Tuesday & Wednesday • July 27 & 28, 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: Royal Flag Goes Last-to-First in Shuvee Brandothebartender Gets Up Late to Win California Dreamin’ Monmouth Park Jockeys Injured in Sunday Spill Jockeys Across America Set for Saturday, July 31 Filtering Options Added to Entries on Equibase.com Gulfstream Park Charts Track Results & Entries Florida Stallion Progeny List Florida Breeders’ List Florida-bred March to the Arch/MICHAEL BURNS PHOTO Wire to Wire Business Place March to the Arch Rallies Featured for Niagara Stakes Score Advertisers Bloodstockauction USA BY WOODBINE PRESS OFFICE ____ and-one-eighth on the grass. With Patrick Husbands up for leading Florida Department of Agriculture TORONTO—Florida-bred March to the trainer Mark Casse, multiple graded stakes- Arch chased down the pacesetters to win winner March to the Arch settled back in FTBOA the US$84,842 Niagara Stakes on Sunday fifth early on behind Belichick and There- afternoon over Woodbine’s E.P. Taylor goesjojo as a front-end duel ensued between Turf Course. Admiralty Pier and Primo Touch. Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply The stakes feature for 4-year-olds and Seminole Feed older was run at a distance of about a mile- See MARCH TO THE ARCH on page 3 Wire to Wire July 27 & 28, 2021 Back to Top Page 3 March to the Arch Continued from COVER The battle for the lead persisted through early fractions of :23.14 and :45.32, and continued all the way into the stretch, with the top pair as much as 10 lengths in front of rivals approaching the turn. However, March to the Arch saved ground on the bend then rallied outside of Belichick down the stretch. He reeled in the tiring lead- ers and went on to score by a widening four-and-a-half lengths in 1:45.15 over the ‘good’ course, with Be- lichick finishing second. Theregoesjojo edged Patrick Husbands/MICHALE BURNS PHOTO out Primo Touch in a photo for show a half-length back while Current was fifth followed by Sir Sahib, Admiralty Pier, Woodbridge and Mnemba Island. “He’s classy. Everybody would like to ride a horse like him,” Husbands said. “He’s got a serious, serious turn of foot.” Fresh off a runner-up performance in the Grade 3 Dominion Day at the start of July to open his six-year-old campaign, March to the Arch was sent postward as the 6-5 favorite and paid $4.40 to win. “In the last race, from reading the Form, I could see that there was no pace and he’s a closer. When we got to the first turn, I saw it and I thought ‘oh my god.’ So I had to press that horse [winner Mighty Heart] the whole way and he still hung in there, you know,” said Husbands in reference to March to the Arch’s season’s debut when he forced the pace early down the backstretch. “It wasn’t his style, but he still came back today and showed you he was a good horse.” Owned by Live Oak Plantation, the homebred son of Arch out of Daveron (Ger), by Black Sam Bellamy (Ire) won the Grade 2 King Edward Stakes over the E.P. Taylor turf last year in August prior to his second-place effort to fellow Florida-bred champion Starship Jubilee in the Grade 1 Ricoh Woodbine Mile on Sept. 19. His 2020 campaign, which also included a victory in the Sunshine Millions Turf at Gulfstream Park in January of last year, resulted in him being named by the Florida Thoroughbred Breeders’ and Owners’ Association as their Florida-bred Champion Turf Male. Sunday, he notched his eighth career win from 27 starts while pushing his bankroll to $921,659. He also has four seconds and three thirds. Live thoroughbred racing continues at Woodbine Racetrack on Thursday with a 1:10 p.m. EDT post time for the eight-race card. CLICK HERE for the latest The Florida Horse ONLINE Wire to Wire July 27 & 28, 2021 Back to Top Wire to Wire July 27 & 28, 2021 Back to Top Page 5 Royal Flag Goes Last- to-First in Shuvee BY KEITH MCCALMONT, NYRA PRESS OFFICE____________ SARATOGA, NY—W.S. Farish home- bred Royal Flag, patiently piloted by Joel Rosario, stormed down the middle of the track to collar a stubborn Horologist in Sunday’s $200,000 Shuvee (Grade 3), a nine-furlong test for older fillies and mares at Saratoga Race Course. One of three entrants for four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown, along with Gold Spirit and Dun- bar Road, the 5-year-old Candy Ride mare made amends for her rallying sec- ond in last year’s edition when turned back by the pacesetting Letruska, who was coincidentally piloted by Rosario. Horologist, a multiple graded-stakes winner piloted by Junior Alvarado, broke on top and led the six-horse field through an opening quarter-mile in :23.35 while being chased by the slow-starting and hard-to-handle Liberty M D, who rushed up the rail under Brian Hernandez Jr., and Gold Spirit, piloted in the three-path by Hall of Famer Javier Castellano. Royal Flag/COGLIANESE PHOTO Liberty M D edged her way off the rail down the backstretch to Brown said Royal Flag, who is expected to retire later this year, pressure the pacesetter inside of Gold Spirit, as Grade 1-placed is likely to target the $600,000 Personal Ensign (G1) presented by Crystal Ball tracked behind rivals in fourth well clear of the trailing Lia Infiniti going nine furlongs on Aug. 28. Dunbar Road and Royal Flag. Rosario, who won his second Shuvee, said he followed Brown’s With three-quarters ticking by in 1:11.13 on the fast main track, instructions to the letter. Horologist led the field through the final turn with Gold Spirit on “Chad told me that to stay out was probably the best,” Rosario her flank. Crystal Ball loomed large outside the retreating Liberty said. “I was just following his other horse [Dunbar Road]. I just M D, while Dunbar Road blazed a trail outside rivals with Royal wanted to have a clean run when I started moving. When she started Flag in tow. movi ng in the last turn and then with the stride that she has; I was A game and determined Horologist dug in at the head of the lane not even asking for everything yet, so I felt she was going to run and repelled the challenge of Gold Spirit with Crystal Ball lugging really big.” in on that one late in the lane. But it was the wide-rallying Royal Horologist, trained by Hall of Famer Bill Mott, completed the Flag who found her best stride late, overtaking the field with a exacta by a head over Crystal Ball. Rounding out the order of finish wicked turn-of-foot to secure the three-quarter length score in a were Gold Spirit, Dunbar Road and Liberty M D. Antoinette was final time of 1:49.42. scratched. Brown, who captured the 2017 renewal with Paid Up Subscriber, Out of the Mineshaft mare Sea Gull, Royal Flag is half-sister to praised Royal Flag, who secured a second graded-stakes win after multiple graded stakes-winner Catalina Cruiser. Bred in Kentucky taking the Grade 3 Turnback the Alarm two starts back in November by her owner, Royal Flag banked $110,000 in victory while main- at Aqueduct Racetrack. taining a perfect in-the-money record of five wins, three secons and “She was able to get up in time. She was quite far back turning two thirds from 10 efforts. Sent to post as the 8-5 mutuel favorite, for home. I was very proud of her effort,” Brown said. “She showed she returned $5.30 for a $2 win wager. that she has a lot of heart. She might not have run a lot of times in Live racing resumes Wednesday at Saratoga with a 10-race card her career, but every time she shows up.” highlighted by the $200,000 Honorable Miss (G2), a six-furlong The lightly-raced Royal Flag entered from a close second to Bonny sprint for fillies and mares. First post is 1:05 p.m. EDT. South in the Grade 3 Baird Doubledogdare in April at Keeneland. Wire to Wire July 27 & 28, 2021 Back to Top Wire to Wire July 27 & 28, 2021 Back to Top Page 7 Brandothebartender Gets Up Late to Win California Dreamin’ BY DEL MAR PRESS OFFICE _________________ DEL MAR, CA—The hard-knocking veteran Brandothe- bartender set ‘em up and knocked ‘em down late Sunday in capturing the $152,000 California Dreamin’ Stakes by a half-length at Del Mar. The 8-year-old gelding by Tribal Rule made the 46th start of his career a winner and took down the top share of $85,500 from the purse for California-breds. He now has total winnings of $772,864 after six seasons and a performance record that reads nine wins, seven seconds and 15 thirds from 46 starts. Umberto Rispoli was aboard the winner for the 12th time. The bay veteran is trained by Craig Dollase, who got his owners to invest $40,000 in claiming him three years ago at Del Mar. The ownership group consists of Flawless Racing of Jerry Weseloh and Brian Flanagan, both of San Diego, and Michael Jarvis of Manhattan Beach, Calif.