May, 2021 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Distaffers Ce Ce, As Time Goes By Square Off In Santa Maria Stakes

A two-time Grade 1 stakes winner at age four and fresh off a sensational classified allowance win, Bo Hirsch's homebred Ce Ce and lights-out Grade 2winner As Time Goes By headline Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Santa Maria Stakes at Santa Anita. For fillies and mares three and up, the Santa Maria has attracted a field of five at a mile and one sixteenth.

Trained by recent Preakness Stakes-winning conditioner Michael McCarthy, Ce Ce slingshotted off the turn for home en route to an emphatic 3 ¼ lengths score in a seven furlong classified allowance here on April 17 and will be ridden back by Victor Espinoza.

A 3 ¼ length winner of the Grade 1 Beholder Mile here in her sixth career start on March 14, 2020, Ce Ce then took Oaklawn Park's Grade 1 Apple Blossom by a head at the same distance on April 18, 2020, but was a disappointing third as the 3-5 favorite in last year's Santa Maria and was on a four-race losing streak prior to winning her comeback race on April 17.

Ridden to all five of her victories by Victor Espinoza, Ce Ce is a 5-year-old mare by Elusive Quality out of Hirsh's Grade 1 winning Miss Houdini, by Belong to Me. The leading money earner in the field with $904,100, Ce Ce has a win and two thirds from three tries at the Santa Maria distance.

Trained by Bob Baffert, As Time Goes By made an easy lead as the 3-5 favorite in the Grade 2 Santa Margarita Stakes here on April 24 and exploded through the lane to win off by 9 ¼ lengths under Mike Smith, who rides back on Saturday. Owned by Michael Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier and Derrick Smith, As Time Goes By, who was second, beaten 2 ¾ lengths by Eclipse Champion Swiss Skydiver two starts back in the Grade 1 Beholder Mile March 13, is 6-3-2-1 overall with earnings of $260,600.

THE FIELD FOR THE GRADE 2 SANTA MARIA WITH JOCKEYS & WEIGHTS IN POST POSITION ORDER

Race 2 of 9 Approximate post time 1:30 p.m. PT

Last First Kiss—Abel Cedillo—122
This Tea—Kent Desormeaux—122
Miss Stormy D—Juan Hernandez—122
Ce Ce—Victor Espinoza—122
As Time Goes By—Mike Smith—126

First post time for a nine-race card on Saturday is at 1 p.m. For additional information, please visit santaanita.com or call (626) 574-RACE.

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Irish-Bred Going Global Headlines Saturday’s Honeymoon At Santa Anita

Perfect in three local stakes assignments, trainer Phil D'Amato's streaking Irish-bred Going Global bids for her fourth consecutive turf stakes victory as she heads a field of seven sophomore fillies going a mile and one eighth on grass in Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Honeymoon Stakes at Santa Anita.

Going Global's primary opposition should come from Simon Callaghan's recent Grade 3 winner Madone and Richard Mandella's Golden, who was a solid second to Madone here in the Grade 3 Senorita Stakes on May 1.

Dismissed at 8-1 in her U.S. debut, the Grade 3 Sweet Life Stakes at six furlongs on Feb. 14, Going Global surged late to win by a half length, and then took the one mile China Doll Stakes by three quarters of a length as the even money favorite on March 6.

Off at 3-5 in the Grade 3 Providencia Stakes and at a mile and one eighth, Going Global was attentive to the pace and prevailed in a hotly contested stretch battle to win by a neck. A winner of her final start in her native Ireland, a seven furlong race versus males over a synthetic surface Nov. 11, Going Global has now won four straight races.

With Flavien Prat engaged to ride her for the fourth consecutive time on Saturday, Going Global, who is owned by CYBT, Michael Dubb, Saul Gervitz, Michael Nentwig and Ray Pagano, will be a short price to improve upon an overall mark of 7-4-0-0 and earnings of $188,792.

Ridden for the first time by Juan Hernandez, Madone surged late to take the one mile turf Senorita by one length at 5-2 and will hope to outrun the top selection as she stretches out a furlong off of five consecutive races at one mile on turf. With the Senorita being her first graded win, Madone, a 3-year-old filly by the Medaglia d'Oro stallion Vancouver, out of the Cherokee Run mare Indian Love Call, has three stakes wins and four victories from five overall starts.

Owned by Kaleem Shah, Madone, who was purchased for $125,000 out of a Florida 2-year-old in training sale a year ago March, has earnings of $211,300.

Next to last early in a field of 10, LNJ Foxwoods' homebred Golden flew the final eighth of mile to finish second, beaten one length by Madone at odds of 29-1 in the Grade 3 Senorita on May 1.

A chestnut filly by Tapit out of the Caerleon mare Gold Round, Golden, who was no match when fifth to Going Global in the ungraded China Doll Stakes two starts back on March 6, is 4-1-0-1 with earnings of $45,940.

THE GRADE 3 HONEYMOON STAKES WITH JOCKEYS & WEIGHTS IN POST POSITION ORDER

Race 7 of 9 Approximate post time 4 p.m. PT

Majestic Steps—Victor Espinoza—120
Quattroelle—Tyler Baze—122
Golden—Umberto Rispoli—120
Midnight Diva—Abel Cedillo—120
Pizzazz—Mike Smith—122
Going Global—Flavien Prat—124
Madone—Juan Hernandez—124

First post time for a nine-race card on Saturday is at 1 p.m. For additional information, please visit santaanita.com or call (626) 574-RACE.

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Happy D’ex Tops Doncaster PTP Sale Opener

Happy D'Ex (Fr) (Saddler Maker {Ire}), a 15-length winner of her career debut for owner Denis Murphy, fetched a final bid of £195,000 to top the opening session of the Goffs UK Spring HIT/P2P Sale at Doncaster. The gray filly (lot 469) was consigned by Murphy's Ballyboy Stables and was purchased by Aidan O'Ryan and Gordon Elliott.

A total of 144 lots of 156 through the ring were reported as sold (92% clearance rate) for turnover of £4,580,900. The session managed to eclipse pre-pandemic numbers, with the median of £22,000 up by 52% over 2019 and breaking the previous record set in 2018. Despit the lack of a breakout horse, the average of £31,812 also managed to set a new record while representing a 14% gain over two years ago.

The Goffs UK Spring HIT/P2P Sale will continue tomorrow at 10am with a full day of horses-in-training with drafts from the leading owners and trainers.

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Quick Call to Be Laid to Rest at Saratoga’s Clare Court

This week, the New York Racing Association will bury the ashes of Saratoga legend Quick Call at Clare Court, the bucolic, half-mile jogging track located behind the track's seven-furlong chute named in honor of Clare Belmont, wife of the late August Belmont II. An unveiling of the memorial will be scheduled in July, along with a Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation event to celebrate his life in coordination with the running of the GIII Quick Call S. on Opening Day, July 15.

After winning nine of his 17 starts from 1986 to 1991 at the Spa, Quick Call transitioned in his post-racing career to another starring role in the TRF's pioneering “Second Chances” vocational training program, working with inmates at Wallkill Correctional Facility in upstate New York.

“Few Thoroughbreds ever had that kind of dual career and did it so well for so long,” said TRF Director of Major Gifts & Planned Giving Kim Weir of Quick Call, who died in October 2019 from the infirmities of old age, at 35. “He had an aura about him. Quick Call was a legendary horse who earned respect from the other horses and from the men at Wallkill. To know he'll be at rest at Saratoga Race Course, which he loved so much, is a great ending.”

Quick Call is the fourth horse to be laid to rest at Clare Court, following Fourstardave, Mounjare and A Phenomenon. Like the others, Quick Call will have a headstone commemorating his accomplishments.

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