Indy Bay Picks Up Charles Town Oaks For Saffie Joseph Jr.

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Indy Bay kept the momentum rolling Friday night for trainer Saffie Joseph Jr., giving him his second stakes win on the card with a pace-stalking win in the GII Charles Town Oaks.

The daughter of Take Charge Indy kicked off her career with a pair of Oaklawn starts for trainer Thomas Vance before selling privately and shipping south to join Saffie Joseph's Gulfstream string in early spring. A winner in her first Florida try stepping up to seven furlongs March 1, she made the return trip to Arkansas and added a second win facing allowance horses Apr. 25. A well-traveled filly, she was next brought up to New York where she became a stakes winner in the Jersey Girl Stakes at the Spa June 8 before settling for third in the GIII Victory Ride when last spotted July 3.

Rail-drawn Friday in West Virginia, the 5-2 second choice, racing in the colors of C2 Racing Stable, broke sharply to the front but let stablemate Andrea go by passing the wire the first time around. That runner cleared down in front of her leaving Indy Bay stuck to the rail with favored Vodka With a Twist keeping her boxed in two wide. At odds of 8-1, Andrea, who was coming off a front-running win in the Azalea Stakes at Gulfstream July 12, looked to do much the same Friday, pacing the field through fractions of :23.57 and :47.72. Vodka With a Twist was the first to make a move from second, surging alongside the frontrunner midway around the far turn with Indy Bay left move three-wide to follow that jump. The top three spread across the track at the quarter pole and though Indy Bay failed to corner efficiently, she had plenty of gas left to blow by the dueling runners to her inside and score nicely under Irad Ortiz Jr. It was the second stakes win of the night for Saffie Joseph Jr and C2 Racing Stable silks who took the Misty Bennet Pink Ribbon Stakes earlier on the card with Mystic Lake (Mo Town).

Pedigree Note:
One of 23 stakes winners and the fourth graded winner for Take Charge Indy, Indy Bay is out of a winning Speightstown mare named Discovery Bay who is a half-sister to SW/MGSP Armistice Day (Declaration of War) and GSW Stratford Hill (A.P. Indy). Yet another half-sister, Letchworth (Tiznow), produced GIII Peter Pan Stakes winner We The People (Constitution). Her second dam is GISW Harmony Lodge (Hennessy) who brought seven figures as a 2-year-old in training back in 2000 when selling for $1,650,000 to Eugene Melnyk. Indy Bay herself went through the ring twice at Keeneland, selling first for $40,000 as a weanling in 2022 and as a yearling the following September for $19,000. Last a Texas 2-year-old RNA, also for $19,000, the filly is a half to one other winner in Why Em Sea Ay (Mucho Macho Man). Discovery Bay sold for $17,000 at KEENOV in 2024 to Alabdullatif Bloodstock and was exported to Saudi Arabia shortly after. Her last reported foal is the now 2-year-old More Than Ready colt Aziz who brought $35,000 from HRH Prince Mohammed bin Saisal Al Saud at EASMAY and was also exported to Saudi Arabia.

 

INDY BAY ($7.00) circled the field under @iradortiz to best favored Vodka With A Twist in the $750,000 Charles Town Oaks (G2) at @RaceCharlesTown. Trainer @SaffieJosephJr gets another one home in front for owners @C2RacingStable.

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Friday, Charles Town
CHARLES TOWN OAKS-GII, $750,000, Charles Town, 8-22, 3yo, f, 7f, 1:25.82, ft.
1–INDY BAY, 120, f, 3, by Take Charge Indy
            1st Dam: Discovery Bay, by Speightstown
            2nd Dam: Harmony Lodge, by Hennessy
            3rd Dam: Win Crafty Lady, by Crafty Prospector
1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($40,000 Wlg '22 KEENOV; $19,000
Ylg '23 KEESEP; $19,000 RNA 2yo '24 TTAAPR). O-C2 Racing
Stable LLC, Paul Braverman and Timothy Pinch; B-Frankfort
Park Farm (KY); T-Saffie A. Joseph, Jr.; J-Irad Ortiz, Jr.
$426,000. Lifetime Record: 7-4-1-2, $675,000. Werk Nick
Rating: B+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Vodka With a Twist, 118, f, 3, Thousand Words–Bourbon and
a Kiss, by Sky Mesa. ($2,500 Ylg '23 FTKOCT; $90,000 RNA 2yo
'24 KEEAPR). O-BlackRidge Stables LLC, Medallion Racing,
Schwing Thoroughbreds, Omar Aldabbagh and William Strauss;
B-Pillar Property Services Inc (KY); T-Philip D'Amato. $142,000.
3–Andrea, 120, f, 3, Thousand Words–Photoplay, by Tiznow.
1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($30,000 Ylg '23 KEESEP; $105,000
2yo '24 OBSAPR). O-Mark Corrado and G. Chris Coleman;
B-Scott K. Pierce (KY); T-Saffie A. Joseph, Jr. $71,000.
Margins: 1 3/4, 1, 2 1/4. Odds: 2.50, 1.80, 8.20.
Also Ran: Paradise City, Not Too Late, Volleyballprincess, Zip Start, Secret Faith, Top, Luvumorgan. Click for the Equibase.com chart and the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

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