PREAKNESS CAPS UNCONVENTIONAL TRIPLE CROWN Bought by the Coolmore Partners
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2020 MCPEEK WORKS MORE ALCIBIADES MAGIC PREAKNESS CAPS One day before saddling $35,000 bargain buy Swiss Skydiver UNCONVENTIONAL (Daredevil) to take on the boys in the GI Preakness S., trainer Ken McPeek was represented by the one-two finishers in TRIPLE CROWN Keeneland=s GI Darley Alcibiades S. Friday. New York-bred Simply Ravishing (Laoban), just a $50,000 Fasig-Tipton October yearling herself, dominated her competition on the front end and ran up the score to 6 1/4 lengths. >TDN Rising Stars= Crazy Beautiful (Liam=s Map) and Travel Column (Frosted) fought it out for second and third. This was McPeek=s fifth win in the Alcibiades, which carried with it an automatic berth into the GI Breeders= Cup Juvenile Fillies over the same track and trip in five weeks. Simply Ravishing belied 14-1 odds to take her turf debut in an open Saratoga maiden special weight Aug. 2, and doubled up when much the best in the rained-off P.G. Johnson S. over seven panels there Sept. 3. She was the 2-1 favorite Friday off a standout 81 Beyer Speed Figure. Cont. p9 IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Authentic | Horsephotos ‘BEAUTIFUL, ELEGANT DAUGHTER OF SHASTYE All of 2020 has been unconventional to say the least and the SET FOR BOOK 1 The filly by Galileo is one of 24 Triple Crown series is no exception. Instead of starting with the blueblooded yearlings that Newsells Park Stud will offer at Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. GI Kentucky Derby on the First Saturday in May, the highlight of Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. the 3-year-old season kicked off in mid-June with a shortened GI Belmont S., which is traditionally the final leg of the series. It was 11 weeks before the Run for the Roses on the First Saturday in September and now, another four weeks later, the Triple Crown road comes to an end in Baltimore Saturday with the GI Preakness S., which is a Breeders= Cup AWin and You=re In.@ The connections of Belmont hero and Derby runner-up Tiz the Law (Constitution) opted to skip this Classic event and train up to the GI Breeders= Cup Classic, which means favoritism will sit squarely on the shoulders of Derby victor Authentic (Into Mischief). Opening his account with a trio of victories, two of which were graded, the Bob Baffert trainee suffered his only loss when second to the recently retired Honor A. P. (Honor Code) in the GI Santa Anita Derby June 6. Taking the GI Haskell Invitational S. by a nose July 18, the bay went wire-to-wire in the Derby, scoring a gritty victory over favored Tiz the Law. AHe would have been ready to roll in two weeks,@ said Baffert, who is the winning trainer in Preakness history. AI feel pressure now because I never lost a Preakness with a horse I won the Derby with. 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His stablemate Thousand Words (Pioneerof the Nile) was a AThe Derby was disappointing because he was training so well late scratch from the Run for the leading up to it, but, gosh, I feel like Roses after rearing and flipping he=s doing equally as well right over in the paddock, but gets a now,@ Drury said. AWe=re ready to chance at redemption here. Also take our best shot.@ kicking off his career with a trio of Blue Grass runner-up Swiss wins, including two graded events, Skydiver (Daredevil) takes another the $1-million KEESEP buy was off crack at the boys in this event. the board in the Capturing the GIII Fantasy S. and GII GII San Felipe S. and Oaklawn S. this Santa Anita Oaks prior to the Blue spring. Given a brief freshener Grass, the chestnut filly scored a following that Apr. 11 test, the bay decisive victory in Saratoga=s GI was second when he returned in Alabama S. Aug. 15 and came in the GIII Los Alamitos Derby July 4 second to upsetter and was back to winning ways in Shedaresthedevil (Daredevil) in the the Shared Belief S. Aug. 1 at Del Art Collector | Coady GI Kentucky Oaks Sept. 4. Mar. Baffert puts blinkers on the AI don=t know if we have to colt for this return to Grade I company. differentiate genders. In Europe, fillies run against colts all the Art Collector (Bernardini) was a late defection from the Derby time. I don=t think Enable has run straight fillies [more than a due to a minor hoof issue. The homebred has been a perfect few times] in several years,@ trainer Kenny McPeek said. AHere it four-for-four since transferring to Tom Drury, starting with a pair seems to be more of a big deal, but for the most part when you of optional claimer scores at Churchill Downs. A decisive winner bring a good one into the game, it doesn=t matter.@ of the GII Toyota Blue Grass S. July 11, the bay wired the Ellis Coady © Benoit © GRETZKY THE GREAT RED LARK SPEECH 1st G1 Summer S. 1st G1 Del Mar Oaks 1st G1 Ashland S. Woodbine Del Mar Keeneland Eclipse’s 15th Grade 1 Win GRADE 1 OTHER RECENT TOP PERFORMERS: POINT OF HONOR - In 2020: 2nd G1 Ogden Phipps S., 3rd G1 Personal Ensign S., 3rd G1 Apple Blossom S.; In 2019 1st G2 Black-Eyed Susan S. 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