January, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Speaker’s Corner Turns Back Fearless In Fred W. Hooper Stakes

Godolphin homebred Speaker's Corner ran a big race in Saturday's Grade 3 Fred W. Hooper Stakes at Gulfstream Park In Hallandale Beach, Fla., fighting for a contested early lead and fending off the late challenge of 6-5 favorite Fearless to win by a length. The 4-year-old son of Street Sense, ridden by Junior Alvarado for trainer Bill Mott, ran a mile over the fast main track in 1:35.26. Speaker's Corner was sent off as the 3-2 second choice.

Speaker's Corner set taxing fractions in the Hooper but still had enough in reserve to hold off Fearless in the one-mile race named for one of Florida's most iconic horsemen. With Junior Alvarado in the irons, Speaker's Corner assumed command along the backstretch before unleashing his winning kick in the stretch to record his first stakes victory. Fearless, the 6-5 favorite, circled horses in the turn and rallied gamely in the stretch but could not overtake the winner, falling a length short of Speaker's Corner. Officiating finished third.

Winning trainer: (Bill Mott): “We didn't know if we'd be on the lead. We didn't really plan to be there, but the horse broke well and he was taking him and he was traveling easily. He was in between horses and he said he didn't want to get jammed up so he let him cruise on and it worked out well. They took a little run at him around the turn and he was able to repel those horses and, of course, good enough to hold off the late challenge of Fearless.”

Winning jockey: (Junior Alvarado): “It was just a phenomenal performance by him. We always thought very high of him. He's been a bit of a process to build up and to get to this race and the way he did it. He has a great a great trainer in Bill Mott. I think I was just a passenger today. He was very good today. He put up the fast fractions with horses on the inside and outside. He put them away and still had enough courage to draw away home very strong.”

Bred in Kentucky by his owner, Speaker's Corner is out of the unraced Bernardini mare Tyburn Brook. His second dam, Round Pond (Awesome Again), won the 2006 Breeders' Cup Distaff and is also the dam of Grade 1 winner Long River.

Speaker's Corner broke his maiden at second asking as a 2-year-old, didn't make it back to the races until late in his 3-year-old season, and was second last-out in the listed Discovery Stakes at Aqueduct. Overall, the colt has won four of his seven starts to earn over $280,000.

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Just One Time Delivers Gamely In Inside Information

Warriors Reward LLC and Commonwealth New Era Racing's Just One Time made a successful jump from Pennsylvania racing to the Championship meet at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla. this Saturday. The 4-year-old daughter of Not This Time, making her first start for new trainer Brad Cox, dug in gamely as the 3-2 favorite to win the Grade 2 Inside Information Stakes by a half-length over 3-1 second choice Four Graces. Ridden by Joel Rosario, Just One Time ran seven furlongs over the fast main track in 1:23.81.

“She was in a state-bred program, mostly in Pennsylvania,” said Cox. “Once you come out of that environment, the water is going to get deeper on our circuit. And bottom line she was able to swim on this circuit. It was a Grade 2 and she was able to pick it off. We schooled her. She loads with quarter pads. And she's been great in the mornings. She obviously wasn't great [in the gate] today. Horses sometimes know the difference between the mornings and the afternoon. There's a lot of talent there, no doubt about it. I don't watch a lot of racing here. I watch some. And where she was on the track kind of seems like a spot where horses kind of get out there and flounder and tire down the lane. For her to be able to stay on, shows her grit, determination and class.”

Very unsettled in the starting gate, Just One Time broke a half-step slow and was in the back half of the field down the backstretch. Rosario kept the filly out wide, allowing her to find her stride on her own time, and she began inching toward the leaders as she neared the far turn.

Jakarta was the quickest off the blocks, though Dance d'Oro took command for the first quarter mile in 22.45 seconds. Jakarta regained her lead to mark the half-mile in 45.77 seconds, chased by Starship Nala into the turn.

Steering his filly very wide heading into the lane, Rosario allowed Just One Time to catch sight of the frontrunner just as Four Graces found room to run along the inside. Just One Time put away Jakarta, then battled gamely to the wire fending off Four Graces to win by a half-length. Frontrunner Jakarta finished third, while Starship Nala was fourth. Last year's winner, Pacific Gale, checked in fifth.

“Turning for home she was reaching out and I could feel her confidence,” Rosario said. “I felt pretty good at that point that she was going to run big. With the slow break and [going wide], she was the best horse in the race.”

Bred in Pennsylvania by Warrior's Reward LLC, Just One Time is out of the Speightstown mare Ida Clark. Trained through her first five starts by Michael Salvaggio, Jr., Just One Time won a pair of state-bred races in Pennsylvania last year. She was purchased privately after winning four of five starts in her native Pennsylvania for Warrior's Reward breeder Donald Brown Jr.

The Inside Information win improves the filly's record to five wins from six starts for earnings of nearly $300,000.

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Regal Glory Reels Them All in in Inaugural Pegasus F/M Turf

Regal Glory closed her 2021 campaign with her first top-level score and she picked up right where she left off in her 2022 debut, capturing the inaugural GIII Pegasus F/M Turf S. Racing two wide, the chestnut bided her time near the back through a first half-mile in :48.03. Advancing up the outside four wide on the backstretch run, the heavy favorite charged clear in the lane under Jose Ortiz for a decisive victory.

“I was a little nervous early on because she didn't break that well, which she does sometimes,” trainer Chad Brown said. “Thankfully, Jose [Ortiz] knows her so well and she's so good that she was able to overcome it. He rode a beautiful Plan B type of race. It didn't go his way the first part of it. Once he got her down the backside and following a live horse to move him up, it was really good judgment for him and the horse was there for him. I was proud of both of them.”

Kicking off last term with a win in Aqueduct's Plenty of Grace S. last April, Regal Glory closed from well back to be fourth in Belmont's GI Just a Game S. in June. Rallying to victory in Saratoga's De La Rose S. in August, she was a close second in Keeneland's GI First Lady S. Oct. 9 and wired Del Mar's GI Matriarch S. last out Nov. 28.

Pedigree Notes:

Regal Glory is one of four Grade I winners, seven graded scorers and 15 black-type victors for her GI Kentucky Derby-winning sire Animal Kingdom. She is one of three graded winners for her MGSW dam Mary's Follies, who summoned $500,000 from BBA Ireland at last term's KEEJAN sale as part of the dispersal of the late Paul Pompa, Jr. Regal Glory was the co-topper at that auction at $925,000. Mary's Follies 2020 Connect colt brought $185,000 from Larry Best's OXO Equine at the same sale and RNA'd for $425,000 at KEESEP. Mary's Follies' first foal Night Prowler (Giant's Causeway) was also her first graded winner, earning over $535,000. Regal Glory came three foals later and was followed by Café Pharoah (American Pharoah), a Group 1 winner in Japan who has earned just shy of $2-million. Mary's Follies aborted her 2021 Curlin foal and was bred back to American Pharoah last season.

Saturday, Gulfstream
TAA PEGASUS WORLD CUP FILLY AND MARE TURF INVITATIONAL S. PRESENTED BY PEPSI-GIII, $490,500, Gulfstream, 1-29, 4yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16mT, 1:41.74, fm.
1–REGAL GLORY, 123, m, 6, by Animal Kingdom
               1st Dam: Mary's Follies (MGSW, $338,889), by More Than Ready
               2nd Dam: Catch the Queen, by Miswaki
               3rd Dam: Wave to the Queen, by Wavering Monarch
($925,000 5yo '21 KEEJAN). O-Peter M. Brant; B-Paul P
Pompa (KY); T-Chad C. Brown; J-Jose L. Ortiz. $285,000.
Lifetime Record: GISW, 17-10-4-0, $1,529,884. *1/2 to Night
Prowler (Giant's Causeway), MGSW, $535,682; 1/2 to Café
Pharoah (American Pharoah), G1SW-Jpn, $1,928,283. Werk
Nick Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus* Click for the eNicks report
& 5-cross pedigree.
2–Alms, 119, m, 5, City Zip–Charity Belle, by Empire Maker.
O/B-Godolphin, LLC (KY); T-Michael Stidham. $95,000.
3–Shifty She, 121, m, 6, Gone Astray–Perilous Hope, by
Strong Hope. O-Pedigree Partners LLC; B-Chris Pallas &
George Klein (FL); T-Saffie A. Joseph, Jr. $47,500.
Margins: 2HF, NK, HD. Odds: 0.80, 19.10, 8.80.
Also Ran: Gift List (GB), Bipartisanship (GB), Wakanaka (Ire), Nicest (Ire), Summer in Saratoga, In a Hurry, Sweet Melania. Scratched: Lady Speightspeare.
Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

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Favored Regal Glory Makes It Look Easy In Inaugural Pegasus Filly & Mare Turf

Sent to post as the 4-5 favorite, Peter Brant's Regal Glory made short work of the inaugural Grade 3, $500,000 Pegasus Filly & Mare Turf at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla. The Chad Brown-trained 6-year-old daughter of Animal Kingdom burst into the clear in the stretch and pulled away to win by about three lengths under jockey Jose Ortiz. Regal Glory ran 1 1/16 miles over the firm turf course in 1:41.74.

Alms was game to deny Shifty She for the place, while Gift List checked in fourth.

Though typically near the pace or leading the way in her 16-race career, Regal Glory was last in the field in the early going. Alms and Shifty She were together at the front and led the way through fractions of 23.94 seconds, 48.03 and 1:11.98. Meanwhile, jockey Jose Ortiz guided Regal Glory to the outside on the run up the backstretch and began moving past other horses entering the turn.

“The '5' horse [Gift List] broke really sharp and took my position,” Ortiz said. “He broke a step faster than I did, but they went fast early and I was able to put her outside to follow Luis [Saez] on Sweet Melania – I rode her before and I know she likes the track and decided to follow her. At the three-eighths pole, I had a lot of horse and decided to go around everybody. You could see I had a lot of horse under me. She was just the best in the race.

“I was a little nervous early on because she didn't break that well, which she does sometimes,” trainer Chad Brown said. “Thankfully, Jose knows her so well and she's so good that she was able to overcome it. He rode a beautiful Plan B type of race. It didn't go his way the first part of it. Once he got her down the backside and following a live horse to move him up, it was really good judgment for him and the horse was there for him. I was proud of both of them.”

Godolphin's Alms, trained by Michael Stidham, was second at 19-1. Shifty She was third.

“I had a perfect trip,” said Alm's jockey Joel Rosario. “She dragged me up to the lead and it looked like she gave everything she got, just the winner came right by us. But she ran well. I was on the lead and then that horse came and put a little pressure there but she was fine with it, and then she came back a little bit the last part so that was good.”

Bred in Kentucky by Paul Pompa, Regal Glory is out of the multiple graded stakes-winning More Than Ready mare Mary's Follies. Pompa raced Regal Glory through her 2020 season, acquiring a trio of graded stakes wins on the turf, before Brant picked her up from the 2021 Pompa dispersal. Remaining in Brown's barn, Regal Glory got her first Grade 1 win at the end of 2021, capturing the Matriarch at Del Mar in late November.

Brant purchased Regal Glory in January 2021 for $925,000 at the disbursement sale of the late Paul Pompa's bloodstock. Following the Filly and Mare Turf victory, Brown said Brant might change his plans to retire her.

“She was scheduled to be bred to Into Mischief,” Brown said. “Mr. Brant and I were watching her train this week up at Payson, and we were remarking how sound she is and how great she looks at this age. We left it the morning, let's see how she runs and comes out of this race. It's not out of the question to run her at 6. So I'm going to let him enjoy this win, and we're going to look at the horse, and ultimately he's going to decide.”

Overall, Regal Glory has amassed a record of 10 wins and 4 seconds from 17 starts, for earnings of over $1.5 million.

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