Friday • July 23, 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: Field Pass Tops Trio of Graded Winners in the $200,000 BWI Turf Cup Wootton Asset Takes Aim at $100,000 Bald Eagle Derby Robin Sparkles set to shine in G3 Caress Track Results & Entries Malathaat/COADY PHOTO Malathaat seeks to Remain Unbeaten in G1 Coaching Club American Oaks Florida Stallion Progeny List BY RYAN MARTIN, Famers Princess Doreen [1924], Dark Mirage Florida Breeders’ List NYRA PRESS OFFICE______________ [1968], Davona Dale [1979], Bold ‘n Deter- mined [1980], and Open Mind [1989]. Shadwell Stable’s undefeated Malathaat Multiple fillies have used the CCA Oaks has demonstrated class and determination as a steppingstone to Champion 3-Year-Old Wire to Wire Business Place through five wins in as many lifetime starts Filly honors, including Ruffian [1975], Way- and will vie to keep her perfect ways afloat ward Lass [1981], Mom’s Command [1985], in Saturday’s 105th running of the Grade 1, Ajina [1997], Ashado [2004], Smuggler $500,000 Coaching Club American Oaks [2005], and Questing [2012]. Three of the last Featured going nine furlongs for 3-year-old fillies at five winners of the CCA Oaks have notched Advertisers Saratoga Race Course. such honors with Songbird [2016], Abel Tas- The Coaching Club American Oaks was man [2017], and Monomoy Girl [2018]. Bloodstockauction USA named in honor of a club formed in 1875 Two-time Grade 1-winner Malathaat ar- for which a membership requirement was rives at the CCA Oaks off a hard-fought tri- Florida Department of Agriculture to be able to navigate a coach and four umph in the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks on April horses with a single group of reins. Inaugu- 30 at Churchill Downs, where she engaged in FTBOA rated in 1917, the historic event often at- a stretch duel with graded stakes winner tracts the winner of the Kentucky Oaks and Search Results and won by a neck, garnering Ocala Breeders’ Feed & Supply has seen 14 fillies sweep the Kentucky a career-best 95 Beyer Speed Figure. Oaks-CCA Oaks double, including Hall of See MALATHAAT on page 3 Seminole Feed Wire to Wire July 23, 2021 Back to Top Page 3 Malathaat Continued from COVER The Kentucky Oaks triumph came after a successful sophomore bow in the Grade 1 Ashland on April 3 at Keeneland where she tracked leisurely fractions and closed in on Pass the Champagne in the final half-furlong to win by a head. During her juvenile campaign, Malathaat notched stakes tri- umphs at Aqueduct in the Tempted and Grade 2 Demoiselle after giving Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez his 2,000th Belmont Park victory in October. Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher will look to extend his seven- win record in the prestigious race when he saddles Malathaat. A vic- tory would give Pletcher a third CCA Oaks triumph with a Kentucky Oaks winner, having sent out Ashado and Princess of Sylmar [2013]. “She’s a very gifted filly,” Pletcher said. “She’s just been perfect so far and she’s a pleasure to train, and just does everything right. When you have one that’s undefeated you just want to keep that in- tact and hope that everything goes smoothly and that she’s able to show her capabilities once more.” Malathaat could also provide her multiple champion-producing sire Curlin his third CCA Oaks winner after Curalina [2015], also trained by Pletcher, and last year’s winner Paris Lights. Bred in Kentucky by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings, Malathaat is the first offspring out of the A.P. Indy broodmare Dreaming of Julia, who captured the 2012 Grade 1 Frizette and the 2013 Grade 2 Gulfstream Park Oaks for Pletcher. “She’s a bigger physical than Dreaming of Julia and maybe Dreaming of Julia was a tad quicker than she is,” Pletcher said. “But she’s just so efficient and has a long stride and it seems like she’s bred to get better now. She’s growing into that big frame. She’s fun to have in the barn and I’m looking forward to get her going again.” Malathaat was initially campaigned for an earlier return to action. “We did miss a little time with her and she was a little bit sore, so we took it easy with her,” said Shadwell Stable’s vice president and general manager Rick Nichols. “Todd had her training real well into the Ashland. I loved the way that she fought in the Oaks. She just has so much class and determination.” Malathaat has settled into her surroundings at Saratoga and re- cently breezed a half-mile in :48.05 seconds on July 17 over the main track in company with Grade 2 Mother Goose-winner Zaajel. “She’s doing great and seems to be loving Saratoga,” Nichols said. “The main thing about her is early on, she had such an effort- less gallop. She covers the ground so easily. It doesn’t look like she has to work hard at all.” Pletcher said he is grateful for his relationship with Shadwell, for whom he also has campaigned recent graded stakes winner Mutasaabeq. “We’ve been blessed to have received some of their horses and have built some good relationships so far,” Pletcher said. “To have [graded stakes winners] Mutasaabeq and Zaajel and Malathaat, we’re off to a good start and happy to be part of the team.” Shadwell purchased Malathaat for $1.05 million from the Denali Stud consignment at the 2019 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. Shadwell Stable’s founder Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Mak- toum passed in March, and Nichols said Malathaat could dawn a new era for the prestigious racing and breeding operation. “Physically, she’s about as perfect as you can get,” Nichols said. “She just looked like a horse that would have a lot of class. She had a very attractive head, beautiful balance, and her limbs were good. As soon as I saw her at the sale, I knew Sheikh Hamdan would love her. Malathaat could be the foundation mare of the next See MALATHAAT on page 5 Wire to Wire July 23, 2021 Back to Top Wire to Wire July 23, 2021 Back to Top Page 5 Malathaat Continued from page 3 generation for his family.” three-time Grade 1-winning Bernardini mare Cavorting, who Velazquez, who has guided Malathaat to three of her five wins, earned over $2 million through a lifetime record of 13-8-1-1. retains the mount from post one. A five-time winner of the CCA Jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. earned his first Grade 1 victory when guid- Oaks, Velazquez seeks to become the standalone winningest jockey ing Questing to victory in the 2012 CCA Oaks and will ride in the race’s history. Clairiere from post four. Two Kentucky Oaks participants face Malathaat once more, in- Completing the field is allowance winner Rockpaperscissors for cluding Beach Haven Thoroughbreds’ Maracuja, who was seventh WinStar Stablemates Racing, who swept the exacta in last year’s in the Kentucky Oaks. CCA Oaks with Paris Lights and Crystal Ball. The Rob Atras-trained daughter of third crop sire Honor Code Trained by Rodolphe Brisset, the daughter of Distorted Humor broke a touch slow in the Oaks, but made up considerable ground broke her maiden at a one-turn mile in September at Churchill to run seventh. Downs and did not race again until June 21, where she defeated “In the Oaks, she broke a little flat footed, but we’re hoping she older allowance company at Indiana Grand Race Course by nine- breaks sharper and won’t be too far back in a shorter field,” Atras and-three-quarter lengths. said. “She was down on the inside and going into the first turn she Breaking from post three, Rockpaperscissors will be ridden by got shuffled back. She made a good run late and I was happy with Luis Saez. the performance. She just needs to break sharper and get in a more The Coaching Club American Oaks is slated as Race 5 on Sat- tactical position.” urday’s 11-race card, which also features the Grade 3, $200,000 Ca- Prior to the Kentucky Oaks, Maracuja was a third-out maiden ress. First post is 1:05 p.m. Eastern. Saratoga Live will present daily special weight victress going six-and-a-half furlongs over the Aque- television coverage of the 40-day summer meet on FOX Sports. duct main track en route to a runner-up finish in the Grade 3 Gazelle on April 3 at the Big A. “She came back really well, and we skipped the Acorn and were FTBOA targeting the Mother Goose but she wasn’t quite right,” Atras said.” She’s doing well right now. She bounced out of it well. We worked Member her three times and I’m hoping she’s good enough to run a top race.” Jockey Ricardo Santana, Jr. will guide Maracuja from post two. 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