Robin Goodfellow’s racing tips: Best bets for Tuesday, July 12
Sportsmail's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Tuesday's meetings at Beverley, Bath, Southwell and Chelmsford City.
Month: July 2022
Ete Indien Sold To Stand In The Philippines At Fasig-Tipton Sale
Grade 2 winner Ete Indien will begin his stallion career in The Philippines after selling to Triple T Ranch for $25,000 on Monday at the Fasig-Tipton July Selected Horses of All Ages Sale.
Bloodstock agent Ed Price signed the ticket for the 5-year-old son of Summer Front on behalf of the new owners. Eaton Sales consigned Ete Indien as agent.
“He's a beautiful horse, he had tons of talent, and he was an expensive 2-year-old,” Price said.
Ete Indien was bred in Kentucky by Robert Tillyer and Eric Buckley, and he sold to Ireland's Powerstown Stud as a yearling for $80,000. He was then purchased by French-born, U.S.-based trainer Patrick Biancone for $269,640 at the 2019 Arqana May Breeze-Up Sale in France.
The horse was campaigned by a large partnership including Linda Shanahan, Sanford Bacon, Dream With Me Stable, Horse France America, D P Racing, and Biancone himself.
Ete Indien got to work quickly when he returned stateside, winning on debut as a juvenile on the turf at Gulfstream Park. Following a well off-the-board effort in the Grade 3 Bourbon Stakes, the colt finished his 2-year-old season on the dirt, taking an optional claiming race at Gulfstream.
The colt established his presence as a contender on the Triple Crown trail with his seasonal debut at age three, where he finished second to future classic winner Tiz The Law in the G3 Holy Bull Stakes. He then led at every point of call in the G2 Fountain of Youth Stakes, and kicked away to win by 8 1/2 lengths.
Tiz the Law once again thwarted Ete Indien in the G1 Florida Derby, where he finished third behind the champion. When the Kentucky Derby was moved to September due to COVID-19, Ete Indien remained in South Florida, and finished fourth in a Gulfstream optional claimer. He was later taken out of consideration for the rescheduled classics, and he went over a year between races.
Ete Indien came back from the extended layoff for one final start in July 2021, finishing eighth in the Bob Umphrey Turf Sprint Stakes at Gulfstream. He retired with three wins in eight starts for $408,406.
Price said he has been buying for Triple T for the past five to seven years, purchasing everything from racehorses to stallions on the company's behalf. The farm's purchases of American bloodstock at auction includes Grade 1 winner Stately Victor, who was bought as an active stallion in 2015.
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Enforceable To Enter Stud In South America Following Fasig-Tipton Sale
Enforceable, a Grade 3 winner who ran in the 2020 Kentucky Derby, will be exported to South America to begin his stallion career, likely standing in Peru, after selling for $125,000 on Monday at the Fasig-Tipton July Selected Horses of All Ages Sale.
Fernando Macchiavello, who signed the ticket on behalf of Equine Consulting Sac, agent, declined to provide the identity of the buyer, but he said the 5-year-old Tapit horse was purchased to stand at stud. Grovendale Sales consigned the horse, as agent.
“He's a Tapit graded stakes winner, a nice horse,” Macchiavello said. “He was a very good looking horse.”
Bred in Kentucky by Clearsky Farms, Enforceable is out of the Grade 2-winning Dixie Union mare Justwhistledixie, making him a full-brother to Grade 2 winner Mohaymen and Grade 3 winner Kingly. He is a half-brother to Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner New Year's Day and stakes-placed Irish Unity.
Enforceable ends his career with three wins in 20 starts for earnings of $488,249. He broke his maiden as a juvenile at Saratoga Race Course in his fourth career start, then parlayed that victory into a third-place finish in the Grade 1 Breeders' Futurity at Keeneland, and a fourth in the G2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs.
Trained by Mark Casse for owner John Oxley, Enforceable started his 3-year-old season with a 1 1/2-length score in the G3 Lecomte Stakes at the Fair Grounds. He remained in Louisiana for the remainder of his traditional Kentucky Derby prep schedule, running second in the G2 Risen Star Stakes, and fifth in the G2 Louisiana Derby.
When COVID wreaked havoc on the Triple Crown calendar, Enforceable headed to Keeneland, where he finished fourth in a mid-summer renewal of the G2 Blue Grass Stakes.
Enforceable entered that September's rescheduled Kentucky Derby as a mid-priced hope, and he finished seventh under jockey Adam Beschizza, following a troubled trip that saw him pinned on the rail for most of the race.
The horse continued to race until the spring of 2022, with his most notable efforts being a Fair Grounds allowance optional claiming win to kick off his 4-year-old season in 2021, and a third in the G2 New Orleans Classic Stakes two starts later. His final start came during this year's Keeneland spring meet, where he finished last of eight in an optional claiming race.
Macchiavello, a native of Peru based in Lexington, Ky., said a stallion prospect with his pedigree and experience on the sport's biggest stage will likely make him a popular newcomer for Peruvian breeders.
“I think we breed pretty nice horses,” he said. “It's not big, but to give an example, the dam of Creator (winner of the 2016 Belmont Stakes, by Tapit), Morena, is a Peruvian mare. To produce a classic winner is a unique situation for any South American mare. I think that's another reason to think a Tapit horse could do well there. I think there's a lot of people that like horse racing and breeding in Peru, and like to do well and breed a good horse.”
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‘Slippery Slope’: Approval Of Lexington Soccer Complex Threatens Local Equine, Agricultural Operations
The following is an open letter penned by the Fayette Alliance, a non-profit of citizens dedicated to achieving equitable, sustainable growth in Lexington-Fayette County through land-use advocacy, education, and research. The letter is in response to the approval for a soccer complex in an agriculture-rural zone which had been home to the Ashwood Training Center on Russell Cave Road just outside of Lexington, Ky.
The site plan has the soccer fields located where the training track sits and near the southeast border of Fasig-Tipton Kentucky's sale grounds. The fields are adjacent to trainer Ken McPeek's Magdalena Farm. The site plan also calls for 750 parking spaces.
There have been questions about the relationship between the proposed recreational fields and an “anticipated” commercial stadium for a USL League One professional soccer franchise that is coming to Lexington in 2023. Plans for a downtown soccer stadium have fallen through and no new plans have been announced. The site plan does not include a stadium, though the Division of Planning staff said “separation between the uses” (recreational soccer fields and pro stadium) should be more “clearly delineated.” William J. Shively, owner of Dixiana Farm in Lexington, brought the franchise to Lexington. Vince Gabbert, a former vice president at Keeneland, is the franchise president.
In 1958, Lexington became the first community in the U.S. to institute an Urban Service Boundary to protect the farmland that is our identity. Last week, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Board of Adjustment approved a 12-field soccer complex and 750 parking spaces in the Agricultural-Rural zone. This decision threatens the historic precedent set by those who had the foresight and determination to safeguard this community's most important resource with potential consequences that would negatively impact generations to come. The land in question is immediately adjacent to equine and agricultural operations that are the pillars of both our local economy and Lexington's proud identity as the Horse Capital of the World. In approving the proposal, the Board of Adjustment also took the highly unusual step of removing the most critical of the 19 conditions recommended by the City of Lexington's professional planning staff to preserve the integrity of the Agricultural-Rural zone should the project move forward.
This decision was just the first step in Lexington Sporting Club's multi-faceted plan that would disrupt Lexington's Bluegrass farmland as we know it. The next two steps are proposals to amend existing zoning ordinances to permit lights, concessions, and retail sales at that same complex in the rural area – an area that has been protected from this exact type of development for decades – in addition to a 10,000-person stadium and thousands of surface parking spaces in the nearby Economic Development zone.
Fayette Alliance supports bringing professional and youth soccer and the corresponding infrastructure to Lexington. However, we must do so in a responsible manner that protects our trademark industries and the productive farmland that makes Lexington unique. We already find ourselves on a slippery slope: together, these proposals would allow intense commercial uses in the rural area. They represent a major change from Lexington's nearly 70 years of thoughtful growth policies and the consequences, if approved, will long outlive us all.
At the Board of Adjustment hearings, dozens of community members voiced their opposition to the development, highlighting the adverse impacts it would have on their livelihoods, the agricultural and equine industries, and the surrounding environment. The approval of the soccer fields and parking lot was a disappointing dismissal of the valid concerns of the citizens of Lexington and its city planners. The result, including the Board of Adjustment's unprecedented move to gut the most important of the planning staff's recommendations, all but ignores this community's longstanding support for the balance between urban and rural uses of the land that we have worked tirelessly to maintain.
This decision, and those that will come before the Planning Commission later this month, could set a dangerous precedent for our community. They put our rural area at risk by opening it up to similar intense development throughout Lexington-Fayette County. Where will we draw the line if the physical Agricultural-Rural zone boundaries and conditions outlined by our own city planning staff are so readily ignored from the start?
Fayette Alliance isn't waiting around to find out; our founding mission is to advocate to protect the finite resource that is our Bluegrass farmland for generations to come. To this end, we are appealing the Board of Adjustment's decision and filing an Open Records request to understand how last Tuesday's vote resulted in not only the approval of a proposal that saw near-universal opposition throughout the meeting, but also the inexplicable decision to eliminate the most protective of the 19 recommendations made by planning staff.
On Thursday, July 28, the Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the next phases of the project, which threaten both our rural area and the job creation for which our economic development land is explicitly designated. Aside from the obvious concerns voiced by the community about these proposals – from light and noise pollution to storm water runoff and safety issues – the farmland that is under threat features finite, prime soil for agricultural uses that can never be replaced. The economic development land is zoned as such because it is critical to our community's economic success; acres upon acres of parking lots certainly are not. If these proposals are approved, there is no going back. No do-over.
The decisions we make about land-use today have a far greater impact on our children's futures than a worthy soccer program located on the prime soils that form the foundation of our unique community and its signature industry. While soccer can be played at other existing facilities, our farmland is irreplaceable. If you share our fundamental belief in the need to protect our hallowed Bluegrass land, please join us in attending the Planning Commission meeting on July 28 at 1:30pm at City Hall and make your voice heard in opposition to these proposals. We must stay engaged and demand transparency from Lexington Sporting Club around this project; our community has too much at stake to let this pass.
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