Uncle Mo’s Emergence Puts on a Show over the Slop at Churchill

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8th-Churchill Downs, $123,202, Alw, 6-13, (NW1X), 3yo/up, 1 1/2m (off turf), 2:31.72, sy, 14 1/2 lengths.
EMERGENCE (c, 3, Uncle Mo–Belle Watling, by Pulpit) closed from well back in his Feb. 1 debut to graduate at first asking over Gulfstream's synthetic track by 3 1/4 lengths. Moved over to the grass two back Mar. 1 at that venue for the Listed Colonel Liam Stakes at a mile, he failed to produce that same kick and finished a flat eighth behind winner Mi Bago (Vekoma), who would just miss hitting the board in Churchill's May 3 GI American Turf Stakes and was recently seen running second June 7 in the off-turf rendition of the Pennine Ridge Stakes at Saratoga. Improving to third last out May 9 going 1 1/16-miles over this course, this mile and a half contest came off the turf as rain moved through the area, but the betting public still liked Emergence to the tune of 8-5 favoritism. Pursuing from midpack over a muddy main track, he inched forward after a mile had gone by in 1:38.21, and was the looming danger as they turned for home. Inhaling Domingo (American Pharoah) and Presider (Connect) passing the five-sixteenths, Emergence rolled away and won by an eye-catching, geared-down 14 1/2 lengths. Domingo won the battle for second by three-quarters of a length and it was a long way back to fourth.

The victor is a half-brother to a pair of elite runners, namely War Story (Northern Afleet), MGSW & GISP, $3,271,996 and Land Over Sea (Bellamy Road), GSW & MGISP, $746,500. The latter has gone on to a broodmare career in Japan after changing hands to Shadai Farm in 2017 at the FTKNOV sale for $1.3-million. Land Over Sea now claims GSP-Jpn Satono Epic (Jpn) (Kitasan Black {Jpn}) to her credit in her adoptive home country. Another of Emergence's half-sisters, Diamonds and Rust (Curlin), is the dam of last year's GIII With Anticipation Stakes runner-up Tenacious Leader (Not This Time). Belle Watling's last registered offspring is this winner after her 2023 Gun Runner foal was stillborn.

Second dam Polly Adler (Housebuster) most accomplished offspring is MSW Yoursmineours (Belong to Me), who herself went on to produce MSW Whiskey Romeo (Forester) and GSW Shared Property (Scat Daddy). She is also the granddam of SW Alla Breve (Mendelssohn), MSP Send the Boss (Street Boss) and MSP Fraudulent Charge (Will Take Charge). This is the immediate female family of GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies heroine Epitome (Summing), dam of multiple group winner Essence of Dubai (Pulpit). Sales history: $475,000 Ylg '23 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 4-2-0-1, $129,984. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.
O-Qatar Racing, CHC, Inc. and Trilogy USA; B-Summer Wind Equine LLC (KY); T-Brad H. Cox.

 

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