Month: November 2022

Lloyd Madison Farm's growing broodmare band will add another member to its roster with homebred Sconsin, who has a date with 2017 Horse of the Year Gun Runner in a few months. The six-time winner could compete for the final time in Sunday's $300,000 Dream Supreme (Listed) for fillies and mares at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.

“Like we've done for her entire career, we'll let her decide if Sunday is it,” trainer Greg Foley said. “If you judge her by the way she's been training, you'd love her chances in the Dream Supreme. Then, you see her last few races and sometimes Mother Nature can catch up with mares and they're ready for their next career. She still shows us every sign she wants to run and worked great last week. She has a date with Gun Runner lined up and we'll still leave things open depending on the result Sunday.”

With a victory in the six-furlong Dream Supreme, Sconsin would become Foley's top earning horse in his 42-year training career, surpassing Lloyd Madison Farms' Champali, who earned $1,073,794 over his 22-race stand.

“She's simply a great mare,” Foley said of Sconsin, who's earned $990,537. “She's been tremendous to have in the barn.”

Sconsin's career began Aug. 17, 2019 when she finished fourth at Ellis Park. She returned as a 3-year-old at Fair Grounds where she broke her maiden and, following her runner-up effort to Ain't No Elmers in her third-career start, the COVID-19 pandemic halted Foley's plans.

Sconsin was one of the first horses to return to Churchill Downs on May 11, 2020, following the delayed opening of the barn area. One-month later she cruised to a five-length victory in first-level allowance event beneath the historic Twin Spires.

Arguably, Sconsin's most notable win came later that year on Kentucky Oaks Day in 2020 when she bested a field of 3-year-old fillies by 2 ¼ lengths in the Grade 2, $300,000 Eight Belles.

Among her other highlights, Sconsin won back-to-back runnings of the Winning Colors (G3) at Churchill Downs and was nearly victorious against champion Gamine when she finished second by 1 ½ lengths in the $500,000 Derby City Distaff (G1).

Sunday's Dream Supreme will go to post as Race 8 at 4:33 p.m. (all times Eastern). The program is co-highlighted by the $300,000 River City (G3) in Race 10 and the $300,000 Bet On Sunshine (Listed) in Race 9. First post is 1 p.m.

Here's the complete field for the Dream Supreme from the rail out (with jockey, trainer and morning line odds): Sharp Hero (Adam Beschizza, Bradley Ross, 8-1); Club Car (Corey Lanerie, Ben Colebrook, 5-1); Sconsin (Tyler Gaffalione, Foley, 5-2); Joyful Cadence (Rey Gutierrez, John Ortiz, 2-1); Palm Cottage (Gerardo Corrales, Paulo Lobo, 3-1); and Coppelia (Martin Garcia, Phil Bauer, 5-1).

The Dream Supreme is named after the six-time graded stakes winner who won the Derby City Distaff at Churchill Downs in 2011. Trained by Bill Mott, Dream Supreme won two Grade I sprints in her 16-race career and earned $1,007,680 between 1999-2001.

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Trainer Tom Albertrani will look to pull off a Sunday stakes sweep at the Big A when he saddles half-siblings Wolfie's Dynaghost in the $135,000 Artie Schiller and Hail To in the $135,000 Winter Memories for owner-breeder Woodslane Farm.

The Kentucky homebreds are out of the prolific Dyanformer mare Dynaire, who produced the Albertrani-trained Sadler's Joy – a multiple graded stakes winner, who banked more than $2.6 million in purse earnings.

Hail To, by Kitten's Joy, is a 3-year-old full-sister to Sadler's Joy. The chestnut boasts a record of 10-2-1-0 for purse earnings of $148,725, while the 4-year-old Wolfie's Dynaghost, a multiple graded stakes-placed bay gelding by Ghostzapper, sports a ledger of 17-5-2-4 for purse earnings of $349,005.

“Sadler and Hail To resemble each other,” Albertrani said. “She's not as big and robust as him but they have almost the same body style, and the markings on their head are close. Wolfie is opposite from both of them – different color and frame.”

Hail To graduated in August 2021 at Saratoga traveling 1 1/16 miles over firm turf, but has focused on longer distances recently, including a rallying score against older company when posting a half-length win at 1 3/16 miles on Sept. 2 at Saratoga over next-out allowance winner Transient, who is entered in Saturday's Grade 3 Maple Leaf at Woodbine.

Albertrani said he is hopeful that Hail To can make amends for her off-the-board effort last out when on the pace in the nine-furlong Grade 2 Sands Point on October 15 here.

“We're hoping she'll come back and run that same race she did at Saratoga, which was really impressive running with the older fillies,” Albertrani said. “She probably wants to go a lot further than a mile and a sixteenth, but we're limited with our options at the moment.”

Hail To, listed at 15-1 on the morning line, will exit post 1 under Jose Lezcano in a field led by a trio of contenders for trainer Chad Brown in Eminent Victor [5-2], Salimah [9-2] and Veronica Greene [6-1].

The consistent Wolfie's Dynaghost will exit post 4 under Lezcano in the one-mile Artie Schiller with a morning-line assessment of 8-1. The omni-surface star boasts wins on dirt, turf and synthetic, but has found his best success in one-mile turf events led by runner-up efforts in the Grade 3 Appleton in April at Gulfstream and the Grade 3 Poker in June at Belmont.

He captured the 1 1/16  mile Bert Allen in September over firm footing at Colonial and enters from a third-place finish in an off-the-turf renewal of the nine furlong Bucks County on October 3 at Parx where he set a pressured pace to finish eight lengths back of the victorious Shooger Ray Too and runner-up Tax.

“Coming off the turf last time probably wasn't his best race, but he always tries and this could be a race that sets up nicely for him,” Albertrani said. “He's always consistent and the mile suits him. The mile and an eighth last time was maybe a little too far for him and he took a little pressure on the front end. Things could be different here.”

Wolfie's Dynaghost has breezed back four times, including a bullet half-mile in 47.80 over Big Sandy on November 6.

“He's doing well and in good form. Hopefully, the work will relate to the run this weekend,” Albertrani said.

With heavy rain expected Friday and Saturday, precipitating the move of the Artie Schiller from Saturday to Sunday, Albertrani said he is hopeful the turf won't be too soft.

“Both of them would probably prefer firmer turf, but we'll have to wait and see the outcome of this rain storm,” Albertrani said.

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