Monday • July 26, 2021 FEC/FTBOA PUBLICATION www.wiretowire.net FLORIDA’SDAILYRACINGDIGEST FOR ADVERTISING INFORMATION or to subscribe, please call Antoinette at 352-732-8858 or email: [email protected] In This Issue: Maracuja Wins American Oaks Old Pro United Takes Eddie Read Field Pass Gutsy Winner of BWI Turf Cup Florida-bred Key Biscayne/LAUREN KING PHOTO Caravel Flaunts Her Excellence in Caress Sutherland Caps Four-Win Jolie Olimpica Triumphs to Take Nassau Day With Key Biscayne Gulfstream Park Charts in Monroe Stakes Track Results & Entries Florida Stallion Progeny List BY BROCK SHERIDAN _____________ Key Biscayne is Jockey Chantal Sutherland’s well-timed second and Florida-bred Florida Breeders’ List ride aboard Key Biscayne gave the rider her Mo of the West between horses fourth victory on the day and the Florida- in third. Meanwhile Key Biscayne patiently Wire to Wire Business Place bred filly her first black type triumph in raced five lengths farther back in sixth with taking the $75,000 Monroe Stakes at Gulf- Global Brand trailing from another three stream Park Saturday. The Monroe was lengths in arrears. originally scheduled for a full gate of 14 fil- Thissmytime took a one length lead into Featured lies and mares to race a mile-and-one-six- the turn but Starship Nterprise advanced to Advertisers teenth on the turf but was moved to one the front with a two-wide move after a half- mile on the main track. That prompted six mile in :46.10 as Global Brand suddenly ad- Bloodstockauction USA “off the turf ” scratches in addition to a “vet- vanced on the rail and Key Biscayne also erinarian” scratch and left a field of seven. began to threaten from the four path. Florida Department of Agriculture Key Biscayne was off a bit slow from Starship Nterprise turned for home in post four and was sixth of seven early be- front and pulled away to more than a one- FTBOA hind 3-5 favorite Thissmytime, who length margin past the eighth-pole as sprinted to a clear lead from the rail. Global Brand chased in second ahead of Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply Florida-bred Thissmytime clicked off a first Key Biscayne third on the outside. quarter-mile in :22.60 with apparent ease ahead of Elusive Molly on the outside in See KEY BISCAYNE on page 3 Seminole Feed Wire to Wire July 26, 2021 Back to Top Page 3 Key Biscayne Continued from COVER Starship Nterprise appeared the winner 100 yards from home when Key Biscayne produced a sudden acceleration to get the lead in the final jumps and finish a neck in front of Starship Nterprise in 1:36.90 on the fast track. Global Brand was another two-and-a- quarter lengths back in third followed by Thissmytime, Mo of the West, Elusive Molly and Florida-bred Heiressindy. Drapes, Eskimo’s Boss, Kahiko, Lovely Luvy, Shifty She, Sky Chaser and Snow Shower (GB) were scratched. “I had worked her and I worked another horse I’ve won on for Arindel. I loved how they worked,” Sutherland said. “I had so much confidence going into the race. I just love the way [Key Biscayne] handles everything.” Sutherland, who is riding at the Gulf- stream Spring/Summer Meet for the first time, won earlier on the card with Florida-bred Hot Babe ($5.20) in Race 3, Hard Ten ($2.80) in Race 8 and Florida- bred Clapton ($20.20) in Race 9. Through Saturday, Sutherland is ranked ninth in the local jockey standings with 30 wins. Key Biscayne paid $14.40 to win. “I’m so grateful. I’m grateful to God, and I’m grateful to Chantal Sutherland and Key Biscayne/RYAN THOMPSON PHOTO Gulfstream for being so amazing,” Sutherland said after the Monroe. “I’m so happy it’s worked out the way it did. Thanks to [trainer] Kenny McPeek, who helped me get fit to do this during the winter.” After taking a break during the COVID-19 pandemic, Suther- land galloped horses for McPeek at Gulfstream this past winter during the track’s Championship Season. The 4-year-old Key Biscayne has now won four races with two seconds and two thirds from 14 lifetime starts while earning $244,190 from the barn of trainer Juan Alvarado. Slow to develop, the Arindel homebred daughter of the farm’s stallion Brethern out of Boa Twelve, by Lemon Drop Kid did not win until her sixth ca- reer start against state-bred, special weight maidens at Gulfstream in May of last year. She won her next start against first condition, $16,000 optional claiming allowance runners on the turf before later taking on the Grade 2 Lake Placid going a mile-and-one- eighth on the turf at Saratoga in July where she finished fourth be- hind winner Speaktomeofsummer. She was then third in the mile-and-three-sixteenths $500,000 Saratoga Oaks won by An- toinette on grass in August and fifth in Magic Attitude’s Belmont Oaks (G1) going a mile-and-one-quarter on the turf on Sept. 19. She then won a first level allowance race taken off the turf at Bel- mont in October in her last race of the year. In her first start of 2021, she finished seventh in the $75,000 Ginger Punch won by Shifty She over a mile-and-one-sixteenth on the turf at Gulfstream on June 12. Wire to Wire July 26, 2021 Back to Top Wire to Wire July 26, 2021 Back to Top Page 5 Maracuja Runs Down Malathaat in Deep Stretch to Win Coaching Club American Oaks BY BRIAN BOHL, NYRA PRESS OFFICE_________________ SARATOGA, NY—Beach Haven Thorough- breds’ Maracuja used a strong move out of the final turn and dueled Longines Kentucky Oaks (Grade 1)-winner Malathaat stride-for-stride in deep stretch before gaining the slight edge in the final jumps from the outside, posting a vic- tory by a head in the $500,000 Coaching Club American Oaks (G1) at Saratoga Race Course. The mile-and-one-eighth CCA Oaks featured a compact field of four 3-year-old fillies. Maracuja, who broke her maiden at third asking in February at Aqueduct, earned her first career stakes win in impressive fashion, with the Rob Atras trainee capturing the 105th edi- tion of the prestigious race at 14-1 as the longest shot on the board. Breaking from post two under Ricardo San- tana Jr., Maracuja tracked in second behind 1- 5 favorite Malathaat, who was kept inside by Hall of Fame rider John Velazquez from the in- side post in leading through an opening quar- ter-mile in :23.38 on the fast main track. Malathaat maintained the lead from the in- Maracuja/COGLIANESE PHOTO side as Maracuja took back, allowing Clairiere to apply the pressure through a half-mile in :47.13 and three-quar- “She was running comfortably. Rob liked the filly a lot and I was ters in 1:11.02. Nearing the turn, Malathaat and Clairiere were happy with her. There wasn’t much pressure in this race. He told heads apart, but Santana urged his charge up from the three-path me, ‘Just do what you have to do’ and we took the victory today. I with an aggressive hand ride. The three challengers arrived at the had some pressure on the side from the four [Clairiere] and I just straightaway on near equal terms before Clairiere gave way. With let my filly take a deep breath. As soon as I took her back out, she Maracuja and Malathaat linking up, the former responded posi- came rolling. She ran a great race today.” tively to Santana’s left-handed encouragement, completing the John Sakkos, the founding partner of winning owner Beach course in 1:49.29 to earn the flower blanket. Haven Thoroughbreds, said he was hoping for a strong bounce- “She broke really sharp, which I was happy with, and she was back effort from the Oaks. Sakkos also said the $600,000 Alabama kind of right there,” Atras said after his third career graded stakes (G1) contested at a mile-and-one-quarter on Aug. 21 at Saratoga and first Grade 1 event. “They all seemed like they were coming could be a possible next target. and I thought Ricardo made a smart move by backing off and com- “It was nerve-racking, especially after coming in seventh in the ing around the outside. What a race. Oaks, but it was exciting,” he said. “I was just hoping we would “She loves the two turns,” he added. “She puts a lot into her gal- perform better than the Oaks. She had been doing well and Rob lops every day. The further, the better for her.” and the team have done a phenomenal job with her. She had a good Maracuja was seventh in the Kentucky Oaks on April 30 at rest after the Oaks.” Churchill Downs in a contest that Malathaat won by a neck. In the Malathaat, trained by Hall of Famer Todd Pletcher, was bidding rematch on Saturday, the Honor Code filly relished her first race to become the first horse to earn the Kentucky Oaks-CCA Oaks at the Spa, paying $31.40 on a $2 win wager and improving her sweep since Monomoy Girl in 2018 in a year that netted her the record to two wins, two seconds and a third in six career starts. first of two Eclipse Awards as Champion 3-Year-Old Filly. But the “She was very good going into the Oaks, she just broke a little daughter of Curlin settled for second, five-and-three-quarter lengths flat footed and got shuffled back in the turn,” Atras said.