October, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Super Chow Goes Wire To Wire In Bowman Mill

Lea Farms' Super Chow led at every point of call and sailed unchallenged to a five-length triumph in the $200,000 Bowman Mill Stakes for 2-year-olds Saturday at Keeneland.

The Lord Nelson colt sprinted to the early lead and easily repelled mild challenges on the home turn, then shook clear to the decisive win under Chantal Sutherland.

Super Chow finished the six-furlong test in 1:12.06 on a track rated as fast. He returned $10.96.

Super Chow opened clear advantage from the start, leading by 1 1/2 lengths from favorite Sir Lancelot through an opening quarter in :22.50 and a half mile in :46.27. Bourbon Bash, tracking from fourth, then third, attempted a challenge entering the stretch, but could not run with the winner and finished second, 1 3/4 lengths in front of Raise Cain, who rallied from last of six to take the show spot. Sir Lancelot tried to bid between rivals on the home turn but tired to finish fourth.

Super Chow won his career debut this summer at Saratoga, where he was subsequently third in the Saratoga Special (G3). He rebounded to win an allowance optional claiming contest in front-running fashion Sept. 10 at Pimlico in his start prior to Saturday's dominant performance.

Trained by Jorge Delgado, Super Chow has earned $205,850 during his four-start career.

Bred in Kentucky by Spendthrift Farm from the Warrior's Reward mare Bonita Mia, Super Chow was a $75,000 purchase from consignor Eisaman Equine at the OBS Spring Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training in April.

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Kitasan Black Filly Scores Bullseye In The Artemis

Striving to maintain her unbeaten record in Saturday's G3 Artemis S., Ravel (Jpn) (Kitasan Black {Jpn}) managed that feat by a neck over the favoured Liberty Island (Jpn) (Duramente {Jpn}) in the 1600-metre feature in Tokyo.

Sent off as the 6-1 third choice on the back of her one-length triumph in a Kokura maiden in July, the Northern Farm-bred and U Carrot Farm colourbearer was not the quickest away and dropped anchor last but one as Alice Verite (Jpn) (Kizuna {Jpn}) established a slight advantage over the pressing duo of Dynato Selene (Jpn) (Red Falx {Jpn}) and Masculine (Jpn) (One And Only {Jpn}). Unhurried on the bend, Ravel swooped widest of all in the lane, but still had most of the field to get by as Alice Verite set sail for home at the quarter-pole.

Closing with gusto, the bay had the leader in her sights inside the final furlong and wore that foe down in deep stretch, before withstanding the late charge of Liberty Island. It was another neck back in third to a game Alice Verite.

Pedigree Notes

By two-time Japanese Horse of the Year Kitasan Black (Jpn), himself a son of Deep Impact (Jpn)'s full-brother Black Tide (Jpn), Ravel is the third black-type winner and third group winner for her sire, whose oldest foals are just 3-year-olds. She joins the colts and Group 2 scorers Gaia Force (Jpn) and Equinox (Jpn), with the latter also second in both the G1 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) and G1 Satsuki Sho (Japanese St Leger). Equinox leaves from gate seven in Sunday's G1 Tenno Sho (Autumn). Like Gaia Force, the bay carries inbreeding to the influential Sunday Silence.

Ravel's damline has inhabited the Land of the Rising Sun since the late 40s, and she is the third foal and winner for G3 Fairy S. third Sambre Et Meuse (Jpn) (Daiwa Major {Jpn}) after the G3 Falcon S. placegetter Westerwald (Jpn) (Novellist {Ire}) and G2 Tulip Sho heroine Namur (Jpn). That daughter of Harbinger (GB) played the bridesmaid in the G1 Shuka Sho (Japanese Fillies St Leger) and was third in the G1 Yushun Himba (Japanese Oaks) this season.

One of four black-type horses out of her winning dam Vite Marcher (Jpn) (French Deputy), Sambre Et Meuse is a half-sister to none other than 2021 GI Breeders' Cup Distaff victrix Marche Lorraine (Jpn) (Orfevre {Jpn}).

Saturday, Tokyo, Japan
ARTEMIS S.-G3, ¥56,110,000, Tokyo, 10-29, 2yo, f, 1600mT, 1:33.80, fm.
1–RAVEL (JPN), 119, f, 2, by Kitasan Black (Jpn)
              1st Dam: Sambre et Meuse (Jpn), by Daiwa Major (Jpn)
              2nd Dam: Vite Marcher (Jpn), by French Deputy
              3rd Dam: Kyoei March (Jpn), by Dancing Brave
O-Carrot Farm; B-Northern Farm (Jpn); T-Yoshito Yahagi;
J-Ryusei Sakai. ¥29,357,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0. *1/2 to
Westerwald (Jpn) (Novellist {Ire}), GSP-Jpn, $761,865; and
Namur (Jpn) (Harbinger {GB}), GSW & MG1SP-Jpn, $1,309,898.
Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
Werk Nick Rating: D. Click for the
   eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Liberty Island (Jpn), 119, f, 2, Duramente (Jpn)–Yankee Rose
(Aus), by All American (Aus). 1ST BLACK TYPE. 1ST GROUP
   BLACK TYPE. O-Sunday Racing; B-Northern Farm (Jpn);
¥12,102,000.
3–Alice Verite (Jpn), 119, f, 2, Kizuna (Jpn)–Lumiere Verite, by
Cozzene. 1ST BLACK TYPE. 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. O-Makoto
Kato; B-North Hills (Jpn); ¥7,351,000.
Margins: NK, NK, HF. Odds: 6.90, 0.40, 14.70.
Also Ran: Dane Balance (Jpn), Malaki Naia (Jpn), Dynato Selene (Jpn), Masculine (Jpn), Kosei Maria (Jpn), Mississippi Tesoro (Jpn), Nishino Kofuku (Jpn). Click for the JRA chart and video.

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The History Of Bingo

In Italy during the 1530s a lottery was invented that is still played in Italy every Saturday. This is where the game of Bingo originated. The game travelled to France in the 1770s and was initially played amongst wealthy Frenchmen. The game then travelled deeper into Europe reaching Germany, where they chose to use it as a tool to help their children learn history, spelling and math.

Finally, the game reached Atlanta, Georgia in 1929 where it became known as ‘beano’. It was played at fairs and carnivals around the country. Each player had some dried beans and a card containing numbered squares – this was divided into three rows and nine columns. There was a caller who drew random discs numbered from 1 to 90 from a cigar box or a bag. The designated number drawn out was then shouted to waiting players. The players used their beans to cover up the matching number on the card. The winner would be the first person to cover up an entire row of numbers. When this happened the player yelled ‘beano’ to alert everyone that they had won.

A New York toy salesman, Edwin S. Lowe, was visiting a country fair one day when he witnessed a woman shout ‘Bingo!’ In her eagerness to tell everyone that she had covered all her numbers, she became tongue-tied and shouted ‘Bingo’ instead of ‘beano’. This error ultimately inspired Lowe and he rushed back to New York to develop and market a new game – Bingo!

Lowe’s first commercial version of the game retailed at $1 for a 12 card set and $2 for 24 cards. A priest from Pennsylvania realized that he could raise some much needed funds for his church by running Bingo games, but he soon discovered a problem. There were often too many winners! When he brought this to Lowe’s attention Lowe hired a math professor, Carl Leffer, to help him increase the amount of Bingo combinations. By 1930 they had invented over 6,000 Bingo cards – reputedly at the cost of Leffer’s sanity.

Word soon spread that Bingo was an easy and enjoyable way to raise money. By 1934 it was estimated that over 10,000 games a week were being played. Having been unable to patent his invention, Lowe generously allowed his competitors to pay him a dollar a year and for that he happily let them call their games ‘Bingo’ too.

‘He Went Well’: Taiba Breezes At Santa Anita For Breeders’ Cup Classic, To Ship To Kentucky Saturday Night

Taiba, winner of the Runhappy Santa Anita Derby (G1) and Pennsylvania Derby (G1), had his final major workout for the $6-million Breeders' Cup Classic (G1) Nov. 5 at Keeneland, going six furlongs at Santa Anita Saturday morning in 1:13 flat.

Under Juan Ochoa, Taiba worked in company with Messier, who was also clocked in 1:13.

Messier last raced on May 7, finishing 15th in the Kentucky Derby (G1) after taking a slim lead near the quarter pole then fading.

Taiba finished 12th in the Louisville classic after winning the Santa Anita Derby by 2 1/4 lengths over runner-up Messier. Taiba followed up with a runner-up finish in the TVG.com Haskell (G1) before taking the Pennsylvania Derby Sept. 24 in his most recent outing.

“He went well,” Bob Baffert said of Taiba, a chestnut son of Gun Runner. “He's not a great work horse, so he went with Messier. I was happy with it. He'll ship tonight (for Kentucky).”

As for pulling a major upset and defeating unbeaten Classic favorite Flightline, Baffert understandably is keeping things in perspective.

“We're just focusing on getting Taiba there healthy,” he said. “That's all you can ask for. The rest is racing luck.”

Also on Saturday's work tab at Santa Anita, Breeders' Cup Sprint (G1) hopeful American Theorem breezed five furlongs in 1:01.20 for George Papaprodromou.

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