October, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

And Tell Me Nolies Gives Arrogate 2yo SoCal Stakes Sweep

In a replay of four weekends ago at Del Mar, juveniles by Arrogate swept the major 2-year-old stakes Saturday in Southern California. About an hour before Cave Rock doubled up on Grade I events in the American Pharoah S., And Tell Me Nolies posted a mild upset in the GII Chandelier S. at Santa Anita, a “Win and You're In” race for the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Nov. 4 at Keeneland. Uncontrollable (Upstart) rallied late for second at 24-1, while Justique (Justify), the 6-5 favorite making her first appearance since a buzzed-about, 'TDN Rising Star'-garnering debut at Del Mar July 31, could only mount a mild bid and settled for a distant third.

“It's very exciting to have a filly that wants to run long like this so hopefully we get to the Breeders' Cup and I'm just thrilled with the way she ran today,” said winning trainer Peter Miller, who trains And Tell Me Nolies for Peter Redekop B. C., Ltd. out of San Luis Rey Downs.

Fresh off her head score in the seven-furlong GI Del Mar Debutante S. Sept 10, which followed a narrow neck maiden win at second asking Aug. 14 going 6 1/2 furlongs over the same track, And Tell Me Nolies was trying two turns for the first time in the Chandelier. The bay stumbled at the start, but was soon positioned in the clear while third from last behind a :22:85 first quarter. After a half in :46.71, she inched up, extended her stride, and looming threateningly in third on the turn. She entered the lane wide and took several extra strides to change to her proper lead, but the filly was clearly in her element as she comfortably held off a fast-closing Uncontrollable.

“She stumbled very badly at the break,” said winning rider Ramon Vazquez, who has been aboard the filly for all four of her career starts. “She did the same thing in the Debutante. We settled in, she knows not to move too early. She got a little tired late, but she knows what to do. She is getting better and better after every race. She can handle the distance. I think she is going to be a superstar later.”

It was the second win on the Santa Anita card Saturday for the trio of Vasquez, Miller, and Redekop with an offspring of Arrogate as they also took the second race, an optional allowance, with Apprehend. Redekop had purchased And Tell Me Nolies through agent Bryan Anderson for $230,000 as a 2-year-old at this April's OBS sale after she worked in :10 flat. D.J. Stable, who had purchased her for $70,000 at last year's Keeneland September sale, pinhooked her to OBS. D.J. Stable has their own “Win and You're In” contender for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, having captured Friday's GI Darley Alcibiades S. with Wonder Wheel (Into Mischief).

Pedigree Notes:

The late Arrogate is the sire of three Grade I winners from his two crops to race, as well as another three black-type winners. The Juddmonte stallion died at age seven in 2020 and has a final crop of yearlings still waiting in the wings. Interestingly, both And Tell Me Nolies and Cave Rock are by Danzig-line broodmare sires, while Secret Oath, Arrogate's GI Kentucky Oaks winner, is from a Fappiano-line broodmare sire. Exchange Rate, the Chandelier winner's damsire, has 25 stakes winners out of his daughters, including this year's GI New York S. winner Bleecker Street (Quality Road).

Be Fair, a half to 2009 GI Stephen Foster S. winner Macho Again (Macho Uno), has a yearling colt by Gun Runner and was bred to Mo Town for next term. Lara Run bred And Tell Me Nolies in Kentucky after purchasing her dam for $50,000 in 2018 at Keeneland November, then resold the mare at the 2021 OBS Winter Mixed Sale for $35,000 to Jim H. Ballinger. Ballinger sold that Gun Runner colt as a weanling last year at Keeneland November for $150,000 to McMahon & Hill Bloodstock.

Saturday, Santa Anita
CHANDELIER S.-GII, $201,000, Santa Anita, 10-8, 2yo, f,
1 1/16m, 1:46.15, ft.
1–AND TELL ME NOLIES, 122, f, 2, by Arrogate
     1st Dam: Be Fair (GSW & GISP, $313,517), by Exchange Rate
     2nd Dam: Go Donna Go, by Wild Again
     3rd Dam: Proud Nova, by Proud Birdie
($70,000 Ylg '21 KEEJAN; $230,000 2yo '22 OBSAPR). O-Peter
Redekop B. C., Ltd.; B-Lara Run, LLC (KY); T-Peter Miller;
J-Ramon A. Vazquez. $120,000. Lifetime Record: GISW,
4-3-0-0, $352,800. Werk Nick Rating: A+++ *Triple Plus. Click
for eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Uncontrollable, 122, f, 2, Upstart–Behavioral, by Include.
1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($20,000 Ylg '21 FTKOCT; $130,000
2yo '22 OBSAPR). O-Repole Stable; B-Fountian of Youth
Breeding, LLC (CA); T-Michael W. McCarthy. $40,000.
3–Justique, 122, f, 2, Justify–Grazie Mille, by Bernardini.
1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. 'TDN Rising Star'
($725,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-C R K Stable LLC; B-John D.
Gunther & Eurowest Bloodstock (KY); T-John A. Shirreffs.
$24,000.
Margins: 3/4, 4 3/4, HF. Odds: 8.40, 24.20, 1.20.
Also Ran: Ice Dancing, Home Cooking, Naughty Lottie, Huntingcoco. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

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Girvin’s Blessed Touch Catches Eye at Second Asking

4th-Santa Anita, $62,500, Msw, 10-8, 2yo, f, 6f, 1:10.17, ft, 8 3/4 lengths.
BLESSED TOUCH (f, 2, Girvin–Blushing Touch, by Street Boss) had to contend with a slow start and a lost path on debut Sept. 11 at Del Mar, ultimately finishing fifth at a similar distance as this baby dash. Breaking outwardly to end up the rail-side part of a sandwiched Carson Jen (Gun Runner) as the fillies left the blocks, Drayden Van Dyke sent his charge to the lead and never looked back, edging away on the turn after :21.85 and :44.56 splits. Blessed Touch spurted away in the lane to a stylish 8 3/4-length margin and rewarding her backers with 5-1 odds. 'Insights' runner California Rocket (Justify) came on well to grab second while other highlight Riley G (Flatter) weakened to fourth as the heavy 4-5 favorite. Blessed Touch has a yearling half-sister by American Freedom who is the last registered offspring for the dam. GSW Bryan's Jewel (Rockport Harbor) makes an appearance under the second dam while Champion older horse, track-record setter Left Bank (French Deputy) graces the page beneath the third dam. This is also the extended female family of GISW Lucifer's Stone (Horse Chestnut {Saf]). Sales history: $32,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP; $140,000 2yo '22 OBSAPR. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $38,200. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
O-Pierre Jean Amestoy, Jr., Leslie A. Amestoy and Roger K. Beasley; B-Brereton C. Jones (KY); T-Tim Yakteen.

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Pick 6 Carryover Of $85,635 Into Sunday’s Program At Belmont At The Big A

Sunday's card at the Belmont at the Big A fall meet will be bolstered by a Pick 6 carryover of $85,635 after the multi-race wager went unsolved on Saturday's 11-race program.

The $1 Pick 6 returned $28,545 to bettors who selected 5-of-6 winners correctly.

The sequence kicked off in Race 6 with a price as American Apple [No. 3, $97] scored a neck victory in the Grade 3 Matron under Eric Cancel to provide trainer Daniel Leitch with his first stakes win. The Norman Cash-trained Steinbeck [No. 3, $29.20] followed in Race 7 with a half-length score in a six-furlong allowance under Dylan Davis.

The graded action continued in Race 8 with 5-year-old mare War Like Goddess [No. 2, $3.90*] defeating six male rivals to give both Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott and jockey Jose Lezcano their second graded win on the card in the Grade 1 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic.

Race 9 saw Junior Alvarado engineer a winning ride aboard Skylander [No. 3, $12.20] in a $40,000 claimer for conditioner Jeffrey Englehart before She's a Mia [No. 4, $6.50*] took down a state-bred turf allowance in Race 10 with Trevor McCarthy up for trainer Christophe Clement.

With the carryover already guaranteed, the David Duggan trainee Mouly [No. 5, $17.80] graduated in Race 11, a $40,000 state-bred maiden claimer, under Kendrick Carmouche to close out the card.

Sunday's Pick 6 sequence will kick off in Race 4 [2:20 p.m. Eastern] and includes the Grade 3, $150,000 Futurity, a “Win And You're In” for the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint, in Race 6; and the Grade 3, $150,000 Knickerbocker in Race 8. First post for the nine-race card is 12:35 p.m.

America's Day at the Races will present live coverage and analysis of every day of Belmont at the Big A on the networks of FOX Sports. For the broadcast schedule and channel finder, visit https://www.nyra.com/aqueduct/racing/tv-schedule.

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Cazadero Rockets Last To First In Nearctic At Woodbine

Cazadero, under Patrick Husbands, closed with authority to win the $255,500 Nearctic Stakes (G2) Saturday at Woodbine.

The six-furlong turf stakes for 3-year-olds and upward, attracted a competitive field of eight, including Cazadero, a 4-year-old son of Street Sense out of Wild Gams, by Forest Wildcat.

Into the Sunrise took control soon after the gates opened and was immediately confronted to his outside by 2020 Nearctic winner and multiple stakes victor Silent Poet, and 4-5 choice Bound for Nowhere, the Wesley Ward trained and owned bay who came into the race off a smart score in the Grade 2 Highlander on July 2 at Woodbine.

Ahead by a half-length after a quarter reached in :22.93, Into the Sunrise continued to be hounded by the duo of Silent Poet and Bound for Nowhere, as Husbands and Cazadero could see them all from in eighth.

As the field came off the turn for home, through a half in :45.29, Silent Poet and Bound for Nowhere enveloped the leader and then looked to separate themselves from their rivals down the long E.P. Taylor stretch. Cazadero, still last, began to pick up momentum in early stretch and started to gain steadily on the lead pair.

Mid-way down the lane, Cazadero was in full flight, gliding past the frontrunners en route to a 2 ¼-length score. Bound for Nowhere bested Silent Poet by a head for second. Ice Chocolat finished fourth.

Final time for six panels over firm going was 1:09.11.

“I just looked at the form and saw that this is the second time he's gone on the turf,” said Husbands, aboard for the first time. “In the last race, he came off the pace, flying. I just tried to ride him back the same way.”

It was the fourth win from 10 starts for Cazadero, trained by Brendan Walsh for Marc Detampel.

Bred in Kentucky by Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC, the gelding came into the Nearctic off a closing third in a 5 ½-furlong turf allowance optional claiming race (he was listed for $62,500) at Saratoga on August 27.

Cazadero, who returned $18.40, notched his first stakes score in the Grade 3 Bashford Manor on June 27, 2020, at Churchill Downs.

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