Month: April 2023

Modern Games Returns To Keeneland In Friday’s Maker’s Mark

Last year's Eclipse champion turf male returns to the place of his Breeders' Cup glory Friday with an expected start in the GI Maker's Mark Mile S. Modern Games (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}), trained by Charlie Appleby, makes his 4-year-old debut since taking the GI FanDuel Breeders' Cup Mile at Keeneland last November.

Off the board in only two of his 13 prior starts, the chestnut just missed in the G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. at Ascot leading into the Breeders' Cup, took the GI Woodbine Mile by 5 1/4 lengths three starts back and finished second only to Cartier Horse of the Year Baaeed (GB) (Sea the Stars {Ire}) four back in the G1 Qatar Sussex Cup at Goodwood.

Up to challenge him from the inside is Todd Pletcher's 'TDN Rising Star' Emmanuel (More Than Ready), entered off a pair of graded-stakes wins in Florida this spring for owners WinStar Farm and Sien

a Farm in Tampa's GIII Tampa Bay S. and Gulfstream's GIII Canadian Turf S.

A Group 1-placed juvenile in Ireland, Dr Zempf (GB) (Dark Angel {Ire}) makes just his second start stateside off a win against optional claiming company at Gulfstream Mar. 10 for Chad Brown and Peter Brant

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Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May 2-Year-Olds In Training Catalogue Now Online

Fasig-Tipton has catalogued 575 entries for its upcoming Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, to be held on Monday and Tuesday, May 22-23, at the Maryland State Fairgrounds in Timonium, Md.

“Buyers will be presented with the strongest Midlantic catalog in recent memory when they arrive in Timonium this year,” said Midlantic Sales Director Paget Bennett. “We purposefully tightened up our numbers just a bit, while adding increased quality. We have strong sire power, quality individuals, and from what I hear from our consignors, horses that have showed very promising ability in their early training.”

This year's front catalog cover features undefeated Grade 1 winner and multiple graded stakes winning 3-year-old filly Faiza, as well as Grade 1 winners Switzerland and Beyond Brilliant. The catalog's back cover features Kentucky Oaks hopeful Mimi Kakushi, winner of this year's Grade 3 U.A.E. Oaks; as well as recent graded stakes winners Classy Edition, Informative, Ridin with Biden, and That's Right.

“Fasig-Tipton Midlantic is the only 2-year-old sale venue on the East Coast at which horses breeze over a dirt surface,” continued Bennett. “Buyers have confidence in what they purchase off our track, and that confidence is validated by the sale's ever-growing list of prominent graduates.”

The under tack show will be held over three sessions, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, May 16-18.  Each under tack show session will begin at 8 a.m. The 148th Preakness Stakes will be held at nearby Pimlico on Saturday, May 20, and the sale will follow on May 22 and 23. Each sale session will begin at 11 a.m.

The catalog may now be viewed online and will also be available via the equineline sales catalogue app. Print catalogs will be available beginning April 21.

Online bidding and phone bidding services will be available.

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Beaumont Stakes Attracts Evenly Matched Field Of Fillies At Keeneland

An evenly matched field of seven 3-year-old fillies was entered for Sunday's 38th running of the Grade 2, $400,000 Beaumont Stakes Presented by Keeneland Select to be run over Keeneland's Beard Course of seven furlongs, 184 feet.

The Beaumont will go as the eighth race on Sunday's nine-race program in Lexington, Ky., with a 4:44 p.m. ET post time. First post Sunday is 1 p.m.

The Beaumont is the last qualifying points race for the Kentucky Oaks, offering 10-4-3-2-1 to the top five finishers. None of the starters has compiled enough points to be close to qualifying in the event of a full field for the Kentucky Oak

Five of the seven are stakes winners with three of them coming off wins.

Flurry Racing Stables and Hoffman Family Racing's Key of Life won the Purple Martin at Oaklawn Park on Feb. 25 going six furlongs. Her trainer, Brad Cox, won the Beaumont last year with Matareya.

Key of Life is undefeated in two Keeneland starts at six furlongs with the most recent victory coming in the Myrtlewood Stakes last fall. Flavien Prat has the mount and will break from post seven.

Barry Schwartz's Stonewall Star enters the Beaumont off an 11-length victory in the Wide Country Stakes at Laurel on Feb. 18 going seven furlongs. A two-time stakes winner against New York-breds, Stonewall Star is trained by Horacio De Paz and will be ridden by Luis Saez from post three.

Klaravich Stables' Interpolate comes into Sunday's race off a 2½-length victory in the Ruthless Stakes at Aqueduct on Feb. 5. Trained by Chad Brown, who won the 2014 Beaumont with Ready to Act, Interpolate will be ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr. from post four.

Other stakes winners in the field are Lucky Seven Stable's Fun and Feisty and Mark Grier's Opus Forty Two.

Fun and Feisty won the Pocahontas (G3) going 1 1/16 miles last fall at Churchill Downs for trainer Kenny McPeek, a two-time Beaumont winner. Brian Hernandez Jr. has the mount from post five.

Arnaud Delacour trains Opus Forty Two, who won the seven-furlong Gasparilla Stakes at Tampa Bay Downs before finishing fourth in the Suncoast. Tyler Gaffalione has the mount from post six.

The field for the Beaumont, with riders and weights from the rail out, is: Shoplifter (Corey Lanerie, 118 pounds), She's On the Rocks (John McKee, 118), Stonewall Star (Saez, 118), Interpolate (Ortiz Jr., 118), Fun and Feisty (Hernandez Jr., 118), Opus Forty Two (Gaffalione, 118), Key of Life (Prat, 118).

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