lot of quality to her,” said Reid, “she has that regal look. She's just a wonderful mare who's had a champion and is now going to top stallions and hopefully continues that quality.” The post The Producers: Adorabella, Dam of Champion Book’em Danno 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
Illinois veterinarian and Thoroughbred breeder Dr. Donald McCrosky has been fined $300,000 and suspended for 24 years in rulings on the Horseracing Integrity and Welfare Unit website.View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
The Royal Delta Stakes (G3) is the featured race on Gulfstream Park's Feb. 14 card. View the full article
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