There has been much discussion about the ramifications of shifting the Kentucky Derby Presented by Woodford Reserve from the first Saturday in May to Sept. 5 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the calendar change for the Longines Kentucky Oaks also had a major impact on the shape of the 1 1/8-mile race for 3-year-old fillies.
Month: August 2020
Key Takeaways from the Weekend: Final Derby Works and Breeders’ Cup Preps
Tom Pedulla presents five takeaways from the weekend in horse racing, including Kentucky Derby preparations and the results of the Sword Dancer Stakes at Saratoga and other major races:
Bayern Filly Last to First in Muskoka S.
Overlooked at long odds here and one of two unraced juvenile fillies in the line up, El Bayern became her GI Breeders’ Cup Classic-winning sire’s first black-type winner in the Muskoka S. on Sunday. Awkwardly away, she looked like she was spinning her wheels while dead last by several lengths for the first few furlongs. Asked for her bid with 2 ½ furlongs left to travel, she looped the field very wide out in the center of the track. Finding more as favored For My Elbi began to run out of steam, she swept by that foe to win going away, breaking her maiden and her black-type duck simultaneously.
Since foaling the winner, El Tara has a yearling colt by Silent Name (Jpn) and a filly of this year by Seattle Serenade. Under the third dam is Canadian Champion Sprinter and MGSW Apelia (Cool Victor), herself the dam of Canadian Champion Older Mare and MGSW Saoirse (Cure the Blues) and GII Adirondack S. victress More Happy (Vindication).
MUSKOKA S., C$250,800, Woodbine, 8-30, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f (AWT), 1:18.91, ft.
1–EL BAYERN, 119, f, 2, by Bayern
1st Dam: El Tara (SP), by Schossberg
2nd Dam: Parkview Hills, by Iskandar Elakbar
3rd Dam: Arbela, by Conquistador Cielo
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN.(C$8,000 Ylg ’19 CANSEP). O-Stacey Van
Camp; B-Hill ‘N’ Dale Farms (ON); T-Michael Mattine; J-Sheena
Ryan. C$150,000. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $114,523. *1/2 to
Quidi Vidi (Marcavelly), MSP, $354,384. **1st SW for her sire
(by Offlee Wild).
2–For My Elbi, 119, f, 2, Souper Speedy–Executrix, by Bold
Executive. (C$24,000 Ylg ’19 CANSEP). O-Krasauskaite Racing
Stable and Raymon, Marco; B-John Carey (ON); T-Laura
Krasauskaite. C$50,000.
3–Ms Wicked, 119, f, 2, War Dancer–Sinful, by Touch Gold.
(C$4,500 RNA Ylg ’19 CANSEP). O-Centennial Farms (Niagara)
Inc.; B-Janeane Everatt, James Everatt & Arika Everatt-Meeuse
(ON); T-Cole Bennett. C$25,000.
Margins: 1, HD, 2HF. Odds: 23.00, 1.75, 3.95.
Also Ran: Howmuchistoomuch, Sensational Girl, Holy Lighting, Leave It With Me, Flawless Pink, Hekla’s Aura, Silent Mamba.
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Ketner Sweeps NJ Thoroughbred Festival Card
Dr. Mark Ketner was celebrating a rare feat at the conclusion of Monmouth’s New Jersey Thoroughbred Festival Sunday–the Colts Neck-based vet foaled all 10 winners on the card.
“It was pretty crazy,” Ketner said. “We have kind of an unusual practice. I have a farm practice with a racetrack practice based here in Monmouth County. Most of the Jersey-breds are foaled here in Monmouth County, and we’ve just been lucky enough to have some of the same farms for many years–they’re all good farms and they’re all right here.”
Highlights of the card included Prendimi (Dance With Ravens)’s head victory over favorite Golden Brown (Offlee Wild) in the Charles Hesse III H. for older males around two turns; heavy favorite Liz’s Cable Girl (Cable Boy)’s seventh win at Monmouth and second in the Eleven North H. to increase the 6-year-old mares earnings to more than $500,000; and in-form Royal Urn (Kantharos)’s runaway victory in the New Jersey Breeders H. for sprinters.
“I’m just very fortunate to have good associates who help at the farms,” said Ketner, who also noted that he foaled two runners-up on the card as well. “With some of them, we’ve actually had the stallions, and some of them we’ve bred, and foaled and then worked on them all the way through their racing career. In some cases, even after they’re done racing. It’s a neat little niche.”
Five-year-old Prendimi’s dam Cigno d’Oro (Tour d’Or) completed a double of her own, as her 3-year-old son Our Man Luke (Redeemed) broke his maiden one race after the Hesse. Both horses were bred and owned by Jon Coles’s GJ Stable and trained by Luis Carvajal, Jr., who also saddled Don’s Marsh (Don Six) to an optional claiming victory two races later. Coles and Carvajal campaigned Cigno d’Oro to seven career wins and earnings of more than $372,000.
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