October, 2021 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Bloodlines: A Summer In Saratoga Generations In The Making

Winner of the Grade 3 Dowager Stakes at Keeneland and a pair of other stakes this year, the 5-year-old Summer in Saratoga (by Hard Spun) is one of 86 stakes winners for her sire and is the eighth stakes winner of 10 mares going back in her direct female line going back to ninth dam Misty Isle (Sickle).

The dam of Summer in Saratoga is the Arch mare Love Theway Youare, winner of the G1 Vanity and second in the G1 Santa Margarita, and her dam is the stakes winner Diversa (Tabasco Cat). The line traces back to Ole Liz as the sixth dam.

Racing only at two, Ole Liz won six of her 12 starts, including the Bewitch at Keeneland, the Debutante at Churchill Downs, and the Lassie Trial at Arlington. In addition, Ole Liz ran second in the Arlington-Washington Lassie.

Ole Liz was bred by Joseph V. Tigani, who had purchased a colt named Double Jay (Balladier) and raced him with considerable success, having won six of 10 starts at 2 and being ranked as co-champion colt. Double Jay was never ranked quite so highly in subsequent seasons, but the colt was tough and brave and fast.

When Double Jay's trainer publicly bet other trainers at Churchill Downs that his colt would outrun the highly rated Education (Ariel) at every pole, one of the witnesses was A.B. “Bull” Hancock. He went to the races again the next day to watch Double Jay and Education in the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes, and Double Jay outran his competition at every pole and won the race. Hancock decided he needed to stand a horse like that.

So, when Tigani decided to send Double Jay to stud, Hancock wanted him for Claiborne, but the owner had raced the horse until he was six. That had rubbed off the luster of Double Jay's juvenile accomplishments, but Hancock managed to persuade Tigani to stand the horse without trying to syndicate him. When Double Jay hit immediately with juvenile champion Doubledogdare, the sire's fee went up to $5,000, and Tigani began having a really fine time as a breeder and owner.

As part of supporting his stallion, Tigani acquired stakes winner Islay Mist (Roman), who produced Ole Liz as her seventh foal in 1963. Once her racing career was over, Ole Liz put the ball out of the park with her first foal, Kittiwake (Sea-Bird), an eight-time stakes winner of very high class. Ole Liz then changed hands a couple of times before being acquired by John Gaines and Bunker Hunt, who bred successive stakes winners from the mare: Oilfield (Hail to Reason), winner of the G3 Knickerbocker and Brighton Beach Handicaps, and Beaconaire (Vaguely Noble), winner of a pair of listed stakes in France.

Both of those sold as yearlings through the Keeneland July yearling sale, the premier venue for select prospects at the time. Oilfield sold for $97,000, and the following year Beaconaire went rather higher, selling for $180,000.

In July 1981, Peggy Augustus attended to the sale with her mother, and “we bought Beaconaire for Jack Knight,” who married Augustus's mother. “He couldn't get to the sales,” Augustus continued, “so he told Mother to bid to a certain amount, and when she got to that point, said 'Oh, to hell with it. If he doesn't want her, I'll take her.' Then he ended up giving Beaconaire to my mother after the mare retired.”

In between, however, there was more to the story.

The following year, Augustus was in France to look at the young horses in training with John Fellows, and when a particularly unpromising youngster galloped past, she asked Fellows, “Tell me that isn't Beaconaire?” It was.

“Beaconaire had a terrible case of the slows,” Augustus said, “but she speeded up enough to win a couple stakes over in France.”

By the time the Vaguely Noble filly was three, she won the Prix du Nabob, and the following year, Beaconaire won the Prix des Tourelles.

Brought back to the States and bred to leading sire Lyphard (Northern Dancer), Beaconaire produced Sabin as her first foal. A chestnut of great elegance, Sabin went to the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga select yearling sale, where trainer Woody Stephens told Augustus that “she was so crooked that he didn't know how she'd stand training, but then she won a million dollars” and a dozen graded stakes for owner Henryk de Kwiatkowski, who had purchased the filly for $750,000 from Keswick Stables and Fourth Estate Stables.

Sabin was the top-selling yearling by Lyphard in 1981.

For de Kwiatkowski's Calumet Farm, Sabin produced a pair of stakes winners, as well as the winning Andora (Conquistador Cielo), and there are three dozen stakes horses so far from Andora's branch of the family alone.

With racemares like Summer in Saratoga, there inevitably will be more.

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Pharmaceutical Company Issues Voluntary Recall Of Methocarbamol Tablets Labeled In Wrong Concentration

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released the following announcement from Bryant Ranch Prepack regarding a voluntary recall of methocarbamol last week. In horses, injectable methocarbamol is FDA-approved for treatment of “acute inflammatory and traumatic conditions of the skeletal muscle to reduce muscle spasm and effect striated-muscle relaxation.”

Methocarbamol is also sometimes used off-label orally to manage and treat sore backs and muscle strain. Methocarbamol is also prescribed as a prophylactic for horses that experience exertional rhabdomyolysis or “tying up,” which can cause muscle breakdown. Methocarbamol is a depressant and may affect performance and coordination.

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Bryant Ranch Prepack is voluntarily recalling one lot of methocarbamol 500 mg tablets to the consumer level. The bottles labeled as methocarbamol 500mg tablets have been found to contain methocarbamol 750 mg Tablets.

Risk Statement: If a patient takes a 750 mg tablet of methocarbamol instead of the prescribed 500 mg tablets, it potentially could result in excessive central nervous system depression, which may result in nausea, sedation, fainting, falls, seizure, coma, and death. Bryant Ranch Prepack has not received any reports of adverse events related to this recall.

The product is used together with rest, physical therapy, and other measures for the relief of discomfort associated with acute, painful musculoskeletal conditions and is packaged in a white round bottle with a red and white label, which reads methocarbamol 500 mg packaged in counts of 30 (NDC:7133517952), 60 (NDC: 7133517954), and 90 (NDC:7133517957) pills. The affected methocarbamol 500 mg lots include the following Lot Number 163935/ Exp. Date 10/22. The product can be identified by red and white label with a yellow border at the top and bottom of the label, top of the label reads “Packaged by Bryant Ranch Prepack”, labels are pictured below. The methocarbamol 500 mg was distributed nationwide to multiple physician offices.

Bryant Ranch Prepack is notifying its distributors and customers by letter and email and is arranging for return of all recalled products. Consumers that have the bottles labeled as methocarbamol 500 mg tablets which are being recalled should stop using immediately and return to place of purchase and/or contact their physician. Distributors/physicians should stop distribution and contact Bryant Ranch Prepack to return the product immediately.

Consumers with questions regarding this recall can contact Bryant Ranch Prepack by phone at 877-885-0882 Mon.-Fri. 7am-6pm PST or compliance@brppharma.com. Consumers should contact their physician or healthcare provider if they have experienced any problems that may be related to taking or using this drug product.

Adverse reactions or quality problems experienced with the use of this product may be reported to the FDA's MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting program either online, by regular mail or by fax.

Complete and submit the report online
Regular Mail or Fax: Download form or call 1- 800-332-1088 to request a reporting form, then complete and return to the address on the pre-addressed form, or submit by fax to 1-800-FDA-0178

This recall is being conducted with the knowledge of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

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Empire Maker Colt Ties Sale Record During Second Session Of Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings Sale

The Fasig-Tipton Kentucky October Yearlings sale continued Tuesday in Lexington, Ky., with a vibrant session buoyed the sale's record-breaking pace.

A colt by the late Empire Maker topped the session when sold for $750,000 to St. Elias Stables from the consignment of Machmer Hall Sales, agent (video).

The colt's price tag matched that of the most expensive colt – and third most expensive yearling – in the sale's history. Offered as Hip 513, the dark bay or brown colt is out of the Street Cry (IRE) mare Stop Time (GB), a daughter of G1 French One Thousand Guineas winner Musical Chimes. The immediate family includes five-time Grade 1 winning millionaire Music Note, dam of this year's Dubai World Cup victor Mystic Guide. Hip 513 was bred in Kentucky by the late Tom Conway and Calvin Crain.

“It was a great session, record-breaking in all regards,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. “More important than that was… the continued level of activity. (It was an) energetic crowd. It's a pretty fun time to be selling horses right now.”

The session's top filly came in the form of an Ontario-bred daughter of Uncle Mo which sold for $450,000 to West Bloodstock, agent for Repole and St. Elias (video).

Breeder Sam-Son Farm consigned the filly as Hip 469. She is a half-sibling to five winners out of the winning Seeking the Gold mare Song of the Lark, including Canadian Horse of the Year Up and champion colt With the Birds (Stormy Atlantic), who won Belmont's G1 Jamaica Handicap and earned $1,379,841. The filly's second dam is Canadian champion Wilderness song, also a millionaire and Grade 1 winner in the U.S.

Rounding out the top five prices of the session were:

Hip 545, a colt from the first crop of Breeders' Cup champion Mendelssohn out of Super Girlie (Closing Argument), which sold for $400,000 to BlackRidge Stables from the consignment of Taylor Made Sales Agency, agent. The bay colt is a half-brother to five winners from as many to race, including this year's G1 Arkansas Derby winner Super Stock (Dialed In) and Grade 1 placed Boujie Girl (Flashback). Hip 545 was bred in Kentucky by Pedro Gonzalez and P. J. Gonzalez.
Hip 705, a filly from the first crop of multiple Grade 1 winning juvenile Bolt d'Oro out of Urloveisasymphony (Forest Wildcat), which sold for $375,000 to St. Elias Stables from the consignment of Wynnstay Sales, agent. The bay filly is out of a half-sister to the dam of this year's G2 Mac Diarmida Stakes winner Phantom Currency, from the immediate family of champion 2-year-old colt Bayford and Group 1 winner Northern Baby. Hip 705 was bred in Kentucky by Deann Baer and Greg Baer DVM.
Hip 554, a filly from the first crop of Triple Crown champion Justify out of Susie's Baby (Giant's Causeway), which sold for $325,000 to On the Rocks Racing from the consignment of Eaton Sales, agent. The gray or roan filly is a half-sister to stakes winner Family Way, who is also a multiple winner in France, out of a half-sister to Group 1 winner Caravaggio, who is currently leading first-crop sires in North America by winners. Hip 554 was bred in Kentucky by Diamond Creek Farm.

“I sound like a broken record after every good session or every good sale,” added Browning. “It's because people give us better horses that it goes so well. We're in a market that's strong, but it's strong because men and women are trusting us, bringing better quality horses to the sale both in terms of pedigree and in terms of conformation. It's a combination of factors that's leading to these results and we're thankful and we're going to do our best to continue this momentum for the next two days.”

Tuesday's sales once again set a record single-session gross, with proceeds of $13,960,200 eclipsing the previous record of $11,016,900 yesterday during the sale's vibrant opening session. During the second session, 280 horses sold for an average of $49,858 and median of $25,000. Fifty-two yearlings sold for $100,000.

Over the course of the first two days of selling, 554 yearlings changed hands for a total of $24,977,100, up 52.4 percent from $16,390,500 paid for 489 yearlings during last year's first half. The two-session average was $45,085, up 34.5 percent over $33,518 for the same period last year. The first-half median rose 33.3 percent to $20,000 from $15,000 in 2020. The RNA rate through the first two sessions was 18.4 percent.

The Kentucky October Yearlings sale resumes Wednesday at 10 a.m.. Results are available online.

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British Raider Away He Goes Out Of Melbourne Cup

Ismail Mohammed's G1 Goodwood Cup runner-up Away He Goes (Ire) (Farhh {GB}) has been ruled out of the Nov. 2 G1 Melbourne Cup with a tendon injury.

The 5-year-old gelding, who is owned by Khalifa Saeed Sulaiman, was second to the star stayer Trueshan (Fr) (Planteur {Ire}) in the July 27 Goodwood Cup prior to finishing seventh in the Ebor H. Earlier in the season, he had hit the board in Meydan's G2 Dubai Gold Cup.

“To some extent it was good that it was picked up so early but again really disappointing for the connections,” said Racing Victoria's International General Manager Paul Bloodworth. “I mean, six days before the race, it's really heartbreaking for them.

“The good news is that it is not a serious injury, if you like, for the horse's overall welfare. It just needs time to recover and if they chose to, the horse could race again later in the year.”

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