Noble Drama Calls on Family Class in City of Dania

Tuesday & Wednesday • July 13 & 14, 2021 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION www.wiretowire.net FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call An- toinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Sacco Knows Long Odds Face Basso in Haskell Easy Time Triumphs in Woodbine’s Marine Stakes Discount for Breeders’ Cup Horses of Racing Age Nominations End July 15 Florida-bred Noble Drama/LAUREN KING PHOTO Gulfstream Park Charts Noble Drama Calls on Track Results & Entries Florida Stallion Progeny List Family Class in City of Dania Florida Breeders’ List wrapped up a weekend of racing action that BY GULFSTREAM PARK Wire to Wire Business Place PRESS OFFICE____________________ included Papetu’s victorious comeback in the $75,000 Carry Back and Competitive HALLANDALE BEACH, FL – Harold Speed’s return to winning form in the Hal- Featured Advertisers Queen’s homebred Noble Drama called on landale Beach overnight handicap on Sat- his family’s class to rally from far off the urday. Equistaff Inc. pace to win Sunday’s $60,000 City of Out of a half-sister to 2010 Eclipse Fred Burton Paving Dania, a rapidly run contest in which mul- Award-winning, Florida-bred sprinter Big tiple Grade 1 stakes-placed Jesus’ Team, the Drama and full-sister to multiple Grade 1- Florida Department of Agriculture 7-10 favorite, was never a factor while fin- winning Florida-bred Sheer Drama, FTBOA ishing fifth in a highly anticipated return to Florida-bred Noble Drama collected his action. seventh career stakes victory at Gulfstream Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply The City of Dania, a one-turn mile Park with a length-and-a-half decision over Peterson Smith Equine Hospital overnight handicap for 3-year-olds and pacesetter I’m a G Six. Seminole Feed older, headlined an 11-race program that See NOBLE DRAMA on page 3 Wire to Wire July 13 & 14, 2021 Back to Top Page 3 Noble Drama Continued from COVER “What a horse,” said trainer David Fawkes, who also cam- paigned Noble Drama’s more famous family members. Jesus’ Team, who finished sixth in the $10 million Dubai World Cup (G1) March 27 after checking in second behind Knicks Go in the $3 million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) at Gulfstream Jan. 23, raced evenly under Samy Camacho while proving unable to employ the stretch kick that powered him to a second-place finish to Knicks Go in the Fan Duel Breeders’ Cup Dirt Mile (G1) and a third-place finish in the Preakness Stakes (G1) won by Swiss Skydiver. “Samy said he felt good but that maybe he needed a race,” trainer Jose D’Angelo said. “I know he had a lot of weight. Now we just have to check him and make a decision.” Jesus’ Team carried 127 pounds as the starting highweight while conceding between five and 12 pounds to his seven rivals, includ- ing five pounds to Noble Drama. The victorious 6-year-old gelding, who went to post as the 5-2 second betting choice, was coming off a late-rallying triumph in the My Name’s Jimmy overnight handicap May 22 off a four- month layoff. “That last race took a lot out of him but it gave him plenty of time to recover. This week while training, he’s been bucking and playing like a yearling,” Fawkes said. “He’s so much fun. He shows up every time.” I’m a G Six, who was coming off an impressive victory in a second condition, $62,500 optional claiming allowance victory, was hustled to an early lead by jockey Rajiv Maragh and proceeded to set a blistering pace, putting up eye-catching fractions of :22.81 and :45.12 seconds for the first half mile and 1:08.89 for six furlongs. Florida-bred Pro Quality chased the pacesetter into the stretch under Chantal Sutherland and briefly appeared on his way to victory inside the eighth pole, but Noble Drama loomed in full strike on the far outside and claimed the victory. I’m a G Six battled back to finish second, a neck ahead of Pro Quality. Noble Drama ran the mile in 1:35.09. Noble Drama now has nine career wins with seven seconds and three thirds frm 27 starts while earning $705,687. Jewish Guilt/RYAN THOMPSON PHOTO Jewish Guilt Victorious on Debut for Glen Hill Farm Glen Hill Farm’s Jewish Guilt, a 3-year-old filly by Curlin who brought $425,000 at the Keeneland September Yearling Sale of 2019, rallied three-wide around the turn under jockey Romero See JEWISH GUILT on page 5 Wire to Wire July 13 & 14, 2021 Back to Top Wire to Wire July 13 & 14, 2021 Back to Top Page 5 Jewish Guilt Continued from page 3 Maragh to win her debut Sunday. Trained by Thomas Proctor, Jew- ish Guilt covered six furlongs in 1:12.35. The filly is out of the Florida-bred mare Coco’s Wildcat, by the late Florida sire Wildcat Heir. Coco’s Wildcat and is a Gilbert Campbell homebred who was third in the Adena Springs Miss Preakness (G3) in 2015 and won the Cassidy Stakes at Gulfstream as a 2-year-old. Racing resumes Friday with a nine-race program and a first- race post time of 2:00 p.m. The 20-cent Rainbow 6 will have a guaranteed pool of $400,000. There will also be an $11,452.52 car- ryover in the Super Hi-5. Sacco Knows Long Odds Face Basso in Haskell Basso/BILL DENVER / EQUIPHOTO OCEANPORT, NJ—Gregg Sacco knows exactly what he’s up against in the $1 million TVG.com Haskell Stakes (Grade 1) on July 17 at Monmouth Park: Three, maybe four, of the top 3-year- olds in training, all of them sharp, while he sends out a horse that tired in the slop in a first condition, $16,000 optional claiming allowance optional on June 26 in his first start of the year. But the veteran trainer, whose family traces its roots to the ear- liest days of the modern Monmouth Park and whose father William was the leading trainer in 1962, isn’t deterred about taking a big swing in the mile-and-one-eighth Haskell with Basso, who quite possibly will be the longest shot in the field. In fact, Sacco seems genuinely enthused about the opportunity, especially since this will mark his first Haskell starter in a training career that began in 1989. “We know he is going to have to step up,” Sacco said. “We’re anticipating he will in his second start as a 3-year-old. We’re in our backyard. We’re confident he will run a respectable race. “We’ll be walking out of our barn onto the track and we’ll see what happens.” A son of Cairo Prince out of Zapara, by Not for Love, Basso has just one win from five career starts, four of them at Monmouth. He broke his maiden at first asking by eight lengths last Aug. 23 but See BASSO on page 7 Wire to Wire July 13 & 14, 2021 Back to Top Wire to Wire July 13 & 14, 2021 Back to Top Page 7 Basso Continued from page 5 day from California. has yet to produce a signature Mandaloun went five fur- moment. longs in 1:02 breezing while That’s something many of the Basso was clocked in 1:02.2 other expected contenders for the breezing for the same distance Haskell have had already. over the Monmouth Park strip. Mandaloun was the Kentucky “An easy maintenance work,” Derby presented by Woodford trainer Brad Cox’s assistant and Reserve (G1) runner-up to son Blake Cox said. “He went Florida-bred Medina Spirit; Mid- the five-eighths in 1:02 and was night Bourbon was the runner-up out in about 1:13.3 and he gal- to Rombauer in the Preakness loped out very well. Stakes (G1) and Hot Rod Charlie “We asked him a little bit and was the Belmont Stakes pre- he picked it up. A very solid sented by NYRA Bets (G1) run- work.” Mandaloun, who arrived at ner-up to Essential Quality. Mandaloun/BILL DENVER / EQUIPHOTO Rombauer’s connections are still Monmouth Park on last Tuesday, on the fence about him running in the Haskell. has the advantage of a race over the track, having won the TVG.com “All of them popped up at some point to be where they are now,” Pegasus Stakes at Monmouth on June 13. Sacco said. “They can pop up any time as a 3-year-old. We’re look- Cox said Mandaloun will have a light schedule next week. His ing for a big improvement off his first race back. He was only 70% father is due in the day of the race, he said. that day [when he finished sixth in the aforemention optional claim- “We’ll just gallop steady into the race,” the younger Cox said. ing allowance]. We knew that going in. “This was a good work seven days out. We stayed on schedule.” “He made a bold move up to the lead at the quarter pole and he Gregg Sacco, the trainer and part owner of Basso, was similarly just got tired. It was nasty that day with the rain and the heat, he pleased with his colt’s work. was in post nine, and we knew going in he was in desperate need “Kind of what we wanted to go,” Sacco said.

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