August, 2020 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Glatt’s Belief In Twirling Candy And Offspring Paid Off With 1-3 Bing Crosby Finish

Collusion Illusion and Law Abidin Citizen, the first-and third-place finishers in Saturday's Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar in Del Mar, Calif., are both sons of Twirling Candy that trainer Mark Glatt picked out for clients at sales.

It's not a coincidence.

“I was stabled next to John Sadler when Twirling Candy was running and just thought he was an amazing-looking animal and certainly a very good racehorse,” Glatt said. “I thought that when he goes to stud maybe I'll have an opportunity to pick up one or two of (Twirling Candy's progeny).”

He picked both Law Abidin Citizen and Collusion Illusion for a group based in his native state of Washington – Dan Agnew, Jerry Schneider, John Xitco and Dr. Rodney Orr.

Six-year-old Law Abidin Citizen didn't wilt after being close to a fast early pace and held on to secure a third-place award of $30,000 and go over the $500,000 mark in career earnings. Three-year-old Collusion Illusion, given a heady ride by leading jockey Flavien Prat, rallied along the rail in the final furlong to edge Lexitonian on the wire.

Twirling Candy stands at Lane's End in Versailles, Ky., where his fee was $40,000 for the 2020 breeding season.

It was Collusion Illusion's fifth win in six lifetime starts. The $150,000 winner's share of the purse increased his career earnings to $398,751.

But, more importantly, as a “Win and You're In” qualifier for the $2-million Breeders' Cup Sprint, it secured entry fees and travel expenses for the shortest and fastest of the events at the championships at Keeneland in November.

It also was the first Grade 1 stakes victory for Glatt, 47, who obtained his training license after graduation from Western Washington in 1994 and made a gradual southward move that brought him to Southern California in 2000.

“We're going to enjoy the win,” Glatt said. “November is a long time away in this game, but I'm sure we'll figure out a way to get him there one way or another.”

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McCarthy Rides Five Winners At Colonial Downs, Takes Lead In Jockey Standings

Jockey Trevor McCarthy reached the winner's circle five times Sunday evening at Colonial Downs and in doing so powered past Forest Boyce to take over the top spot in the New Kent, Va., track's rider standings.

The 26-year-old native of Wilmington, Del., won the jockey title at Colonial last year when the track returned to action after a six-year absence. He entered Sunday's card – a makeup from last Monday's cancellation – with five wins from 16 starts, just two days into the 2020 season. Forest Boyce was one better though, having won six times.

McCarthy connected early with Ferris Allen's No Knock Raid in the second, then won three straight beginning in the fourth. He was atop Michael Campbell's Sky Mischief, Michael Stidham's Palio and Sarah Nagle's Cark over that span.

McCarthy, leading rider leader in Maryland in 2014 and 2016, closed out his evening by guiding Wesley Ward's Sunshine City to victory in the 5 1/2 furlong eighth. “I was worried a bit in the turn but when I asked her to respond, she did. It was like pushing a button. I just tried not to overthink the ride.”

Boyce prevailed once on Sunday with Princess Grace so after three race days, McCarthy has 10 wins to Boyce's seven. On Monday, the pair have eight and six mounts respectively in Colonial's nine-race card.

McCarthy was humble when asked about his early season success. “I can't take the credit,” he said. “I give credit to the trainers and all the great staff involved behind the scenes, from exercise riders, to grooms, to hotwalkers. My agent (Scott Silver) has been picking the right horses for me to ride and the horses have been doing what they're supposed to do. I've gotten great support from my family and future wife (jockey Katie Davis).”

Colonial Downs, in its second season under ownership of the Colonial Downs Group, continues its summer meet through September 2. Racing is held every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 5:30 PM. Highlight of the season is the New Kent County Virginia Derby Night on Tuesday September 1.

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Fighting Mad Caps Another Big Weekend for Baffert

Lightly raced Fighting Mad (New Year’s Day) zipped away early and held sway late to take Sunday evening’s GI Clement L. Hirsch S. at Del Mar and stamp her ticket to the GI Breeders’ Cup Distaff. Looking to add to another productive weekend for Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert that included Saturday scores in the GI Whitney S. and Shared Belief S., the Gary and Mary West homebred was backed down to 9-5 favoritism from a 4-1 morning line quote and wasted little time seizing command. Under a tight Abel Cedillo hold, the bay doled out splits of

:23.15 and :46.55 before being asked to kick away from her competition heading for home. Defending champion Ollie’s Candy (Candy Ride {Arg}) and MGISW Ce Ce (Elusive Quality) were scrubbed on to try and reel in the leader approaching the stretch, but Fighting Mad began to open up at the head of the lane as Ce Ce was the first to capitulate. Ollie’s Candy kept on gamely to cut things close late, but Fighting Mad found the wire with a half-length to spare. Ce Ce held on for a distant third, while the accomplished Hard Not to Love (Hard Spun) never reached contention and brought up the rear.

“I had the same instructions today that I had yesterday [for Thousand Words {Pioneerof the Nile} in the Shared Belief]–get her out of there and see if you can get to the front,” Cedillo said. “She really broke sharply and wanted to go right away. I got her to relax some on the backside, then she went right on with it. She’s just an amazing filly.”

Sunday, Del Mar
CLEMENT L. HIRSCH S.-GI, $250,500, Del Mar, 8-2, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m, 1:43.46, ft.
1–FIGHTING MAD, 123, f, 4, by New Year’s Day
                1st Dam: Smokey’s Love, by Forestry
                2nd Dam: Smokey Mirage, by Holy Bull
                3rd Dam: Verbasle, by Slewpy
1ST GRADE I WIN. O-Gary & Mary West; B-Gary & Mary West
Stables Inc. (KY); T-Bob Baffert; J-Abel Cedillo. $150,000.
Lifetime Record: 8-5-1-0, $444,008. Werk Nick Rating: B+.
Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Ollie’s Candy, 123, m, 5, by Candy Ride (Arg)
                1st Dam: Afternoon Stroll, by Stroll
                2nd Dam: Gertie, by Danzatore
                3rd Dam: Granny Ruth, by Key to the Mint
($45,000 RNA Ylg ’16 KEESEP). O/B-Paul & Karen Eggert (KY);
T-John W. Sadler. $50,000.
3–Ce Ce, 125, f, 4, by Elusive Quality
                1st Dam: Miss Houdini, by Belong to Me
                2nd Dam: Magical Maiden, by Lord Avie
                3rd Dam: Gils Magic, by Magesterial
O/B-Bo Hirsch LLC (KY); T-Michael W. McCarthy. $30,000.
Margins: HF, 4 3/4, 3 1/4. Odds: 1.80, 3.40, 2.40.
Also Ran: Hang a Star, Dogtag, Hard Not to Love.
Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

“I was a little bit worried about her because she was getting pretty warm in the paddock, but Abel knows her pretty well and he knows speed is her weapon,” Baffert said. “To look at her you wouldn’t think she could go [a distance], but when she started opening up, I figured he must know what he’s doing. Basically, she ran them off their feet. The way she acted in the paddock, she ran an incredible race. She was trembling and sweating and I was worried, but once the race started she was pretty serious. ”

A nose graduate on debut here in her lone juvenile start two years ago, Fighting Mad resurfaced at Churchill to take an allowance last April. She faded to seventh in Pimlico’s GIII Miss Preakness S. that May, and resurfaced back at Del Mar to be a close second in an optional claimer July 19. Fighting Mad’s first two-turn attempt resulted in an eight-length romp in the GIII Torrey Pines S. Aug. 17, but she was again sidelined after that. The bay crossed the wire fourth in Santa Anita’s six-furlong GIII Desert Stormer S. May 17 before being moved to fourth by the stewards, and belied 10-1 odds last time when running away with the GII Santa Maria S. in Arcadia May 21 over Hard Not to Love and Ce Ce and recent GIII Molly Pitcher S. scorer Horologist (Gemologist).

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Uncle Mo Filly Graduates in Del Mar Unveiling

7th-Del Mar, $57,000, Msw, 8-2, 2yo, f, 5f, :59.98, ft.
ROLL UP MO MONEY (f, 2, Uncle Mo–Twixy Roll {MSW, $277,172}, by Roll Hennessy Roll) came from off the pace to graduate in her career unveiling at Del Mar Sunday. Overlooked at 15-1, the Jeff Mullins trainee was hustled out from her wide berth and settled in a stalking position as first Hi Con (Nyquist) and then Bonus Fever (Runhappy) set early fractions of :22.48 and :46.83 while favorite Moonlight d’Oro (Medaglia d’Oro) lingered near the back. At the throat latch of Bonus Fever turning into the stretch, Roll Up Mo Money bounded clear midstretch and had enough of a cushion to score by 1 1/4 lengths over the closing Moonlight d’Oro, who found her best stride late. Twixy Roll produced a colt by American Pharoah last term. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $33,000. Click for the Equibase.com charthttps://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/race-replays/0/202008021603STD6/ or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
O-Dale F. Taylor Racing, LLC., Carey Taylor & Jon Hogg; B-Dale Taylor (KY); T-Jeff Mullins.

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