Tom's D'etat, by My Standards, Owendale Set to Clash in Stephen
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ftboa.com • Thursday • June 25, 2020 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION Tom’s d’Etat, By My FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION Standards, Owendale Set or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or to Clash in Stephen Foster email: [email protected] BY CHURCHILL DOWNS PRESS OFFICE ___________ In This Issue: LOUISVILLE, KY—G M B Racing’s 2019 Clark (Grade 1)- Antonio Sano Headed to Saratoga winner Tom’s d’Etat will take on Bennett Sweeps Top Honors Allied Racing Stable’s multiple Grade 2-winner By My Travers, Haskell in Play for Dr Post Standards and Rupp Racing’s recent Blame Stakes hero Trapezium Sells for $327,000 Owendale in Saturday’s 39th running of the $500,000 Dr. Stuart E. Brown II Joins Keeneland Stephen Foster presented by Coca-Cola (G2) – the center- Donk Sends Out Two for Hessonite piece of an action-packed pro- gram on the penultimate day of Monmouth Park to Re-Open to Fans Churchill Downs’ 27-day Spring Meet. COVID-19 Safety Protocols for The mile-and-one-eighth Midlantic Two-Year-Olds in Training Stephen Foster is the headliner of a stakes quartet on Saturday’s Track Results & Entries 11-race program. The day of Gulfstream Park Charts racing also will feature the $200,000 Fleur de Lis presented Tampa Bay Downs Charts by Coca-Cola (G2), $100,000 Regret presented by Tom’s d’Etat/LESLIE MARTIN PHOTO Florida Stallion Progeny List TwinSpires.com (G3) and $100,000 Bashford Manor presented by won 41 of their 131 starts (31.2%), includ- Florida Breeders’ List TwinSpires.com (G3). First post is 1 p.m. ing 17 stakes events, and earned more than ET. $5.5 million. Wire to Wire Business Place The Stephen Foster will be broadcast on Tom’s d’Etat has won four of his last NBC as part of the Breeders’ Cup five starts including a three-and-a-quarter- Challenge Series. The one-hour broadcast, length score in last year’s $600,000 Clark. Featured Advertisers which will begin at 5 p.m., also will The now 7-year-old son of Smart Strike include the Fleur de Lis. The winner of the enters Saturday’s Stephen Foster following Bloodstockauction USA Stephen Foster will get an automatic berth a hard-fought victory in the April 11 FTBOA to the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1) while $150,000 Oaklawn Mile. the winner of the Fleur de Lis will receive “He has a history of running well off Florida Department of Agriculture a berth to the Longines Distaff (G1). The layoffs,” trainer Al Stall Jr. said. “He’s Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply never really left form even after he was Breeders’ Cup World Championships will Seminole Feed be held on Nov. 6-7 at Keeneland. Combined, the Stephen Foster field has See CHURCHILL DOWNS on page 3 Florida Equine Communications Back to Top Page 3 Churchill Downs Continued from COVER freshened at Fair Grounds this winter when we were getting him ready for the second half of the year. We had talked about the Blame as a prep but when the schedule was shuffled around, we just decided to stick with the plan to run him in the Foster.” With the redesigned stakes schedule at Churchill Downs and NYRA, Tom’s d’Etat will be without his regular pilot Joel Rosario for the Stephen Foster due to his previous riding engagements in New York. Instead, Stall has installed one of his local go-to riders, Miguel Mena, to ride Tom’s d E’tat from post five. Even though Stall opted to skip the Blame with Tom’s d’Etat, one of his main rivals in the Stephen Foster, Owendale, took full advantage of the May 23 one-mile race with a hard-closing half- length score under Florent Geroux. Tom’s d’Etat is out of Julia Tuttle, by Giant’s Causeway and he has earned $1,326,572 while winning 10 of 17 starts. Trained by Brad Cox, Owendale will attempt to get the better of Tom’s d’Etat following his runner-up effort in last year’s Clark. Owendale, a 4-year-old son of Into Mischief, targeted some of the top 3-year-old events last year where he won a trio of Grade 3 events in the $200,000 Lexington Stakes, the $500,000 Ohio Derby and $400,000 Oklahoma Derby. Owendale also finished third in last year’s $1.5 million Preakness (G1). “He was impressive coming back at one-turn [in the Blame],” Cox said. “He is a horse who I think will excel at two turns and his last race was just a prep as his first start of 2020. He ran some tough races last year but appears to have taken a step forward now that he’s older.” Owendale is out of Aspen Light, by Bernardini and has won six of 15 lifetime starts. He has earned $1,129,185 for owners Rupp Racing. Geroux will be in the saddle on Saturday from post eight. Another top older horse that entered the Stephen Foster is last year’s $1 million TwinSpires.com Louisiana Derby (G2)-hero By My Standards. Trained by Bret Calhoun, Florient Geroux/BURNS PHOTO By My Standards returned as a 4-year-old in February at Fair Grounds with a convincing three-length victory in the $400,000 New Orleans Stakes (G2). By My Standards enters the Stephen Foster following a length-and-three-quarters win in last month’s $600,000 Oaklawn Stakes (G2). Gabriel Saez, who has been aboard By My Standards for all of his nine-career races, was named to ride in the Stephen Foster and drew post six. By My Standards is by Goldencents out of A Jealous Woman, by Muqtarib. He has won five of nine career starts with earning $1,281,910. Also entered in the Stephen Foster is By My Standards’ stable- mate Silver Dust, a winner of six of 28 starts and $787,577. Owned by Tom Durant, Silver Dust is a three-time graded stakes winner including a narrow victory in February’s $200,000 Mineshaft Stakes (G3) at Fair Grounds. Silver Dust finished third, only three-quarters of a length behind Owendale, in the Blame. 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The complete field for the Stephen Foster (with jockey and trainer): Fearless (John Velazquez, Todd Pletcher); Pirate’s Punch (Mike Smith, Grant Forster); Alkhaatam (Declan Cannon, Danny Peitz); Multiplier (Tyler Gaffalione, Peter Miller); Tom’s d’Etat (Mena, Stall); By My Standards (Saez, Calhoun); Silver Dust (Beschizza, Calhoun); and Owendale (Geroux, Cox). The Stephen Foster has had a strong influence on the Breeders’ Cup Classic and Horse of the Year By My Standards/COADY PHOTO honors. Four horses used victories in the Stephen Foster as part of their résumés in Horse of the Year campaigns: won the Foster the following year prior to a fourth-place run in his Black Tie Affair (1991), Saint Liam (2005), Curlin (2008) and bid for a second Classic win. Gun Runner (2017). In addition, two runner-ups were crowned Florida-bred Victory Gallop owns the stakes and track record Horse of the Year: Mineshaft (2003) and Wise Dan (2012). Also, for a mile-and-one-eighth in 1:47.28, which was established in Awesome Again (1998) and Blame (2010) completed same-year 1999, the year Victory Gallop was named the Eclipse Award-win- Foster-Classic doubles. Fort Larned won the Classic in 2012, and ning champion older horse. Antonio Sano Headed to Saratoga with Promising Juveniles BY GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS “I expected him to come from behind OFFICE _________________________ and close. The race came up different. It was a surprise to me,” Sano said. “He is HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Trainer a good horse. I told the owner that this Antonio Sano started making plans for was a very good horse.” the upcoming Saratoga Race Course meet A day earlier, Sano sent out Hara, after saddling his fourth 2-year-old win- who scored a dominating front-running ner of the Spring Meet at Gulfstream Park triumph in a five-and-a-half-furlong Saturday.