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DEADLINE: Art Collector Delivers FSS yearling deadline is Saturday, August 15, 2020 and is $275. Since the deadline falls on a weekend, the Masterclass in Ellis postmarked deadline has been Park Derby Victory extended to Monday, August 17. BY ELLIS PARK In This Issue: PRESS OFFICE______Smooth Like Strait Takes La Jolla H’cap HENDERSON, KY – On Saturday Crazy Beautiful in Runhappy Debutante evening, following a devastating performance at one of racing’s Sole Volante Breezes at Palm Meadows most historic tracks, the consensus Pico d’Oro Breaks Maiden within the thoroughbred racing community was that the question Lady Kate Dominates in Groupie Doll S. of which horse would bear the Spinoff Nabs Stakes Victory in Alydar burden of favoritism in the pan- demic-delayed Kentucky Derby Tiz the Law Even-Money in Derby Futures presented by Woodford Reserve Sacred Life Rallies to Win Oceanport S. (Grade 1) had been answered. Barely 24 hours after Tiz the Gulfstream Park Charts Law threw down the gauntlet with Track Results & Entries his sublime victory in the Grade 1 Florida Stallion Progeny List Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, however, one of Florida Breeders’ List Kentucky’s native sons served up Wire to Wire Business Place a reminder that he plans on being a hostile host to even the most intimidating of challengers head- Featured Advertisers ing to the Sept. 5 Run for the Roses. Bloodstockauction USA Sunday’s $200,000 Runhappy Ellis Park Derby wasn’t the Florida Department of Agriculture endgame for Bruce Lunsford’s FTBOA homebred Art Collector, but the Stonehedge Farm South son of Bernardini looked every bit cranked for what lies ahead at Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Churchill Downs next month Seminole Feed when he drew off to a three-and- one-quarter-length triumph in the mile-and-one-eighth race that FOR ADVERTISING headlined the biggest day in histo- INFORMATION ry at the track known as the Pea Patch. or to subscribe, please call With the coronavirus pandemic Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or forcing this year’s Kentucky email: [email protected] Art Collector/COADY PHOTO See ART COLLECTOR on page 3
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Continued from COVER Derby to be delayed, Ellis Park was able to host its first ever prep for the 10-furlong classic. Its signature race offered 50 qualifying points to the winner toward the Derby and while Art Collector had basically locked up his place in the Kentucky Derby starting gate courtesy of his win in the Grade 2 Toyota Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland on July 11, the bay colt made sure to showcase how much upside is still within him. His 2-5 status on the odds board told of the expectations he carried in his ninth career start and, as has been the case in each outing since joining trainer Tommy Drury’s barn earlier this year, Art Collector didn’t disappoint in the least in leading virtu- ally every step en route to his fourth consecutive victory. “I’m surprised that my legs are still holding up underneath me,” Drury said. “It’s a big day for us. We got what we were looking for. We wanted to get enough out of this without over- doing it. [Jockey] Brian [Hernandez] even mentioned coming to the eighth pole that he was going a little too easy, Tom Drury/COADY PHOTO so he let the reins out a notch just to let him finish on up. He was going away from the end of it and that’s kind of been him every race this year. That’s all you can ask of one. Every time we throw something at him, he answers the question and handles it with flying colors.” Art Collector has proven during his recent streak he can win with virtually any kind of setup, having come from off the pace during his victory at Churchill Downs on May 17 and sitting a stalking trip in his Blue Grass Stakes triumph. When he got away without issue out of post four in the Ellis Park Derby, he used it as the latest opportunity to flaunt his frontrunning ability. After clicking off the opening fractions of :23.33 and :46.74 with 165-1 longshot Truculent sitting just off him in second, Art Collector faced a brief threat when Dean Martini loomed up approaching the far turn and Attachment Rate followed suit in the three-wide path. Attachment Rate did well to outrun his 14-1 odds and get place honors, but he was no match in the lane for Art Collector, who strided home in a final time of 1:48.02 over a track rated fast. The See ART COLLECTOR on page 5 FTBOA Document and Form Drop Box A drop box has been installed near our side entrance of the FTBOA building at 801 SW 60th Avenue, Ocala, Fla. for members to use when drop- ping off time-sensitive docu- ments. Forms may be found on our website at www.ftboa.com. Timely payments must be in the drop box no later than 4:30 p.m. the day of a deadline.
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Back to4 Top Page 5 Art Collector Continued from page 3 sloppy track Nov. 30 before being disqualified when he was tested track record is 1:47.60, set in 1988 by Lt. Lao. positive for levamisole, a deworming agent. “Our horse broke sharp and I put him in the race,” winning “Tiz the Law will be the favorite. But everybody who’s going jockey Brian Hernandez Jr. said. “He was going quick enough but to be there in the Kentucky Derby, they’ve earned their chance,” at some point, I knew I’d be able to give him a breather. He was Hernandez said. “You have to go in there with an open mind and able to take a breather going just read your race. The into the second turn. And biggest thing we’ve done once he did that, I was pretty through this whole journey is confident in him. we just have to trust our “This is huge. We’re going horse. Let him take us there, into the Derby now with a and that’s what he’s doing.” legitimate horse. Like we said Art Collector now has 150 after the Blue Grass, he’s qualifying points toward the proven he’s getting better and Kentucky Derby and better with each race. He improves his overall record to showed it again today. He put five wins from nine starts everyone away. He did it all on with $664,380 in earnings. his own and ran away from “There are no bad stories there.” here with our threesome Attachment Rate was five- [Lunsford, Drury, and-one-quarter lengths clear Hernandez],” Lunsford said. of Necker Island in third with “We get along great. We start- Rowdy Yates and Shared ed out with an idea. We pretty Sense completing the top well stuck to the pattern, and five. we’re going to stick to it for Bred in Kentucky by one more race. I like the fact Lunsford out of the Distorted that we’re local boys. It would Humor mare Distorted Art Collector/COADY PHOTO be a nice story for Louisville if Legacy, Art Collector began we were to win it.” his career with trainer Joe Sharp before being transferred to Drury Art Collector started his career last year on grass, where he prior to his first start this season. And where Tiz the Law has suf- won a maiden race at Kentucky Downs in his second start. fered his only career loss at Churchill Downs—running third over a sloppy track in the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes last NOTE: An Ellis Park record $5,241,601 was bet on the 10- November—Art Collector owns two wins beneath this Twin race card, eclipsing the prior record of $4,906,096 on Aug. 4, Spires this season and crossed the wire first there in a race over a 2007, when Ellis Park was host to the Claiming Crown. Smooth Like Strait Triumphs in La Jolla Handicap BY DEL MAR PRESS OFFICE ______DEL MAR, CA—Cannon Thoroughbreds’ Smooth Like Strait used his speed to good advantage Sunday and scored a handy victory in the 80th running of the Grade 3 La Jolla Handicap for 3-year-olds at Del Mar Race Course. Under 124 pounds and Umberto Rispoli, Del Mar’s leading rider, the 4-5 favorite drew out in the lane to tally by two-and-a-half lengths at the end of the mile-and-one-six- teenth grass test and earned $75,000 from the $125,000 purse. The victory by the Midnight Lute colt was his fourth in eight lifetime starts and pushed his bankroll to $253,323. Finishing second was Exline-Border Racing, David Bernsen and partners’ Storm the Court and running third was Karl Pergola’s K P All Systems Go. “I knew I had the most speed. [Trainer] Mike [McCarthy] told me to ride like I was
Smooth Like Strait/BENOIT PHOTO See SMOOTH LIKE STRAIT on page 9
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Back to Top Page 7 Crazy Beautiful Looks a Picture in Runhappy Debutante Triumph
BY ELLIS PARK PRESS OFFICE_____ me look bad. This is going to be a really out of the Indian Charlie mare Indian Burn good horse.” and improves her earnings to $80,445. HENDERSON, KY—No matter the surface Mania under Sophie Doyle held for sec- “She pulled us into this race because she travels on, Crazy Beautiful has turned ond at odds of 24-1 with Fabricate finish- she’d been training so good,” McPeek said. her ventures to Ellis Park into strolls in ing third. The final time for the seven fur- She’s a really good filly. Sky’s the limit. I the park. longs was 1:23.71 over a track rated fast. think she’ll be a better dirt horse. She acts Having broken her maiden at first ask- Crazy Beautiful was bred in Kentucky like it. She won on the turf in spite of it.” ing over the Henderson oval’s turf course on July 5, Phoenix Thoroughbred’s Crazy Beautiful switched to the main track and delivered equally stellar results when she came up the inside path during the stretch drive and kicked on handily to win the $100,000 Runhappy Debutante Stakes on Sunday. Crazy Beautiful’s three-and-a-half- length score going one mile on the turf last month was impressive enough to send her off as the 5-2 choice from the betting public in the 12-horse as she attempted to translate her talents to dirt. Breaking from post four under jockey Rafael Bejarano, the daughter of Liam’s Map showed she indeed could handle the main track with similar aplomb in Sunday’s seven-furlong test. “She trained like a good thing from the beginning,” trainer Ken McPeek said of Crazy Beautiful. “I was a little nervous because she hadn’t run on the dirt yet. But it looks like she’s just as good on that as she was on the turf.” After rating back in ninth while long- shot Seguro covered the opening quarter- Crazy Beautiful/COADY PHOTO mile in :22.10, Crazy Beautiful began working her way forward but still had about five rivals in front of her as the field came around the far turn. With a wall of Experienced Barn Person horses in their path, Bejarano initially tried to angle Crazy Beautiful to the outside but made contact with Xtrema around the Needed for Large Farm three-sixteenths. Instead, Crazy Beautiful altered course back toward the rail where she and Bejarano Experienced handling horses, cleaning stalls, feeding, etc. found plenty of daylight en route to a nearly four-length triumph. James Graham, jockey Will be responsible for keeping barn clean. of Xtrema, lodged a claim of foul against the winner for interference but the results - THIS IS A YEAR ROUND JOB WITH EXCELLENT PAY and with it, Crazy Beautiful’s perfect record Must pass background check and have a current driver’s license. - were allowed to stand. 1 “My horse was much the best in the Job is full time, 5/2 days per week, weekend work required. race,” Bejarano said. “I was in perfect posi- tion. Behind horses she was fine. But as Benefits include vacation, paid holidays, and health insurance is available. soon as you got close to the horses, she kind of got excited, angry because of the Starting pay $13 an hour first time dirt in her face. Last time she was on the turf. I came out a little bit, but the Phone 352-690-7713, fax 352-690-9838 number 8 pushed me in and tried to make
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Back to Top Page 9 Derby Hopeful Sole Volante Breezes Mile at Palm Meadows BY GULFSTREAM PARK Sole Volante captured the PRESS OFFICE______Pulpit Stakes, in which he defeated Tampa Bay Derby HALLANDALE BEACH, FL— (G2)-winner King Guillermo Reeves Thoroughbred Racing on turf, and finished third in and Andie Biancone’s Sole the Mucho Macho Man at Volante breezed a mile Gulfstream Park before cap- Sunday morning on the turf at turing the Sam F. Davis (G3) Palm Meadows, Gulfstream at Tampa Bay Downs. He went Park’s satellite training facility on to finish second behind in Palm Beach County, in King Guillermo in the Tampa preparation for a scheduled Bay Derby and win a stakes- start in the Grade 1 Kentucky quality allowance at Derby presented by Woodford Gulfstream before sustaining Reserve (G1), which this year his first out-of-the-money fin- has been postponed until Sept. ish in the Belmont. 5 due the Covid-19 pandemic. The Patrick Biancone- Arindel’s Tiger Breaks trained son of Karakontie was timed in 1:40 in his first Maiden in Style breeze since finishing off the After finishing second in board in the mile-and-one- his previous two starts, eighth Belmont Stakes (G1) at Arindel’s homebred Tiger Belmont Park on June 20. broke his maiden impressively Sole Volante breezed in Sunday, turning in the fastest company, sitting off stable- five furlongs of the meet for a 2-year-old, drawing off by mate Shrewdness into the Sole Volante/DERBE GLASS PHOTO stretch before drawing clear four-and-a-half furlongs in without encouragement from Luca Panici. :57.65. Hector Berrios, who won four of Gulfstream’s first seven “He worked really well,” assistant trainer Andie Biancone said. races, was aboard the Florida-bred. Tiger is a son of Dialed In out “He’s doing great.” of Sally’s Song. Smooth Like Strait Continued from page 5 first turn. When that horse came up on the best horse. When you hear that, outside of him on the backside it was you have confidence,” Rispoli said. something we’re not used to. But “When Mike Smith’s horse [Indian Umberto was very cool, didn’t panic, Peak] came up outside me on the back- did the right thing and knew he was on stretch, that was okay. It wasn’t a the best horse today. When the other worry. My horse was relaxed, so we horse went ahead it didn’t bother me were just helping each other. Then he because I knew we were still travelling had good speed at the end and we were well in hand. When we re-engaged and gone. I like [Del Mar] and I like racing got a half a length ahead I was just Straight from in California. There’s good competition happy to see no one was coming from the Heart here. We go against each other and behind.” make each other better. It’s good.” Three of the Kentucky-bred’s four of Florida’s As the 4-5 race favorite, Smooth victories have come in stakes races, Thoroughbred Like Strait returned $3.60. He covered including the Cecil B. DeMille Stakes Industry the distance on the green in a solid at Del Mar last Dec. 1. 1:40.29. Official Publication of the Rispoli was a double winner on the Florida Thoroughbred Owners’ “The race unfolded like it looked on afternoon and took a 24 – 21 advantage and Breeders’ Association paper,” McCarthy said. “I thought over Flavien Prat for the riding crown Umberto [Rispoli] did a wonderful job at Del Mar after 13 days of racing at the of getting him out in the clear on the shore oval.
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The Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ & Owners’ Association & Florida Equine Communications Salute The Ownership, Management, Horsemen & Jockeys of Gulfstream Park
The Ownership, Management, Horsemen & Jockeys of Tampa Bay Downs
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Back to Top Page 11 Pico d’Oro Breaks Maiden in Runhappy Juvenile
BY ELLIS PARK PRESS OFFICE ______
HENDERSON, KY—An extra furlong of distance was enough to allow Pico d’Oro to turn the tables on Medicine Tail in their latest meeting at Ellis Park and earn the son of Curlin his first career vic- tory when he rallied from well back to capture the $100,000 Runhappy Juvenile Stakes on Sunday. The Juvenile Stakes was one of five stakes on the Ellis Park card, highlighted by the $200,000 Runhappy Ellis Park Derby. Trained by William Morey for owners Sandin Syndicate Stable LLC, Pico d’Oro was making his third career start and first try against stakes compa- ny when he headed to the post for the seven-furlong Juvenile Stakes. Though he finished off the board in his career debut at Churchill Downs on June 16, the bay colt showed promise when he ran second to Medicine Tail going six furlongs in a maiden spe- cial weight test at the Pea Patch on July 19. Similar to his run that day, Medicine Tail found himself on the front end Sunday as he bat- Pico d’Oro/COADY PHOTO tled 4-5 race favorite Cowan through fractions of :22.29 and sional too. For breaking his maiden in a stakes, I def- :45.64. While that pair raced side initely think he’s got a real bright future.” by side on the lead, Pico d’Oro Medicine Tail held for second, seven lengths clear was at the back of the seven- of third-place finisher Perfect Mistake, while Cowan horse field under jockey Joe faded to fifth. The final time for the Juvenile Stakes Talamo but began rolling past was 1:23.95 over a fast track. rivals approaching the far turn. Bred in Kentucky by Southern Equine Stables out Medicine Tail left Cowan in of the Bernardini mare Michelle d’Oro, Pico d’Oro his wake as he entered the top of improved his bankroll to $69,517 in earning his first the stretch and appeared en route win from three starts. to his first stakes win when he Morey said Pico d’Oro was the first horse for opened up two-and-a-half owner Gerry Sandlin’s Sandlin Syndicate Stable. He lengths on his challengers in the said Sandlin picked out the Ellis race. lane. With Talamo going to left- “My owner, Gerry Sandlin, was a big part of it,” he Joe Talamo/COADY PHOTO handed urging, Pico d’Oro kept said. “He’s a good friend of mine. We played Little on surging in the four path, catching his young rival in late stretch League baseball together 30 years ago, and this was the first horse and drawing clear for a two-length victory. he ever bought. So I’m really happy for him, mostly. He was a big “He ran a really good race today,” Talamo said. “The pace was part of picking this race and pointing for it and the horse did the pretty solid up front for us, and he ran them down. Very profes- race.” FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes at Gulfstream Park Date Race Name Conditions Distance Purse 8-29 FTBOA Fla. Sire Stakes Affirmed 2yo* 7 fur. $200,000 8-29 FTBOA Fla. Sire Stakes Susan’s Girl 2yo fillies* 7 fur. $200,000 9-26 FTBOA Fla. Sire Stakes In Reality 2yo* 1 1/16 mi. $400,000 9-26 FTBOA Fla. Sire Stakes My Dear Girl 2yo fillies* 1 1/16 mi. $400,000 9-26 FTBOA Fla. Sire Stakes Wildcat Heir 3yo & older* 1 mile $150,000 * FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes eligible horses
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D Purse Age/Sex Distance M $750,000^ 3 yo 1 $200,000^^ 3 yo fillies 1
Back to Top Page 13 Lady Kate Runs Them off Their Feet in Groupie Doll Stakes
BY ELLIS PARK PRESS OFFICE ______16-year-old Ellis Park record down in the process when she led every point of call during a scintillating seven-and-a-quarter- HENDERSON, KY—Lady Kate may still be seeking her first length triumph in the $100,000 Runhappy Audobon Oaks at Ellis graded-stakes victory but the daughter of Bernardini scored a vic- Park on Sunday. tory that was certainly of the highest quality when she carried her Mundaye Call’s time for the seven-furlong Audobon Oaks, one speed every step in winning the $100,000 Groupie Doll Stakes by of five stakes on the Ellis Park card, clocked in at 1:21.17 over a four-and-three-quarters lengths at Ellis Park Sunday. surface rated fast to establish a new track mark for the distance. Quality and quantity were the name of the game in the Groupie “Not surprised [about track record],” winning jockey Florent Doll as the 11-horse field Geroux said. “The filly has included Grade 1-winner been working extremely well Street Band and multiple in the morning. We’ve been graded stakes-winner Lady very high on her. You never Apple, that latter of whom expect a track record. But we also finished third in the expected a big race for her 2019 Kentucky Oaks (Grade today.” 1). The Eddie Kenneally- After being purchased for trained Lady Kate earned $950,000 by owner Larry herself a chance to tackle Best’s OXO Equine at the such class when she won an 2018 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga allowance-optional claiming Select Yearling sale, race at Churchill Downs on Mundaye Call joined the June 21 in gate-to-wire fash- shedrow that has produced ion, and she basically give a such top female runners as repeat of that run to earn her champions Monomoy Girl, first stakes win. Covfefe and British Idiom. “She broke sharp today It became clear Mundaye and ran a very, very good Call was on her game as she race. We’re delighted with shot out of post 10 and took her,” Kenneally said. “She’s command of the pace under been stakes-placed, but it’s Lady Kate/COADY PHOTO Geroux, clicking off an open- nice to win a stakes with her. ing quarter-mile in :22.25 She’s just having a very good year. There was a Grade 1 winner in with Misty Blue tracking in second. After reaching the half-mile there, some very nice fillies and a full field, too. She took full mark in :45.11 and entering the top of the lane, Mundaye Call advantage of maybe the track is speed-biased today, I don’t know. ended all pretense of drama when she drew clear by about four But it worked out.” lengths and continued on with authority in the final sixteenth-mile. Sent off at 4-1 odds, Lady Kate took it to her challengers out Ocean Breeze was second, besting third-place finisher Sconsin of post four and carried jockey Florent Geroux through fractions by a neck. Race favorite Hello Beautiful finished last of 11. of :23.67 and :47.03 with New Roo to her outside in second. Mundaye Call was bred in Kentucky by Three Chimneys Farm New Roo looked to draw on even terms with the pacesetter out of the Warrior’s Reward mare Reve d’Amour. She improves around the far turn but Lady Kate hit another gear at the top of the her overall record to three wins from five starts with $159,360 in stretch and left the rest battling for minor honors as she crossed earnings. the wire in 1:35.89 for eight furlongs. “She has good tactical speed and she broke very alertly, so I took advantage of it,” Geroux said. “Going into the lead she was nice and relaxed. When I asked her turning to home, she gave me another gear and she was ahead to win the race.” New Roo held for second place with Istan Council up for third. Street Band, sent off as the favorite, finished sixth. Owned by Anderson Stables, Lady Kate bolstered her record to five wins from 11 starts with $249,470 in earnings with four of her victories coming in this her 4-year-old season. Lady Kate was bred in Kentucky by Godolphin and Eileen H. Hartis out of the Street Cry (Ire) mare Princess Haya. Mundaye Call Sets Track Record in Audubon Oaks Add Mundaye Call’s name to the parade of classy distaffers that have come from trainer Brad Cox’s barn. The daughter of Into Mischief flaunted her speed and took a
Back to Top Page 14 Spinoff Nabs Elusive Stakes Victory in Alydar BY NYRA PRESS OFFICE ______better than it looked on paper,” Pletcher said. “We had good spac- ing to this and we had been pointing to it for a while. He’s trained SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY—Wertheimer and Frere’s Grade 2- well and I thought we were going to get a good setup. The race placed homebred Spinoff, a veteran of last year’s Triple Crown kind of unfolded exactly how Irad and I talked about before the trail, swept to the lead on the race and it’s nice when it falls far turn and turned back into place.” favored Endorsed through the Ortiz Jr. settled Spinoff in stretch to earn his first stakes the clear three wide as Its All victory in Sunday’s eighth run- Relevant, a winner of two ning of the $85,000 Alydar at straight and three of his last four Saratoga Race Course. races, was in front through a Sent off at 3-1, Spinoff quarter-mile in :24.97 and a half returned $8.40 for a $2 win in :49.57, under moderate pres- bet. The 4-year-old Hard Spun sure from Bodexpress. Its All colt covered the mile-and-one- Relevant’s lead shrunk as the eighth in 1:49.60 over a fast field hit the turn and Spinoff main track. and Bodexpress ranged up to Spinoff won for the first challenge. time in four tries this year, Spinoff came off the turn in having been beaten a neck front and was set down for a when second in the Sunday drive to the wire by Ortiz Jr. as Silence on May 17 over a slop- Endorsed, the 3-5 favorite who ran fourth in last year’s Grade 1 py track at Gulfstream Park. Spinoff/SUSIE RAISHER PHOTO After coming up empty in a Runhappy Travers, tried to one-mile optional claiming allowance last out on July 2 at mount his bid on the far outside but was unable to gain any Belmont Park, he bounced back with a huge effort in the Alydar. ground. Spinoff crossed the wire two-and-three-quarters lengths “He ran really well here last year in a mile and an eighth two- in front, while there were four-and-a-half lengths between other-than and had a pretty rough trip last time and I think he ran See SPINOFF on page 15 Dominant Tiz the Law Even-Money in Derby Futures BY CHURCHILL DOWNS PRESS OFFICE ______closing at 285-1. Horses in order of favoritism in the three-day Aug. 7-9 KDFW LOUISVILLE, KY—Four weeks in advance of the rescheduled $3 Pool 7 (Final Odds and $2 Win Will Pays): #22 Tiz the Law (1-1, million Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade $4.20); #10 Honor A.P. (8-1, $18.20); #2 Art Collector (8-1, 1), Belmont Stakes (G1) and Travers Stakes (G1)-winner Tiz the $19.60); #3 Authentic (11-1, $25.80); #23 Uncle Chuck (15-1, Law is the clear-cut horse to beat in the eyes of bettors as he $33.20); #11 King Guillermo (19-1, $41); #24 “All Other 3-Year- closed as the even-money favorite Sunday in Pool 7 of the Olds” (24-1, $51.60); #21 Thousand Words (25-1, $53.60); #4 Kentucky Derby Future Wager. Caracaro (29-1, $60.80); #19 Sole Volante (29-1, $60.80); #14 Ny If the future wager is any indication, Tiz the Law, a winner in Traffic (30-1, $63.40); #8 Enforceable (36-1, $74.60); #13 Max six of his seven starts and an earn- Player (38-1, $78.20); #7 Dr Post er of $2,015,300, could be the (40-1, $82); #5 Country Grammer shortest-priced Kentucky Derby (55-1, $112.20); #17 Shared Sense favorite since Arazi finished (65-1, $132.20); #6 Dean Martini eighth at odds of 4-5 in 1992. The (66-1, $135.40); #1 Anneau d’Or only other horse to start at less (70-1, $142.40); #12 Major Fed than 2-1 odds during that span (79-1, $160.80); #20 South Bend was Point Given, who finished (127-1, $256.80); #15 Pneumatic fifth as the 9-5 choice in 2001. (140-1, $283); #9 Finnick the Sackatoga Stables’ Tiz the Fierce (164-1, $330.80); #16 Law, trained by Barclay Tagg and Rushie (188-1, $379.80); and #18 ridden by Manny Franco, has Shivaree (285-1, $572.40). been either the first or second The Kentucky Derby Future individual favorite in every Future Wager, offered for a 22nd consec- Wager pool since last November: Pool 1 (11-1); Pool 2 (8-1); Pool utive year, enables bettors to wager on possible Kentucky Derby 3 (7-1); Pool 4 (5-1); Pool 5 (2-1); Pool 6 (5-2); and Pool 7 (1-1). contenders in advance of America’s greatest race at odds that Santa Anita Derby (G1)-winner and Shared Belief Stakes-run- could be more attractive than those available on the day of the ner-up Honor A. P. and Blue Grass Stakes (G2) and Ellis Park race. Derby-winner Art Collector both closed at odds of 8-1. Haskell On March 17, Churchill Downs Incorporated announced the (G1)winner-Authentic was the 11-1 fourth betting choice. 146th running of the Kentucky Derby would be rescheduled from The Florida-bred pair of Thousand Words and Shivaree both May 2 to Saturday, Sept. 5 amid public health concerns in relation offer profitable odds with Thousand Words at 25-1 and Shivaree to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Back to Top Page 15 Sacred Life Rallies to Win Oceanport Stakes
BY MONMOUTH PARK PRESS OFFICE______
OCEANPORT, N.J. – In a field that fea- tured four graded stakes winners and a mil- lionaire, Sacred Life (Fr), who is neither, proved he belongs in that company. The Chad Brown-trainee stormed home with a rousing stretch run under Paco Lopez and easily drew off to a four-length victory in Sunday’s $100,000 Oceanport Stakes at Monmouth Park. Idle since a fourth-place finish in the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational on Jan. 25 at Gulfstream Park, Sacred Life showed no ill effects from the layoff, easily besting eight rivals in the 73rd edition of the mile-and-a-sixteenth grass race for 3-year-olds-and older. “I wasn’t worried about that [the lay- off],” Brown assistant trainer Luis Cabrera said. “He’s a very classy horse. He knows what to do and he knows where the wire is. He beat a good field. This was a tough Sacred Life/BILL DENVER PHOTO race. But this is a good horse, a very classy Eons and Thread of Blue, with the latter classy horse. I just wanted to get some posi- horse.” having banked more than $1 million in his tion in the first turn, let him settle and wait. Bred in France, the 5-year-old son of career. I took him outside because the turf is a little Siyouni (Fr) out of Knyazhna (Ire) by Hawkish rallied for second, with early harder there than it is inside,” Lopez said. Montjeu (Ire) came to Brown from Europe pace setter Irish Strait finishing a nose “I was waiting for [Synchrony,] but he a year ago. In five starts in the United back in third. Time for the mile and a six- never showed up so I just wanted to get my States, he has twice raced against Grade 2 teenth over a turf course listed as “good” horse clear. I held him as long as could but competition and once in a Grade 1. was 1:42.13. he really wanted to go. He showed how The Oceanport field consisted of grad- Lopez sat patiently in mid-pack with much he wanted to run with the way he ed stakes winners Synchrony, Hawkish, Sacred Life before getting a clear run in closed.” the stretch. Owned by Michael Dubb, Madaket He said it was just a matter of staying Stables LLC, Wonder Stables and clear and letting the horse do what he does, Bethlehem Stables LLC, Sacred Life especially since he was still hurting from returned $4.40 to win. his mishap. The victory was his sixth in 15 career “He was ready today. I know he’s a starts. He also has six seconds. Spinoff
Continued from page 14 the Preakness, the chestnut showed up in Endorsed and Bodexpress in third fol- the Grade 1 Belmont Stakes and ran lowed by Backsideofthemoon and Its All sixth, beaten only three lengths, before a Relevant. Tenfold was scratched. failed bid on turf in the Grade 1 Belmont Third in the Grade 2 Saratoga Special Derby. His sophomore season ended as a 2-year-old in 2018, Spinoff ran sec- when he rolled home five-and-three- ond in the Grade 2 Louisiana Derby to quarters lengths the best in a nine-fur- punch his ticket to the 2019 Kentucky long optional claiming allowance last Derby where he ran 18th. After skipping August at Saratoga. Paco Lopez and Sacred Life/BILL DENVER PHOTO
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