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Month: November 2020
Got Stormy to Spendthrift for $2.75M at Fasig November
Multiple Grade I-winning turf mare Got Stormy (Get Stormy–Super Phoebe, by Malabar Gold) started the ‘Night of the Stars’ fireworks Sunday at Fasig-Tipton November when hammering for $2.75 million to Spendthrift Farm as hip 168, consigned by Bluewater Sales. A winner over boys off seven days’ rest in the GI Fourstardave H. last summer, the chestnut added a victory in the GI Matriarch S. and runner-up finish in the GI Breeders’ Cup Mile. She scored in the GIII Kentucky Downs Ladies Sprint S. and GIII Franklin County S. this season as a 5-year-old before finishing fifth in Saturday’s GI Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint. Boasting 10 wins and 23 on-the-board finishes from 25 career starts for owner Gary Barber and trainer Mark Casse, Got Stormy has earned over $2 million in her career.
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Pickin’ Time Runs Down Ten For Ten To Win Nashua
Pickin' Time overtook the favorite and pacesetter Ten for Ten in the final furlong and powered home a 2 1/4-length winner to notch his first graded stakes victory in Sunday's Grade 3, $100,000 Nashua for juveniles at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, N.Y.
Owned by John Bowers, Jr., Pickin' Time entered with ample stakes experience for trainer Kelly Breen, following his debut win at 4 ½ furlongs in July at Monmouth Park. After running eighth in the Grade 2 Saratoga Special on August 7, Breen returned the Stay Thirsty colt to Monmouth for consecutive stakes appearance, where he ran second in the one-mile Sapling on September 6 before winning the six-furlong Smoke Glacken on September 27.
Stretched back out to a mile for the first time since the Sapling, Pickin' Time broke sharp from post 4 under jockey Trevor McCarthy, who tracked initially in fifth position before moving up to fourth as 6-5 favorite Ten for Ten [pressured by Isolate] led the seven-horse field through the opening quarter-mile in 22.86 seconds with the half in 46.10 and three-quarters in 1:11.98 over the fast main track.
Out of the turn, jockey Eric Cancel kept Ten for Ten near the rail, while McCarthy made a strong bid from the outside at the top of the stretch. Pickin' Time picked off his rival and finished strong, completing the course in a final time of 1:39.89 to improve to 3-1-0 in five starts.
“We got a great break and that's what I wanted; get him out and make sure he had a comfortable spot, which he did,” said McCarthy, who also won the Grade 3 Turnback the Alarm on Saturday at Aqueduct. “Looking down the backside, I was very comfortable where I was. I wasn't getting too much kickback and that seems to be a pretty big key this weekend. I was able to get outside coming to the turn and let him get in his mojo. After that, he really accelerated strong for me and gave me a great effort through the lane. I was delighted.
“Kelly had him ready today,” he added. “He was the most experienced horse in the race, so I was really happy looking into that. Everything worked out perfect.”
Breen said the Grade 2, $150,000 Remsen on Cigar Mile Day on December 5 is the next target for the New Jersey homebred. The 1 1/8-mile test offers 10-4-2-1 qualifying points to the 2021 Grade 1 Kentucky Derby.
“He's just growing into himself,” Breen said. “He was kind of a big and gawky 2-year old. When he ran in Saratoga, he ran against that real nice horse of Steve Asmussen's [Jackie's Warrior]. We didn't get off great that day. Today was the right timing and everything worked out well for him. He's staying right where he's at. We'll look forward to the Remsen.”
Off at 9-1, Pickin' Time returned $21.00 on a $2 win bet. He improved his career earnings to $184,025.
Courtlandt Farms' Ten for Ten a $410,000 purchase at the 2019 Keeneland September Sale, was 10 ¼ lengths the best of Isolate for second in his stakes debut for Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey.
“I had a really nice trip,” Cancel said. “The pace was a little bit quick at the beginning, but I went on with it. My horse was pretty comfortable, nice and focused and he seemed to be doing it easy until we got to the quarter pole and the other horse got to him quick. He just went by. My horse never gave up. He kept on trying but the other one flew by him.”
Nova Rags, Civil War, Irish Honor and Spectatorless completed the order of finish.
The Nashua, named for the Hall of Famer who won ran second in the 1955 Kentucky Derby before winning the Belmont Stakes and Preakness, was the final leg of a Cross Country Pick 5 with Churchill Downs, with a payout of $6,424.75 for selecting all five winners. The total pool was $52,913.
There will be a Cross Country Pick 5 offered every day in November that both Aqueduct and Churchill Downs offer live racing.
Live racing resumes Thursday at Aqueduct with a nine-race card that features a first post of 12:20 p.m. Eastern.
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What’s in a Name: Audarya
The winner of the GI Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf was named by her fortunate owner after a Sardinian wine company, according to her trainer–the great James Fanshawe of Pegasus Stables in Newmarket.
Among the wines that the Audarya winery produces are their versions of the increasingly popular Cannonau (red, goes well with red meats, separates the men from the boys) and old stalwart Vermentino (white, goes with seafood and cheeses, separates the female side in all of us).
The winery website states that “Audarya means ‘nobility of the soul’ in an ancient oriental language” (probably Sanskrit, the “link language” of the Orient). As the horse is often called “the noble animal,” the name is fitting and inspired. In vino veritas.
MAKER’S MARK BREEDERS’ CUP FILLY AND MARE TURF-GI, $1,840,000, Keeneland, 11-7, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 3/16mT, 1:52.72 (NCR), fm.
1–AUDARYA (FR), 124, f, 4, by Wootton Bassett (GB)
1st Dam: Green Bananas (Fr), by Green Tune
2nd Dam: Anabaa Republic (Fr), by Anabaa
3rd Dam: Gigawatt, by Double Bed (Fr)
(€125,000 Ylg ’17 AROYRG). O-A. M. Swinburn; B-S.A.R.L. Haras D’Ecouves (FR); T-J. R. Fanshawe; J-Pierre-Charles Boudot. $1,040,000. Lifetime Record: G1SW-Fr, 13-5-4-1, $1,229,046.
An Italian native, Andrea Branchini now lives in Lexington, Ky., where he works in the equine transport industry.
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