Good Magic’s Curly Jack Takes the Iroquois

Curly Jack became the second graded winner for his freshman sire (by Curlin) with an upset score in the GIII Iroquois S. at Churchill Downs Saturday. Away alertly, the bay raced off the fence in sixth in a tightly bunched pack as 'TDN Rising Star' and second choice in the betting Damon's Mound (Girvin) clocked a :23.53 opening quarter. Favored fellow 'Rising Star' Echo Again (Gun Runner) charged up to confront Damon's Mound as the half went in :47.48. Curly Jack bided his time as the top two knocked heads on the lead with Echo Again slightly in front. Curly Jack ranged up four wide turning for home alongside Jace's Road. Curly Jack hit the front in mid-stretch and kicked clear with Honed overtaking Jace's Road for second.

“I thought going into this race it was a really good field,” winning trainer Tom Amoss said. “I was able to watch Echo Again this summer at Saratoga and he was very impressive when he won up there. I have a ton of respect for Michelle Lovell's horse [Damon's Mound]. I thought maybe going two turns is going to help our chances.”

“It's very special to win my first graded stakes race for Tom,” winning rider Edgar Morales said. “He's done a great job with this horse and I can't be more thankful to him, his entire staff and the owners for allowing me to ride these really nice horses.”

Curly Jack cruised home a four-length winner in his career bow at Churchill Downs June 2. Fading to fifth in Saratoga's GIII Sanford S. July 16, he missed by a head next out in the Ellis Park Juvenile S. Aug. 14.

Pedigree Notes:

Curly Jack is the second graded winner for freshman sire and champion juvenile Good Magic, following GII Sorrento S. victress Vegas Magic. He is out of GI Mother Goose S. runner-up Connie and Michael, who is a half-sister to graded winners High Ridge Road (Quality Road) and Senor Rojo (Out of Place). Already the dam of SP Fannie and Freddie (Malibu Moon), Connie and Michael's most recent produce includes a yearling colt by Gun Runner, who summoned $525,000 from the BSW/Crow colts group on day one of the Keeneland September Sale. She did not have a foal in 2022, but was bred back to Yaupon.

Saturday, Churchill Downs
IROQUOIS S.-GIII, $299,250, Churchill Downs, 9-17, 2yo, 1 1/16m, 1:45.62, ft.
1–CURLY JACK, 122, c, 2, by Good Magic
                1st Dam: Connie and Michael (GISP, $136,860), by Roman Ruler
                2nd Dam: Detect, by Devil's Bag
                3rd Dam: Find, by Mr. Prospector
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($180,000
Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-Michael McLoughlin;
B-Betz/J.Betz/Burns/Camaquiki/C.Kidder/et al (KY); T-Thomas
Amoss; J-Edgar Morales. $178,920. Lifetime Record:
4-2-1-0, $280,180. Werk Nick Rating: F.
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2–Honed, 122, c, 2, Sharp Azteca–All About Allison, by City Zip.
1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($32,000 RNA Ylg
'21 FTKJUL; $50,000 Ylg '21 FTKOCT). O-Three Chimneys Farm
& Magdalena Racing (Sherri McPeek); B-Duncan Lloyd (KY);
T-Kenneth G. McPeek. $58,200.
3–Jace's Road, 122, c, 2, Quality Road–Out Post, by
Silver Deputy. 'TDN Rising Star'. 1ST BLACK TYPE,
1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($510,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP).
O-West Point Thoroughbreds & Albaugh Family Stables LLC;
B-Colts Neck Stables LLC (KY); T-Brad H. Cox. $29,100.
Margins: 1, HF, 4. Odds: 10.83, 54.18, 4.85.
Also Ran: Hayes Strike, Confidence Game, Damon's Mound, Echo Again, Jin Tong, Zaici.
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Mysterious Night Overpowers Rivals In Woodbine’s Summer Stakes, Earns Breeders’ Cup Berth

Godolphin homebred Mysterious Night left rivals toiling in his wake as he rolled to 5 3/4-length victory in the $500,000 Pattison Summer Stakes (G1) for 2-year-olds Saturday at Woodbine.

Notching his third win from six career starts for trainer Charlie Appleby, the Irish-bred Dark Angel colt was slow to start but was soon in contention, rating  close to the early pace in fourth along the inside. Angled to the outside of pacesetter Ninetyfour Expos nearing the stretch, Mysterious Night easily shook off that rival and drew away to the easy win under William Buick.

Appraise was best of the rest, 1 1/4 lengths in front of Philip My Dear in third.

Mysterious Night covered the one-mile race in 1:34.98 on firm turf rated as firm, while earning an automatic, fees-paid berth to the $1-million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) Nov. 4 at Keeneland via the Breeders' Cup Challenge “Win and You're In” series.

Mysterious Night, whose dam is the Shamardal mare Mistrusting, came in off a win at Deauville in the Prix Francois Boutin (G3) August 14 and proved much the best in his North American debut Saturday. He returned $3.10.

“He rode beautiful and the track is in great condition,” said Buick. “I walked it before, and you know, it's as good as it always is. We knew the horse was going to like it, fast ground. He travelled through the race beautifully. He was giving me plenty of confidence throughout the race and he was happy travelling away, so it was perfect for him and hopefully he can go on from here.”

Appleby and Godolphin won last year's edition of the Summer Stakes with Albahr.

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Mysterious Night By Daylight In Summer

Mysterious Night (Ire) (c, 2, Dark Angel {Ire}–Mistrusting {Ire}, by Shamardal) made it back-to-back victories for Godolphin in the GI Pattison Summer S. Saturday, careering away to score by 5 3/4 lengths in the finish from Klaravich Stables' Appraise (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) for an Irish-bred exacta. The Summer S., won last year by Albahr (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}), is a 'Win and You're In' qualifier for the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf at Keeneland the first weekend of November.

Tightening from 3-5 into 1-2 as the gates flew, the homebred–who wore a hood in the preliminaries–jumped alertly from the inside stall and raced keenly, but not overly so, while scraping paint, as Ninetyfour Expos (Outwork) galloped them along from Chiseler (Speightstown) through sensible fractions of :24.17 and :47.83 down the back side of the E.P. Taylor turf course. With William Buick sitting very chilly in the saddle as they raced around the turn, Mysterious Night crept closer on the swing for home, ranged up to Ninetyfour Expos while under no encouragement whatsoever in upper stretch and the race was all but over two furlongs down. Finally given his head with three-sixteenths of a mile to travel, Mysterious Night opened up readily on his rivals and hit the line hard, despite swapping over to his incorrect lead inside the final half-furlong. The previously unbeaten Philip My Dear (Silent Name {Jpn}), last-out winner of the Soaring Free S., plugged on late into third.

“He rode beautiful and the track is in great condition,” said Buick. “I walked it before, and you know, it's as good as it always is. We knew the horse was going to like it, fast ground. He travelled through the race beautifully. He was giving me plenty of confidence throughout the race and he was happy travelling away, so it was perfect for him and hopefully he can go on from here.”

Mysterious Night graduated at skinny odds in a Newbury conditions test June 9 and has seen nothing but pattern company since, finishing third in the July 7 G2 July S. at Newmarket and filling the same spot in the G2 Vintage S. at Goodwood July 26 ahead of a half-length success in the G3 Prix Francois Boutin S. at Deauville Aug. 14.

Pedigree Notes:

Mysterious Night was completing a remarkable international triple for his Yeomanstown Stud-based sire, who was also represented Saturday by Top Ranked (Ire) in the G3 Bill Ritchie S. at Randwick in Sydney, Australia, in the overnight hours, and by Barefoot Angel (Ire), who upset the G3 Firth of Clyde S. as a 20-1 chance at Ayr Racecourse in Scotland.

The blaze-faced bay is the sixth North American winner at graded level for Dark Angel, joining the likes of Grade I winners Raging Bull (Fr), his GI Just A Game S. and GI Diana S. full-sister Althiqa (Ire) and Hunt (Ire). sixth North American winner at graded level for Dark Angel, joining the likes of Grade I winners Raging Bull (Fr), his GI Just A Game S. and GI Diana S. full-sister Althiqa (Ire) and Hunt (Ire). Mysterious Night gives Dark Angel a dozen Group 1/Grade I winners.The 10-year-old Mistrusting is the dam of a yearling filly by Kodiac and produced a full-brother to Mysterious Night and Althiqa this season.

Saturday, Woodbine
PATTISON SUMMER S.-GI, C$516,000, Woodbine, 9-17, 2yo, 1mT, 1:34.98, fm.
1–MYSTERIOUS NIGHT (IRE), 122, c, 2, by Dark Angel (Ire)
                1st Dam: Mistrusting (Ire) (SW-Eng, $120,206), by Shamardal
                2nd Dam: Misheer (GB), by Oasis Dream (GB)
                3rd Dam: All For Laura (GB), by Cadeaux Genereux (GB)
1ST GRADE I WIN. O/B-Godolphin (IRE); T-Charles Appleby;
J-William T. Buick. C$300,000. Lifetime Record: MGSP-Eng,
GSW-Fr, 6-3-1-2, $308,358. *Full to Althiqa (GB), MGISW-USA,
GSW-UAE, SW & GSP-Fr, MGSP-Eng, $761,213. Werk Nick
Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus*
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2–Appraise (Ire), 122, c, 2, Kodiac (GB)–Champagne Or Water
(Ire), by Captain Rio (GB). 1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GRADED
BLACK TYPE, 1ST G1 BLACK TYPE. (85,000gns Wlg '20 TATFOA;
180,000gns Ylg '21 TATOCT). O-Klaravich Stables, Inc.; B-Mr J &
Mrs L Scott (IRE); T-Chad C. Brown. C$100,000.
3–Philip My Dear, 122, c, 2, Silent Name (Jpn)–Involuntary, by
City Zip. 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE, 1ST G1 BLACK TYPE.
($100,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-Raroma Stable; B-Adena Springs
(ON); T-Kevin Attard. C$66,000.
Margins: 5 3/4, 1 1/4, 2. Odds: 0.55, 4.50, 4.65.
Also Ran: Ninetyfour Expos, Stayhonor Goodside, Sammy Stone, Chiseler.
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