FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2021 BLOODHORSE.COM/DAILY COGLIANESE PHOTOS/SUSIE RAISHER COGLIANESE PHOTOS/SUSIE GODOLPHIN DUO Althiqa, Summer Romance Back for More in Diana See page 3 IN THIS ISSUE 8 Pretty Birdie Wins Schuylerville for Marylou Whitney 10 Comebacking Golden Pal Delivers in Quick Call 12 Saratoga Opener a Fan Appreciation Day BLOODHORSE DAILY Download the FREE smartphone app PAGE 1 OF 35 CONTENTS 3 Althiqa, Summer Romance Back for More in Diana 6 Leading Sires by Lifetime AEI 8 Pretty Birdie Wins Schuylerville for Marylou Whitney 10 Comebacking Golden Pal Delivers in Quick Call 12 Saratoga Opener a Fan Appreciation Day 16 Trainers Back in Court to Collect Debt From Ramseys 17 Jockey Gutierrez-Sosa Dies in Oregon Spill 18 Asher Among Six Selected Into KY Sports Hall of Fame 19 Value Proposition Part of Brown Trio in Forbidden Apple 21 Capacity Field in Oceanside for Del Mar’s Opening Day 22 Sanford Field Deep in Precocious Speed 25 Arlington “Million Preview” Day Draws Kentucky Raiders 27 Historic American Derby Mirrors Illinois Racing Woes 28 Japan Scores in Meld Stakes 29 Results & Entries SKIP DICKSTEIN TAA a ccreditation: The G o l d S t a n d a r d in aftercare. A publication of The Jockey Club Information Systems, Inc. and TOBA Media Properties, Inc. ON THE COVER Summer Romance (outside) works Editorial Director General Manager in company with Althiqa at Belmont Park Claire Crosby Scott Carling Visuals Director Digital Media Manager Anne M. 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Godolphin's Althiqa and Summer Romance, who filled the first two spots in the June 5 Longines Just a Game Stakes (G1T) at Belmont Park, will try to come out on top again at Saratoga MAUHAR COGLIANESE PHOTOS/ROBERT Race Course. The 4-year-olds fillies Althiqa bests stablemate Summer Romance in the Just a Game Stakes at Belmont Park are entered in an expected field of eight for the $500,000 Diana Stakes (G1T), the first of 20 Invitational (G1T) with Bolshoi Ballet and Santa grade 1 races of the meet. They will run a furlong farther Barbara, respectively. at the Spa than their mile trip last out. The Diana will also be the fourth consecutive start The Charlie Appleby trainees competed in Europe that Althiqa and Summer Romance have made together. and Dubai before making their North American debuts. Althiqa receives a new pilot after being ridden by Mike They will try to keep the international flags flying a Smith in the Just a Game. Manny Franco will guide the week after runners campaigned by owners associated Dark Angel filly from the outside post Saturday, while with Coolmore and trainer Aidan O'Brien swept the Summer Romance, a daughter of Kingman, retains Luis Belmont Derby Invitational (G1T) and Belmont Oaks Saez from post 6. New York-based trainer Chad Brown comes back to the Diana after winning the past five editions of the race and six overall. He first won with Zagora in 2011, then again with Dacita (2016), Lady Eli (2017), Sistercharlie (2018-19), and Rushing Fall (2020). This year Brown will saddle Juddmonte's Pocket Square and Peter Brant's Lemista. Pocket Square, a 4-year-old Night of Thunder filly, is a group 3 winner preparing for her third North American start. She won a 1 1/16-mile allowance at Keeneland in April but was fifth as the 5-2 favorite in the Just a Game on a turf course rated good. CHAD B. HARMON Althiqa is led into the winner’s circle after winning the Just a Game Stakes (continued on page 4) BLOODHORSE DAILY FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2021 PAGE 3 OF 35 ALTHIQA, SUMMER ROMANCE BACK FOR MORE IN DIANA (continued from page 3) "She missed her last work (before the Just a Game) with the storms that came through and maybe the softish turf didn't help. I really thought she was lined up really well going into the Just a Game, and I was hopeful she could overcome, but things just didn't work out," Brown said. "She's come back and worked really super, so I'm drawing a line through it and going right back at another grade 1 with her. "I know she ran well in Europe that way (on good- firm ground), but I think she's more effective on a firm turf course from what I've seen in her training," PHOTOGRAPHY KEENELAND/COADY Lemista won four straight races in Ireland, two of them group stakes, between fall 2019 and last summer. The daughter of Raven's Pass finished second in her first U.S. start, coming up half a length short to grade 1 winner Harvey's Lil Goil (also entered in the Diana) in the May 8 Beaugay Stakes (G3T) at Belmont. "She's a top-class filly. I have high hopes for her," Brown said of Lemista. "We've been pointing for this race for a while and I'm excited to get to it. I think that the time has done her well. She's been working consistently well." John Velazquez will ride Pocket Square from post 2, and Irad Ortiz Jr. keeps the mount on Lemista from post 7. Harvey's Lil Goil, owned by the Estate of Harvey A. RAISHER COGLIANESE PHOTOS/SUSIE Clarke and Paul Braverman and trained by Bill Mott, (Top): Pocket Square wins an allowance race at Keeneland (Bottom): Harvey’s Lil Goil defeats Lemista in the Beaugay has made one start since her 4-year-old debut in the Stakes at Belmont Park Beaugay. In Saturday's inner turf test, the American Pharoah filly will try to rebound from a fifth-place Harvey's Lil Goil won the Queen Elizabeth II effort in the June 4 New York Stakes (G2T) at 1 1/4 Challenge Cup Stakes Presented by Dixiana over 1 1/8 miles on yielding turf. miles last fall at Keeneland before rallying to be third, "It was very soft ground," Mott said. "Some of beaten only a neck, in the Maker's Mark Breeders' our stakes have been run on really soft ground and it Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1T) going 1 3/16 miles. could have worked against her a little bit. Junior Alvarado will ride her for the fourth straight "(Cutting back) won't hurt her I don't think. She's time Saturday from post 5. run well on that type of oval previously. She won the Mott has won the Diana four times: Sand Springs Queen Elizabeth (G1T) at Keeneland and she ran good (2005), Angara (2006), My Typhoon (2007), and in the Breeders' Cup at Keeneland and that's a tight Proviso (2010). turf course, so I don't think that will hurt her." (continued on page 5) BLOODHORSE DAILY FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2021 PAGE 4 OF 35 ALTHIQA, SUMMER ROMANCE BACK FOR MORE IN DIANA (continued from page 4) Lael Stables' Magic Attitude, a grade 1 winner trained by Arnaud Delacour that began her career in France, is also in the Diana. The 4-year-old Galileo filly won the 2020 Belmont Oaks and was third in the Queen Elizabeth II to cap her sophomore campaign. She won her second race of this season, the May 1 Sheepshead Bay Stakes (G2T) at Belmont, before finishing seventh in the New York. Madaket Stables, Tim and Anna Cambron, BILL DENVER/EQUI-PHOTO and Bradley Thoroughbreds' La Signare is a grade 3 Vigilantes Way takes the Eatontown Stakes at Monmouth Park winner and will try to break through at the top level after placing in two grade 1s. Trained by Brendan Walsh, Way for trainer Shug McGaughey. The 4-year-old the 6-year-old Siyouni mare rallied to be second, beaten a Medaglia d'Oro filly was second, a half-length behind half-length in the May 31 Gamely Stakes (G1T) over 1 1/8 Mean Mary in the May 15 Gallorette Stakes (G3T) at miles at Santa Anita Park. That effort followed a third- Pimlico Race Course, then made the grade next out in the place finish in the April 10 Coolmore Jenny Wiley Stakes June 20 Eatontown Stakes (G3T) at Monmouth Park. The (G1T) at Keeneland. Diana will be her first race beyond the grade 3 level. 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