February, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Fasig-Tipton Gulfstream Selected Sale Catalog Now Online

The catalog for Fasig-Tipton's 2022 Gulfstream Sale of Selected 2-Year-Olds in Training may now be viewed online. The auction, which will be held at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla., will take place on Wednesday, March 30, and begin at 2 p.m.

The under tack show is scheduled for Monday, March 28, beginning at 9 a.m.

“The Gulfstream sale annually offers a concentration of quality that is unmatched by any 2-year-old sale,” said Fasig-Tipton President Boyd Browning. “Buyers that arrive in South Florida for this year's sale will once again be presented with quality individuals by the sport's most prominent and promising sires.”

This front cover of this year's catalog features multiple graded stakes winner Yaupon, winner of last year's Grade 1 Forego Stakes at Saratoga. Prominent recent graduates featured on the back cover are graded stakes winners Independence Hall, Art of Almost, Center Aisle, and Cezanne, as well as stakes winners Crystal Ball and MacKinnon.

“We have hosted this sale at Gulfstream for just seven years, and in that short time, the quality of graduates produced is remarkable,” noted Browning. “Gulfstream grads have won 14 different Grade 1 races, including the Kentucky Derby, multiple Breeders' Cup races, Met Mile, Arkansas Derby, and Florida Derby – in addition to numerous stakes victories around the globe.”

Print catalogs will be available from Fasig-Tipton offices by Feb. 28. The catalog will also be available in the equineline sales catalogue app.

Fasig-Tipton will also offer a supplemental catalog once again this year. Supplemental entries will be accepted on an approval basis.

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Manobo Stays Unbeaten In Style At Meydan

Godolphin's Manobo (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) stamped himself a stayer for the future with a victory in the G2 Prix Chaudenay at ParisLongchamp in October, and the progressive 4-year-old reaffirmed that position with a stirring 5 1/2-length victory on seasonal return in Friday's G3 Nad Al Sheba Trophy at Meydan to remain unbeaten in five starts.

Making his debut at Newbury last May, Manobo headed Mojo Star (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) just two weeks before that one went on to finish second to Adayar (GB) (Frankel {GB}) in the G1 Derby. Manobo took a more conservative route, plundering a Kempton novice race before venturing to France to take the Listed Prix Turenne by 10 lengths prior to his Chaudenay run.

Manobo hit the finish line first time around on Friday a half-length to the good in a race where no one was keen to take up the running, but by the time they raced into the first bend he had taken a lead from Taqareer (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) despite giving a few shakes of his head as William Buick attempted to restrain him. Settling into a rhythm down the backstretch as Taqareer stole a wide early advantage, Manobo began to effortlessly cut into that lead rounding the final turn. Arriving at Taqareer's shoulder as they straightened, Manobo surged into the lead when given a shake of the reins and was never threatened thereafter, winning by an eased-down 5 1/2 lengths from Ian Williams's East Asia (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB}). Trainer Charlie Appleby noted post-race that the G2 Dubai Gold Cup was the likely target for Manobo on the Dubai World Cup card on Mar. 26, but that he could deputise for Yibir (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) in the G1 Dubai Sheema Classic in the event that anything were to go amiss with his GI Breeders' Cup Turf-winning stablemate in the ensuing weeks.

Pedigree Notes

Manobo is the second living foal and first stakes winner out of Tasaday (Nayef), who won three times at the group level and was twice Group 1 placed in France for Andre Fabre before joining Saeed bin Suroor and winning listed stakes at Meydan and York, and finishing third in the 2014 G1 Yorkshire Oaks. Her first foal was Turgenev (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), who finished second in the G2 Celebration Mile. Tasaday, who is out of the dual Group 3-winning Tashelka (Fr) (Mujahid) and a half-sister to the G3 Desmond S. winner Tribal Beat (Ire) (Street Cry {Ire}), has an as-yet unnamed 2-year-old colt by New Approach (Ire). It is also the family of South Africa's champion older horse Whisky Baron (Aus) (Manhattan Rain {Aus}).

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Smile Happy, Zandon Square Off in Risen Star

'TDN Rising Star' Smile Happy (Runhappy) and Zandon (Upstart), one a graded winner in their second trip to the races and the other unlucky not to achieve the same, meet for their respective sophomore debuts in Saturday's GII Risen Star S. at the Fair Grounds. The Risen Star is the first of 16 races that comprise the 'Kentucky Derby Championship Series' and offers Kentucky Derby points on a 50-20-10-5 scale.

A $185,000 purchase out of the 2020 Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearlings Showcase, Smile Happy was the recipient of an inside-out ride from Brian Hernandez, Jr. going two turns at Keeneland Oct. 29 and powered away to graduate by 5 1/2 lengths. No better than the third favorite in the GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. a month later, the bay was once again consigned to a wide run around the bend, but he surged past recent GIII Sam F. Davis S. hero Classic Causeway (Giant's Causeway) and finished with good energy to take it by 3 1/4 lengths. The form of the Jockey Club has also been further franked by the third-placed White Abarrio (Race Day), who won the GIII Holy Bull S. with a 97 Beyer; and Call Me Midnight (Midnight Lute), a wide seventh in the Jockey Club who upset this year's GIII Lecomte S.

“I think this is a good first step for Smile Happy,” said trainer Ken McPeek. “He's doing super. He's done everything right. He's a very low-maintenance horse who makes our job easy. We're trying to keep him and [GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity winner] Rattle N Roll (Connect) separated, with Rattle N Roll pointing for the [Mar. 5 GII Fasig-Tipton] Fountain of Youth[S.]”

Zandon brushed the inside of the stall, but overcame that bit of trouble to break his maiden by 1 1/2 lengths Oct. 9 at Belmont and was the 1.35-1 favorite for the GII Remsen S. Dec. 4. Three wide the trip, he was confronted by Mo Donegal (Uncle Mo) in upper stretch and had every reason to call it a day, but battled bravely inside and missed by just a nose after arguably being impeded by the eventual winner. He covered 46 more feet (about five lengths) in the process. The $170,000 Keeneland September acquisition ships in from South Florida, where he fired a bullet half-mile in :48 2/5 (1/41) Feb. 12 at Payson Park.

“He's got to get over the shipping, but the horse couldn't be training any better,” trainer Chad Brown said. “He's a very exciting prospect and I don't see any reason why he won't get up to a mile and quarter.”

Epicenter (Not This Time) set reasonable fractions in the Lecomte, but could not resist the center-track rally of Call Me Midnight and dropped a head decision. He was three-parts of a length clear of GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile runner-up Pappacap (Gun Runner), who was unable to take advantage of another ideal trip and settled for third.

Bodock (Street Boss) was a debut winner at Indiana Grand Nov. 10 and will try two turns off a 1 1/4-length defeat of $825,000 KEENOV purchase Strava (Into Mischief) in a sloppy six-furlong allowance Jan. 15.

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Expensive and Well-Bred Sophomores Debut in NOLA

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BELGRADE MAKES FIRST START FOR NEW CONNECTIONS
1st-TAM, $35K, Opt. Clm. ($75K), 3yo, 7f, 12:13 p.m.
Carl and Yurie Pascarella went to $700,000 for KEEJAN sale topper BELGRADE (Hard Spun) with GI Kentucky Derby dreams and he makes his first start for his new owners and new trainer Graham Motion here. A $45,000 FTKSEL purchase by Randy Bradshaw, the chestnut romped by six lengths in his career bow at Fair Grounds Dec. 18 for trainer Brendan Walsh. His dam is a half to GSW & MGISP Medal Count (Dynaformer) and GSW Garden District (Dixie Union). TJCIS PPs

PRICEY FILLIES DEBUT IN NOLA
2nd-FG, $55K, Msw, 3yo, f, 6f, 1:30 p.m.
Steve Asmussen unveils a $1.2-million (KEESEP) half-sister to his Grade I winner Yaupon (Uncle Mo) in Mike Rutherford's ROYAL FLOWER (American Pharoah). Out of GISP Modification (Vindication), the chestnut's talented half-brother Yaupon captured the GI Forego S. after a savaging by Firenze Fire (Poseidon's Warrior) and took the GII Amsterdam S. He has been retired to the Spendthrift stallion barn. Royal Flower is also a half to MGSP Sawyer's Hill (Spring At Last). Larry Best's OXO Equine acquired the well-related Indigo Miss (Into Mischief) for $525,000 at KEESEP and she also makes her career bow here. Best purchased her blue hen dam Indian Miss (Indian Charlie) for $1.9 million in foal to Into Mischief two months later at Keeneland November. A half-sister to GSW Live Lively (Medaglia d'Oro), Indian Miss is also the dam of champion sprinter Mitole (Eskendereya) and Grade I winner Hot Rod Charlie (Oxbow). TJCIS PPs

ASMUSSEN UNVEILS STONESTREET BLUE-BLOOD
4th-FG, $55K, Msw, 3yo, 6f, 2:29 p.m.
Stonestreet Stables homebred MARSALIS (Curlin) makes his career bow in this spot for trainer Steve Asmussen. Out of Grade I winner Hot Dixie Chick (Dixie Union), the chestnut is a full-brother to MSW & GSP young stallion Union Jackson and a half to MGSW Pauline's Pearl (Tapit). His second dam is GSW & GISP Above Perfection (In Excess {Ire}), who produced MGISW Always Dreaming (Bodemeister) and GSW Positive Spirit (Pioneerof the Nile). Todd Pletcher unveils an intriguing firster in Momentous (Speightstown). His second dam is SW Dance Quietly (A.P. Indy), who is a half to Horse of the Year Saint Liam (Saint Ballado), GISW Funtastic (More Than Ready) and GSW Quiet Giant (Giant's Causeway), the dam of Horse of the Year and top freshman sire Gun Runner (Candy Ride {Arg}). TJCIS PPs

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