Whether he is conditioned by tarnished trainer Jason Servis or by Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, Maximum Security just keeps winning.
Month: July 2020
Juveniles In Hubbard Dispersal Qualify For Rio Grande Futurities Finals
Three 2-year-olds in the R.D Hubbard Complete Thoroughbred Dispersal qualified for the finals of the Rio Grande Futurities on Friday, July 24, 2020 at Ruidoso Downs in New Mexico. The stakes races will be held August 16 at Ruidoso Downs. These horses will race for their new owners.
Bidding for this internet only auction closes on Tuesday, July 28 at ThoroughbredAuctions.com. Horses are selling without reserve.
Hip 11, Caught Stealing, qualified for the Rio Grande Senorita Futurity with a purse of $133,795. Caught Stealing is by freshman sire Marking, currently 10th on the first crop sire list and the leading first crop sire in New Mexico. She is a half-sister to four winners including stakes winner Sporting Chance. Her dam, Warning Track by Grand Slam, is selling as Hip 9.
Both Hubbard Dispersal runners in the trials for the Rio Grande Senor Futurity qualified for the August 16 race which has a purse of $134,632.
Hip 5, Aisle Runner, won his first start and easily qualified for the August 16 finals. He is by New Mexico Leading Sire Attila's Storm, who also sells in the dispersal. Aisle Runner is a half-brother to three stakes horses and is out of the Bernardini mare Garter, also selling. Garter is a half-sister to European Champion Sprinter Stravinsky and Moscow Ballet.
Hip 29, Pub, a full brother to Stakes-Placed winner Cerveza, also qualified to run in the finals. He is by Attila's Storm and out of Hennessy daughter Cocktail Girl, who sells in the dispersal. Cocktail Girl is the dam of 4 winners.
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Laura’s Light Wins Del Mar’s San Clemente As Heavy Favorite
Gary Barber's favored Laura's Light made the lead turning for home on the turf course, then held off the late charges of two rivals to tally by three-quarters of a length in Saturday's Grade 2, $150,000 San Clemente Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Del Mar near San Diego, Calif.
Laura's LIght's rider was Abel Cedillo, who wound up capturing three races on the afternoon's 11-race card, including the G2 San Diego Handicap aboard Maximum Security.
Laura's Light, a Kentucky-bred daughter of Constitution, covered the mile on the greensward in 1:34.16 and paid $4.40, $3.00 and $2.60 as the 6/5 favorite in the field of 10 runners. She earned $90,000 for the victory and now sports a bankroll of $304,370.
Trained by Peter Miller, Laura's Light was winning for the fifth time in seven career starts. She was coming off a hard-fought victory in the Honeymoon Stakes on turf at Santa Anita on May 30 — her second G3 win this year.
Both of the Grade 2 races run Saturday are considered key preps for Grade 1 races later in the meet – the $500,000 TVG Pacific Classic in the case of Maximum Security and the $250,000 Del Mar Oaks for Laura's Light. Each of those races will be run at Del Mar on August 22 as part of a five-stakes program and both winning trainers today gave indications that their charges would be pointed in that direction.
Earlier on the card in the $65,000 Smiling Tiger Overnight Stakes, MyRacehorse.com and Slam Dunk Racing's Vertical Threat outran three foes to score by five and a quarter lengths under Heriberto Figueroa. The 3-year-old colt trained by Richard Baltas ran six furlongs in 1:10.47.
Racing resumes at Del Mar tomorrow with an 11-race card beginning at 2 p.m.
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Maximum Security Noses Out Midcourt In San Diego Handicap
Making his first start for trainer Bob Baffert, Gary and Mary West and Coolmore partners' Maximum Security – the 3-year-old male champion of 2019 and winner of the 2020 Saudi Cup last out on Feb. 29 – made a successful return to the races on Saturday, winning the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap by a nose over front-running Midcourt at Del Mar near San Diego, Calif.
Ridden for the first time by Abel Cedillo – pinch hitting for regular rider Luis Saez – Maximum Security covered 1 1/16 miles in 1:44.54 carrying 127 pounds as the 2-5 favorite, conceding five pounds to Midcourt and third-place finisher Higher Power. Ax Man finished fourth, with Combatant last in the field of five older runners. Sharp Samurai was scratched.
Maximum Security broke sharply but was overtaken early by Midcourt and jockey Victor Espinoza rounding the first turn. Going into the backstretch, Flavien Prat and Higher Power moved up alongside and past Maximum Security, with the latter slipping back several lengths behind the front-running Midcourt.
Midcourt set fractions of :23.74, :46.87 and 1:11.40 for the first six furlongs while being chased by Higher Power, with Cedillo urging Maximum Security to take on the pace-setter with just under a half mile to run.
The two horses separated from Higher Power at the top of the stretch, covering a mile in 1:37.91. In the final sixteenth, Maximum Security put his head in front, but Midcourt came back on approaching the wire, just missing.
Maximum Security was transferred to Baffert after the colt's former trainer, Jason Servis, was arrested on federal criminal charges stemming from an FBI investigation into doping of racehorses. The purse from the Saudi Cup was put on hold after the March 9 arrest of Servis, fellow trainer Jorge Navarro and more than two dozen others.
Maximum Security, a 4-year-old colt by New Year's Day who began his racing career in a $16,000 maiden claiming race at Gulfstream Park in December 2018, has won nine of 11 starts, including the Grade 1 trio of the Florida Derby, Haskell Stakes and Cigar Mile. One of his two defeats came when he crossed the wire first in the G1 Kentucky Derby but was disqualified for causing interfering on the stretch turn.
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