April, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Consumer Spending Bests Pizza Bianca at Aqueduct

Klaravich Stables' Consumer Spending (f, 3, More Than Ready-Siempre Mia, by Scat Daddy) defeated returning GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Pizza Bianca to win the Memories of Silver S. at Aqueduct Sunday to cap a spring meet where her connections won both leading trainer and owner titles.

Pizza Bianca, the 4-5 favorite, settled off a mild pace and Consumer Spending, at 7-1, sat just off the Breeders' Cup winner. Consumer Spending tracked as the favorite rolled up three wide on the far turn and engaged her rival while four wide into the stretch. The two fillies went toe to toe before Consumer Spending put Pizza Bianca away late and inched clear to a 3/4-length victory. Consumer Spending, a maiden winner over the Saratoga lawn last Sept. 6, punched her ticket to the Breeders' Cup with a win in the Oct. 2 Selima S. at Laurel. She was a close-up sixth behind Pizza Bianca at Del Mar last November in a blanket finish.

“This filly has really done well over the winter…Trainers will say it, but she really did do what you want to see from two-to-three, both physically and mentally, almost to the point I was almost surprised how much she improved,” said Chad Brown post-race. “I wasn't sure off the Breeders' Cup if she was the type to train on. I was torn between if she was a juvenile that got there early, or is she going to show some good quality down the road. It was pretty apparent from February that this filly was really going the right way and doing everything you need to do to have a nice career ahead of her. She certainly proved it today.”

Her dam's second foal, Consumer Spending has a winning older half-brother named Behavin Myself (Malibu Moon) and a 2-year-old half-brother by Empire Maker named Baba Voss as well as a yearling full-sister. The mare is expecting a 2022 foal by American Pharoah this season. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

MEMORIES OF SILVER S., $100,000, Aqueduct, 4-24, 3yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 1:43.59, fm.
1–CONSUMER SPENDING, 122, f, 3, by More Than Ready
                1st Dam: Siempre Mia, by Scat Daddy
                2nd Dam: Shaconage, by El Prado (Ire)
                3rd Dam: Carita Tostada (Chi), by Gallantsky
($200,000 Ylg '20 FTKSEL). O-Klaravich Stables, Inc.; B-Forging Oaks Farm LLC (KY); T-Chad C. Brown; J-Manuel Franco. $55,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-0, $240,000.
2–Pizza Bianca, 122, f, 3, Fastnet Rock (Aus)–White Hot (Ire), by Galileo (Ire). O-Bobby Flay; B-B. Flay Thoroughbreds (KY); T-Christophe Clement. $20,000.
3–Sail By, 122, f, 3, Astern (Aus)–Fly By, by Johar. O-Treadway Racing Stable; B-Jeff Treadway (KY); T-Leah Gyarmati. $12,000.
Margins: 3/4, 3 3/4, 1 1/4. Odds: 2.45, 0.90, 15.50.
Also Ran: Miss You Ella, Alittleloveandluck, On Alert. Scratched: Waters of Merom.

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R.A.C.E. Fund Auction Opens May 13

The Retirement Assistance and Care for Equines Fund will launch its 2022 fundraising drive with an online auction opening on eBay May 13 at 8 p.m. ET and ending May 20.

Featured items include: halters of California Chrome, Mohaymen, Serena's Song, Cairo Prince, Keen Ice, Groupie Doll, Yoshida, Quality Road and Medaglia d'Oro.

Other items to be auctioned are farm tours donated by Three Chimneys and Darby Dan, horse shoes worn by Tapit and War Front, and signed pictures by Hall of Fame jockey Calvin Borel.

More information about the R.A.C.E. Fund can be obtained at www.racefund.org. Any questions about the auction or items can be sent to info@racefund.org or go to the R.A.C.E. Fund Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/race.fund/ to preview the auction items album soon.

The R.A.C.E. Fund, a 501 C3 non-profit organization established in 2004 and accredited by the TAA, raises money for racehorse retirement and rescue.

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Arrogate’s Linda’s Gift Dons Cap and Gown at Gulfstream Park

5th-Gulfstream, $43,000, Msw, 4-24, 3yo, f, 1mT, 1:36.22, fm, 1 length.

LINDA'S GIFT (f, 3, Arrogate–Americana {SP}, by Tapit)'s career debut rally fell 2 1/4 lengths short behind heavy favorite Wonka (Twirling Candy) last out Mar. 27 at this venue, but the kick carried her home here despite slightly less real-estate to do it in. As the only horse in said last-out race to go without Lasix, she went to post with the diuretic today, and broke fairly to set up shop from fifth behind the first flight of runners. The 5-1 shot was roused for a rally going into the far turn, and had made up one spot at the head of the lane while forced to go wide. Chantal Sutherland asked for more, and the filly responded with a furious rally in deep stretch, overtaking the dueling leaders to win by a length on the wire. Therearenorules (Declaration of War) got the best of her shadow for second.

The winner is out of a daughter of MGSW Arena Elvira (Ghostzapper), herself hailing from millionaire, MGISP Two Item Limit (Twining). Linda's Gift is Americana's only registered foal. She is her late sire's 24th winner. Sales history: $105,000 Ylg '20 FTKSEL; $50,000 2yo '21 EASMAY. Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $36,400. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

O-Lo- Bo Racing, Fred Nicotra, Vincent Varvaro, John Cronin and Anthony Demarco; B-Calumet Farm (KY); T-George Weaver.

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Letruska Exits Apple Blossom Win In Good Order, Aimed For Odgen Phipps

It was a business trip and Letruska took care of business – again – Saturday at Oaklawn, becoming just the fourth horse to capture multiple runnings of the Apple Blossom Handicap (G1) with a 1 ¼-length victory in the $1 million event for older fillies and mares.

Trainer Fausto Gutierrez said Letruska, the reigning champion older dirt female, emerged in good order from her Apple Blossom victory and the immediate plan is to target the $500,000 Ogden Phipps Stakes (G1) for older fillies and mares at 1 1/16 miles June 11 at Belmont Park.

Letruska capped a roughly seven-week stay last year at Oaklawn when she edged two-time Eclipse Award winner Monomoy Girl to win the Apple Blossom by a nose. Letruska rode the momentum of that victory into divisional honors.

Letruska's 2022 Apple Blossom itinerary was straight to the point. She arrived Wednesday, jogged two laps the wrong way, schooled in the gate and paddock Thursday morning, polished off four rivals Saturday, including Eclipse Award winner and 2020 Apple Blossom victress Ce Ce and Grade 1 winners Clairiere and Maracuja, and departed Sunday morning for her base at Keeneland.

Before leaving, the speedy Letruska was assigned a preliminary Beyer Speed Figure of 103 for her front-running victory over a fast track. Favored at 4-5 under Jose Ortiz, Letruska ($3.80) ran 1 1/16 miles in a meet-best 1:42.22. The time was the fastest for an Apple Blossom winner since Havre De Grace (1:42.19) during her 2011 Horse of the Year campaign. Clairiere finished second, a half-length ahead of Ce Ce, with Maracuja 17 ½ lengths farther back in fourth.

“This was a race that had a very easy form to read,” Gutierrez said Sunday morning. “The complicated part was the quality of the horses. Okay, we are the speed and the other ones come from behind. Ce Ce nearer to us than Clairiere and both are very strong horses. Really, when we entered the stretch I had a sensation, like those two were coming very strong. Very, very dangerous, Ce Ce and then Clairiere. But again, she (Letruska) ran with the class that helped her win an Eclipse, all the races that she won. She ran a very nice race and the top three runners finished very near each other in a very good time. Faster than last year in comparison to other races.”

Letruska coasted to a front-running 2 ¾-length score in last year's Phipps, which was among her four Grade 1 victories in 2021. Gutierrez said the Breeders' Cup Distaff (G1) this fall at Keeneland is the year-end goal for Letruska, who finished a leg-weary 10th in the 2021 running at Del Mar.

Gutierrez reiterated Sunday morning that Letruska's post-Apple Blossom racing schedule in 2022 won't be as taxing as last year. Letruska's only other loss in a grueling eight-race cross-country 2021 campaign was a runner-up finish in the $350,000 Azeri Stakes (G2) at 1 1/16 miles, Oaklawn's final major prep for the Apple Blossom. Letruska opened her 2022 campaign with a front-running three-length victory in the $150,000 Royal Delta Stakes (G3) at 1 1/16 miles Feb. 26 at Gulfstream Park.

“It's complicated sometimes to speak about a plan, but the idea is to have less races than last year, especially less trips,” Gutierrez said. “You never know because you can have surprises, but the idea is to go to Belmont (Stakes) Day, to the Phipps.”

Saturday's victory, Letruska's 19th in 25 starts, pushed her career earnings to $2,948,529. Gutierrez trains the 6-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Super Saver for breeder/owner St. George Stable (German Larrea). Letruska began her career in Mexico and won her first six starts there, including four in 2019 when she was that country's champion 3-year-old filly.

Paseana (1992, 1993), Azeri (2002, 2003, 2004) and Zenyatta (2008 and 2010) are the only other multiple Apple Blossom winners. All are members of the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.

“To win the Apple Blossom twice is great,” Gutierrez said.

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