October, 2021 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Mandatory Pick 6 Payout Scheduled For Saturday’s West Virginia Breeders’ Classics Card

In addition to nine races worth $1 million in purses featuring the top West Virginia-breds in training, Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races will also be offering a mandatory payout of the track's Pick 6 carryover on Saturday's West Virginia Breeders' Classics XXXV card.

The Charles Town 6-12 carryover currently stands at $72,345 with 3 cards remaining prior to its distribution. The Charles Town 6-12 is a jackpot style Pick 6 covering the final six races on each Charles Town card and carries a low 12-percent takeout.

Due to the low takeout and size of the carryover, the mandatory payouts of the Charles Town 6-12 have typically resulted in a players' advantage of in upwards of 13 percent paid out on top of the gross pool on the night of the distribution.

The first race on Saturday's West Virginia Breeders' Classics program is slated for 7:00 P.M EST, with the featured $300,000 West Virginia Breeders Classic going off as Race 8 and carrying a tentative post time of 10:32 P.M.

WEST VIRGINIA BREEDERS CLASSICS XXXV PICK 6 SEQUENCE
	Post Time	Race	DD	Pick 3	Pick 4	Pick 5	Pick 6*
Race 4	8:32	$75,000 WV Lottery Breeders' Classic	(4-5)	(4-5-6)			(4-5-6-7-8-9)
Race 5	9:02	$75,000 WV Tourism Office Breeders Classic	(5-6)	(5-6-7)		(5-6-7-8-9)
Race 6	9:32	$75,000 WVTBA Onion Juice Breeders Classic	(6-7)	(6-7-8)	(6-7-8-9)
Race 7	10:02	$175,000 WV Cavada Breeders Classic	(7-8)	(7-8-9)
Race 8	10:32	$300,000 WV Breeders' Classic	(8-9)
Race 9	11:02	$75,000 Roger Ramey WV Breeders Classic Distaff

* Pick 6 has mandatory payout of carryover

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‘Just Tragic’: Death Of Maiden In His First Start Since 2016 Could Spur Change In Ohio

The death of Mox Nix, an 8-year-old maiden gelding in the eighth race at Belterra Park in Cincinnati on Sept. 28, could result in new regulations in Ohio racing, according to the new executive director of the state commission.

Mox Nix failed to finish in the maiden claiming contest, where he was in for a $7,500 tag for owner/trainer Robert C. Bennett. He was pulled up between the quarter and half mile poles in the six-furlong contest and euthanized by commission veterinarians due to a fracture in his left hind leg.

The race was his first in nearly five years, as the gelding had been off track since finishing ninth in a maiden special weight at Mahoning Valley in Youngstown, Ohio, on Oct. 31, 2016.

The gelded son of Zanjero was more than 30 lengths off the winner in that race, and was subsequently put on the veterinarian's list in Ohio for a bowed tendon on his right front leg. He remained on the list despite a long period of inactivity, and per commission regulations was required to perform a workout of at least four furlongs in under 52 seconds before a commission veterinarian. According to Chris Dragone, who recently assumed the role of executive director at the Ohio State Racing Commission, that work was completed and duly observed by a veterinarian, and the horse passed an examination following the workout.

There was a gap in Mox Nix's workouts leading into the late September race. He posted a four-furlong breeze at Belterra in :51.71 on July 9, a :50.90 breeze on July 26, and a five-furlong breeze in 1:05.01 on Aug. 3. Then, he didn't work again until Sept. 10, when he went four furlongs in :50.35.

A commission vet also gave the horse an extra look in the paddock ahead of his Sept. 28 race. Dragone noted that the fatal injury was not in the leg that had sustained the bow back in 2016.

Bennett did not respond to multiple interview requests for this story.

The guidelines for how and whether a horse may race after a long layoff, or at what age the horse may race, vary from place to place. Those guidelines are sometimes part of a commission's regulations, but racetracks may also impose their own restrictions on whether they will take an entry. While each race has its own conditions for recent finish position and racing class, race meetings may also have minimum performance requirements for horses to stable or race on the property. This may include achieving a minimum placing within a period of time, or may exclude horses that have failed to achieve a placing above a particular claiming level in a specified period. Those requirements would be listed in the introductory pages in the physical copy of a track's condition book.

(The Paulick Report looked at minimum performance requirements set out by racetracks in this 2016 piece about claiming racing.)

Typically, tracks that run cheaper races have lower minimum performance requirements or higher ceilings for maximum age of a runner. Dragone said he was aware that there were minimum performance requirements in place at Mahoning Valley and JACK Thistledown Racino, but was not certain if Belterra had similar policies.

Bill Couch, racing secretary at Belterra, did not return calls seeking comment.

Dragone said last week that the commission had launched an investigation into the death of Mox Nix, but that early indications were that Bennett had not violated any state regulations in entering and running the horse.

Currently, the only restrictions the Ohio commission places on runners is that they must be serviceably sound, cannot be wearing a trachea tube, cannot have undergone a nerving surgery, and cannot have impaired sight in both eyes. There are no further regulations about maximum age, maximum layoff time, or performance.

Dragone said he expects that to change.

“An eight-year-old maiden on a five-year layoff – just tragic,” said Dragone. “We're in discussions at the commission about drafting a rule because we don't have anything on the books right now that would have prevented this. Tragic, but [Bennett] did not break any rules and all the procedures were followed that we could tell, but that doesn't solve the problem, so I think we're going to need a rule to make sure this doesn't happen again.

“We're investigating it. We're taking it very seriously and it will not happen again.”

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Fasig-Tipton November Sale Catalog Now Online

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged 259 entries for The November Sale, the company's selected mixed sale to be held in Lexington, Ky., on Tuesday, Nov. 9. The single-session sale will begin at 2 p.m.

“Eclipse champions, Breeders' Cup winners, millionaires, graded producers, and selected weanlings – it's all on offer again at our November Sale this year,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. “This year's catalog is arguably one of the deepest we have had in recent memory, with 45 graded stakes winners or producers, 30 of which are Grade 1.”

“We are particularly excited about the variety of offerings in this year's sale, which should have significant appeal to breeding and racing operations from every part of the globe.“

The sale will begin with 135 weanlings, selected on pedigree and conformation, before transitioning into racing and broodmare prospects and in foal mares as evening falls.

“The quality of this catalog – offered in a single, spectacular evening session – makes our November Sale one of the more singularly important and exciting events on the Thoroughbred auction calendar,” continued Browning. “We look forward to showcasing the sport's finest Thoroughbreds to the world after the Breeders' Cup.”

The catalog may now be viewed online, including Fasig-Tipton's popular, one-of-a-kind Enhanced Catalog.

The Enhanced Catalog provides up-to-date catalog pages, Daily Racing Form past performances, and race replays; an Alan Porter pedigree analysis and five-cross pedigrees for all racing/broodmare prospects and broodmares; stallion register pages for all sires of weanlings and covering sires; as well as other tools to aid prospective buyers. All Grade 1 winning females off the racetrack or carrying their first foals will also be profiled with individual feature videos.

Print catalogs will be available beginning Oct. 14. The catalog will also be available via the Equineline sales catalogue app.

Online bidding and phone bidding will be available.

The November Sale will also offer a supplemental catalog once again. Fasig-Tipton will accept selected entries for the supplement through the Breeders' Cup.

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Sea The Stars Colt Lights Up Second Day Of Tattersalls October Book 1

A colt by Sea The Stars was the star turn on the second day of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1, selling for 1.2 million guineas during a session that saw a clearance rate of 87 percent and turnover of 30,116,000 guineas.

The top lot on the second day of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1 was the Sea The Stars colt from Lord and Lady Lloyd Webber's Watership Down Stud, who realized 1.2 million guineas to the bid of Charlie Gordon-Watson on behalf of Woodford Racing's Bill Farish. The colt is out of the Dubawi mare So Mi Dar, winner of the Group 3 Tattersalls Musidora Stakes and placed in the Group 1 Prix de l'Opera. So Mi Dar is a half-sister to champion 2- and 3-year-old Too Darn Hot and a daughter of Lloyd-Webber's triple Group 1 winning Dar Re Mi, herself a daughter of the farm's foundation mare Darara.

Lady Lloyd-Webber was at Park Paddocks to see her homebred colt sell, and husband Andrew Lloyd-Webber arrived in Newmarket just in time to catch the sale too.

“I got here just in time in a taxi, I just walked in at the 600,000 guineas mark,” laughed Lord Lloyd-Webber.

“We never expected to break the million-guinea barrier, because no one ever does. Maybe Andrew is our lucky omen,” said a delighted Lady Lloyd-Webber. “It is very difficult to do that. The Dar Re Mi family is carrying on, and that is what it is all about from a foundation mare. We are now in the third generation, it is really wonderful to see this family keep going.

“He is a beautiful horse, hopefully he will win the Guineas. And then will carry on winning Group 1s like the rest of the family.”

Purchaser Charlie Gordon-Watson said the purchase was the result of a last-minute phone call.

“Bill Farish rang me just an hour ago and said, 'What about this horse? What do you think?' I told him that I thought he was the best horse I have seen at the sale.

“I know the family backwards, as Bill does, and he is a great friend of Simon Marsh, but he did not want to Simon to know anything about it. Simon had no idea.”

Gordon-Watson added: “It all happened in the last hour and a half. I think I got the valuation right as I told Bill that I thought he'd make between 800,000 guineas and 1.2 million.

“I have been involved in the family all the way through, I bought Darara and this colt is very typical of the family, perhaps a bit bigger because they are all slightly smallish, Darara was quite small. He is a very athletic horse, I have been going on about Lot 277 for a long time.”

Of Farish's plans for his new colt and reasoning behind the purchase, Gordon-Watson said: “Bill liked the pedigree and the mare, everything is so international now. The horse will stay here, and no trainer has been decided as yet.”

Early in the evening the Kingman colt out of the G2 May Hill Stakes winner Turret Rocks became the second lot to breach the million-guinea mark when knocked down to M.V. Magnier for 1.1 million guineas after a bidding war with Anthony Stroud stood alongside David Loder and trainer Charlie Appleby. The colt is the first foal of the Fastnet Rock mare and was consigned by the Egan family's Corduff Stud on behalf of the Andrew & Roseanne O'Grady Walshe's Farmleigh Bloodstock.

Corduff Stud's David Egan was suitably delighted;

“He is a magnificent horse, he really is. I am delighted they bought him, I was not sure they were on him, but they stood up and bought him. It is great.

“This horse was bred by John Corcoran and he bred the horse with Jim Bolger, and bought him out in training. John had a vision of what he wanted to do with the horse, he had a plan and facilitated a way to make it happen. He owned this horse in with his children, Andrew and Roseanne O'Grady Walshe, through Farmleigh Bloodstock.

“She is a beautiful mare, she is by Fastnet Rock, she is big, she is robust, she is strong. She was so honest on the track and John, unfortunately is not with us, but he was very involved in the mating. He chose Kingman, it is great.

“The bidding took a long time, but it got more enjoyable as we went on.”

The colt traces back to the Group 1 Prix Saint-Alary winner Riviere d'Or and the family of ten-time Group 1 winner Goldikova.

Book 1 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale continues on Thursday, 7th October from 11am with the third and final session.

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