Month: June 2022

Dozen Share Furlong Bullet at OBS

The under-tack show for next week's Ocala Breeders' Sales Company's June 2-Year-Olds Sale entered its second half Thursday with 12 juveniles sharing the fastest furlong time of :10 flat, while three horses shared the day's fastest quarter-mile time of :21 2/5.

Ocala Stud sent out a homebred filly by Uncaptured to work the quarter-mile in :21 2/5 during the first set Thursday. The bay is out of Brown Glaze (War Front) and is a full-sister to graded placed Bet On Mookie.

A colt by Blame (hip 687) consigned by Britton Peak also worked in :21 2/5 Thursday. The bay is out of stakes-placed Blithely (Exchange Rate), a half-sister to multiple graded winner Merry Meadow (Henny Hughes). GFM Bloodstock purchased the juvenile for $35,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton October sale.

Late in the session, a colt by Lord Nelson (hip 724) matched the :21 2/5 bullet time when working for GOP Racing Stable Corp. The juvenile is out of Cash is Queen (Unbridled's Song), a half-sister to graded winner Name Changer (Uncle Mo). Purchased for GOP Racing Stable for $25,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale, the bay RNA'd for $45,000 following a :10 flat work at the OBS March sale earlier this year.

The dozen :10 flat workers Thursday were:

Two's a Crowd at OBS

There was a throwback moment during the under-tack show's final set Thursday when consignor Eddie Woods sent a pair of juveniles out to work a quarter-mile in company. Hip 722, a daughter of Khozan, completed the drill in :23 2/5, while her stablemate, hip 903, a son of Tiznow, went in :23 4/5.

“They were just really, really green,” Woods said of the decision to work the two in company. “They had only been put in the sale as an afterthought. They barely got there and they weren't ready to work on their own.”

Asked if he was satisfied with the end result, Woods said, “We are never satisfied. We always want better, but with what we started off with, we are more than pleased.”

Working horses in company at the sales was common practice in decades past, but Woods said it is now mostly a fallback position.

“It'll be a very infrequent occurrence,” he said. “Once upon a time, it was the thing to do when you could work horses in :23 and change, head and head, and get them sold. Now, nobody wants to buy a horse who finished last in a two-horse race.”

The under-tack show continues through Saturday with sessions beginning daily at 7:30 a.m. The June sale will be held next Tuesday through Thursday. Bidding commences each day at 10 a.m.

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Notable US-Bred and -Sired Runners in Japan: June 4-5, 2022

In this continuing series, we take a look ahead at US-bred and/or conceived runners entered for the upcoming weekend at the tracks on the Japan Racing Association circuit, with a focus on pedigree and/or performance in the sales ring. Here are the horses of interest for this weekend running at Chukyo Racecourse. The penultimate Group 1 event of the spring racing calendar is set for Sunday at Tokyo, which hosts the G1 Yasuda Kinen. Two-time G1 February S. hero Cafe Pharoah (American Pharoah) tries the grass for just the second time in his career, while the bonny mare Lotus Land (Point of Entry) tries to improve on her cracking runner-up effort when last seen in the G1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen in late March. Elsewhere in Japan over the weekend are the first foals to race by the expatriated Beach Patrol and Mind Your Biscuits, among other Japanese stallions:

Saturday, June 4, 2022
5th-CKO, ¥13,400,000 ($103k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1600mT
SATONO MISCHIEF (JPN) (c, 2, Into Mischief–Play Pretty, by Indian Charlie) is out of a daughter of Broodmare of the Year Oatsee (Unbridled), whose notable produce include treble Grade I winner Shackleford (Forestry); GISW Lady Joanne (Orientate); MGSWs Baghdaria (Royal Academy) and Afleeting Lady (Afleet Alex); and SW/MGSP Stephanoatsee (A.P. Indy). Shadai Farm acquired dam Play Pretty for $750K with this colt in utero at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton November Sale. Satono Mischief is bred on the same cross as Grade I-winning juvenile filly Dayoutoftheoffice. B-Shadai Farm

 

 

 

Sunday, June 5, 2022
5th-CKO, ¥13,400,000 ($103k), Newcomers, 2yo, 1400mT
MANIBHADRA (c, 2, Speightstown–Trini Brewnette, by Milwaukee Brew) is the first foal from his dam, a two-time Ontario-bred stakes winner and daughter of Sovereign Award winner Dancing Allstar (Millennium Allstar), herself the dam of Canadian champion female sprinter Summer Sunday (Silent Name {Jpn}). Corser Thoroughbreds purchased Trini Brewnette for $195K at Keeneland November in 2019 and this colt paid most of that bill when hammering to Hideyuki Mori for $225K at KEESEP last fall. Speightstown's 35 winner from 43 Japanese starts includes G1SW Mozu Superflare and GSW Matera Sky. B-Corser Thoroughbreds (KY)

 

 

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Battle Bling Headlines Local Prep For Delaware Handicap

Michael Dubb and Gandharvi Racing Stables' Battle Bling tops a field of six entered in the $150,000 Obeah Stakes at Delaware Park on Wednesday, June 8. The 1 1/16-mile affair is the local prep for the filly and mare summer classic – the 1 1/4-mile Grade 2 Delaware Handicap on Saturday, July 9.

In her most recent, Battle Bling finished fourth in the mile and a sixteenth $750,000 G1 La Troinenne Stakes at Churchill Downs on May 6. Prior to that, the 4-year-old daughter of Vancouver made four starts at Aqueduct. The Kentucky-bred trained by Rob Atras finished second in the 1 1/8-mile Top Flight Invitational on April 10, second in the one mile Heavenly Prize Stakes on March 6, won the 1 1/8-mile Ladies Stakes on Jan. 16, and ran second in an optional claiming race in which she was claimed for $62,500 on Dec. 19.

Battle Bling has a career record of three wins, six seconds, and a third from 16 starts with earnings of $285,617.

“She is doing good,” said trainer Rob Atras. “She came out of her last race in pretty good shape. We were not sure which direction we were going to go for her next race, but after her last work, we decided on the Obeah. We will certainly consider the Delaware Handicap with a good showing. She is the kind of filly who gets better the longer she goes, so if she handles the track and everything else goes good, the Del Cap is on the radar.”

Goodwood Racing's Flight to Shanghai will have the home field advantage. The 4-year-old daughter of Shanghai Bobby is currently stabled at Delaware Park in the barn of trainer Jane Cibelli.

In her most recent outing, Flight to Shanghai ran third in the mile and seventy yard Serena's Song Stakes at Monmouth Park on May 8. In her only other outing this year, she was unplaced in the Heavenly Cause Stakes at Laurel Park on April 16.  Last year, she posted a pair of Delaware Park allowance victories from as many outings. She has a career record of three wins, three seconds and two thirds from 12 starts with earnings of $129,760.

'She could not be doing better,” said trainer Jane Cibelli. “She came out of the stake at Monmouth great and she has been training nicely since. Two of her three career victories have been over this track, so we are looking forward to this stake over our home track. The reason for running in the Obeah is because we do have the Delaware Handicap in our plans, but she will need a solid effort in the Obeah, for us to consider that next step.”

The race is named in honor of the two-time Delaware Handicap winner in 1969 and 1970 and the dam of the Hall of Fame filly Go For Wand who was locally owned by Jane and Harry duPont's Christiana Stable. Horses finishing first, second, third or fourth in the Obeah Stakes will automatically earn a free nomination to the Delaware Handicap.

Since the Obeah Stakes was inaugurated in 1996, three fillies or mares have won the race and followed with a victory in the Delaware Handicap. They were the 2006 older female champion Fleet Indian, I'm a Chatterbox, who won the race in 2016, and Miss Marissa, who won last year. Two fillies have finished second in the Obeah and won the Delaware Handicap. They were Power Play in 1997 and Unbridled Belle in 2007. Three winners of the Obeah Stakes have followed by running second in the Delaware Handicap. They were Under the Rug in 2001, Your Out in 2002, and the 2011 Horse of the Year Havre de Grace.

$100,000 Obeah Stakes

For  fillies and mares

at a mile and sixteenth

PP HORSE OWNER TRAINER JOCKEY Wg OD
1 Flight to Shanghai Goodwood Racing Jane Cibelli Victor Carrasco 119 5-1
2 Moma Tiger Maria Montez Haire Flint Stites Julio Hernandez 119 8-1
3 Hybrid Eclipse Grey Fox Stable Brittany Russell Jevian Toledo 119 8-1
4 Miss Leslie BB Horses Claudio Gonzalez Angel Cruz 123 8/5
5 Pettigo Girl Bell Gable Stable Gary Contessa Raul Mena 119 12-1
6 Battle Bling Dubb, & Garnharvi Rob Atras Kendrick Carmouche 119 3/2

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Harness Trainer Rene Allard Enters Guilty Plea, Faces Up To Five Years In Prison

Rene Allard, a top harness trainer before his arrest and indictment in 2020, has changed his plea to “guilty” on one felony count of drug adulteration and misbranding conspiracy, reports the Thoroughbred Daily News. Allard was charged for his role in what prosecutors say was a scheme to “manufacture, distribute, and receive adulterated and misbranded performance enhancing-drugs (PEDs) and to secretly administer those PEDs to racehorses under scheme participants' control.”

Allard was named in indictments early in 2020 as well as a superseding indictment in December, 2020.

The allegations in the Dec. 3 indictment were nearly identical to those in the indictment filed against Louis Grasso, Donato Poliseno, Thomas Guido III, and Richard Banca in February and March of 2020. The timing of the indictments and arrests earlier in the year coincided with a larger case also from the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York into alleged doping schemes utilized by Thoroughbred trainers Jorge Navarro and Jason Servis.

The earlier complaint against Allard includes bits of a conversation intercepted by federal agents between Ross Cohen (named in the original indictment alongside Navarro and Servis but absent from a later indictment in that case) and Grasso about Allard's barn. According to the transcript of the phone call from fall 2019, Cohen referred to Allard's operation as “the Allard death camp,” referring to two or three horses that died after receiving what Grasso said was an amino acid supplement from Weatherford, Texas, compounding pharmacy NexGen.

A search of an office at a Middletown, N.Y., training center where Allard kept horses revealed empty syringes, bottles of injectable products labeled “for research purposes only,” and bottles with labels the agent suspected did not match the content.

Due to be sentenced on Sept. 13, 2022, Allard faces as many as five years in prison. His plea deal with the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, also includes a judgement of $628,553.

Read more at the Thoroughbred Daily News.

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