Month: June 2022

Galileo’s Tuesday Secures Classic Record For O’Brien

Choosing her own third birthday to bring Aidan O'Brien a record 41st British Classic, Tuesday (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}–Lillie Langtry {Ire}, by Danehill Dancer {Ire}) inched out TDN Rising Star Emily Upjohn (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) in a thriller for Friday's G1 Cazoo Oaks at Epsom. Third in the 1000 Guineas and runner-up in the Irish equivalent, the homebred who was a 13-2 shot to emulate her full-sister Minding (Ire) arrived from rear to grab the lead inside the final two furlongs and had her nose in front on the line as the slow-starting 6-4 favourite almost pulled off an epic recovery. The official margin was a short head, with Nashwa (GB) (Frankel {GB}) 3 1/4 lengths away in third.

“She was still a little bit babyish and I was further back than I should have been, but she put herself into the race,” Ryan Moore said. “She was just a bit idle and changed her leads late on, so I just had to get her balanced. She has an awful lot of class and it's amazing how the family keep producing. Aidan has peaked her again only 12 days after the Irish Guineas and only he can do that. He did the same with Minding, who got beaten in the Irish Guineas then came here and won. She and Minding are similar size and very similar attitudes. Both have a lot of class, but this filly might be the stronger stayer.”

Runner-up to Discoveries (Ire) (Mastercraftsman {Ire}) over seven furlongs on debut at The Curragh in June, Tuesday had her next assignment in a mile maiden at Naas after a nine-month hiatus and while there were no fireworks she was able to get off the mark and work her way into the picture for the May 1 Newmarket Classic. Only 4-1 for that, she stayed on gamely to fill the frame behind the vastly-more experienced Cachet (Ire) (Aclaim {Ire}) and Prosperous Voyage (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) before chasing home the brilliant Homeless Songs (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) at The Curragh three weeks later.

This renewal was a case of “best-laid plans” from the outset as Emily Upjohn broke awkwardly and lost ground with Frankie looking down to check that her shoes were still intact. Soon able to coast to the rail of the field where she raced alongside the eventual winner, she was forced wide off the home turn as Tuesday darted up the inside. As the field veered towards the stands, Tuesday was cut adrift in the centre of the track with a clear passage while Frankie was steering Emily Upjohn near the rail and while it looked initially as though the Gosdens' number one had won the bobber it was Ballydoyle who the fortunes favoured for a 10th Oaks success.

As he always does, O'Brien was quick to share the plaudits for the training achievement which rests in his name. “It feels unbelievable for us to be part of the whole thing, we're a small part of the team and we feel very privileged to be that part,” he said. “I'm so delighted for everybody because everybody puts in so much work, day in and day out, it's literally day and night, so it's unbelievable when everyone gets the return that they get. We're so grateful to everyone, that's what makes the difference and that's what makes it happen.”

Of Tuesday, who also overcame stall one, he added, “She is a baby and she was running in Classics before she was three, so it just goes to show what a fantastic filly she is. We always thought that a mile and a quarter, a mile and a half was going to suit her well. Ryan rode her very cold and very confidently. We felt that a mile and a quarter and a mile and a half was going to suit her well, you can never be sure but it wasn't a mad pace. With this type of filly, you're going to be looking at an Irish Oaks and things like that, there's plenty time between now and then and whether it's over a mile and a quarter or a mile and a half won't bother her and even at a mile she's very competitive.”

Dettori was understandably disappointed with the way the race panned out for the favourite and said, “She fell over, she slipped, lost her footing and fell over. I found myself last and going past all the field, I wish I had the pleasure to have the rail but I didn't, Ryan had that pleasure and I had to make a challenge on the outside. She made up a lot of ground and she was an unlucky loser. It's one of those things. She should have won, it's as simple as that. You've seen her–she's a good one.”

John Gosden said of the runner-up, “They went an even pace, but she has just lost it at the start–it is as simple as that. She has got a lot of ability to come from last and get there. It was a hell of a run. That is bad luck–you can't get left that far and circle the whole field. It is not her style of racing. I think if she had a clean break and not slipped and lost her legs it might have been a different result, but that's racing. She was in front before the line and just after the line but not on it.”

“Nashwa has run great. I think she just ran out of stamina the last 50 yards up the hill,” he added. “She would be better dropping back in trip, but she has run a superb race.” Hollie Doyle was achieving the best finishing position for a female rider in a Classic and commented, “I'm disappointed she didn't win, but I'm not disappointed with her performance at all. She ran a solid race and when she's stepped back to 10 furlongs there will hopefully be big days ahead. I appreciate that it's the best placing ever by a female rider in a Classic, but it doesn't make a lot of difference to me. If I could ever win one though it would be amazing.”

Tuesday becomes the 94th group 1 winner for her sire and the second Oaks heroine and third Classic winner for Lillie Langtry following the exploits of Minding (Ire) in this race and the 1000 Guineas and of another full-sister in Empress Josephine (Ire) in last year's G1 Irish 1000 Guineas. Lillie Langtry, whose top-level wins came in the Coronation S. and Matron S., has also produced the G3 1000 Guineas Trial winner Kissed By Angels (Ire) by Galileo. From the family of the sires Great Commotion and Lead On Time, her pedigree received another significant recent update when the G2 Prix du Conseil de Paris-winning Traffic Jam (Ire) (Duke of Marmalade {Ire}) was responsible for the G3 Prix Cleopatre winner and G1 Prix Saint-Alary runner-up Place du Carrousel (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}). Lillie Langtry's unraced 2-year-old is named Delightful (Ire).

Friday, Epsom Downs, Britain
CAZOO OAKS-G1, £550,000, Epsom, 6-3, 3yo, f, 12f 6yT, 2:37.83, gd.
1–TUESDAY (IRE), 128, f, 3, by Galileo (Ire)
1st Dam: Lillie Langtry (Ire) (Hwt. 3yo Filly-Eng at 7-9.5f, G1SW-Eng & Ire, $1,361,940), by Danehill Dancer (Ire)
2nd Dam: Hoity Toity (GB), by Darshaan (GB)
3rd Dam: Hiwaayati (GB), by Shadeed
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN; 1ST GROUP 1 WIN. O-Susan Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith & Westerberg; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien; J-Ryan Moore. £311,905. Lifetime Record: G1SP-Ire, 5-2-2-1, $573,703. *Full to Minding (Ire), Hwt. 2yo Filly-Eur, Hwt. 3yo-Eur at 7-9.5f, Hwt. Older Mare-Eur at 9.5-11f, MG1SW-Eng & Ire, $3,213,340; Empress Josephine (IRE), G1SW-Ire & GISP-USA, $366,222; and Kissed By Angels (Ire), GSW-Ire. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus*. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Emily Upjohn (GB), 128, f, 3, Sea The Stars (Ire)–Hidden Brief (GB), by Barathea (Ire). 1ST GROUP 1 BLACK TYPE. (60,000gns Ylg '20 TATOCT). O-Tactful Finance & S Roden; B-Lordship Stud & Sunderland Holding Inc (GB); T-John & Thady Gosden. £118,250.
3–Nashwa (GB), 128, f, 3, Frankel (GB)–Princess Loulou (Ire), by Pivotal (GB). 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE; 1ST GROUP 1 BLACK TYPE. O-Imad Al Sagar; B-Blue Diamond Stud Farm (UK) Ltd (GB); T-John & Thady Gosden. £59,180.
Margins: NO, 3 1/4, 1 1/4. Odds: 6.50, 1.50, 4.00.
Also Ran: Concert Hall (Ire), Kawida (GB), Tranquil Lady (Ire), Rogue Millennium (Ire), Moon de Vega (GB), Thoughts of June (Ire), The Algarve, With The Moonlight (Ire). Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.

 

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Weekend Lineup Presented By Del Mar Ship & Win: Six Stakes Saturday Beneath The Twin Spires

This weekend's stakes action is highlighted by the “Stephen Foster Preview Day” at Churchill Downs, which offers six stakes worth $200,000 apiece on Saturday's card.

Though only two of the stakes are graded, the listed races have drawn Grade 1 winners like Pauline's Pearl (Shawnee Stakes) and Americanrevolution (Blame Stakes) for what ought to be a big afternoon beneath the Twin Spires in Louisville, Ky.

Kicking off the weekend is Penn National's Friday evening card that offers the Grade 2 Penn Mile, in which the undefeated Annapolis makes his 2022 debut for trainer Todd Pletcher. The Penn Mile is one of six stakes offering $950,000 in purses on an 11-race card that gets under way at 5 p.m.

Other graded stakes action heads to Woodbine for the first turf stakes of the year in the Royal North, while Belmont Park offers a sophomore turf test in the G2 Pennine Ridge.

Overseas, the Group 1 Epsom Derby will be run this Saturday, having drawn a full field of 17 3-year-olds. Aidan O'Brien will send out three entrants, while Charlie Appleby will saddle another three. It is Sir Michael Stoute who has the current favorite, however, in G2 winner Desert Crown.

The French Derby will be held on Sunday, while the stateside action features the Grade 3 Mint Julep at Churchill.

Here's a quick look at this weekend's graded stakes:

Friday

7:45 PM – Grade 2 Penn Mile Stakes at Penn National

Bass Racing LLC's Annapolis, to be ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr., won the Pilgrim Stakes (Grade 2) last October for his second consecutive victory but the War Front colt has not been postward since. He drew the rail post and has been installed the 9-5 favorite for trainer Todd Pletcher.

Flavien Prat ventures to Grantville for the night and will be riding another son of top sire War Front, Fort Washington, for trainer Shug McGaughey. Fort Washington is winless in two starts since a maiden score at Aqueduct last November but has a license to improve off his two outings in 2022. He drew the outside post in a field of eight.

Penn Mile Entries

Saturday

2:45 PM – Grade 3 Regret Stakes at Churchill Downs

Whitham Thoroughbreds' homebred filly Walkathon will attempt to win her third consecutive race and first graded stakes score in Saturday's $200,000 Regret (Grade 3) at Churchill Downs.

Trained by Ian Wilkes, Walkathon broke her maiden by two lengths in late April at Keeneland in her first turf try. The daughter of Twirling Candy returned May 14 at Churchill where she bested 10 rivals by 1 ¼ lengths in a first-level allowance event. She's poised to return in two weeks for Saturday's Regret and will break from the rail with Julien Leparoux in the saddle.

The Regret features an extremely competitive field of six 3-year-old fillies including Don't Tell My Wife Stables and Keith Desormeaux's $250,0000 Bourbonette Oaks winner Candy Raid, Klaravich Stables' graded stakes placed McKulick (GB), and Michael Tabor's allowance winner Beside Herself.

Regret Entries

4:22 PM – Grade 3 Arlington Stakes at Churchill Downs

Steve Goldfine, Kari Provost and Jeff Zlonis' five-time winner Gray's Fable, who narrowly prevailed in the $160,000 Opening Verse four weeks ago, tops a field of six that entered the $200,000 Arlington Stakes (Grade 3) on Saturday at Churchill Downs.

Now trained by Brian Lynch, Gray's Fable previously competed in the care of Roger Attfield primarily in Florida and Canada. The 7-year-old son of Gio Ponti narrowly held off Hidden Stash in the Opening Verse. As a 6-year-old, Gray's Fable won the $100,000 Appleton (G3) at Gulfstream Park. Julien Leparoux will ride from post No. 6.

Another top horse that entered the Arlington Stakes is Amerman Racing's Admission Office, who is also campaigned by Lynch. The 7-year-old gelding by Point of Entry last competed 15 months ago at Gulfstream Park but was a Grade 3 winner as a 5-year-old in the Louisville Stakes at Churchill Downs. The four-time winner will be ridden by John Velazquez from the rail.

Arlington Entries

4:30 PM – Grade 3 Desert Stormer Stakes at Santa Anita

A nose shy of being unbeaten in eight starts, three of them stakes, Nick Alexander's homebred Becca Taylor tries graded stakes competition for the first time as she returns to Santa Anita to head Saturday's Grade 3, $100,000 Desert Stormer Stakes as five fillies and mares three and up go six furlongs.

Trained by Steve Miyadi, California-bred Becca Taylor, who was second, beaten a nose two starts back in the Irish O'Brien Stakes at 6 ½ furlongs down the hillside turf course, ventured to Golden Gate Fields on May 7, where she pressed the pace and posted a one length allowance victory going six furlongs on synthetic Tapeta as the 1-5 favorite.

A 1 ¼ length winner of the statebred Spring Fever Stakes at six furlongs on dirt three starts back Feb. 21, Becca Taylor is unbeaten three tries on dirt, two of them in statebred stakes at Santa Anita.

A 4-year-old filly by Old Topper out of the General Meeting mare Lady Sax, Becca Taylor will get the first-time services of Santa Anita's leading rider Juan Hernandez. With seven wins and a second place finish, “Becca” has earnings of $319,160.

Desert Stormer Entries

4:59 PM – Grade 2 Royal North Stakes at Woodbine

Trainers Mark Casse and Josie Carroll will both be well represented in Saturday's Grade 2 $175,000 Royal North, the first turf stakes race of the 2022 Woodbine season.

Casse sends out multiple graded stakes winner Amalfi Coast, graded stakes placed Jeanie B, multiple graded stakes placed La Libertee, and graded stakes winner Souper Sensational. Multiple stakes winner Boardroom, Gidgetta, and stakes winner Lady War Machine comprise Carroll's talented trio.

​Purchased for $475,000 (U.S.) by Tracy Farmer at the 2021 Keeneland Association November Breeding Stock Sale, Amalfi Coast will look to defend her Royal North title after a hard-fought nose win in last year's running. ​Bred in Ontario by Terra Farms Ltd., the now 6-year-old daughter of Tapizar-Include Katherine was feted as Canada's champion female sprinter in 2021 after a season in which she posted a mark of 2-1-2 from five starts. Her other victory last year came in the Grade 3 Ontario Fashion Stakes.

Royal North Entries

5:12 PM – Grade 2 Pennine Ridges Stakes at Belmont Park

Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown will send out a pair of formidable contenders in Unanimous Consent and Napoleonic War in search of his third score in Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Pennine Ridge, a nine-furlong inner turf test for sophomores at Belmont Park.

Brown, who won the Pennine Ridge previously with Camelot Kitten [2016] and Peter Brant's Demarchelier [2019], holds a strong hand in Saturday's renewal. 

Klaravich Stables' Unanimous Consent, by Almanzor, is undefeated in three starts, including a 1 3/4-length score in the Woodhaven at 1 1/16-miles last out over firm footing at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Manny Franco saved ground aboard Unanimous Consent in the Woodhaven as Chanceux, who finished third in Sunday's Paradise Creek at Belmont, set moderate splits. Franco gained position down the backstretch and made a five-wide move in upper stretch to sweep to a comfortable score that garnered a career-best 81 Beyer Speed Figure.

Unanimous Consent has breezed back four times out of the Woodhaven win, including a five-eighths effort in 1:02.11 on May 13 in company with Masen, who posted a comfortable score in last Sunday's Seek Again at Belmont.

The Brant-owned Napoleonic War might also be undefeated if not for a troubled trip in the Grade 3 Transylvania in April at Keeneland. The War Front bay was shuffled back to last through the far turn before launching a wide bid to finish fourth, defeated 1 1/2-lengths by the victorious Sy Dog.

Napoleonic War, a debut dead-heat winner in January over the Tampa Bay Downs turf, exited the Transylvania to post a narrow nose score in a 1 1/16-mile optional-claiming event on May 5 at Belmont.

Unanimous Consent will exit the outermost post 7 under Franco, while Flavien Prat will pilot Napoleonic War from post 4.

Pennine Ridge Entries

Sunday

4:55 PM – Grade 3 Mint Julep Stakes at Churchill Downs

Bal Mar Equine's seven-time winning mare Dalika (GER) is set to make her first start since October against an ultra-competitive cast of nine rivals that entered Sunday's $200,000 Old Forester Mint Julep (Grade 3) at Churchill Downs.

The Mint Julep, run at 1 1/16 miles on the Matt Winn Turf Course, will go as Race 9 of 10 with a post time of 4:55 p.m. (all times Eastern). First post is 12:45 p.m.

Trained by Al Stall Jr., the speedy Dalika (GER) won last year's Robert Dick Memorial (G3) at Delaware and Al Stall Memorial at Fair Grounds. The gray mare has done most of her training this spring at Skylight Training Center, located in Goshen, Ky. Dalika (GER) has recorded two of her seven wins at Churchill Downs and has only one start locally where she finished outside the top 2. The late Miguel Mena rode Dalika (GER) in nine of her last 10 starts. Ricardo Santana Jr., who was close friends with Mena, will be in the saddle Sunday from post No. 6.

Mint Julep Entries

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OwnerView To Host Instructional Webinar On HISA Registration

OwnerView announced Friday that it has added a panel to its Virtual Owner Conference series with representatives from the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority (HISA) to assist owners with the registration process for HISA.

The Zoom webinar will be held on Thursday, June 16, at 1 p.m. ET and last about 60 minutes. Participating in the webinar from HISA will be Lisa Lazarus, chief executive officer; Steve Keech, technology director; Ann McGovern, director of Racetrack Safety; and John Roach, general counsel. The session will include time to submit questions to the HISA team.

The Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act, which was signed into law in December 2020, established HISA as an independent agency to draft and enforce uniform safety and integrity rules in Thoroughbred racing in the United States. The bill goes into effect on July 1, and owners are among the list of individuals who must register with HISA as a covered person prior to this date.

“The passage of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act was an important step forward for Thoroughbred racing, and this webinar will enable owners to engage directly with HISA to learn about registration and answer any questions they may have,” said Gary Falter, project manager for OwnerView.

Interested individuals can sign up for the virtual conference at ownerview.com/event/conference or send an email to Gary Falter, gfalter@jockeyclub.com. The webinar will be recorded and made available on the OwnerView YouTube channel for owners that cannot attend the live session.

OwnerView is a joint effort spearheaded by The Jockey Club and the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association to encourage ownership of Thoroughbreds and provide accurate information on aspects of ownership such as trainers, public racing syndicates, the process of purchasing and owning a Thoroughbred, racehorse retirement, and owner licensing.

The need for a central resource to encourage Thoroughbred ownership was identified in the comprehensive economic study of the sport that was commissioned by The Jockey Club and conducted by McKinsey & Company in 2011. The OwnerView site was launched in May 2012.

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