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THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2021 BLOODHORSE.COM/DAILY SKIP DICKSTEIN POWERFUL KICK Bell’s the One Closes Strong to Take Honorable Miss See page 3 IN THIS ISSUE 7 Record Second Quarter Revenue for Churchill Downs Inc. 11 Racing and Gaming Conference Back After Two Years Away 16 Epic Luck Becomes First Winner for Madefromlucky BLOODHORSE DAILY Download the FREE smartphone app PAGE 1 OF 38 CONTENTS 3 Bell’s the One Closes Strong to Take Honorable Miss 21 Jockey Chapa Dies at Age 50 6 Leading First-Crop Sires 21 Report: Loan to Keep Hastings Racing Through August 7 Record Second Quarter Revenue 22 Alcohol Free Takes Down Poetic Flare in Sussex for Churchill Downs Inc. 24 Lady Bowthorpe Aims for Group 1 Glory in Nassau 9 Churchill Plans Three Capital Improvement Projects 26 Egyptian Missile Tops Inglis Digital Sale 11 Racing and Gaming Conference Back 27 Awesome Again Put Talent on Display in Jim Dandy After Two Years Away 28 Results & Entries 14 ‘Clean-Up’ Bill Addresses Reduction in NYTHA Payments 16 Epic Luck Becomes First Winner for Madefromlucky 17 Laurel Park Backstretch to Reopen to Horses Aug. 8 19 Potts Rebounds From Challenging Winter, Spring SKIP DICKSTEIN TAA a ccreditation: The G o l d S t a n d a r d in aftercare. A publication of The Jockey Club Information Systems, Inc. and TOBA Media Properties, Inc. ON THE COVER Bell’s the One (outside) edges Lake Avenue by a neck to win Editorial Director General Manager the Honorable Miss Handicap at Saratoga Race Course Claire Crosby Scott Carling Visuals Director Digital Media Manager Anne M. 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Lothenbach Stables' grade 1 winner trailed early in the six- SKIP DICKSTEIN furlong sprint for fillies and Bell’s the One (center) rallies to win the Honorable Miss Handicap at Saratoga Race Course mares aged 3 and up, but dug in City Distaff before rebounding to run, two lengths behind Lake late under regular rider Corey to win the June 19 Roxelana Avenue in fifth. The field spread out Lanerie to nip Godolphin's Lake Overnight Stakes at Churchill. turning for home and Lanerie had Avenue by a neck. In the Honorable Miss, Bell's to take his mount seven wide to find Trainer Neil Pessin was full of the One broke from the outside running room on the outside. Lake praise for his stable star. post in a field of eight and trailed Avenue was moving strong under "She's about as high-class a nearly seven lengths off the pace Junior Alvarado in the stretch and filly as you want. She gives it her through the first quarter-mile. Ain't Bell's the One pulled up next to her all every time she runs," Pessin No Elmers set fractions of :22.80 as the two dueled toward the wire. said. "Hopefully, now she'll get the and :45.85 through a half-mile Bell's the One got the jump on her accolades she deserves and people up front with Honey I'm Good rival in the end, completing the won't put her on the backburner pressing her only a head back in distance on the fast track in 1:09.83. when they talk about the sprint second. She returned $3.80 on a $2 win fillies." Lanerie had Bell's the One up ticket as the 4-5 favorite. Bell's the One broke through at into sixth with the last quarter-mile "I just let her run her race and the top level in September when she got on her left by nosing out Serengeti NYRA ( ) lead on the turn, she said Empress in the Derby City @TheNYRA 'it's time to go' and started Distaff Stakes Presented making up ground so easy," BELL’S THE ONE comes out on top in the by Derby City Gaming (G1) Honorable Miss (G2)! #Saratoga Lanerie said. "The 4 horse at Churchill Downs. That (Lake Avenue) actually put victory was followed by a in more of a fight than I third in last fall's Breeders' expected. I thought when Cup Filly & Mare Sprint I got to her, I was going to (G1) and a narrow second run away. But she wouldn't in the Madison (G1) to go away for a while; we were begin her 5-year-old year at running home. This was a Keeneland. The daughter of good race. Majesticperfection was then 5:54 PM - July 28, 2021 fourth in this spring's Derby (continued on page 5) BLOODHORSE DAILY THURSDAY, JULY 29, 2021 PAGE 3 OF 38 The World’s Yearling Sale There are moments that make history. And then there are moments that shape the future. The Keeneland September Yearling Sale consistently delivers results at the highest levels of racing internationally. We invite you to travel to Keeneland this September in search of your next racing success story. COLONEL LIAM PEGASUS WORLD CUP TURF SEPTEMBER INVITATIONAL S. (G1) YEARLING SALE LEARN MORE MON. 13 - FRI. 24 BELL’S THE ONE CLOSES STRONG purchase by Rob Masiello at the 2020 Keeneland TO TAKE HONORABLE MISS September Yearling Sale and recorded a half-mile in :54.10 July 9 at Hunter Farm Training Center in Ocala, (continued from page 3) Fla. The mare foaled a filly by Collected in February and was reported bred to Not This Time for 2022. "She ran her own race today and I let her do it," Step Dancer Gets Up for NYSSS Win Lanerie added on the winner. "It can get kind of scary Earlier on the card, Hayward Pressman, Donna at times, especially here at Saratoga. It's hard to win Pressman, and Diamond M Stable's Step Dancer ran here." down pacesetter Dreamer's Disease to capture the "It's been a hard track to close on today," Pessin $150,000 Cab Calloway division of the New York said. "I think she's the only one that deep-closed any at Stallion Stakes Series. all, but I thought she was also the best horse in the race The 3-year-old War Dancer colt was sixth early coming in, and I feel that way coming out." under jockey Dylan Davis and got up by a neck over Lake Avenue was a game second and finished 2 3/4 Dreamer's Disease to complete a mile on the firm inner lengths ahead of the pacesetter Ain't No Elmers. Truth turf in 1:35.83. It's Gravy was another 4 3/4 lengths Hurts, Miss Mosaic, Don't Call Me Mary, Reagan's back in third. Edge, and Honey I'm Good completed the order of Barclay Tagg trains the winner ($4.90), who sports finish. Sadie Lady was scratched. a 3-1-2 record from seven starts and has earned Lothenbach Stables purchased Bell's the One for $219,800. $155,000 in 2017 from Brereton Jones' consignment "I'd like to try him against open company again," to The July Sale, Fasig- Tagg said of last fall's Awad Tipton's selected yearling Stakes winner. "Maybe not the sale in Kentucky. The mare next race, but we'll see. He's now boasts $1,126,825 in definitely good enough." earnings and has a 9-3-2 Step Dancer, bred in New record from 19 starts. York by Sugar Plum Farm and Pessin said her next Richard Pressman, is the lone start will "probably" be the foal out of the English Channel Oct. 9 Thoroughbred Club mare Just Be Steppin. BH of America Stakes (G2) at s Share this story Keeneland, which offers the winner a berth in the Nov. 6 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare COGLIANESE PHOTOS/KYLIE WELLINGTON COGLIANESE PHOTOS/KYLIE Sprint at Del Mar, before another shot at the World Championships. "She's the best horse I've ever had, and I've been training for almost 40 years," Pessin said. "She's about as special as they come to me. I've got one other filly that I had in her category, Eden Prairie, that didn't do the races that this mare's won but she was all heart and tried every time. They're the two favorite horses I've ever had." Bell's the One was bred in Kentucky by Bret Jones out of the Street Cry mare Street Mate, also dam of stakes-placed Running COGLIANESE PHOTOS Mate.