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Graceful Kitten in Not Surprising FL-bred Pure Sensation in Troy Stakes Come Dancing Rare Repeat in Ballerina Jockey Club Round Table Conference Street Band in Groupie Doll Stakes Art Collector in Ellis Park Derby Beau Recall in Yellow Ribbon Ward Ships In a Live One for Best Pal S. Gulfstream Park Charts Track Results & Entries Florida Stallion Progeny List Florida Breeders’ List Wire to Wire Business Place Featured Advertisers Tiz the Law/COGLIANESE PHOTO Bloodstockauction USA Tiz the Law Looks to Extend Florida Department of Agriculture FTBOA Unbeaten Sophomore Stonehedge Farm South Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Campaign in Travers Seminole Feed
BY BRIAN BOHL, NYRA PRESS OFFICE in Saturday’s $1 million Runhappy Travers (Grade 1) at Saratoga Race Course. FOR ADVERTISING SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY—Sackatoga The 151st running of the Travers will be INFORMATION Stable’s Tiz the Law, undefeated in his one of five graded stakes on the day along sophomore campaign with three consecu- with the $300,000 Longines Test (G1); the or to subscribe, please call tive graded stakes victories, will return to $300,000 Ballerina presented by NYRA Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or the site where his racing career began as Bets (G1), a “Win and You’re In” qualifier email: [email protected] part of an eight-horse field of 3-year-olds See TRAVERS on page 3
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Continued from COVER for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint (G1); the $200,000 Troy Stake (G3) and the $150,000 Waya Stakes (G3). FOX will have live coverage from 5-6:30 p.m ET. Tiz the Law comes into the Travers after capturing the nine- furlong Belmont Stakes (G1) on June 20 in the first leg of the revised Triple Crown schedule. With five wins in six career starts, the Barclay Tagg trainee is the even-money morning-line favorite from post six and enters the mile-and-one-quarter “Mid-Summer Derby” leading all horses with 272 qualifying points to the Kentucky Derby. He has a chance to add to that record-breaking total, as the Travers will offer 100-40-20-10 points to the top four finishers to the “Run for the Roses” on Sept. 5. Tiz the Law burst onto the scene with a four-and-a-quarter- length debut win at the Spa in a New York-bred maiden sprint in August 2019. The Constitution colt parlayed that effort into a four-length triumph in the Grade 1 Champagne in October at Barclay Tagg/LAUREN KING PHOTO Belmont Park and capped his juvenile year with a third-place fin- ish in the Grade 2 Kentucky Jockey Club in November at Churchill Downs. That marked the only time Tiz the Law has not earned a winner’s circle trip. He has gone three-for-three in 2020, racking up wins in the Grade 3 Holy Bull in February and the Grade 1 Curlin Florida Derby on March 28, both at Gulfstream Park, before winning the Belmont. “[Tiz the Law] is done everything we’ve asked him to do. We’ve been very fortunate,” Tagg said. “I don’t think any distance makes a difference for this horse. From what I’ve seen, I just don’t have any feeling that he can’t handle it. It would be nice to win it if we could.” Manny Franco, who won his first Classic in the Belmont, has been aboard for all four of Tiz the Law’s graded stakes wins and
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Back to4 Top Page 5 Travers Continued from page 3 will have the return engagement. Tiz the Law drew post six. While Tiz the Law will have to wait until the fall to complete the Triple Crown trail [the Preakness is slated for Oct. 3], he will be tested in the Travers by Uncle Chuck. Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert will ship the lightly raced but incredibly talented son of Uncle Mo, who enters two-for-two. Unraced as a juvenile, the quarter-million dollar purchase at the 2018 Keeneland September Yearling Sale won his debut by seven lengths on June 12 at Santa Anita and handled a step up in class with aplomb with a four-length victory at a mile-and-one- eighth in the Grade 3 Los Alamitios Derby on July 4. Luis Saez, aboard for his stakes win, will be in the irons against Florida-bred Shivaree/RYAN THOMPSON PHOTO from post three. Uncle Chuck is listed at 5-2. of Ocala Stud stallion Awesome of Course, is listed at 30-1 with Another upstart in the race is Max Player, the Belmont Stakes Junior Alvarado set to ride from post five. third-place finisher, for trainer Linda Rice. South Bend, the runner-up to Dean Martini in the Grade 3 Ohio A winner of the Grade 3 Withers in February at Aqueduct Derby last out on June 27 at Thistledown, will make his first start Racetrack, Max Player has never finished off the board in four for his new connections. Owners Gary Barber, Wachtel Stable, starts with two wins, a second and a third. Owned by George E. Peter Deutsch and Pantofel Stable acquired South Bend and trans- Hall and SportBLX Thoroughbreds, Max Player is ranked at num- ferred him to the care of Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott. ber 15 on the Derby leaderboard with 40 points. South Bend, an Algorithms colt, will go for his first graded Max Player will stretch out to a mile-and-a-quarter for the first stakes win, drawing post eight with Jose Ortiz. He is listed at 15- time after competing at a mile-and-one-eighth in his previous two 1 in the program. starts. First Line will make his first stakes appearance in his fifth The Honor Code colt is listed as 6-1 on the morning line and career start for trainer Orlando Noda, who also co-owns the First will break from post four under Joel Rosario. Samurai gelding with his brother Jonathan as part of Noda The top-two finishers of the Grade 3 Peter Pan on July 16 at Brothers LLC. Saratoga will make short turnarounds to rematch in the Travers, First Line broke his maiden at fourth asking on July 29 at the including winner Country Grammer. Spa and will return off a quick turnaround looking to give the 31- A maiden winner at second asking when travelling nine fur- year-old Noda his first career stakes winner. David Cohen will longs in November at the Big A, Country Grammer was fifth in ride from post one at 30-1. the Grade 2 Fountain of Youth in his seasonal debut in February at “I think we got a perfect post,” Noda said. “He’s going to come Gulfstream. Following a closing third in a one-turn, mile-and-one- out running when the gates open and he might just fight the whole sixteenth allowance event on June 4 at Belmont, Country mile and a quarter. It is a quick turnaround, but I’ve hyped this Grammer made his return to two turns a winning one in the nine horse up from before he even debuted. These are my points for the furlongPeter Pan on July 16 at Saratoga. Derby. He’s a longshot for a reason but he’s going to outrun his Listed at 6-1, Irad Ortiz Jr. will have the call from post two. odds and, God willing, we will win this race.” Global Thoroughbred and Top Racing’s Caracaro was the Peter Pan runner-up, a neck behind Country Grammer. Conditioned by Gustavo Delgado, the son of Experienced Barn Person Uncle Mo ran second in his debut in December at Gulfstream at seven furlongs Needed for Large Farm and broke his maiden with a six-length win at one mile on Jan. 11 at the Florida track before taking the step up in class last month. Experienced handling horses, cleaning stalls, feeding, etc. Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano holds a record six Travers wins, two more Will be responsible for keeping barn clean. than the next-closest competitors all-time, and will aim for his seventh Travers, piloting THIS IS A YEAR ROUND JOB WITH EXCELLENT PAY Caracaro from post seven. Jacks or Better Farm’s Shivaree ran sec- Must pass background check and have a current driver’s license. ond to Tiz the Law in the Florida Derby and 1 will make his first start at Saratoga after Job is full time, 5/2 days per week, weekend work required. compiling two stakes wins, capping his 2- Benefits include vacation, paid holidays, and health insurance is available. year-old year with a victory in the Buffalo Man at Gulfstream Park and starting 2020 Starting pay $13 an hour with a Limehouse Stakes win on Jan. 4 at Gulfstream. Trained by Ralph Nicks, Shivaree, a son Phone 352-690-7713, fax 352-690-9838
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Back to Top Page 7 Graceful Kitten Set to Return in Saturday’s Not Surprising BY GULFSTREAM PARK PRESS OFFICE______Stakes over the Gulfstream turf last Nov. 30, when he stalked the pace and made a bid for the lead before bolting on the far turn and HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Super Super Stable’s multiple grass fading to run last of 11. The Pulpit field included winner Sole stakes-winner Graceful Kitten will make a long-awaited return to Volante and third-place finisher King Guillermo, both pointing to the races Saturday, launching his comeback in the $100,000 Not the Kentucky Derby presented by Woodford Reserve (Grade 1) to Surprising at Gulfstream Park. be run Sept. 5. The one-mile Not Surprising for 3-year-olds on the grass co- Trained by Chilean-born Amador Sanchez, who is also part of headlines a 12-race program with the $100,000 Martha the ownership group, Graceful Kitten was given a break following Washington for 3-year-old fillies, also going a mile on turf. First the Pulpit and didn’t record his first timed work until July 4 at race post time is noon. Gulfstream, where Sanchez has been based since first coming to Graceful Kitten, a bay son of turf champion and perennial lead- the United States in February 2019. ing grass sire Kitten’s Joy, has not raced since the one-mile Pulpit Since then, Graceful Kitten has breezed four times over the main track including a half-mile drill in :48.28 July 30, the third-fastest of 20 horses at the distance. “He was a horse that went very hard in his train- ing. He was a little stressed and I needed to give him a rest,” Sanchez said. “He has been training very good and he loves the turf course at Gulfstream.” Graceful Kitten won each of his first three career races, all over the Gulfstream turf, beginning with a two-and-a-half-length debut triumph last June. He then reeled off back-to-back stakes victories in the seven-and-a-half-furlong Proud Man Stakes and one- mile Armed Forces Stakes, each in front-running fashion and each time as the favorite. “After his first career race, he was transformed. He became like another horse, very confident,” Sanchez said. “What makes him so special is the heart he has. Every time I train him, the stronger he responds.” His performances in South Florida earned Graceful Kitten a shot in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) last fall at Santa Anita. Sent off at 19-1 in a bulky field of 14, Graceful Kitten led the group into mid-stretch and appeared to have plenty left before he ducked in and hit the inside rail, ultimately fading to last. Berrios, a fellow Chilean that has been aboard for all of Graceful Kitten’s races, gets the return call from post two in the field of nine. “He is my best horse, so I trust him. It is exciting to see him run,” Sanchez said. “I hope to see a good race. He is not 100 percent yet, but I am confident he will give a good account of himself.”
Graceful Kitten/RYAN THOMPSON PHOTO See GRACEFUL KITTEN on page 16 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 9 Florida-bred Pure Sensation Half of Strong Clement Pair in Troy Stakes BY KEITH MCCALMONT, NYRA PRESS OFFICE ______finish third in the five-and-a-half-furlong Wolf Hill at Monmouth Park. SARTOGA SPRINGS, NY—Christophe Clement, who topped the Shekky Shebaz posted a bullet three-eighths breeze in :36.98 trainer standings with 15 wins heading into Friday’s card at on the Oklahoma turf training course. Saratoga Race Course, will look to add to his impressive numbers “He’s had one start with us and ran fair at Monmouth,” when he sends out Florida-bred star Pure Sensation and Shekky Clement said. “He ran wide all the way. He also looks good and Shebaz in Saturday’s Grade 3, $200,000 Troy over the Spa’s trained well on the grass here. Irad knows him well, so we’ll give Mellon turf course. him a shot.” The Troy, a five-and-a-half-furlong turf sprint for older males, Shekky Shebaz will exit post four under Irad Ortiz, Jr. is one of five graded races on a loaded Runhappy Travers Day Breeze Easy’s Imprimis, a seven-time winner from 13 starts for card headlined by the Grade 1, $1 million Runhappy Travers at a trainer Joe Orseno, is winless in four starts since taking the 2019 mile-and-one-quarter. Grade 2 Shakertown in Patricia Generazio’s April at Keeneland. homebred Pure The 6-year-old Sensation, a 9-year-old Florida-bred Broken Zensational gelding, Vow gelding shipped to boasts a record of 14 Ascot last June for the wins from 37 career Group 1 King’s Stand starts with purse earn- and finished sixth. He ings of $2,001,050. The returned stateside for a popular grey won four- three-race fall cam- of-six starts last season, paign that included a including a pair of fourth in the Grade 3 graded-stakes at Parx Runhappy Turf Sprint at where he captured his Kentucky Downs; a third Grade 3 Parx third in the Grade 2 Dash [which he also Woodford at Keeneland won in 2016-17], and and a sixth in the Grade his fourth Grade 3 Turf 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Monster [2015, 2017- Sprint at Santa Anita. 18] at Parx. Jose Ortiz, who Pure Sensation win- guided Imprimis to vic- tered at Payson Park in Florida-bred Pure Sensation/ADAM COGLIANESE PHOTO tory in the 2018 Wolf Florida and made his Hill at Monmouth Park, seasonal debut with a seventh in the Grade 1 Jaipur Stakes on June will pilot Imprimis from the inside post. 20 at Belmont Park. He posted a pair of turf works following the Rounding out the field is American Sailor (Tyler Gaffalione), Jaipur, including a bullet three-eighths in :37.23 on July 31 on the Lonhtwist (John Velazquez), Pulsate (Manny Franco), and Oklahoma training turf. Chewing Gum (Joel Rosario). “I was very disappointed with his race in the Jaipur. He was in The Troy is slated as Race 8 on Saturday’s 12-race card, which a speed duel that day and I hope it’s the reason that he ran poorly,” offers a first post of 12 p.m. ET. Saratoga Live will present daily Clement said. “He came back and had a very good work on the television coverage of the 40-day summer meet on FOX Sports turf the other day here. He worked well and looks well.” and MSG Networks. Pure Sensation will be making his third start in the Troy after finishing sixth in 2018 and third last year. Clement said he’s hop- ing the ultra-consistent Pure Sensation will return to form on Saturday. “He’s 9-years-old, so we’ll go one race at a time with him,” Clement said. “It’s an important race for him as he has to do well in order for me to carry on. He’s a very good-looking horse. He still looks very well and he’s very sound.” Kendrick Carmouche, who had guided the gelding to seven wins, has the call from post five. Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables and Bethlehem Stables’ Shekky Shebaz owns a record of six wins from 21 starts with purse earnings of $382,400 and will look to make the grade in his fourth start of the season. The 5-year-old Cape Blanco gelding finished third in the 2019 Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint in his graded-stakes debut. Last out, making his first start for Clement, Shekky Shebaz closed to
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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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Thank you for keeping your businesses and economic impact and contributions going in the face of the challenges presented to the entire world by the COVID-19 pandemic. The FTBOA commends our industry partners in Florida for preserving our live racing and are grateful for Tampa Bay Downs Photo by Cooley the people who provide, care for, condition, ride and house our beloved thoroughbreds on-track, in business and poised to move forward. They are Florida Thoroughbred Strong!
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Back to Top Page 11 Come Dancing Targets Rare Repeat in Ballerina BY NYRA PRESS OFFICE ______
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY—Blue Devil Racing Stable’s homebred Come Dancing emerged as one of the country’s leading older female sprinters last summer at Saratoga Race Course, and trainer Carlos Martin is hopeful the 6-year-old mare will flash that same form when she goes after a second straight victory in Saturday’s $300,000 Ballerina Stakes presented by NYRA Bets (Grade 1). The 42nd running of the seven-furlong Ballerina for older fillies and mares is one of five graded stakes on a Runhappy Travers Day program highlighted by the Grade 1, $1 million Runhappy Travers. Also on the card are the $300,000 Longines Test (G1); $200,000 Troy Stakes Come Dancing/CHRIS RAHAYEL PHOTO (G3); and $150,000 Waya Stakes. front-running fashion on March 14 at Oaklawn Park, was off the The card will be broadcast on Saratoga Live on FOX Sports board in the Apple Blossom and fourth last out in the Grade 2 and MSG Networks. Fleur de Lis on June 27 at Churchill Downs. Named for the inaugural winner of the Maskette, now contest- Serengeti Empress set the pace and was game to the wire in a ed as the Go for Wand, in 1954, the Ballerina also serves as a “Win half-length loss to Covfefe in the 2019 Test at Saratoga. Covfefe and You’re In” qualifier for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Filly & would go on to win the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Sprint and be Mare Sprint (G1) on Nov. 7 at Keeneland. named both Champion 3-Year-Old Filly and Champion Female Come Dancing is attempting to become only the second horse Sprinter. to win multiple editions of the Ballerina following Shine Again in “The move to shorten up to seven-eighths has a lot to do with 2001 and 2002 for late Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens. last summer at Saratoga. That was a really good seven-eighths “She really seems like she’s thriving. She loves Saratoga. She’s race for her, so we feel that this might be something that we can put on some weight since her last race and everything has gone use to our advantage,” Amoss said. pretty good,” Martin said. “We haven’t had any setbacks, haven’t A Grade 1 winner at 2 and 3, Kaleem Shah Inc., Mrs. John missed any training, so I’m excited about the opportunity for her Magnier, Michael Tabor and Derrick Smith’s Bellafina looks to to do something special and hopefully get back-to-back extend that streak to her 4-year-old season in the Ballerina. Based Ballerinas. That would be like a dream.” in California with trainer Simon Callaghan, the Quality Road Only Jerkens, fellow Hall of Famer D. Wayne Lukas (1985-86), filly has raced three times in 2020, winning the Grade 3, six-fur- and future Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher (2011-12) have won the long Desert Stormer on May 17 at Santa Anita. Third in last Ballerina in back-to-back years. year’s Grade 1 Test at Saratoga, Bellafina posted Grade 1 wins in A multiple graded-stakes winner of more than $1 million in the 2018 Del Mar Debutante and Chandelier and 2019 Santa career purses, Come Dancing has raced just twice this year. She Anita Oaks. was 12th in her season debut in the Grade 1 Apple Blossom on Jose Ortiz gets the call from post four. April 18 at Oaklawn Park when she was saddled by Lukas, and sec- Tommy Town Thoroughbreds’ Victim of Love upset the ond as the favorite behind fellow Ballerina aspirant Victim of Love Vagrancy by nearly two lengths at odds of 27-1 for her first career in the Grade 3 Vagrancy Handicap on June 27 at Belmont Park. graded triumph and second in a stakes, following the What a Come Dancing won the Grade 3 Distaff and Grade 2 Ruffian Summer Stakes on Jan. 18 at Laurel Park to kick off her 4-year- and was second in the Grade 1 Odgen Phipps heading into last old campaign. Based at Penn National with trainer Todd Beattie, year’s Ballerina, and Martin said he has not seen a drop off in his she ran second in the Grade 3 Barbara Fritchie on Feb. 15, also at stable star despite a lighter schedule largely due to the skewed rac- Laurel. ing schedule amid the coronavirus pandemic. Jose Lezcano rides from post three. “She still has the enthusiasm. She doesn’t really get too hot and St. George Stable’s homebred Letruska will make her New bothered, but she’ll get a little bit excited if somebody goes by her York debut in the Ballerina for trainer Fausto Gutierrez. A two- galloping on the track or somebody goes inside of her. She’s got time Group 1 winner in Mexico, the 4-year-old Letruska beat those competitive juices,” Martin said. males in the mile-and-one-quarter Copa Invitacional del Caribe Hall of Famer Javier Castellano will ride Come Dancing from last December and last out won the one-mile Added Elegance outside post seven. Stakes on June 27, both at Gulfstream Park. In between, she trav- Joel Politi’s 2019 Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks-winner Serengeti eled to Oaklawn Park for a eight-and-a-half furlong optional Empress will cut back to a sprint for the first time since last sum- claiming allowance victory under Ricardo Santana Jr., who mer at Saratoga in an effort to regain her winning form. The 4- returns to ride from post five. year-old Alternation filly captured the Grade 2 Azeri Stakes in See BALLERINA on page 13
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BY ELLIS PARK PRESS OFFICE ______“We’ve only had three starts,” Jones said of 2020. The Houston Ladies Classic, she had a wide trip, and I thought that was a really HENDERSON, KY—Although Street Band was one of the country’s good race for her. In the Azeri, the track was really sloppy and I top 3-year-old fillies last year, trainer Larry Jones, also her co- didn’t think she ran her best race by any means. Serengeti owner and co-breeder, is still trying Empress got on an easy lead and just to see how that translates into her kept going. She’s running good. I stature as a 4-year-old. don’t know if she’s any better at 4 Just matching last year is a lofty than she was at 3.” standard, with Street Band earning Jones is known for being forth- more than $1 million in 2019, right anyway. But he also can speak including victories in the Grade 2 candidly about Street Band as a co- Fair Grounds Oaks, Grade 3 Indiana owner with wife Cindy, Ray Francis Oaks and Parx’s Grade 1 Cotillion. of Henderson and with minority Street Band should get some interests owned by Medallion relief in the ferocity of competition Racing and MyRaceHorse Stable. when she runs in Sunday’s $100,000 “I have as much on the line as Groupie Doll Stakes at Ellis Park, they do,” Jones said. “So my part- one of five stakes on the Runhappy ners have been very agreeable to do Ellis Park Derby card. what we’re doing. So it’s worked out Street Band is zero for three in well. 2020, all against top-flight company: Jockey Sophie Doyle, who has a very close third in the Grade 3 ridden Street Band for the past 13 of Houston Ladies Classic, a fading her 16 career starts, comes in from fourth in the Grade 2 Azeri Stakes Iowa’s Prairie Meadows to ride. and a rallying fourth in the Grade 1 Jones has another Groupie Doll Apple Blossom in April in her last contender in Istan Council, who last start. year defeated older horses by 10 3/4 “I think she had reached her peak lengths to win an Ellis Park early fall last year, late summer,” allowance race. Jones said. “She was really doing “She really does well on this well. She’s doing just as well now, Street Band/COADY PHOTO track,” Jones said. “And I love the but she just has not looked like fact that going a mile here is not a [she’s] doing better. She looks like maybe she matured early, and two-turn race. It’s maybe a turn and three-quarters. We know she we have not been as busy with her, and some of it due to the wants to go a little bit longer than the six furlongs we’ve been able COVID.” to find to keep her at the one-turn. We haven’t been able to find a Street Band drew post 12 as the Groupie Doll attracted 15 fil- true one-turn mile race for her. But she’s coming into this race lies and mares, with the three also-eligibles. very well.” Jones is hoping the Groupie Doll is a steppingstone to Both fillies come into the race without their final scheduled Keeneland’s Grade 1 Spinster Stakes in the fall. With the workout, with Jones calling them off Tuesday because of the Breeders’ Cup also at Keeneland this year, the major objective is muddy track. getting Street Band back into the $2 million Distaff (G1), a race “We’ll have to go into the race just off of gallops,” he said in a in which she was eighth last year. text update. “Uncharted waters for both of them.” Ballerina Continued from page 11 Furlough in 1999. Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey has won the Ballerina a Arindel homebred Cookie Dough, trained by Juan Alvarado, record five times, and will send out Gainesway Stable and Andrew placed in five graded stakes before her triumph in the Royal Delta Rosen’s Pink Sands.heT 5-year-old Tapit mare captured the Grade on Feb. 15 at Gulfstream Park. She has not started since fading to 3 Rampart and Grade 2 Inside Information over the winter at last after racing on or near the pace in the Grade 1 Apple Blossom Gulfstream Park then went unraced for five months before finish- April 18 at Oaklawn Park, but has fired three consecutive bullet ing fifth in the Grade 1 Ogden Phipps on June 13 at Belmont Park. workouts in preparation for her return, most recently going five Irad Ortiz, Jr. has the mount from post six. furlongs in :57.77 seconds on July 24. McGaughey’s Ballerina wins came with Lass Trump in 1984, Florida-bred Cookie Dough will be ridden by Hall of Famer Cadillacing in 1988, Queena in 1991, Roamin Rachel in 1994 and John Velazquez from post two.
Back to Top Page 14 Art Collector Faces Full Field in Ellis Park Derby BY ELLIS PARK PRESS OFFICE ______Santa Anita Derby; Grand Prairie Derby-winner Little Menace (post 6), and last year’s Ellis Park Juvenile-winner Rowdy Yates HENDERSON, KY — The field was set Thursday for Sunday’s first- (post 8). ever Kentucky Derby prep staged at Ellis Park, with Keeneland’s Shared Sense could be on the Derby qualifying bubble points- Grade 2 Toyota Blue Grass-winner Art Collector heading the field wise, collecting 20 for winning the Grade 3 Indiana Derby in his of 13 3-year-old colts and geldings entered in the $200,000 graded-stakes debut. Godolphin’s son of 2007 Kentucky Derby Runhappy Ellis Park Derby. winner Street Sense faced Art Collector two races back, when Art “It’s Art Collector and all the rest,” trainer Tom Amoss said. Collector controlled the speed for a dominant win over Shared Amoss will try to pull off the upset with Grade 3 Ohio Derby-vic- Sense in a four-horse Churchill Downs allowance field. tor Dean Martini. “You’ve got a really strong favorite in this race “First time we ran against him here, we were at the back of the and I think everyone will pack, there was no pace,” measure the quality of their Shared Sense’s trainer Brad horse with how they per- Cox said. “I was pleased form against him.” with the effort. They almost The Ellis Park Derby, broke the track record. which was instituted in Honestly, we were the sec- 2018 as a mile race, ond-best horse that day. He anchors a five-stakes pro- bounced out of it in good gram that also includes the shape. We turned our atten- $100,000 Runhappy tion to the Indiana Derby Audubon Oaks, which and it worked out extreme- offers 10 points to its win- ly well. Obviously the other ner toward qualifying for horse went on to pick off a the Kentucky Oaks; the Grade 2 at Keeneland very $100,000 Groupie Doll impressively. Both horses Stakes; the $100,000 seem to be going the right Runhappy Juvenile for 2- way right now, and I’m year-olds; and $100,000 excited about Sunday.” Runhappy Debutante for 2- Saturday’s $1 million, year-old fillies. Grade 1 Travers Stakes at The mile-and-one- Saratoga, where Belmont eighth Ellis Park Derby Stakes winner Tiz the Law carries 50 points to the looms as the big favorite, winner toward qualifying also was a possibility for Art Collector/COADY PHOTO for the Covid-delayed Shared Sense. Kentucky Derby on Sept. 5. Also earning qualifying points will be “If we’re dreaming about the Derby, I think with my horse I the runner-up (20), third place (10) and fourth (5). would be comfortable trying to get a nice mile-and-an-eighth race Art Collector drew post four as he seeks to go to four for four into him four weeks before the Derby as opposed to a mile-and-a- since being turned over to trainer Tommy Drury this year. Thanks quarter at Saratoga,” Cox said. “That’s a pretty demanding course, to the Blue Grass’ 100 points, owner-breeder Bruce Lunsford’s and that’s a big ask four weeks before you’re hopefully going to colt already has enough points to ensure a spot in the 20-horse run the biggest race of your life.” Kentucky Derby field, with Drury using the Ellis Park Derby as a Because he wasn’t nominated earlier in the year, Godolphin conditioning tool rather than training the eight weeks up to would have to pay $45,000 to make Shared Sense a supplemental America’s most important race. nominee to the Kentucky Derby, on top of entry fees. “His first couple of wins, he just ran off the screen both times, The same is true for Dean Martini, who was claimed by his certainly didn’t have to overexert himself,” Drury said of Art owners Raise the BAR Racing out of a $50,000 maiden-claiming Collector. “The Blue Grass, he had to earn it; that filly [Swiss race May 17. The gelding actually started his career with a second Skydiver] made him work for it. Watching that race and evaluating at Ellis Park but needed seven more attempts to win, albeit while the race afterward, I felt one more was going to be beneficial to accumulating three seconds and three thirds. Dean Martini won him. I’m just really thankful that spot at Ellis is available. We were the Ohio Derby in his second start for his new connections. late getting to the party and we’ve needed every little thing to fall “We need to know if he can validate his Ohio Derby perform- in place to get him to this point. For Ellis to have a Derby prep this ance,” Amoss said. “It was a very good race, but is he consistently year was a lifesaver to us.” the kind of horse who can put in those kinds of performances? We Other leading contenders include Grade 3 Indiana Derby win- need to find out and we’re going to do that on Sunday. Obviously ner Shared Sense (post 12); Anneau d’Or (post 2), the Breeders’ with a horse like Art Collector in there, it will validate one way or Cup Juvenile (G1) runner-up and most recently fourth in the the other where we need to head for our next race.”
Back to Top Page 15 Beau Recall Has Eyes Again for Yellow Ribbon at Del Mar BY DEL MAR PRESS OFFICE ______Lady Prancealot has chased home Keeper Of the Stars in her last two DEL MAR, CA—Slam Dunk Racing or outings, but was a double stakes win- Medallion Racing’s Beau Recall (Ire), who ner in her two starts before that. The was up by a whisker to win last year’s Irish-bred filly runs out of the barn of Yellow Ribbon Handicap, has come back trainer Richard Baltas and can brag to Del Mar to try to repeat the victory in of $565,841 in winnings so far. Like the Grade 2, $150,000 headliner for fillies most in this field, she’s shown a real and mares that will be run this Saturday. affinity for the turf. The now 6-year-old mare by the Irish Summering ships in from Laurel stallion Sir Prancealot (Ire) brings a record Park where the Florida-bred filly was of seven wins and eight seconds from 27 second to Theodora in a third-condi- starts to the mile-and-one-sixteenth grass tioned, $50,000 optional claiming test, as well as a bankroll that reads race going a mile-and-one-sixteenth $1,101,512. Trainer Brad Cox has shipped on turf on June 26. his well-traveled charge in from New York Trainer Thomas Proctor is also to defend her title and has assigned hoping Summering will find the Del Umberto Rispoli to ride. Mar turf to her liking again after she In all, eight runners have been entered won her first and only stakes race for the 68th edition of the Yellow Ribbon, there in 2018 when she won the but one of them – Fox Hill Farms’ Jolie $102,000 Juvenile Fillies Turf. Olimpica – is expected to scratch accord- Bodhicitta rallied to take second ing to trainer Richard Mandella. in the aforementioned Gamely In any event, here’s the entered lineup behind Keeper Ofthe Stars in her best for the 68th edition of the Yellow Ribbon effort to date. The rising 4-year-old from the rail out with riders, weights and by the British stallion Showcasing morning line odds: also comes out of the Baltas barn. Keeper Ofthe Stars, a gray 4-year-old by She has put in a series of good works Beau Recall/COADY PHOTO Midnight Lute, has won seven of her 16 at Del Mar for her go in the distaff feature. Gonzalez); Tommy Town Thoroughbreds’ starts, including a smart score this past May Glen Hill Farm’s Summering (Drayden Keeper Of the Stars (Abel Cedillo); Beau 25 in the Grade I Gamely Stakes at Santa Van Dyke); Calvin Nguyen’s Bodhicitta Recall and Jolie Olimpica. Anita. The Jonathan Wong trainee has won (Flavien Prat); DRJ Racing, Kenney or The Yellow Ribbon will be race nine on more than half a million dollars and has Strauss’ Tonahutu (Victor Espinoza); the 11-race Saturday program. Also on the done well with rider Cedillo, her partner Iavarone, McClanahan or Arntz, et al’s card will be the Grade 2, $150,000 Best Pal Saturday. They’ve rung up three stakes vic- Lady Prancealot (Juan Hernandez); Agave Stakes for 2-year-olds. First post on the tories together, including that Gamely tally. Racing Stable’s Harmless (Ricky afternoon will be 2 p.m. PT. Ward Ships in a Live One for Saturday’s Best Pal BY DEL MAR PRESS OFFICE ______ner—looks like a solid favorite for the 50th edition of the Best Pal Stakes. DEL MAR, CA—When Wesley Ward ships The race, a six-panel spin for juveniles one in – standby. Mr. Ward does not come that carries Grade 2 status and a $150,000 to play, be it anywhere in the U.S., or purse, has drawn a field of seven runners Europe, too. The man fires bullets from and Roderick has drawn post four and Del coast to coast and across the ocean. Mar’s leading rider, Flavien Prat. Eight times already he’s rung the stakes Ward, the former Eclipse Award winning bell at Del Mar and Saturday he’s aiming jockey (top apprentice, 1984), is likely to for another gong with the quick 2-year-old watch his charge run from his headquarters colt Roderick, who ran away and hid from in Lexington as his west coast guy—trainer a straight maiden field at Belmont Park in Blake Heap—saddles his Into Mischief colt New York on June 21 in his lone outing Saturday for his ownership group that goes Wesley Ward/COADY PHOTO and—in a lineup that lacks a stakes win- See BEST PAL on page 17
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!" "#$% &'& ( )"* !+,- . )/ 0( 0( 1+. 2, 2.% 3 4 4(5 4 63 ."7 8 ."#7 1,2+,, -+,-'9 12.7 ++,:(+-);! -56,.1 ); 1 1,+..&, 12,-% Kitten < 1 -= )">"5+,,)""?8 -1,.)/8 6+.)"8 1 6)>8 +6)"8 +@6)"8 A,6)"8 +:66)"8 ,+,6)" ' (11)"*;/* @-(11)";?? +-(11)>?>? B-(11)/#; C +,(11)#;>" B+:6 +A(11 )";"/ Continued from page 16 !"#$ % &' Natural Power will carry jockey ! " # Miguel Vazquez from post seven. $% & ' " ( $ ) ( )* +,- " .# $% / '0+1 . " " ( 234 56 " (# Curtis Green’s Givemetwenty, a .7 8 9 : " ( ; < = -> " "#. one-mile starter optional winner July 4 7 % ?!@ A B ( B * 4A+@ " $#" at Gulfstream for trainer Ralph Nicks; 7 06 $ $ $% ")C D!?E " # Partner Stable’s Express Pharoah, off $% % E,-' " B "B F G4 ' 6H " # H GI: $ B B $ C <4AH " .#" the board in two tries since breaking $7J '',- : . ( . . . . K4'' 6 " (#( his maiden April 5 at Gulfstream; Fred Rosen and Timothy Madden’s !" "# #$%"# #&' " $ "# #$(&"# #&#() Aficionado, third behind Kokokomo ? &( ( " ; / # / &4 "# > ; # June 20 at Gulfstream; and D P Racing D E < / and Linda Shanahan’s Candy Ride )" F ?/ ( &4 )> #; & ?/ ( &4 maiden Lookintogetlucky, winless in )""? ;" ( ?/" ( &4 )"* #>) C& /? ( &4 )? #)" ( & &< ?/"# ( &4 )"?;"? * three lifetime starts, complete the field. 0 : !7% 79 +4 .-B+,: 79 &,6 +, 1,GG -' 0. 79 A'+H Reeves Thoroughbred Racing’s stakes +,.0'+ !% winner Ournationonparade is entered for main track only. The Not Surprising is named for the Friday Charts Florida-bred gelding that won 23 of 61 races and more than $1.1 million in ! "# $ # %&! '()* & +,% +,% purses from 1992-99. -'*.( .*"# $ $# + / $ $%0 $ 1/*!!23 4*!53 ''(6%')&! 2! " 7 - )8 &!990'((&!54 )-(* &:!;4 1'* &!4 -1 &;4 '1 &!;4 '<1 &!;4 =(1 &!;4 '611 &!; # %-- &>>;5 <)%--&>!95; ')%-- &5:9 ?)%-- &:!;5: @'(%-- &:; ?+'61'=%-- &:92 !"#$ % &' Best Pal ! !"#$ % & ' (#)#*+, % Continued from page 15 '- . #"$ /! 0 ' ' & 1 #!*! & under the name Breeze Easy. 2#*34#556 & & % % ' & $$247 %8 The local hope with the best chance 9 : ;6< !$0!5 ' & % 8 & ' ;!,=*/,> & to outfoot the youthful invader appears !*#$#56 8 ' ? ? % % @ 26 8 . !$" #$) 8 ? ,A & to be Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners’ ' B,$C#*6 & & 8 8 8 2!,7 & Herd Immunity, a Union Rags off- spring who won at first asking in a ! "!!!#$% &'&%(#)*+,# - ./ 0 1 / 0/2 .# . 0 #3 # 4 0# 56 straight maiden race at Santa Anita in , 9 : early June, then was shipped to 9% 7 5 9 : Churchill Downs where he ran third in ; 7 9 &! A 9 % $ &!! >; 9; % $ the Bashford Manor Stakes on June 27. &!9 ;! % 9;5 % $ &! & @ For his go in the Best Pal, the Peter 9 % $ &!: 5&! % + +7 9;5: % $ &;> Miller-trained colt will be partnered by , #" 3B ,1( -') (6'( 3B -'(1'( '( -(CC)# ,* 3B '(* " Abel Cedillo and break from post five. ! "#!$%& ' '&' !()*# "+,-. ) /0( /0( Weston, who is trained by Ryan 1+.2, 2.% & ' ' '34 !3+56##78!++,5(+- )+1)*12.#8! Hanson, broke his maiden in good fash- 9 1 -: )73+,,)#*; -1,. )<7; 6+. )=#7; 16 )#*; +6 )7; +>6 )7; ?,6 )7! & (11 ion at Santa Anita on June 21. The )7<*! >- (11 )=! +- (11 )**=! @- (11 )7! A+, (11 )7#! @ /+56 +? (11 Kentucky-bred gelding by the War Front )*#! !"#$ % &' stallion Hit It a Bomb, has had three !"! solid works at Del Mar since and gets # $ % !& !& ! ' ( )*+,-. % !"% his chance to step up a notch Saturday. / 01 2+1 3 4 4 %' % %5 !' 6 3 ) " 7 8)9 & %: ; %"4 Girther, also trained by Peter Miller, !/ 01< =) $ : 2 )> ? % " scored his initial victory in his second = 3 ! 4' 4@ 4 1 A 4" start here at Del Mar on July 11, hang- (B1 )) % ! 4 8 )- %" ing on for a nose tally at five furlongs. !" #$#"% &'() He’s a Florida-bred colt by the Giant’s * + ,-+ ./ 0,12 ,- 3 . , 0, 345 B/ C!< ! !C Causeway stallion Brody’s Cause. &' ' *!C !C The Best Pal will go as the sixth <0 ( 4 ! )# B ( ' )#! ' <