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Santa Barbara Leads International Field for Belmont Oaks
Nan Economy Memorial Service Jesus’ Team in Overnight Handicap Clement Strong Hand in River Memories Local Ag HOF Deadline Now July 16 Covid-19 Vacs Available for Employees At Palm Meadows
Papetu/RYAN THOMPSON PHOTO
Papetu Makes Return in Saturday’s Carry Back
EEE Confirmed in Jefferson & Bay Counties Track Results & Entries Florida Stallion Progeny List Florida Breeders’ List
during the Championship Meet, recovering from a hard bump at the start to finish second to Mutasaabeq in the Mucho Macho Man before going on to finish fourth in the Holy Bull (G3) and third in the Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth (G2), which were both won by Greatest Honour. The son of Dialed In’s performance in the mile-and-one-sixteenth Fountain of Youth was particularly impressive, finishing three-and-a-half lengths behind Greatest Honour after breaking from the extreme outside post position and making an impressive four-wide sweep into the contention at the top of the stretch.
Papetu was again saddled with the far-
BY GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS OFFICE______________________
HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Magic Stables
LLC’s Papetu, who stepped off the Triple Crown trail after a subpar showing in the March 27 Curlin Florida Derby (Grade 1), is set for a return to action in Saturday’s $75,000 Carry Back at Gulfstream Park.
The Carry Back, a seven-furlong sprint that drew a strong field of nine 3-year-olds, will headline a 13-race program that will also feature the $60,000 Hallandale Beach, a seven-furlong overnight handicap for 3- year-old fillies.
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outside post position in the 11-horse Florida Derby, in which he finished seventh after racing four and five-wide throughout the mile-and-one-eighth.
“We gave him some time after the Florida Derby to rest,” trainer Antonio Sano said. “He’s feeling good now.”
Papetu showed ability right from the start of his career, breaking his maiden at first asking by five lengths at Gulfstream in June 2020. He came right back to capture a second condition, $60,000 optional claiming allowance in his next start. After finishing sixth behind winner Jackie’s Warrior in the Saratoga Special Presented by Miller Lite (G2) and fifth in the Runhappy Hopeful (G1),
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also won by Jackie’s Warrior at Saratoga, Papetu was given a break to prepare for a 3-year-old campaign.
Papetu will again break from the far-outside post position for the Carry Back, but the draw is hardly the handicap his outside posts were going two turns in his last two starts,
Leonel Reyes, who rode him in the Mucho Macho Man and
Holy Bull as well as his first two career victories, returns to the saddle. They have drawn the outside post nine.
Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. is represented by four entrants in the
Carry Back: Sonata Stable’s Moonlite Strike, Stefania Farm LLC, Magic Cap Stables’ Twelve Volt Man, and John Fanelli, Cash is King LLC and LC Racing LLC’s Awesome Gerry.
Moonlite Strike and Lauda Speed finished 1-2, respectively, in the May 15 Roar, in which the former prevailed over the former by three-and-a-half lengths in the six-and-a-half-furlong stakes. The winner was returning to one-turn competition after finishing third to winner Helium in the Tampa Bay Derby (G2) and sixth in the Jeff Ruby Steaks (G3) won by Like the King at Turfway Park.
Moonlite Strike broke his maiden at Gulfstream Park West and won a first level, $75,000 optional claiming allowance at Gulfstream around one turn to conclude his 2-year-old campaign.
“I think the cut back in trip definitely helps him. We’ve been pointing for this race after that last race,” Joseph said.
In the Roar, Lauda Speed finished a length-and-a-quarter ahead of Collaborate, a highly regarded stablemate in the Joseph stable who came back to win impressively. Lauda Speed, a son of Bayern, had previously finished third in the March 6 Hutcheson and won an April optional claiming allowance.
“He and Twelve Volt were going to run three weeks ago in a mile handicap that never filled. That’s basically why they’re here now,” Joseph said. “Lauda Speed deserves a chance. He’s consistent and always tries hard. I think he’s going to run his race again.”
Twelve Volt Man is undefeated in two career starts, a six-furlong maiden special weight race April 10 and a mile optional claiming allowance. The son of Violence has closed from off the pace in both starts at Gulfstream.
“He ran and 83 Beyer [speed figure] in his last race which fits very well in this race,” Joseph said. “This is going to be a much tougher race for him.
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This will give us an indication how he stacks up.”
Awesome Gerry, who finished third in the Fountain of Youth and off the board in the Tampa Bay Derby and Jeff Ruby Steaks, is slated to make his first start since finishing third in an optional claiming allowance at Churchill Downs in May.
“We had him all about this year trying to pick up Derby points.
I don’t think he wants to go two turns. It was a bit ambitious,” Joseph said. “I thought the cutback at Churchill helped him and it was one of his better races.”
Edgard Zayas has the return mount aboard Moonlite Strike from post four; Emisael Jaramillo is back on Lauda Speed in post eight; Chantal Sutherland is scheduled to ride Twelve Volt Man for the first time and depart from post two; and J.C. Diaz Jr. has the call on Awesome Gerry, who breaks from post five.
Trainer Kathy Ritvo is slated to saddle a pair of Reeves Thoroughbred Racing 3-year-olds for the Carry Back: Florida-bred Isolate, who is scheduled to make his 2021 debut after showing considerable promise as a 2-year-old; and Raison d’Air, a versatile gelding who switches to the main track Saturday after finishing fifth in the English Channel and winning an optional claiming allowance on turf.
Isolate hasn’t started since finishing third to winner Pickin’
Time in the Nashua (G3) at Aqueduct in November. The son of Mark Valeski had previously won his first two career starts at Gulfstream, most notably a 10-length victory in a second condition, $60,000 optional claiming allowance romp at six-furlongs.
Luca Panici has the call on Isolate in post seven, while Cristian
Torres has been named on Raison d’Air in the number three slot.
Bell Racing LLC’s Florida-bred Real Talk, who finished second behind Lauda Speed before capturing a first level, $75,000 optional claiming allowance going six furlongs last time out; and Alex and JoAnn Liebling’s Florida-bred Big Thorn, who is slated to make his first start since finishing a distant third in the Jan. 22 Smarty Jones at Oaklawn Park, round out the field.
Competitive Speed, Shea D Summer to Clash in
Hallandale Beach
John Minchello’s Competitive Speed and Shea D Boys Stables’
Florida-bred Shea D Summer are set to clash in Saturday’s $60,000 Hallandale Beach, a seven-furlong overnight handicap for 3-yearold fillies, at Gulfstream Park.
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Leonel Reyes has the return mount aboard Competitive Speed, while Emisael Jaramillo will once again guide Shea D Summer.
Legacy Racing LLC’s Coach Jer’s Joy will be seeking to rebound from a disappointing sixth in the Game Face, which came on the heels for a solid optional claiming allowance score at seven-furlongs.
Javier Gonzalez-trained Competitive
Speed finished second behind Shea D Summer in the Game Face last time out in her first start since finishing off the board in the Longines Kentucky Oaks (Grade 1) won by Malathaat, in which she fell out of contention after experiencing bumping while breaking from the No. 13 post.
“She’s been one race good and one race bad. She’s hard to figure out,” trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. said. “In the Forward Gal [fifth-place finish], she had a sneaky good race behind Zaajel, who came back the other day to win the Mother Goose. I think it was her best race to date and if she were to come back and run something like that, she’d have a good chance.”
Trainer Daniel Pita’s Princess Secret, who is winless in three starts since winning the $400,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes My Dear Girl in September, will return to racing against fillies in the Hal-
“I was very happy with her effort. She showed she had a lot of heart,” Gonzalez said. “I was happy with her race after what happened to her in the Oaks.”
Competitive Speed had earned her way into the Oaks field by finishing third in both the Davona Dale (G2) and Gulfstream Park Oaks (G2) during Gulfstream’s Championship Meet. The daughter of Competitive Edge’s prior three career wins were accomplished at sprint distances.
Competitive Speed broke slowly from her rail post position in the six-and-a-
half-furlong Game Face before making a wide rally to finish second, two-and-a-half lengths behind front-run-
Competitive Speed/COADY PHOTO
landale Beach after finishing an even fourth behind highly regarded Collaborate in an optional claiming allowance against the boys.
Karl Glassman and Debbi Glassman’s Restofthestory, Prostar
10 Stables Inc.’s Appointed, Crossed Sabres Farm LLC’s Single Lady, and Kadima’s Emunah round out the field.
ning Shea D Summer
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Carlos David-trained Shea D Summer’s triumph was her first of the year and her first since capturing her first two lifetime races at Gulfstream Park West, including the Juvenile Filly Sprint for Florida-breds.
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Santa Barbara Leads Talented International
Field for Belmont Oaks
BY KEITH MCCALMONT______________________________
ELMONT, NY—An international field led by the Aidan O’Brientrained Santa Barbara (Ire) will assemble for Saturday’s $700,000 Belmont Oaks Invitational (Grade 1), the first leg of the Turf Triple series for sophomore fillies at Belmont Park.
The Belmont Oaks is one of three stakes on the final Saturday of the Belmont spring/summer meet, including the Grade 1, $1 million Belmont Derby Invitational (G1), first leg of the Turf Triple series for 3-year-olds; and the Grade 3, $150,000 Victory Ride, a six-and-a-half-furlong sprint for older fillies and mares.
Inaugurated in 2019, the Turf Triple series for fillies begins with
Saturday’s mile-and-a-quarter test on the Belmont inner turf. The series continues at Saratoga Race Course on Aug. 8 with the $700,000 Saratoga Oaks (G3), held at a mile-and-three-sixteenths on the Saratoga lawn; and concludes with the $700,000 Jockey Club Oaks at a mile-and-three-eighths on the Belmont turf on Sept. 18.
A winner at first asking in September at the Curragh, Mrs. John
Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith and Westerberg’s Santa Barbara entered the Group 1 One Thousand Guineas as the mutuel favorite, finishing fourth behind winner Mother Earth over onemile of good going at Newmarket in May.
Santa Barbara was a distant fifth traveling 12 furlongs in the
Group 1 Epsom Oaks won by Snowfall over good-to-soft going on June 4, but showed grit and determination last out when a willing second in the Group 1 Pretty Polly defeated a head to 4-year-old Thundering Nights, who missed by a nose when second to multiple graded-stakes winner Mean Mary on June 4 in the Grade 2 New York at Belmont.
“Every race she’s had this year has been a Group 1 and she’s been running very well in them,” O’Brien’s traveling assistant T.J. Comerford said. “I suppose the ground was bad at Epsom when she ran in the Oaks.
“Quicker ground suited her better taking on the older fillies [in the Pretty Polly] and she ran well,” Comerford added. “She came here on the back of that. It doesn’t seem to have fazed her at all. She looks magnificent. She looks like a colt, actually.”
The regally-bred Santa Barbara, by
Belmont Park/ADAM MOOSHIAN PHOTO
Gary Finder’s Cirona (GB), trained by Christophe Ferland, captured the Group 3 Prix de la Grotte in April at Longchamp traveling a prominent trip over one-mile of firm footing.
The daughter of Maxios followed with a narrow head defeat to
Incarville after carving out the fractions in the 10-furlong Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary on soft turf in May at Longchamp.
Last out, Cirona failed to make the lead and never saw daylight when tenth, defeated just three-and-a-quarter-lengths, in a 17-horse field in the mile-and-five-sixteenths, Group 1 Prix de Diane won by Joan of Arc on June 20 at Chantilly.
Cirona will emerge from post two under Jose Lezcano. Local hopes will be carried by the one-two finishers of last month’s nine-furlong Grade 3 Wonder Again in Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Joseph Graffeo, Del Toro, Eric Nikolaus and Troy Johnson’s Con Lima and Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables and Michael Caruso’s Plum Ali.
Trained by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher, Con Lima sat a stalking trip in the Wonder Again under Flavien Prat, prevailing by a halflength over the Christophe Clement-conditioned Plum Ali, who ral-
Camelot and out of the Danehill mare Senta’s Dream, is a half-sister to 2019 Grade 1 Breeders’Cup Filly and Mare Turfwinner Iridessa (Ire) and 2020 Breeders’ Cup Mile-victor Order of Australia (Ire).
Santa Barbara, who will exit post five under Ryan Moore, is following a similar path to the O’Brien-trained Athena (Ire), also by Camelot, who finished third in the 2018 Pretty Polly and wheeled back on sixdays rest to post a two-and-a-half-length score in the Belmont Oaks under Moore.
“Aidan is very keen on her, so hopefully she doesn’t disappoint,” Comerford said. “We did it before with Athena where it was only a week from when we ran her at the Curragh in the Pretty Polly. Athena came back and ran super at Belmont, so we’re hoping to see the same from this one. She’s coming here in good shape.”
Bradley Thoroughbreds, Tim Cambron,
Anna Cambron, Kent Starr, Sara Starr and
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tured the Sharp Susan in August at Gulfstream ahead of a good second to Aunt Pearl in the Grade 2 Jessamine in October at Keenland.
Casse said Spanish Loveaffair required treatment following her sixth-place finish in the Grade 2 Appalachian at Keeneland in her start prior to the Regret.
“In her start at Keeneland, we discovered a kind of fungus afterwards that she had,” said Casse said. “It was a weird deal; our vet said he hadn’t seen it in 15 years. So, she had to go through some therapy and treatment but she recovered from it and ran well in the Regret.” lied wide from last-of-9 under Joel Rosario.
Con Lima, a Texas-bred daughter of Commissioner, was elevated to victory in the Grade 3 Herecomesthebride in February at Gulfstream Park after Belmont Oaks-rival Spanish Loveaffair, who crossed the wire first, was disqualified and placed fourth.
Boasting a consistent record of six wins and four seconds from 11 starts, Con Lima will exit the inside post under Prat.
- Plum Ali,
- a
- Kentucky-bred
daughter of First Samurai, won her first three starts, culminating in a two-and-a-quarter-length score in the mile-and-one-sixteenth Miss Grillo (G2) in October at Belmont. She completed her campaign with an even fifth in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf won by Aunt Pearl in November at Keeneland.
Tyler Gaffalione retains the mount from post four.
The remainder of the entrants include Gam’s Mission, Higher Truth (Ire) and Nazuna (Ire)
First post is 1:00 p.m. EDT.
Con Lima/RYAN THOMPSON PHOTO
The talented chestnut entered the Wonder Again from a close third in the Grade 2 Appalachian presented by Japan Racing Association won by Jouster in April at Keeneland in her seasonal debut.
Clement said the wide, late-running trip last out was due to exiting the outermost post nine and he expects a different trip this time when Plum Ali leaves post seven with Rosario in the irons.
Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners, Michael Hernon and Gary Barber’s multiple graded-stakes placed Spanish Loveaffair enters from a narrow runner-up effort as the mutuel favorite to Belmont Oaksrival Gam’s Mission in the nine-furlong Grade 3 Regret, contested over good going on May 29 at Churchill Downs.
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Florida-bred and Florida Sire Stakes Races and Bonuses
- Date
- Race
- Conditions
2yo colts and geldings
Distance 6 fur. 6 fur.
Purse
$100,000 $100,000
$75,000* $75,000** $75,000**
$200,000 $200,000
$75,000*
July 31 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Dr. Fager July 31 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Desert Vixen 2yo fillies
Aug. 14 Benny the Bull (Fla.) Aug. 21 Proud Man Aug. 21 Sharp Susan
Aug. 28 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Affirmed Aug. 28 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Susan's Girl 2yo fillies
Sept. 11 Sheer Drama (Fla.)
Closed Closed
Aug. 1 Aug. 8 Aug. 8
3yo and older 2yo 2yo fillies
7 fur. 7 ½ fur. turf 7 ½ fur. turf
- 7 fur.
- 2yo colt and geldings
- Closed
Closed
Aug. 29 Sept. 5 Sept. 5
Closed Closed Closed
Sept. 12
7 fur.
3yo and older, fillies and mares 7 fur.
Sept. 18 Armed Forces Sept. 18 Our Dear Peggy
Sept. 25 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes In Reality Sept. 25 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes My Dear Girl 2yo fillies Sept. 25 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Wildcat Heir 3yo and older
2yo 2yo fillies
2yo colts and gelding
1 mi. turf 1 mi. turf
1 1/16 mi. 1 1/16 mi. 1 mi.
$100,000** $100,000**
$400,000 $400,000 $125,000
- $100,000**
- Sept. 25 Hollywood Beach
- 2yo
- 5 fur. turf
(Fla.) = Restricted to Florida-breds * Plus $25,000 Florida Sire Stakes Win Bonus ** Plus $25,000 Florida-bred Win Bonus
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Jesus’ Team Returns Sunday in Overnight Handicap
Noble Drama Among Three Florida-bred Challengers
the Bull on Sept. 6 and the 2018 Sunshine Millions Classic.
BY BROCK SHERIDAN _____________
Group 7C Racing Stable’s millionaire
Jesus’ Team returns to the track Sunday at Gulfstream Park as the 4-year-old colt heads a field of seven 3-year-olds and older in a $60,000 overnight handicap set for one mile. The Sunday feature has attracted a strong band of challengers that includes multiple stakes-winning Florida-bred Noble Drama and graded stakes-winner Sole Volante.
Making his first start since a sixth-place finish in the $4 million Dubai World Cup sponsored by DP World (Group 1) won by Mystic Guide at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai on March 27, Jesus’ Team is the likely favorite for Sunday’s race. Not only is the son of Tapiture the richest among Sunday’s contenders, he has also shown his affinity for Gulfstream Park with a record of three wins, two seconds and a third in seven starts over the Hallandale Beach oval.
In his last two starts at Gulfstream,
Jesus’ Team won the $150,000 Claiming Crown Jewel Stakes going a mile-and-oneeighth on Dec. 5 before finishing second to Knicks Go in the $1 million Pegasus World Cup (Grade 1) over a mile-and-one-quarter there on Jan. 23. That was the second time Jesus’ Team finished as the runner-up to Knicks Go having also placed behind him in the Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) at Keeneland on Nov. 7.
Noble Drama is by Gone Astray out of Queen Drama, by Burning Roma and has a career record of eight wins, seven seconds and three thirds from 26 starts while banking $669,687.
Noble Drama will break from post one with jockey Emisael Jaramillo aboard.
The Patrick Biancone-trained Sole
Volante is trying to return to top form after two disappointing races this year for owner Reeves Thoroughbred Racing and Andie Biancone.
He began the year with a ninth-place finish in the Grade 3 Tampa Bay Stakes won by Get Smokin over a mile-and-onesixteenth on the grass at Tampa Bay Downs in February before finishing fourth as the even-money favorite in a second condition, $62,500 optional claiming allowance won by I’m a G Six going a mile at Gulfstream on June 19.
