Month: October 2020

‘We Can’t Ride Them To Their Full Potential’: Santa Anita Jockeys Struggle With New Whip Rules

Following the first day under new whip rules at Santa Anita Park, several jockeys shared their continuing frustrations with the Daily Racing Form.

The California Horse Racing Board regulations include:

  • Riders cannot use the crop more than six times during a race, excluding showing or waiving the crop or tapping the horse on the shoulder.
  • Riders cannot use the crop more than two times in succession (within the six-time limit) without giving the horse a chance to respond before using the crop again.
  • The crop must be used in an underhanded position with the crop always at or below the shoulder level of the jockey.

“We can't ride them to their full potential, even if it's a light overhanded tap left-handed,” Drayden Van Dyke told drf.com. “People have to understand to get that whip over to your left hand, there are certain techniques you have to do. Underhanded bars you from being able to do it as quickly. This is a game when every millisecond matters. I think it's really discouraging.”

“In my professional opinion, it's not going to work,” Hall of Famer Mike Smith said. “If you're on a deep track and they're tiring, it doesn't work. It'll cost somebody second money, a win, or third money.”

Read more at the Daily Racing Form.

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Diamond Oops’ Connections Will ‘Flip A Coin’ Between Breeders’ Cup Sprint, Turf Sprint

Diamond Oops and Empire of Gold, who finished less than a length apart at the end of Friday's $200,000 Stoll Keenon Ogden Phoenix (G2), are likely to return to Keeneland for starts Nov. 7.

Diamond 100 Racing Club, Amy Dunne, D P Racing and trainer Patrick Biancone's Diamond Oops was scheduled to leave Keeneland this afternoon to return to the Palm Meadows Training Center in South Florida, according to assistant trainer Andie Biancone.

“He's just a cool horse,” she said of the 5-year-old Diamond Oops, who became a millionaire with his Friday victory. “My dad was very proud of him yesterday and happy.”

The victory earned Diamond Oops a fees-paid berth into the $2 million Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1). However, Diamond Oops also is accomplished on the grass, having won the TwinSpires Turf Sprint (G2) Presented by Sysco in his previous start.

“My dad will probably flip a coin,” Biancone said of making the decision whether Diamond Oops would be pre-entered in the Sprint or the $1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1) also on Nov. 7.

“Most likely (Diamond Oops) would come back the week of the Breeders' Cup. He loves to travel. He is a lot more confident now, and he enjoys changes in distances and surfaces. Last year was like his 3-year-old year because he only had the one race in 2018.”

Johnny Evans and trainer Terry Eoff's Empire of Gold left Keeneland before 7 a.m. en route to Remington Park.

Dismissed at 51-1 as a 3-year-old making his graded stakes debut, Empire of Gold dueled with Grade 1 winner No Parole through fast fractions, opened a clear advantage in the stretch and was overhauled late by Diamond Oops.

“We knew he was good, but we didn't know just how good,” Eoff said of the result in which Empire of Gold finished in front of three Grade 1 winners. “He beat some pretty good horses.”

The only time Empire of Gold has not finished in the top three was when he was fifth in the Grand Prairie Derby at Lone Star going 1 1/16 miles in June.

“I just had to try him long once,” Eoff said. “His best lick is 5½ to 6½ furlongs.”

Eoff is planning to bring Empire of Gold back here for the $100,000 Perryville for 3-year-olds going 6 furlongs as part of the Nov. 7 Breeders' Cup undercard.

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Pharoah Rules in Sirius S.

Café Pharoah (Jpn) (American Pharoah) dispatched his elders with deceptive ease when taking Saturday’s 1900-metre G3 Sirius S. at Chukyo. Pounded down to 70 cents on the dollar, the son of 2015 American Triple Crown winner American Pharoah was taking his second Japanese group race.

The favourite settled in midfield while Chimera Verite (Jpn) (Kizuna {Jpn}) opened up several lengths on the chasing pack. Still eighth on the far turn, Café Pharoah swung wide into the homestretch. Fanned out to the centre of the track for the stretch drive, the Koichi Nishikawa colourbearer took dead aim on Sakura Allure (Jpn) (Gold Allure {Jpn}) as Chimera Verite folded and bounded away to win by a length. Sakura Allure was 3/4 of a length to the good of Acorn (Jpn) (Furioso {Jpn}), while Danon Splendor (Jpn) (Lord Kanaloa {Jpn}) was another 1 1/4 lengths back in fourth.

A winner of a 2-year-old newcomer affair at Nakayama last December, Café Pharoah added the Listed Hyacinth S. at Tokyo this February and the G3 Unicorn S. there in June. He lost his unbeaten record to Danon Pharoah (Jpn) (American Pharoah) when seventh in the slop at Oi in the Listed Dirt Derby on July 8 and was subsequently benched.

Pedigree Notes

Café Pharoah is one of 10 black-type winners and seven at group level for his Ashford Stud-based sire. He shares his damsire More Than Ready with GII Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint and GIII Futurity S. hero Four Wheel Drive (American Pharoah). GII Mrs. Revere S. and GIII Boiling Springs S. heroine Mary’s Follies foaled a colt by Uncle Mo that later died in 2018. She has a yearling colt by Candy Ride (Arg) and a Connect colt of this year born Apr. 16. She was bred back to Curlin. The winner’s third dam was a four-time black-type winner on the Louisiana circuit.

 

Saturday, Chukyo, Japan
SIRIUS S.-G3, ¥68,820,000 (US$653,506/£505,198/€557,831), Chukyo, 10-3, 3yo/up, 1900m, 1:57.80, ft.
1–CAFE PHAROAH, 119, c, 3, American Pharoah
                1st Dam: Mary’s Follies (MGSW-US, $338,889),
                                by More Than Ready
                2nd Dam: Catch the Queen, by Miswaki
                3rd Dam: Wave to the Queen, by Wavering Monarch
($475,000 2yo ’19 OBSMAR). O-Koichi Nishikawa; B- Paul P.
Pompa (KY); T-Noryuki Hori; J-Christophe Lemaire.
¥36,574,000. Lifetime Record: 5-4-0-0. *1/2 to Night Prowler
(Giant’s Causeway), MGSW-US, $475,682; and Regal Glory
(Animal Kingdom), MGSW-US, $773,884. Werk Nick Rating:
   A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Sakura Allure (Jpn), 119, h, 5, Gold Allure (Jpn)–Shiroganese
Cafe, by Gulch. O-Sakura Commerce; B-Tanioka Farm (Jpn);
¥14,164,000.
3–Acorn (Jpn), 121, h, 5, Furioso (Jpn)–Lament (Jpn), by Admire
Moon (Jpn). O-Isao Nishimori; B-Kineusu Saito Farm (Jpn);
¥9,082,000.
Margins: 3/4, 1 1/4, 1HF. Odds: 0.70, 39.50, 55.30.
Also Ran: Danon Splendor (Jpn), Meisho Wazashi (Jpn), Ardore (Jpn), Sunday Wizard (Jpn), M O Glitter (Jpn), Great Time (Jpn), T O Helios (Jpn), Mitsuba (Jpn), Namura Arashi (Jpn), Chimera Verite (Jpn), Daishin Indi (Jpn), Lance of Puraana (Jpn), Daimei Corrida (Jpn).
Click for the JRA chart & video or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

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