January, 2021 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Candy Ride’s White Frost Much the Best in Sweetest Chant

Let go at a tempting 9-2, Gainesway Stables' homebred White Frost spent a good portion of Saturday's GIII Sweetest Chant S. hemmed away at the inside, but she saved her best for last, as she sprinted past pacesetting favorite Con Lima in the final furlong for a breakthrough graded stakes success.

Con Lima, exiting a front-running defeat of Honey Pants (Cairo Prince) in the course-and-distance Ginger Brew S. Jan. 2, hit the ground running and had things very much her own way on the engine, as White Frost settled three back on the fence with about five lengths to find down the backstretch. Racing tightly just to the inside of Tampa maiden winner Domain Expertise (Kitten's Joy) as they hit the half-mile pole, White Frost was full of run, as Junior Alvarado mulled over his options. Held together into the stretch, White Frost was asked to kick leaving the three-sixteenths and it was a telling burst, as she beat Domain Expertise to the punch and reeled in Con Lima with her powerful, long strides.

A distant debut fourth to Zainalarab (War Front) sprinting on the Belmont main track Sept. 18, White Frost improved a couple of spots to finish runner-up in a muddy main-track maiden in Elmont on Halloween. Switched to the turf and two turns for her latest, the dark bay worked out a box-seat trip and went on to best recent Fair Grounds maiden winner Lijana (Hard Spun) by 1 1/4 lengths.

Pedigree Notes:

The 95th stakes winner and 48th graded winner for Candy Ride, White Frost is the second black-type performer for her dam, a dual stakes winner on the New York circuit in the early 2010s for Dogwood Stable and acquired by Gainesway for $170,000 at the 2015 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. White Frost's third dam was a Grade I winner on turf at nine furlongs for Allen Paulson and Marty Wygod and was a full-sister to Paulson's top turf horse Hap. Their dam, multiple French champion Committed (Hagley), is also the second dam of top turf sire English Channel (Smart Strike). Winter Frost also carries the cross over Storm Cat-line first or second dams that has been responsible for some of Candy Ride's top horses, including Horse of the Year Gun Runner, champion Shared Belief and other Grade I winners Sidney's Candy, Evita Argentina and Mastery, among others. Miss Frost is the dam of a 2-year-old colt by Union Rags, a yearling colt by the late Empire Maker and was most recently bred to Frosted.

Saturday, Gulfstream Park
SWEETEST CHANT S.-GIII, $100,000, Gulfstream, 1-30, 3yo, f, 1mT, 1:34.45, fm.
1–WHITE FROST, 118, f, 3, by Candy Ride (Arg)
     1st Dam: Miss Frost (MSW, $247,259), by Curlin
     2nd Dam: Allencat, by Storm Cat
     3rd Dam: Pharma, by Theatrical (Ire)
   1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN.
O-Gainesway Stable (Antony Beck); B-Gainesway
Thoroughbreds Ltd. (KY); T-William I. Mott; J-Junior Alvarado.
$60,140. Lifetime Record: 4-2-1-0, $123,920. Werk Nick
Rating: B. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Con Lima, 120, f, 3, Commissioner–Second Street City, by
Consolidator. ($15,000 Wlg '18 KEENOV; $19,000 RNA Ylg '19
KEESEP; $22,000 RNA 2yo '20 OBSMAR). O-Eclipse
Thoroughbred Partners, Joseph F. Graffeo, Eric Nikolaus Del
Toro & Troy Johnson; B-Lisa Kuhlmann (TX); T-Todd A.
Pletcher. $19,400.
3–Domain Expertise, 118, f, 3, Kitten's Joy–Teroda, by
Limehouse. ($200,000 Wlg '18 KEENOV). O-Klaravich Stables,
Inc.; B-J D Stuart, Mueller Farms, Inc. & Kenneth L. & Sarah K.
Ramsey (KY); T-Chad C. Brown. $9,700.
Margins: 1, 1, HF. Odds: 4.50, 1.30, 7.60.
Also Ran: Candace O, Honey Pants, Queen of the Green, Director's Cut, Lionessofbrittany.
Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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White Frost Reels In Con Lima In Sweetest Chant At Gulfstream

Gainesway Stable's homebred White Frost made her sophomore and stakes debut a winning one, powering through the stretch to run down favored Con Lima for a one-length victory in Saturday's $100,000 Sweetest Chant (G3) at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.

The 26th running of the one-mile Sweetest Chant for 3-year-old fillies on the grass was the fourth of five graded-stakes worth $600,000 in purses, immediately preceding the $200,000 Holy Bull (G3), Gulfstream's next step for 3-year-olds on the road to the March 27 Curlin Florida Derby presented by Hill 'n' Dale Farms at Xalapa (G1).

Ridden by Junior Alvarado for Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott, White Frost ($11) hit the wire in 1:34.45 over a firm course for her second straight win. The daughter of Candy Ride graduated with a 1 ¼-length maiden special weight triumph Nov. 21 at Aqueduct in her previous start.

“I thought Junior gave her a super ride out of there,” Mott's assistant, Kenny McCarthy said. “I know beforehand, the boss mentioned that maybe [Con Lima] had the speed of the race and maybe [Lionessofbrittany] early, so the plan was to tuck in early on, save some ground and call on her turning for home and see if she had an answer. And, boy, she sure did answer.”

Breaking from Post 5 in the field of eight, Alvarado found himself between horses in the early stages trailing all but two horses through six furlongs as Con Lima, winner of the Ginger Brew Jan. 1 at Gulfstream, ran splits of 24.16 seconds, 48.26 and 1:11.66 pressed by Lionessofbrittany, exiting back-to-back turf sprint victories.

“She broke very sharp. Going into the first turn, things got a little tight, but I had enough filly to hold my spot,” Alvarado said. “I was a passenger the whole way around. I just had to show her where to go and find the room turning for home. After I put her in the clear, she has such a nice turn of foot. It made my job very easy.”

Alvarado was able to weave his way through traffic until finding room at the head of the stretch, tipping out into the opening and setting his sights on Con Lima. White Frost steadily gained ground down the center of the course to reel in Con Lima, who was a length better than Domain Expertise in third, followed by Candace O, Honey Pants, Queen of the Green, Director's Cut and Lionessofbrittany.

“It was pretty exceptional, because they hadn't gone that fast early so you figure everyone's going to be running home a little bit,” McCarthy said. “Once Junior put her in the clear, she really accelerated and showed them a nice clean pair of heels.”

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Zaajel Starts Slow, Finishes Fast To Win Gulfstream’s Forward Gal

Shadwell Stable's Zaajel, a striking bay 3-year-old filly by Street Sense, stepped up from a maiden victory in her debut to a graded victory in Saturday's $100,000 Forward Gal (G3) at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla.

Trained by Todd Pletcher and ridden by Luis Saez, Zaajel took the lead entering the stretch from pacesetter Queen Arella to win the Forward Gal by 1 ¼ lengths. Lady Traveler, making her first start since the Golden Rod (G3) in November, closed for the place and Wholebodemeister finished third, with Dial to Win fourth.

The top four finishers split 17 Kentucky Oaks qualifying points with 10 for first, four for second, two for third and one for fourth.

Zaajel covered seven furlongs in 1:24.72. She paid $3.20 to win as the odds-on favorite. The filly broke her maiden Dec. 20 at Gulfstream by 7 ¼ lengths.

Queen Arella went to the front in the Forward Gal and posted an opening quarter in :22.77 and a half in :46.03 before Zaajel, who broke second to last, cruised to the front entering the stretch under Saez and held safe to the finish.

“She was misbehaving in the gate and she missed the break a little,” Saez said. “After that, she just kept coming and everything went well, and she kept coming.”

“I was really pleased with the outcome. I was pretty concerned at the start. She got a little antsy in the gate and missed the break, and she put in a long, sustained run,” Pletcher said. “That's hard to do, especially in her second start going from a maiden to a graded stake. But she's trained like a quality filly and she overcame some adversity today so we're proud of her.”

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Tapit Colt Earns Top ‘Honours’ in Holy Bull

Courtlandt Farm homebred Greatest Honour (Tapit) still hasn't quite figured things out completely, but the immaculately bred bay maintained upward mobility and made the most of his raw ability to post a handy victory in Saturday's GIII Holy Bull S. at Gulfstream Park, earning 10 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby in the process. Recent California transfer Tarantino (Pioneerof the Nile) attended the pace and stuck on for second ahead of 'TDN Rising Star' Prime Factor (Quality Road).

Greatest Honour made a pair of starts over seven furlongs to begin his career, at Saratoga Sept. 5 and at Belmont Oct. 11, finishing third and with recent Smarty Jones S. hero and 'TDN Rising Star' Caddo River (Hard Spun) one spot ahead of him each time. Runner-up to subsequent GII Remsen S. third-place getter Known Agenda (Curlin) in a nine-furlong Aqueduct maiden Nov. 8, the homebred was off to a disastrous beginning in a course-and-distance maiden Dec. 26, but made steady mid-race progress and sustained a long run to score by 1 1/2 lengths.

A bit slow to begin when the gates flew in the Holy Bull, Greatest Honour landed in the latter third of the field, as longshot Willy Boi (Uncaptured) led from Tarantino, with Prime Factor parked off that pair three deep. As it was in his maiden race, Greatest Honour was asked to improve fully five furlongs from home and crept into contention as they hit the half-mile pole. Steered to the outside of the odds-on favorite and into the four path on the turn, Greatest Honour felt a right-handed crack of Jose Ortiz's whip nearing the quarter pole and kept finding through the short stretch to score impressively.

“I thought we were in good position when we turned down the backside,” said trainer Shug McGaughey, remarkably winning his first Holy Bull. “When he was in that kind of position, I knew they were going to have a hard time with him, because he's going to finish better than he starts. Jose said, 'At the half-mile pole, I asked him a tad, he was there.' When he really asked him, he said that he finished up very strong. He picked up his horses quick today. He was a winner early today.”

McGaughey said he was “not going to leave Florida” unless he was forced to, and with that in mind, he will aim Greatest Honour for the GII Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth S. Feb. 27 and/or the GI Curlin Florida Derby Mar. 27.

Pedigree Notes:

The 141st black-type winner and 88th graded/group winner for one of this country's prepotent sires, Greatest Honour is out of an unplaced daughter of GSW & MGISP broodmare of the year Better Than Honour, the dam of GI Belmont S. winners Rags to Riches (A.P. Indy) and Jazil (Seeking the Gold), as well as U.S. Grade II-winning 3-year-old and Japanese Group 1-placed Casino Drive (Mineshaft) and Breeders' Cup Marathon winner Man of Iron (Giant's Causeway). Another daughter of Better Than Honour, Teeming (Storm Cat), was the dam of GISW Streaming (Smart Strike) and SWs Treasuring (Smart Strike) and Cascading (A.P. Indy).

Tiffany's Honour was offered on behalf of Southern Equine Stable at the 2015 Fasig-Tipton November sale, but was led out unsold on a bid of $2.3 million. Courtlandt Farm acquired her privately thereafter and the mare's first produce, a colt named Semifinal (War Front), sold for $1.1 million at Keeneland September in 2018. Tiffany's Honour found herself in the same pavilion a few months later and was knocked down to Katsumi Yoshida for $2.2 million in foal to Medaglia d'Oro. The mare produced a filly at Northern Farm in April 2019, but was barren to Duramente (Jpn) (King Kamehameha {Jpn}) for 2020. She was most recently bred to Kizuna (Jpn) (Deep Impact {Jpn}).

Saturday, Gulfstream
HOLY BULL S.-GIII, $200,000, Gulfstream, 1-30, 3yo, 1 1/16m, 1:43.19, ft.
1–GREATEST HONOUR, 118, c, 3, by Tapit
                1st Dam: Tiffany's Honour, by Street Cry (Ire)
                2nd Dam: Better Than Honour, by Deputy Minister
                3rd Dam: Blush With Pride, by Blushing Groom (Fr)
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN.
O/B-Courtlandt Farm (KY); T-Claude R. McGaughey III; J-Jose L.
Ortiz. $119,040. Lifetime Record: 5-2-1-2, $175,240. Werk
Nick Rating: B+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Tarantino, 120, c, 3, Pioneerof the Nile–Without Delay, by
Seeking the Gold. ($610,000 Ylg '19 KEESEP; $240,000 RNA 2yo
'20 KEENOV). O-SF Racing LLC, Starlight Racing, Madaket
Stables LLC, Stonestreet Stables LLC, Golconda Stables, Siena
Farm LLC and Masterson, Robert E.; B-Fred W. Hertrich III &
John D. Fielding (KY); T-Rodolphe Brisset. $38,400.
3–Prime Factor, 118, c, 3, Quality Road–Haylie Brae, by
Bernardini. ($900,000 Ylg '19 KEESEP). O-CHC INC. and WinStar
Farm LLC; B-Two Hearts Farm LLC (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher.
$19,200. 'TDN Rising Star'
Margins: 5 3/4, 3 3/4, 3/4. Odds: 2.80, 26.70, 1.10.
Also Ran: Papetu, Jirafales, Sittin On Go, Awesome Gerry, Willy Boi, Amount. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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