June, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Emerald Downs: Papa’s Golden Boy Blitzes Budweiser, Maybe I Will Takes Hastings

With a brazen display of speed Papa's Golden Boy blitzed a star-studded field of older horses by 4 ¾ lengths Sunday while defending his title in the $50,000 Budweiser Stakes at Emerald Downs in Auburn, Wash.

With Kevin Radke riding at 120 lbs, Papa's Golden Boy zipped six furlongs in a meet fastest 1:07.76 and paid $7.60 as the second betting choice in a field of 10. Vince Gibson is the trainer for Lusk Racing of Puyallup, Wash.

For Papa's Golden Boy, it was his third stakes win overall and almost identical to his 2021 Budweiser victory, in which he ran six furlongs in 1:07.71.

Breaking from the far outside in a 10-horse field, Papa's Golden Boy sprinted clear at once and opened a three-length lead while setting blazing fractions of :21.29, and :43.32, entered the stretch with a commanding four-length lead on Top Executive and was unchallenged to the wire.

“I've ridden a lot of horses and (Papa's Golden Boy) is one of the fastest, at least in the top two,” Radke said.

A 6-year-old Washington-bred gelding by Harbor the Gold, Papa's Golden Boy is 7-3-0 in 20 starts with earnings of $161,096, including $27,500 for Sunday's win.

Top Executive, a slight favorite in the wagering over Papa's Golden Boy, chased the winner from second place throughout the race and held second place. Ridden by Alex Cruz at high weight of 122 lbs, Top Executive returned $4 and $3.20.

Five Star General, with Leslie Mawing aboard at 121 lbs., was a neck back in third and paid $5.80 to show.

Slew's Tiz Whiz rallied for fourth, followed by Fantastic Day, Spittin Image, Windribbon, Torpedo Away, Anyportinastorm, and Coastal Jazz.

The $50,000 Governor's Stakes at 6 ½ furlongs is next for 3-year-old colts and geldings on Sunday, July 24.

In the $50,000 Hastings Stakes for older fillies and mares, California invader Maybe I Will outfinished 2021 Washington Horse of the Year Blazingbellablu and scored a neck victory in 1:08.38 for six furlongs.

With Kevin Orozco riding at 120 lbs. for trainer Blaine Wright and owner/breeder Tom Bachman, Maybe I Will paid $12, $6, and $4.40 as fourth betting choice in a field of seven.

Maybe I Will pressed the pace outside of Ima Happy Cat and Daffodil Sweet through a half-mile in :44.21, took the lead into the lane, and then outfinished Blazingbellablu in an extended drive to the wire.

Blazingbellablu rallied into contention inside and just missed scoring a victory in her season debut for trainer/co-owner Charles Essex. Ridden by Alex Cruz at 119 lbs., Blazingbellablu paid $5.20 and $3.20.

Daffodil Sweet, the 9 to 5 favorite ridden by Juan Gutierrez at high weight of 123 lbs., was a half-length back in third and paid $2.60.

Dontkissntell, Ima Happy Cat, Ms Lynn, and Brilliant Bird rounded out the order of finish.

Ima Happy Cat, a two-time Hastings Stakes winner bidding for her fourth Emerald Downs stakes triumph overall, weakened slightly after leading the opening half-mile.

A 4-year-old California-bred filly by Will Take Charge, Maybe I Will earned $27,500 to boost her career total to $125,326. Her overall record is 4-1-1 from 12 starts including three wins over the synthetic Tapeta surface at Golden Gate Fields.

Wright already has three stakes wins this season and jumped into fourth place on the track's all-time list with 49 stakes wins.

The $50,000 Washington State Legislators Stakes at 6 ½ furlongs is next for older fillies and mares on Sunday, July 24.

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Belmont Park: Thursday’s Card To Feature $83,540 Pick 6 Carryover

Thursday's card at Belmont Park will be bolstered by a Pick 6 carryover of $83,540 after the multi-race wager went unsolved on Sunday's nine-race program.

The $1 Pick 6 returned $1,392 to bettors who selected 5-of-6 winners correctly.

Sunday's sequence kicked off in Race 4 with a 6 1/2-furlong maiden special weight captured by the regally-bred Saint Tapit [No. 1, $5.80], who graduated at first asking under Luis Saez for Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher. The 3-year-old Tapit colt is out of Havre de Grace, who earned 2011 Horse of the Year and Champion Older Mare honors.

New York-bred Theodora Grace [No. 1, $11.60], trained by Tom Albertrani, arrived in time under Dylan Davis to capture Race 5, an open seven-furlong Widener turf claiming sprint ahead of an impressive maiden coup for Accretive [No. 8, $4.50] in Race 6 sprinting 6 1/2-furlongs over the main track under Irad Ortiz, Jr. for trainer Chad Brown.

Runningwscissors [No. 4, $44.60] lit up the tote board in Race 7, rallying to victory under Saez for trainer John Kirby in a six-furlong inner turf sprint for state-breds 3-and-up. Bank Sting [No. 7, $3.60] won the featured Dancin Renee with ease as the post-time favorite under Joel Rosario for conditioner John Terranova.

With half of the 12-horse field covered in the final leg in Race 9, first-time starter Vindatude [No. 3, $63.50] triggered the carryover with a prominent effort under Manny Franco for trainer George Weaver in a state-bred maiden claimer for fillies and mares 3-and-up.

Thursday's Pick 6 will kick off in Race 4 at 4:40 p.m. Eastern and includes a trio of challenging turf races. First post on the nine-race card is 3:05 p.m.

America's Day at the Races will present daily coverage and analysis of the spring/summer meet at Belmont Park on the networks of FOX Sports. For the complete broadcast schedule, visit https://www.nyra.com/belmont/racing/tv-schedule.

NYRA Bets is the official wagering platform of Belmont Park, and the best way to bet every race of the spring/summer meet. Available to horse players nationwide, the NYRA Bets app is available for download today on iOS and Android at www.NYRABets.com.

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Consignors And Commercial Breeders To Host ‘Deal Or No Deal’ Discussion Before Fasig-Tipton July Sale

The Consignors and Commercial Breeders Association will host a “Deal or No Deal” discussion on the impact of various X-ray findings over time on Sunday, July 10 at Fasig-Tipton's outdoor pavilion in Lexington, Ky., ahead of the auction company's July sale.

The event will take place from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Open bar will be sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

Sunday's candid discussion will feature a panel including Dr. Greg BonenClark of Florida Equine Veterinary Associates, Dr. Nathan Mitts of Peterson Smith Equine Hospital, 2-year-old consignor Randy Miles, Joe Pickerell of Pick View Farm, Andy Howard of Lane's End, and Logan Payne of Taylor Made Farm.

The casual, candid discussion will focus on common findings in yearling sale vet work and the various tolerance levels people have for them, based on their industry experience.

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First-Crop Yearling Previews: Mitole

The 2022 class of first-crop yearling sires features a diverse batch of Kentucky-based young stallions including a pair of Breeders' Cup champions, two sons of reigning top sire Into Mischief, five graded stakes winners at two and five Grade I winners on turf. Throughout the course of the yearling sales season, we will feature a series of freshman sires as their first crop points toward the sales ring.

Mitole (Eskendereya – Indian Miss, by Indian Charlie) is a barn favorite for Spendthrift Farm's Stallion Sales Manager Mark Toothaker for several reasons, perhaps a big one being that, as Toothaker joked, “He's easy on a guy trying to sell stallion season.”

The 2019 GI Breeders' Cup Sprint champion bred over 200 mares in each of his first few years at stud, including that tough third season where many promising stallions are lucky to get 100. What has made Mitole so extremely popular?

“I think with Mitole, the biggest thing with him was just how fast he was,” Toothaker explained. “Steve [Asmussen] even said that this is the fastest horse in the world. He was hard to beat at any distance and we feel like that's what breeders have gravitated toward is his speed. The demand for him has just been amazing through the first three years.”

Bred by Edward A. Cox Jr., Mitole was a $20,000 yearling turned $140,000 OBS April 2-year-old. Campaigned by William and Corinne Heiligbrodt and trained by Steve Asmussen, the colt out of future Broodmare of the Year Indian Miss (Indian Charlie) got his first win in his third start, defeating a field of maidens by 10 lengths as a young 3-year-old. He got his first stakes win two months later in the Bachelor S. at Oaklawn Park.

“We were chasing another stallion that day,” Toothaker recalled. “When I came back to the office, I told everyone that I may have seen the best 3-year-old in the country. They thought I was talking about the other horse, but I was talking about Mitole. This was April of his 3-year-old year and he got a 107 Beyer. This horse was just incredible.”

Mitole was sidelined after a win in his next start in the Chick Lang S. due to a splint injury, but returned at four to capture six of his seven starts in 2019, including the GI Churchill Downs S. on the Kentucky Derby undercard, the GI Runhappy Metropolitan H. over MGISW McKinzie (Street Sense) and the GI Forego S. in stakes-record time. He culminated his season with a career-high 112 Beyer Speed Figure in the GI Breeders' Cup Sprint and retired with over $3 million in earnings as the 2019 Champion Male Sprinter and Horse of the Year finalist.

Launched with an initial stud fee of $25,000 in 2020, Mitole's fee was brought down to $15,000 the next year when Spendthrift reduced stud fees for most of their roster in 2021. Toothaker said that as the young stallion's first foals arrived, breeders started calling with the hopes of bringing their mares back to him.

“People have loved the way these things look,” Toothaker said of Mitole's first foals. “They have great hips on them, they look like him, and they just look fast.”

Mitole sent 56 weanlings and short yearlings through the ring at the breeding stock sales. 46 sold to average $80,608 and place their sire among the top 5 first-crop weanling sires in North America in 2021. His colt out of Rode Warrior (Quality Road) sold for $285,000 at Keeneland November to Spendthrift Farm and Bill and Corinne Heiligbrodt while another colt at the same sale brought $200,000.

At the upcoming Fasig-Tipton July Sale on July 12, Mitole will be represented by 13 members of his first crop.

“I feel like as we go around and do our notes out there, it's going to be a lot of the same,” Toothaker said. “It will be a horse that looks like we could take to the 2-year-old sale and it could go fast and have a chance to hit a big lick, or, it could be a horse that trainers are going to take to the track saying that we could come out with this 2-year-old and mean business from the get go.”

Brookdale Sales will send Hip 9, a Mitole colt out of the Lonhro (Aus) mare Limit, through the sales ring at Fasig-Tipton July for breeder Mineloa Farm. Martin O'Dowd said that everyone at Mineola has been impressed by this colt from the start.

“He's very, very nice,” O'Dowd said. “He's correct and has a great mind and a lovely walk. In the paddock, he just moves beautifully with a fabulous, low stride. The mare has a very deep family and it's a family that runs on dirt and turf.”

At the same sale, Rosilyn Polan's Sunday Morning Farm will send a Mitole colt through the ring as Hip 51. The yearling is out of Sweetness Galore (Rock Hard Ten), a daughter of GISW Tribulation (Danzig). Polan's favorite thing about the youngster, she said, is his powerful stride.

“I love that he is not only so fluid when he walks, but he's so purposeful,” she explained. “He acts like he's planning ahead with every footfall and just reaching for the finish line. He's a fun one to have.”

Toothaker said that he is anticipating high demand for Mitole's yearlings from a wide variety of shoppers.

“It's exciting because Bill and Corinne were active at the sales supporting him and they're going to try to have these things ready to roll as well,” he said. “I feel that the 2-year-old pinhookers all the way to the people going to the races are going to want to have a Mitole. Everybody likes fast.”

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