TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2016 FUTURITY A WORK OF ART FOR KLIMT PRACTICAL JOKE GETS Kaleem Shah=s Klimt (Quality Road) sailed home an easy LAST LAUGH IN HOPEFUL 4 1/4-length winner of Monday=s GI Del Mar Futurity, a race won the last two seasons by subsequent GI Kentucky Derby winners American Pharoah (Pioneerof the Nile) and Nyquist (Uncle Mo). Breaking from the outside in a field of six, Klimt was within striking distance in fourth down the backstretch as favored and fellow >TDN Rising Star= Straight Fire (Dominus) took the field through a quarter in :22.33. The favorite was pressed through a half-mile in :44.38 and looked well in control, but Klimt was gobbling up ground and drew on even terms with the pacesetter at the top of the lane. He turned back the favorite with a furlong to run and drew clear effortlessly. AComing to the top of the stretch, I knew he was loaded and I said, >I just hope that other horse [Straight Fire] doesn=t have another gear,=@ said trainer Bob Baffert, who was winning his 13th Futurity. AIt was very exciting to watch.@ Cont. p5 Practical Joke | Sarah K Andrew Klaravich Stables and William Lawrence=s Practical Joke (Into IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Mischief) provided a fitting close-day exclamation point on a IDAHO CONFIRMED FOR LEGER; NAVAN OUT Saratoga meeting dominated by trainer Chad Brown and jockey Idaho (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) heads 15 remaining in Saturday’s G1 Jose Ortiz with his late-running victory in Monday=s GI Hopeful S. Ladbrokes St Leger, while Robin Of Navan (Fr) (American Post The race was altered dramatically right after the gates opened, {GB}) has been ruled out. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. as 6-5 favorite Classic Empire (Pioneerof the Nile) veered out sharply to the right and lost his rider, Irad Ortiz, Jr. Practical Joke sat in a joint third down the backstretch, one to two lengths off an extremely slow pace of :23.80 and :47.69. Bitumen (Mineshaft) began to move outside him at the three-eighths pole, but dropped away suddenly after that, allowing Practical Joke to swing out smoothly three wide at the top of the lane. Closing strongly outside of emboldened pace players Royal Copy (Bodemeister) and Pretty Boy Flash (Gone Astray), Practical Joke just got up in the nick of time to nail the former by a neck. AJose gave him an unbelievable ride and he looked like he was extending away in the stretch so I don't think any added distance will be an issue,@ said Brown, who extended his Saratoga record to 40 wins at the meet with the victory. 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As soon as he put a head in front, he kept going.@ As for the misbehaving favorite, Norm Casse, assistant to his father trainer Mark Casse, tweeted, AClassic Empire is fine back Practical Joke Gets Last Laugh in Hopeful at the barn.@ A debut winner at Churchill May 4, Classic Empire was coming off a win in the July 2 GIII Bashford Manor S. for (cont. from p1) owner John Oxley. Practical Joke, a $135,000 Keeneland January short yearling and a $240,000 Keeneland September yearling, romped home Pedigree Notes: by five lengths in his six-furlong debut under Irad Ortiz, Jr. at Breeder Whispering Oaks purchased Practical Joke=s dam Halo Saratoga Aug. 6 as the 2-1 favorite, good for an 83 Beyer. Humor for $130,000 while in foal to Fusaichi Pegasus at the AIt=s been a pleasure to train him,@ Brown continued. AThat first 2008 Keeneland January sale. Whispering Oaks scored a juvenile race I thought he ran well and his second time here he also stakes victory as an owner Sunday at Monmouth Park when Tip came back to run a huge race.@ Tap Tapizar (Tapizar) won the Sapling S. Click for the free Jose Ortiz, who was riding his 65th winner of the 40-day stand, Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. is excited about the future with Practical Joke. AI want to thank them for giving me the opportunity to ride him,@ Ortiz said. AI think he=s a pretty nice horse. He=s got tactical speed, he can run close to the pace, and he fired when I asked him to run. TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 4 OF 15 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • SEPTEMBER 6, 2016 Monday, Saratoga 3--Pretty Boy Flash, 116, c, 2, Gone Astray--Honour Isabel, by HOPEFUL S.-GI, $350,000, SAR, 9-5, 2yo, 7f, 1:23.39, ft. Honour and Glory. ($375,000 2yo '16 OBSMAR). O-Jerry 1--#@&PRACTICAL JOKE, 118, c, 2, by Into Mischief Durant; B-Craig Wheeler Thoroughbreds (FL); T-Steven M. 1st Dam: Halo Humor (SP), by Distorted Humor Asmussen. $35,000. 2nd Dam: Gilded Halo, by Gilded Time Purchased by Mersad Metanovic Bloodstock • [email protected] 3rd Dam: Careless Halo, by Sunny's Halo Margins: NK, NO, 6 3/4. Odds: 2.10, 15.10, 25.75. ($135,000 Ylg '15 KEEJAN; $240,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP). Also Ran: Bitumen, Everybodyluvsrudy, Runaway Lute, Classic O-Klaravich Stables, Inc. & William H. Lawrence; B-Whispering Empire. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or Oaks (KY); T-Chad C. Brown; J-Jose L. Ortiz. $210,000. Lifetime VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Record: 2-2-0-0, $259,800. Werk Nick Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Consigned by GAINESWAY A Gainesway/George Bolton Pinhook Mauk Equine Brokerage short yearling pick de Meric Stables Graduate 2--Royal Copy, 118, c, 2, Bodemeister--Meadow Breeze, by Meadowlake. ($45,000 Ylg '15 KEESEP; $350,000 2yo '16 OBSAPR). O-Robert C. Baker & William L. Mack; B-Betz/Blackburn/D.J. Stables/CoCo Equine/Burns/Magers (KY); T-D. Wayne Lukas. $70,000. Practical Joke takes control late | A Coglianese TDN HEADLINE NEWS • PAGE 5 OF 15 • THETDN.COM TUESDAY • SEPTEMBER 6, 2016 Futurity a Work of Art for Klimt (cont. from p1) Shelbe Ruis, who trains for family=s Ruis Racing, captured the first Grade I of her young career when Union Strike (Union Rags) AWhen you=re fortunate to have great clients who will buy won Saturday=s GI Del Mar Debutante, saddled third-place these great horses, good things happen,@ Baffert continued. finisher Midnight Pleasure (Midnight Lute) in the Futurity. AKaleem has always wanted to have AHe did OK,@ jockey Martin his silks in the paddock [on the jockey Garcia said of Midnight statue] and now he does.@ Pleasure.