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Month: August 2021
Gigginstown Dispersal Headlines Goffs UK September
Following on from this week's Premier Yearling Sale, the Goffs UK sale ring in Doncaster will be in action again on Wednesday, Sept. 8 when 165 lots have been catalogued for the September HIT Sale. Notably, the catalogue contains 42 lots from the Gigginstown House Stud Dispersal, including the 8-year-old Grade 1-winning hurdler and chaser Battleoverdoyen (Ire) (Doyen {GB}), who sells as lot 56.
A mixture of Flat and National Hunt prospects, the sale features horses from a number of leading yards in Britain and Ireland. Among a handful of unraced horses listed is Banjo Petra (GB) (Yeats {Ire}), a half-sister to the dual Grade 1-winning hurdler Banjo Pete (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) who is offered as lot 34 from the stable of Rebecca Menzies.
“This sale has become synonymous with the annual Gigginstown House Stud Dispersal which once again headlines with a large draft featuring some household names and we are very grateful to the Gigginstown team for entrusting their draft to Goffs and this sale,” said Goffs UK Managing Director Tim Kent.
“Goffs UK horses-in-training graduates are having a strong year on the track, headlined by the Grade 1 winners Ahoy Senor, who impressively captured the Sefton Novices' Hurdle at Aintree's Grand National Festival, and Stormy Ireland, who was sold via Goffs Online, and subsequently won the G1 Mares' Champion Hurdle at Punchestown.”
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Fulsome Takes Overland Route To Victory In Parx Racing’s Smarty Jones
Juddmonte Farms' homebred Fulsome rallied from last under Florent Geroux to win Tuesday's $300,000 Smarty Jones Stakes at Parx Racing in Bensalem, Pa. The Grade 3 contest is for 3-year-olds going 1 1/16 miles and attracted six runners.
Alonzo finished two lengths behind Fulsome in second, with The King Cheek another half-length back in third, with Ridin With Biden fourth, Fast Bob fifth and The Jones Boy sixth.
Fulsome, a son of Into Mischief out of the Distorted Humor mare, Flourish, covered the 1 1/16 miles on a fast main track in 1:45.57. He paid $3.20 to win as the 3-5 favorite, winning for the fifth time in nine career starts. Among those victories was the listed Oaklawn Stakes on May 1 and the G3 Matt Win Stakes at Churchill Downs on May 29. Fulsome was coming off a third place finish to Mr. Wireless in the G3 Indiana Derby on July 7.
Fulsome is trained by Brad Cox.
The King Cheek jumped out to an early lead under Ruben Silvera, setting fractions of :23.12 and :46.75 for the opening half mile. Alonzo, who was in pursuit of the front-runner from the start, took command into the far turn, the first six furlongs clocked in 1:11.63.
Geroux allowed Fulsome to settle at the back of the pack, then commenced his rally around the far turn, going four wide into the stretch before overtaking Alonzo in mid-stretch, passing the mile marker in 1:38.79.
A local prep for the G1, $1 million Pennsylvania Derby on Sept. 25, the Smarty Jones was one of three stakes on the Parx Racing Tuesday card. A fourth stakes, the G3, $200,000 Parx Dash, was postponed until Aug. 31 after heavy rain from Tropical Storm Henri prompted track officials to take all races off the turf.
— St. Omer's Farm and Christopher Feifarek's Beren won the $100,000 Parx Summer Sprint Stakes under Frankie Pennington for trainer Robert “Butch” Reid Jr. Sent off the 2-5 favorite in a field of four 3-year-old sprinters, the Pennsylvania-bred colt by Weigelia won by 6 1/2 lengths over Marvalous Mike, with Privet Moon third. He went six furlongs in 1:10.19. The top three each earn free entry in the G2 Gallant Bob Stakes on the Pennsylvania Derby card.
— Bret Calhoun-trained Lovely Ride won the $150,000 Cathryn Sophia Stakes for 3-year-old fillies, going a mile and 70 yards in 1:42.66 under Reylu Gutierrez. The Candy Ride filly paid $6.80 to win, with favored Leader of the Band finishing second. Lovely Ride is owned by her breeder, Allied Racing Stable. The Cathryn Sophia serves as a prep for the G1 Cotillion Stakes, also on the Pennsylvania Derby program.
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‘Smart’ Money on the Chalk at Parx
Prohibitive favorite Fulsome (Into Mischief) sat back and came with his run to return to winning ways in Tuesday evening's GIII Smarty Jones S. at Parx. A third-out graduate over the Fair Grounds sod in January, he was forced to try the main track two starts later in a rained-off, sloppy allowance at Keeneland Apr. 10, but found his calling that day when cruising to a 3 1/2-length victory. The bay added the Oaklawn S. May 1 over stablemate and next-out Texas Derby hero Warrant (Constitution), and took a major step forward on the Beyer Speed Figure scale, to 97, when he dominated a pair of GI Kentucky Derby also-rans in Churchill's GIII Matt Winn S. May 29. He could only manage third at 2-5 last time in the July 7 GIII Indiana Derby, but was flattered somewhat when winner Mr. Wireless (Dialed In) came back to annex the GIII West Virginia Derby earlier this month.
Slowest away, Fulsome settled in second last as his four other rivals scrambled for position into the first turn. The King Cheek showed the way with Alonso pressing through solid splits of :23 flat and :46 3/5. Fulsome was still under stout Florent Geroux restraint into the second bend, but soon began to pick off foes out wide as the leading pair were locked in battle. Kept far out in the track entering the stretch, the chalk struck the front and kept finding from there to confirm his perceived superiority.
Tuesday, Parx
SMARTY JONES S.-GIII, $300,000, Parx Racing, 8-24, 3yo,
1 1/16m, 1:45.57, ft.
1–FULSOME, 126, c, 3, by Into Mischief
1st Dam: Flourish, by Distorted Humor
2nd Dam: Viviana, by Nureyev
3rd Dam: Nijinsky Star, by Nijinsky II
O-Juddmonte; B-Juddmonte Farms Inc (KY); T-Brad H. Cox;
J-Florent Geroux. $175,500. Lifetime Record: 9-5-1-1,
$582,024. *1/2 to Mr Darcy (Harlan's Holiday), GSP, $263,876.
Werk Nick Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus*. Click for the
eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Alonzo, 121, c, 3, Brethren–Tizmetizyou, by Tiz Wonderful.
O/B-Arindel (FL); T-Juan Alvarado. $58,500.
3–The King Cheek, 126, g, 3, Laoban–Selfie, by War Chant.
($10,000 Wlg '18 FTNMIX; $4,500 Ylg '19 OBSOCT; $14,000
RNA 2yo '20 OBSOPN). O-Morris E. Kernan, Jr. & Jagger Inc.;
B-Pucker Ridge Farm LLC (NY); T-Jamie Ness. $29,250.
Margins: 2, HF, 2. Odds: 0.60, 3.40, 8.50.
Also Ran: Ridin With Biden, Fast Bob, The Jones Boy. Scratched: Antigravity, Doubleoseven, Indian Lake. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
Pedigree Notes:
Fulsome's win comes off another strong weekend for the nation's leading sire, who was represented by two new 'TDN Rising Stars' on Saturday. Dam Flourish was a two-time winner, once on each surface. She is a half-sister to MGISWs Sightseek (Distant View) and Tates Creek (Rahy) and to the dam of European champion juvenile filly Special Duty (GB) (Hennessy). This is the female family of Bowman's Band, Etoile Montante, et al. Flourish has an unraced 2-year-old colt by Point of Entry and a yearling filly by Frosted. She sold to Sallusto & Albina for $145,000 at the last Keeneland November sale carrying a Twirling Candy filly. She was bred back to Into Mischief for 2022.
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