Ghostzapper’s Ole Crazy Bone Gives Maker A Sixth Kentucky Turf Cup

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Making his second start of an apparently audacious $100,000 claim, Flying P Stable's OLE CRAZY BONE (g, 5, Ghostzapper–Southern Gem, by Smart Strike) raced prominently throughout Saturday's running of the $2.5-million GII KTDF Kentucky Turf Cup Invitational Stakes at Kentucky Downs and came away in the final eighth of a mile to punch his ticket to the GI Breeders' Cup Turf at Del Mar on Nov. 1.

Haltered out of a runner-up effort over the Churchill turf course on June 26, the 5-year-old was last seen in the Turf Cup Preview race at Ellis Park Aug. 3, when he was checked at a crucial stage in upper stretch and flew home to just miss.

Ridden forward here with Flavien Prat taking over, Ole Crazy Bone raced in third position turning down the backstretch as Corruption (Medaglia d'Oro) showed the way through a half in :48.87. Up into a clear second at the midway stage, Ole Crazy Bone continued to stalk the front runner into the sweeping far turn and was poised with a half-mile to travel. Nudged along five-sixteenths from home, Ole Crazy Bone claimed Corruption with a furlong and a half to travel and raced away to score convincingly. Tawny Port (Pioneerof the Nile), third to Grand Sonata (Medaglia d'Oro) last year and runner-up in the Gold Cup over an extended two-mile trip here on Aug. 30, ran on for second just ahead of Corruption in third. It was a sixth Turf Cup for trainer Mike Maker.

Sales history: $190,000 Wlg '20 KEENOV; $150,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 19-7-5-2. O-Flying P Stable; B-Adena Springs (KY); T-Mike Maker

 

Ole Crazy Bone wins easy in the G2 Kentucky Turf Cup Invitational at Kentucky Downs at 6/1!

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