SUNDAY, JULY 23, 2017 >TASMAN= LOOKS TOUGH IN CCA OAKS ACCELERATE WINS THE Abel Tasman (Quality Road) looks for her third consecutive SAN DIEGO AS ARROGATE victory in a prestigious Grade I as she returns to the east coast for Sunday=s Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga. A last- COMES UP EMPTY to-first winner of the GI Kentucky Oaks in her second start for Bob Baffert May 5, the China Horse Club and Clearsky Farms colorbearer hugged the rail and out-kicked Salty (Quality Road) by a length in the one-turn-mile GI Acorn S. on GI Belmont S. day June 10. Belmont Day represented a huge coup for Baffert and pilot Mike Smith, who partnered to win four of the day=s stakes events. This would be California-based Baffert=s first score in the historic CCA Oaks. Smith has won it four times previously, most recently with Songbird (Medaglia d=Oro) 12 months ago. Salty annexed the GII Gulfstream Park Oaks in April, but settled for fifth after enduring significant traffic trouble in the Kentucky Oaks. According to Trakus data, Salty did cover 14 ft. more than Abel Tasman in the Acorn, which equates to more than the length she was beaten. Cont. p11 (click here) IN TDN EUROPE TODAY Accelerate winning the San Diego H. as Arrogate toils home MEMORY BACK ON TRACK IN HACKWOOD Horsephotos Magical Memory (Ire) (Zebedee {GB}) has Group 1 aims after Saturday=s GII San Diego H. was a fait accompli. A done deal. winning Saturday’s G3 Hackwood S. at Newbury. Click or tap here to go straight to TDN Europe. What was supposed to be a walk in the park for >TDN Rising Star= Arrogate (Unbridled=s Song) quickly morphed into a nightmare, as the heretofore invincible grey colt looked in trouble a long ways out and Hronis Racing=s Accelerate (Lookin at Lucky) streaked down the lane an 8 1/2-length winner. A stunned on-track crowd watched Arrogate cross the line a listless fourth, in no small way resembling the animal that had won seven in a row, including four straight million-dollar plus races and had bankrolled some $13 million in prize money alone in his last two races. "He was just flat. I think he was just flat,@ offered trainer Bob Baffert. AI knew coming down here can be tough. Maybe I should have blown him out [down here]. [Jockey] Mike [Smith] said he was just flat and never in the race did he feel he had any horse. [Cat Burglar {Unbridled=s Song}] was flat, too. I thought he'd run better than that, but he just didn't want to go. I think he [Arrogate] just laid an egg. I don't think it had anything to do with the track. He was just flat." Cont. p3 LEADING SIRES IN GRADED STAKES AT SARATOGA 2011-2016 Strike G1 G2 G3 Rank Name Rnrs Runs Rate wins wins wins Pts 1 Curlin 7 16 38 2 2 2 1034 2 Tapit 33 51 20 3 4 3 1030 3 Super Saver* 5 7 57 3 1 0 1024 4 Dansili 5 10 50 3 2 0 1020 5 Bernardini 21 34 32 7 4 0 1016 6 Congrats 9 12 42 4 1 0 1016 7 Unbridled’s Song 17 27 22 6 0 0 1015 8 Tale Of The Cat 7 12 42 2 2 1 1014 9 Hard Spun 10 16 25 3 1 0 1010 10 Tiznow 12 15 20 3 0 0 1004 Source: TRC Global Rankings, 7/20 *with only 4 crops of racing age BEST START at stud by a KY Derby winner since SEATTLE SLEW WinStarFarm.com (859) 873-1717 PRESIDENT & CO-PUBLISHER Barry Weisbord @barryweisbord [email protected] SR. 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AI wasn=t surprised that I did; I was here to win. I thought I=d sit Someone had to be the second choice to Arrogate and the second or third, but when that speed horse [El Huerfano] betting public landed on Accelerate, who was best-backed into a stumbled at the start, I made an easy lead. He=s a nice horse.@ surprisingly low 7-1 ahead of the off. The San Diego field was off Winner of this track=s Shared Belief S. last season, Accelerate to an uneventful start bar El Huerfano (Tannersmyman), who went on to win the GII Los Alamitos Derby before running third bobbled and caused apprentice Evin Roman to lose his irons. to Tamarkuz (Speightstown) in the GI Breeders= Cup Dirt Mile. Accelerate, racing with blinkers on, made the most of his inside Competitive, though winless, in four runs this term, Accelerate draw to head them off early chased by >TDN Rising Star= was exiting a distant third to the Baffert-trained Collected (City Donworth. The uncontrollable El Huerfano raced in that first Zip) and Cat Burglar in the June 24 GIII Precisionist S. at Santa flight as well and the Baffert-trained Cat Burglar had his Anita. stablemate behind turning up the backside. Pedigree Notes: A half-brother to SW & GISP Daddy D T (Scat Daddy) and to SW & GSP Amarish (Scat Daddy), Accelerate is kin to the 2-year- old filly Daddy Issues (Scat Daddy), a $325,000 Keeneland September yearling purchase. The deeper female family includes former stars from the breeding operation of Joseph Shields Jr., including GISW Wagon Limit (Conquistador Cielo) and MGSW & MGISP Puzzlement (Pine Bluff). The stakes-placed Issues, a $450,000 buyback out of the 2014 FTKNOV sale, is the dam of a yearling colt by Bernardini, a colt foal by the Darley sire and was most recently bred to Uncle Mo. Saturday, Del Mar Bob Baffert talks about the defeat | Benoit photo TVG SAN DIEGO H.-GII, $300,000, DMR, 7-22, 3yo/up, 1 1/16m, While the pacesetter was going along nicely up front, as early 1:42.15, ft. as 5 1/2 furlongs for home there were some ominous signs 1--ACCELERATE, 117, c, 4, by Lookin At Lucky coming from Mike Smith, who was having to urge and niggle at 1st Dam: Issues (SP), by Awesome Again the typically aggressive Arrogate to pick up. Accelerate took 2nd Dam: Darlin Echo, by Eastern Echo them into the turn and with about three-eighths of a mile to go, 3rd Dam: Darlin Lindy, by Cox's Ridge Arrogate seemed to be making a little bit of a run, though he ($380,000 Ylg '14 KEESEP). O-Hronis Racing LLC; B-Mike was still being asked to do it, and when Accelerate spurted clear Abraham (KY); T-John W. Sadler; J-Victor Espinoza. $180,000. off the final corner, it was clear it was not Arrogate=s day. With a Lifetime Record: GISP, 12-4-3-4, $607,480. *1/2 to Amarish pump of the fist, Victor Espinoza and Acclerate crossed the line (Scat Daddy), SW & GSP, $208,519; Daddy D T (Scat Daddy), much the best. Donworth chased from second throughout and SW & GISP, $230,609. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the completed the exacta. With better than $792,000 of the place eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. pool of $839,000 and $1.3 million of the $1.4 million show pool on Arrogate=s nose, Accelerate returned $32.60 to place and $22 to show. Donworth paid $119.80 to place and $67.40 to show, while Cat Burglar paid $38.20 to show.