Core Beliefs Continues to Progress in Ohio Derby
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SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2018 CORE BELIEFS CONTINUES TO LETTER FROM ASCOT: UP THE STRETCH AWARDS by Dave Johnson PROGRESS IN OHIO DERBY Originally these ATips of the Top Hat@ after the five-day Royal Meeting at Ascot were entitled Down The Stretch Awards, but since the Ascot home stretch is uphill, I have renamed these presentations as the Up The Stretch Awards, also known as the AStretchies.@ BEST PERFORMANCE BY A HORSE: She won't get the headlines she deserves, but 3-year-old Alpha Centauri (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) blitzed 12 competitors in the G1 Coronation S., which has been on the Royal Ascot menu since 1840. She lowered the track record by more than a second, and gave me the impression of a grey blur that might just beat the boys, if given fast ground and a very good rider. She will win many more major events. Cont. p7 (click here) Core Beliefs | Jeff Zaimako photo IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Gary Broad=s Core Beliefs (Quality Road) overcame a difficult NAVY SCORES IN DRAMATIC JUBILEE trip and outfought favored Lone Sailor (Majestic Warrior) to Merchant Navy becomes a dual hemisphere Group 1 winner in Royal Ascot’s Diamond Jubilee S. register his biggest pay day to date in Saturday=s $500,000 Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. GIII Ohio Derby in suburban Cleveland. The locally based Trigger Warning (Candy Ride {Arg}) held the lead in upper stretch and held on to be a game third to spice up the exotics at 86-1. Drawn awkwardly one from the outside in gate 10, the 14-5 third betting favorite broke slightly inward, but avoided contact and settled in the second flight of horses while three or four away from the inside as second choice Flameaway (Scat Daddy) showed the way into the first turn. Four deep turning up the backside and with some cover on the back of Trigger Warning, Core Beliefs was eased out into the clear nearing the half-mile marker, while Lone Sailor, a latest close fifth in the GI Preakness S., simultaneously went for a two-path run to be perfectly positioned just behind the leading group. Despite sitting a tough trip himself, Trigger Warning poked a head in front of Flameaway in upper stretch, but Core Beliefs was winding up with a sustained run and wrested command at the eighth pole. Lone Sailor threaded the needle to split Trigger Warning and the tiring Flameaway inside the final furlong, but Core Beliefs managed to find that little bit extra to hit the wire narrowly first. 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Leave Me (Lemon Drop Kid). Core Belief is his dam=s most recent Around the turn I got his momentum going, and he was all heart produce. down the lane. There were a couple coming at him. He was giving me everything he had.@ Saturday, Thistledown Third in a pair of six-furlong maidens to kick off his career, OHIO DERBY-GIII, $500,000, Thistledown, 6-23, 3yo, 1 1/8m, Core Beliefs stretched out successfully to two turns to graduate 1:51.08, ft. by 3 1/4 front-running lengths with Mike Smith calling the shots 1--CORE BELIEFS, 120, c, 3, by Quality Road at Santa Anita Mar. 8. Well held, but nevertheless third to Justify 1st Dam: Tejati, by Tactical Advantage (Scat Daddy) and Bolt d=Oro (Medaglia d=Oro) in the GI Santa 2nd Dam: It's a Cat, by Believe It Anita Derby, the bay raced handy to the pace as the 2-1 favorite 3rd Dam: Beau Cougar, by Cougar II in Belmont=s GIII Peter Pan S. May 12, but could not resist a late 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. run from Blended Citizen (Proud Citizen) and settled for the ($45,000 Ylg '16 FTKOCT; $350,000 2yo '17 runner-up spot. BARMAR). O-Gary Broad; B-Thomas J Young (KY); T-Peter Eurton; J-Joseph Talamo. $300,000. Lifetime Record: GISP, Pedigree Notes: 6-2-1-3, $535,360. Werk Nick Rating: D+. Click for the A $45,000 Fasig-Tipton October yearling purchase, Core Beliefs eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. breezed an eighth of a mile in :10 flat over the Del Mar main track and was purchased by Gary Broad for $350,000 at last year=s Barretts March Sale. The 28th black-type and 19th graded winner for the white-hot Quality Road, Core Beliefs is out of a TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • JUNE 24, 2018 Ohio Derby cont. Saturday, Santa Anita SAN CARLOS S.-GII, $251,035, Santa Anita, 6-23, 3yo/up, 7f, 2--Lone Sailor, 120, c, 3, Majestic Warrior--Ambitious, by 1:22.12, ft. Mr. Greeley. ($120,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP). O-G M B Racing; 1--AMERICAN ANTHEM, 121, c, 4, by Bodemeister B-Alexander-Groves-Matz LLC. (KY); T-Thomas M Amoss. 1st Dam: Indy's Windy, by A.P. Indy $100,000. 2nd Dam: Banshee Winds, by Known Fact Consigned by GAINESWAY 3rd Dam: Quack a Doodledoo, by Quack 3--Trigger Warning, 120, c, 3, Candy Ride (Arg)--Magic Appeal, ($180,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP; $435,000 2yo '16 OBSMAR). by Successful Appeal. ($6,000 Ylg '16 KEESEP). O-Brinley O-WinStar Farm LLC, Head of Plains Partners LLC, China Horse Enterprises LLC; B-WinStar Farm LLC (KY); T-Mike L Rone. Club, SF Racing LLC; B-WinStar Farm LLC (KY); T-Bob Baffert; $50,000. J-Mike E Smith. $150,000. Lifetime Record: MGISP, 10-5-1-2, $673,945. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the Consigned by James B. Keogh (Grovendale) at KEESEP eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Margins: NO, 1, HF. Odds: 2.80, 1.50, 86.20. Also Ran: Title Ready, Diamond King, Flameaway, Caloric, SELECT SALES Graduate...Exceeding Expectations Takedown, Machismo, Dream Baby Dream, O'Kratos. Scratched: HOPPEL SALES GRAD • (352) 895-7013 Last Drop of Wine. 2--St. Joe Bay, 121, g, 6, Saint Anddan--Dream Ride, by Honor Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Glide. ($9,500 RNA Ylg '13 OBSWIN; $10,000 RNA Ylg '13 Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by EASSEP; $60,000 2yo '14 OBSOPN). O-Hronis Racing LLC; Fasig-Tipton. B-Bonnie Heath Farm LLC (FL); T-John W Sadler. $50,000. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 9 • THETDN.COM SUNDAY • JUNE 24, 2018 San Carlos S. cont. He was third in the GI H. Allen Jerkens S. last August and again 3--Horse Greedy, 121, g, 5, Horse Greeley--Southern Breeze, by behind champion Roy H (More Than Ready) in his final two General Royal. ($1,000 Ylg '14 FTKFEB; $15,000 Ylg '14 sophomore appearances. OBSAUG; $70,000 2yo '15 OBSMAR). O-Hronis Racing LLC; B-Pope McLean, Pope McLean Jr & Marc McLean (KY); T-John Pedigree Notes: W Sadler. $30,000. A $180,000 Keeneland September yearling turned $435,000 OBS March breezer, American Anthem is out of an unplaced Margins: HD, 1 3/4, 4 1/4.