Month: December 2022

Iowa-bred sensation Tyler's Tribe, who finished third as the heavy favorite in the $150,000 Advent Stakes for 2-year-olds Friday at Oaklawn, will receive a 30-day break after bleeding during the 5 ½-furlong race, Tim Martin, the gelding's co-owner/trainer, said Saturday morning.

Tyler's Tribe, per usual, shot to the lead under regular rider Kylee Jordan and held a clear advantage turning for home before weakening late to finish 3 ½ lengths behind unbeaten Count de Monet.

“Bled a little bit yesterday,” Martin said. “He's out for a little while, for sure.”

Tyler's Tribe was racing for the first time since being eased and vanned off after bleeding in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint (G1) Nov. 4 at Keeneland. Tyler's Tribe had raced on Lasix in his first five career starts – all blowout victories at Prairie Meadows – but the anti-bleeder medication is prohibited in the Breeders' Cup.

Tyler's Tribe received Lasix for the Advent, which marked his return to dirt.

“It wasn't nothing like the Breeders' Cup,” Martin said. “He was looking pretty good and whenever he stopped, I was like, 'Uh oh,' something happened.' When she pulled him up, he had blood in his nose.”

Tyler's Tribe will spend approximately a month at Martin's nearby Royal Training Center  before the gelding resumes training for a possible comeback spot during the final weeks of the 2022-2023 Oaklawn meet, which ends May 6.

“I'm going to let him be a horse,” Martin said. “I'll probably give him a month, just let him be horse, and then just see where he's at and see what's going on. I've got some therapy that's pretty good for that (bleeding), I think, that we'll work on.”

One race Martin could target is the $150,000 Bachelor Stakes for 3-year-old sprinters April 29 at Oaklawn.

“There's a race or two at the end of the meet that I'll look at, if he's good,” Martin said. “We'll give him time, a lot more time. There's some stuff coming up late, three or four months. Just give him time and let him be ready.”

Martin had said an appearance in the Advent was contingent on a clean endoscopic examination following a Dec. 10 work, which was the gelding's second at Oaklawn. Martin said Tyler's Tribe scoped clean following each breeze.

“No sign, no nothing,” Martin said, referring to blood. “I wanted to take advantage of the Lasix, but that didn't work.”

From the first crop of millionaire Grade 1 winner Sharp Azteca, the physically imposing Tyler's Tribe crushed his competition at Prairie Meadows. He captured his first five starts, including four stakes, by a combined 59 ¾ front-running lengths. Tyler's Tribe toppled open company in two stakes races, including a 15 ½-length romp in the  Prairie Meadows Freshman Aug. 27.

Tyler's Tribe, a $34,000 yearling purchase, has won five of seven starts and earned $320,169 for Martin and his Iowa City, Iowa, co-owner, Thomas D. Lepic.

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Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners' Ari Gold, making his fourth career start and first in a stakes, jumped out to an early lead and turned back a game Lights of Broadway through the stretch to win Saturday's $75,000 Pulpit at Gulfstream Park.

The 7 ½-furlong Pulpit for 2-year-olds was the first stakes to be held on Gulfstream's new turf course, which was reopened Dec. 2.

Ridden by Luis Saez for Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher, Ari Gold ($3.60) covered the distance in 1:27.10 over a firm course to register his second straight front-running victory, both since the addition of blinkers. He broke his maiden in his prior start going 1 1/16 miles Nov. 6 at Aqueduct.

“I just felt like he was a little bit green his first couple starts, just not completely focused,” Pletcher said. “We just felt like [the blinkers] might be the ticket to getting him locked in a little more.”

Drawing Post 4 as the 4-5 favorite in a field of eight including stablemate Sendero, winner of the Sept. 7 Jamestown at Colonial Downs, Ari Gold broke sharply and was quickly in front, going the opening quarter-mile in :24.51 tracked by 18-1 long shot Dangerous Ride.

Ari Gold, named for the fictional character on popular TV series “Entourage”, continued to roll up front, going a half in :47.06 as Lights of Broadway began to advance along the inside before extending his lead once straightened for home.

Lights of Broadway stayed up for second, with Laurel Futurity winner Congruent rallying for third. Sendero, Anamnestic, Brumba Waffle Toes, Maximo, and Dangerous Ride completed the order of finish.

“The game plan was to come out running and make a comfortable lead like we did last time. That was Plan A,” Pletcher said. “We gave Luis the option of calling an audible, if needed, but Plan A seemed to work out well.

“I think the blinkers and kind of a change in tactics a little bit has made a difference,” he added. “He's a colt with, I think, a lot of room to continue to improve, and we're proud of him for what he's done so far.”

Offered in the Claiborne Farm consignment and sold for $220,000 at the 2021 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, Ari Gold ran fourth in each of his first two starts, including his Sept. 3 unveiling at Saratoga as the favorite. The $175,000 Kitten's Joy (G3) for 3-year-olds going 1 1/16 miles Feb. 4 during Gulfstream's Championship Meet is a possible next target for the Medaglia d'Oro colt out of the Distorted Humor mare Satirical. He was bred in Kentucky by Bass Stables LLC.

“I think we'll have to look at the Kitten's Joy and give that some consideration,” Pletcher said. “I'll talk to Aron Wellman and Eclipse and we'll come up with a plan. He's a big, hardy colt that seems to be taking his races well, so I'd say the Kitten's Joy is on the radar.”

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Fernando Vine Ode's O'Connor tuned up Saturday morning for a much-anticipated start in the Dec. 31 Harlan's Holiday, breezing half-mile in :46.50 at Palm Meadows, Gulfstream Park's satellite training facility in Palm Beach County.

“He went fast, but he was just cruising,” trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. said. “He did it the right way – the last quarter in 23 [seconds] and change. He's in good order now. We would like the race to be this week or next week, but we have to wait a bit longer.”

Saturday's breeze was the fifth in a serious of workouts since the Chilean-bred 5-year-old's auspicious U.S. debut. Jockey Edgar Zayas was aboard for Saturday's breeze.

The Harlan's Holiday, a 1 1/16-mile stakes for 3-year-olds and up, is the key prep for the $3-million Pegasus World Cup Invitational (G1) Jan. 28 at Gulfstream Park.

“The Pegasus is our main goal, but the Harlan's Holiday is first,” said Joseph, who is also pointing Florida Derby (G1) winner White Abarrio to the Pegasus

O'Connor, a Group 1 winner in Chile, made a splash in his Oct. 16 U.S. debut at Gulfstream Park, where the son of Boboman relaxed several lengths off the early pace in a 1 1/16-mile optional claiming allowance before making an eye-catching three-wide sweep to take the lead entering the stretch and drawing clear by six lengths.

The Joseph trainee finished second in the Gran Premio Hipodromo Chile (G1) in his Chile finale, beaten by Super Corinto, also a candidate for the Pegasus, who captured a two-turn optional claiming allowance at Gulfstream Thursday. O'Connor defeated Super Corinto in their prior meeting in the Longines Gran Premio Latinoamericano (G1).

At Gulfstream Park Saturday morning, Tami Bobo and Tristan de Meric's Simplification breezed five furlongs in 1:10.42 for a planned start in the Harlan's Holiday.

The breeze, the third fastest of 35 at the distance, was his third in a series since the 3-year-old son of Not This Time finished seventh in the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile (G1) at Keeneland.

“It was a nice easy breeze,” said trainer Antonio Sano, whose ultimate goal for Simplification is the Pegasus. “I'm very happy with him.”

Simplification captured the Fountain of Youth (G2) and finished third in the Florida Derby at Gulfstream prior to a late-closing fourth in the Kentucky Derby (G1).

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