October, 2022 | Horse Racing Free Tips

T.I.P. Championships Split Between Aiken and Lexington

The Jockey Club Thoroughbred Incentive Program (T.I.P.) Is hosting two championship shows in 2022, both held this month. The T.I.P. Championships & Eastern Dressage Championships are taking place Oct. 6-9 in Aiken, South Carolina, and the T.I.P. Western Championships & Central Dressage Championships are scheduled for Oct. 12-15 in Lexington, Kentucky, in conjunction with the Retired Racehorse Project's Thoroughbred Makeover.

Nearly 350 Thoroughbreds are slated to compete in 38 divisions. Each division will be awarded $2,000 in prize money with awards through 10th place and special classes will be held for horses that have started 50 or more times, have won more than $100,000 in earnings, or were adopted from Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance-accredited organizations or Thoroughbred Charities of America grantees.

“We are excited to expand a full T.I.P. championship horse show to two locations in 2022 after offering just a barrel racing division in Kentucky in 2021,” said Kristin Werner, senior counsel for The Jockey Club and administrator of T.I.P. “Splitting the disciplines between both facilities will allow us to better highlight the versatility of the Thoroughbred in a range of disciplines; it will also allow even more competitors to show off their mounts.”

The South Carolina show is being held at Stable View Equestrian Center and will feature hunter, jumper, English pleasure, dressage, combined test, and English in-hand competition. The Kentucky show will take place at the Kentucky Horse Park and will host dressage, Western dressage, barrel racing, Western pleasure, Western halter, ranch riding, and competitive trail competition.

Click here for the T.I.P. Championship virtual program.

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Modern Games Anchors Appleby Breeders’ Cup Brigade

Godolphin's Breeders' Cup team from Charlie Appleby's Moulton Paddocks will be led by multiple Grade I winner Modern Games (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}). Already successful at the Breeders' Cup with a score in the GI Juvenile Turf at Del Mar last November, the chestnut returned to Europe for his seasonal bow and claimed the G1 French 2000 Guineas at ParisLongchamp on May 15. Third in the G1 French Derby in June, Modern Games was fifth in the G1 Prix Jean Prat on July 10 and rebounded to take second behind Baaeed (GB) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) in the G1 Sussex S. at Goodwood later that month. He made a second triumphant foray to North America with a 5 1/4-length victory in the GI Woodbine Mile S. in Canada on Sept. 17 and is an intended starter in the GI Breeders' Cup Mile.

“It's shaping up,” said Appleby on his raiding party bound for the States.

“The Breeders' Cup is always something that is on our minds at the start of the season and we like to try to pinpoint an older horse or 2-year-old for it. As I've always stated I'd rather turn up with one than six–one good one and have a good crack. And this year I feel like we've got some live contenders there.

“Modern Games [is] in the Mile–he is a deserved favourite as we stand. He's been there and done it as a juvenile and been over to Canada and done what he has done at Woodbine.”

He added on a possible run at Ascot prior to Keeneland's Breeders' Cup, “If we take in Champions Day then that would be an extra race on the list for him, but perfectly doable. But being perfectly honest our main target is [the] Breeders' Cup Mile with him.

“We'll sit and toy with the idea of sending Modern Games to the QEII. If it was good to soft the conversation would still be taking place, but there wouldn't be any certainty to it. If it was soft he wouldn't be turning up at all. It doesn't take much to change it, but if you are lucky enough to get a settled week you might end up on some half-sensible ground.”

Appleby boasts a high strike rate at the Breeders' Cup with six wins from just 11 runners. One horse that is likely for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf is the G3 Solario S. hero Silver Knott (GB) (Lope De Vega {Ire}), who most recently ran third to probable G1 Dewhurst S. pick Chaldean (GB) (Frankel {GB}) in the G2 Champagne S. at Doncaster on Sept. 11. Less certain of a spot on the Keeneland team is GI Summer S. victor Mysterious Night (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}). Appleby is also set to be represented in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint with G3 Sirenia S. hero and G1 Middle Park S. fourth Mischief Magic (Ire) (Exceed And Excel {Aus}).

He continued, “Silver Knott is a horse I would potentially take to America. Stepping up to a mile I think will suit him, he travels very well.

“Mysterious Night who won in Canada is a horse we'll contemplate going there with as well, but he's achieved his Group 1 status already and, while he hasn't been busy, he's had a few runs and is a horse we've very much got on our radar for next year.

“I will potentially take Mischief Magic to the [Juvenile Turf] Sprint. He ran well in the Middle Park, he ran a solid race drawn out on a wing and he was very impressive at Kempton before that.

“You need to turn up at these international events with A–the right horse and B–have all the luck in the world. You've got to get a good draw, travel over well and get settled in OK. If he does all that he won't look out of place in the race.”

The Godolphin raiders will not be limited to just juveniles, as the progressive Rebel's Romance (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), who has won all four of his starts in 2022, including a brace of German Group 1s on Aug. 14 and Sept. 25, is likely for the GI Breeders' Cup Turf. GI Saratoga Derby Invitational S. scorer Nations Pride (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}), who blew away a field by 6 1/4 lengths in the GIII Jockey Club Derby Invitational S. at the Belmont At The Big A on Sept. 17 is another for the 1 1/2-mile turf showpiece. An outsider for the trip is Classic winner Adayar (Ire) (Frankel {Ire}), who is first running on QIPCO British Champions Day on Oct. 15.

“For the Breeders' Cup Turf we've got a nice little collective,” said Appleby. “We've already seen what Nations Pride has done in America this season. He's come back and is a horse we will very much look forward to having on the list.

“There is also Rebel's Romance, who is now four-from-four and has got the job done in his last two starts at Group 1 level in Germany. Potentially Adayar as well depending on how he gets on at Champions Day.

“If you can walk away from the Breeders' Cup with one winner it sort of wraps the season up nicely.”

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Taking a Stand With Local Star Fev Rover in E. P. Taylor Stakes

If you have a confident opinion on which filly or mare will prevail in Saturday’s $750,000 E. P. Taylor Stakes at Woodbine, then let me offer a hearty round of applause. Either through handicapping acumen or sheer bravado, you have found confidence where most bettors are likely to proceed with caution.

Bound For Nowhere Returns To Woodbine For Saturday’s Nearctic

Bound for Nowhere, a well-travelled 8-year-old, owned and trained by Wesley Ward, shipped in from Kentucky this July to take down the Grade 2 Highlander Handicap over 6 furlongs of Woodbine's E.P. Taylor Turf Course.

On Saturday, the four-time stakes winner will be looking to add to his laurels when he faces eight rivals in the Grade 2 $250,000 Nearctic over the same layout.

“This has been his next goal since he won his last race up there,” said Ward. “I think he ran a phenomenal race and I'm really excited to get him back going again. And I didn't want to run into my own horse, Golden Pal, down here at Keeneland.”

Golden Pal, a 4-year-old colt who will be favoured in Saturday's Woodford, and provided all remains well, will be seeking a repeat there in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, has a much higher profile than Bound for Nowhere.

But Bound for Nowhere sports some serious credentials of his own, with four career stakes victories in North America and a Group 1 placing to show for his four trips to face elite company across the pond.

Despite his rather advanced age, the Kentucky-bred has made just 19 career starts.

“I've owned him since he was a yearling,” said Ward. “I can choose where I want to run him, and I'm very patient with him.”

Kazushi Kimura, Woodbine's leading rider, has picked up the mount on Bound for Nowhere.

Silent Poet, a 7-year-old gelding trained by Nick Gonzalez, is the only Grade 1 winner in the Nearctic lineup, having captured the Highlander (when it carried that designation) last August.

Although Silent Poet is winless in five starts this year, Gonzalez believes the Stronach Stable homebred will make his presence felt in the Nearctic.

“The cool down in the weather has really picked his head up,” said Gonzalez, who has sent out the Ontario-bred to win five stakes including the Nearctic's 2020 renewal.

“He's doing quite well; I'm really looking forward to it.”

Gonzalez, in fact, is thankful that Silent Poet will be going to the post at all after watching his stable star get knocked into the rail when finishing seventh as the odds-on choice last out in the restricted 5-furlong Vice Regent on the Inner Turf course.

“That was a nightmare,” said Gonzalez. “I was just so glad nothing happened to him. He just got turned sideways. We were unlucky that it happened, but lucky that he didn't get injured. That was brutal.”

Regular rider Justin Stein returns aboard Silent Poet.

Fauci also will have his boosters while coming in from Saratoga off a closing third-place finish in the Lucky Coin over 5 ½ furlongs of turf.

Slated to be the first Canadian starter for New York-based trainer Phillip Antonacci, Fauci has won just two of 16 starts but has placed in seven turf stakes including a third in the Grade 2 Franklin-Simpson at Kentucky Downs late last summer.

Also shipping in for the Nearctic will be Noble Emotion and Cazadero, the first and third finishers when last starting in a Saratoga turf sprint on August 27.

Rounding out the field will be Roaring Forties, Wedgewood, Into the Sunrise and Ice Chocolat (BRZ).

Post – Horse – Jockey – Trainer

1 – Noble Emotion – Antonio Gallardo – Horacio De Paz

2 – Ice Chocolat (BRZ) – Sahin Civaci – Mark Casse

3 – Wedgewood – Jason Hoyte – Mike Keogh

4 – Into the Sunrise – Sahin Civaci – Mark Casse

5 – Fauci – Emma-Jayne Wilson – Philip Antonacci

6 – Roaring Forties – Rafael Hernandez – Katerina Vassilieva

7 – Silent Poet – Justin Stein – Nick Gonzalez

8 – Bound for Nowhere – Kazushi Kimura – Wesley Ward

9 – Cazadero – Patrick Husbands – Brendan Walsh

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