June, 2023 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Candy Ride’s Geaux Rocket Ride Much The Best In Affirmed

Pin Oak Stud's Geaux Rocket Ride (Candy Ride {Arg}) checked stakes winner off his list with an off-the-pace victory in the Affirmed S. at The Great Race Place late on Sunday afternoon.

After a sparkling 5 3/4 length debut win Jan. 29 at Santa Anita, the bay colt was second in the GII San Felipe S. to Practical Move (Practical Joke) before he was sidelined with a slightly-elevated fever before the GI Santa Anita Derby.

Off at odds of 1-2 here, Geaux Rocket Ride was determined to live up to his price as he tracked Del Mar Jerry (Mastery) and Hard to Figure (Hard Spun), who were engaged in a speed duel into the clubhouse turn and up the backstretch. Given his cue rounding the far turn, the Richard Mandella trainee ranged up on the pair, went right by both of them and rolled down the lane to win by 1 3/4 lengths over Mr Fisk (Arrogate).

“He's just a classy little dude,” said trainer Richard Mandella. “We will probably look into the [GI] Haskell S. We are going to enjoy this one today, but that will be the one we look to.”

The first to make the races for his dam, who counts MSP Mighty Mo as a full-brother, Geaux Rocket Ride's latest sibling is a filly by Rowayton who was foaled Mar. 6.

AFFIRMED S., $100,000, Santa Anita, 6-4, 3yo, 1 1/16m, 1:43.75, ft.
1–GEAUX ROCKET RIDE, 120, c, 3, by Candy Ride (Arg)
                1st Dam: Beyond Grace, by Uncle Mo
                2nd Dam: Flowers Athefinish, by Grand Reward
                3rd Dam: Golden Petal, by Mr. Prospector
($350,000 Ylg '21 FTKJUL). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-Pin Oak Stud LLC; B-OXO Equine LLC (KY); T-Richard E. Mandella; J-Ramon A. Vazquez. $60,000. Lifetime Record: GSP, 3-2-1-0, $180,200.
2–Mr Fisk, 120, c, 3, Arrogate–Plein Air (Ire), by Manduro (Ger). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O/B-Sunny Brook Stables (KY); T-Bob Baffert. $20,000.
3–Hard to Figure, 120, c, 3, Hard Spun–Ani La, by Mr. Greeley.
($40,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP; $200,000 2yo '22 OBSMAR). O-Michael E. Pegram, Karl Watson and Paul Weitman; B-James Heyward (KY); T-Bob Baffert. $12,000.
Margins: 1 3/4, 6, 2 3/4. Odds: 0.50, 4.10, 6.90.
Also Ran: Ze'bul, Del Mar Jerry. Scratched: Skinner.
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Brown Points Pennine Ridge Winner Kalik To Belmont Derby

Robert LaPenta, eFive Racing Thoroughbreds, and Madaket Stables' Canadian-bred Kalik was an impressive gate-to-wire victor of the Pennine Ridge (G2), a nine-furlong turf test for sophomores Saturday at Belmont in which he bested the late-closing Far Bridge by one length with race favorite Silver Knott in third.

The Pennine Ridge provided the top-three finishers an automatic invitation to the $750,000 Belmont Derby Invitational (G1) on July 8.

Brown said the $200,000 Keeneland September yearling sale purchase has earned another step up with the 10-furlong turf test for 3-year-olds under consideration along with the $1-million King's Plate, a 10-furlong Tapeta test which is restricted to Canadian-bred sophomores on August 20 at Woodbine.

“He's doing super and we'll point to the Belmont Derby,” Brown said. “We have an eye on the King's Plate later in the year with him.”

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Gulfstream Park: Rainbow 6 Jackpot Hit Sunday For $263,655 Payoff

The 20-cent Rainbow 6 jackpot pool was hit for a $263,655.91 payoff Sunday at Gulfstream Park. The popular multi-race wager had gone unsolved for 11 racing days following a mandatory payout.

Sunday's winning combination was 5-6-6-6-2-3.

The Rainbow 6 jackpot is paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day's pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.

The Rainbow 6 will start anew Friday. The Rainbow 6 sequence will span Races 4-9, featuring a high-quality field of 3-year-olds and up in Race 6, a 6½-furlong maiden special weight event with a Todd Pletcher-trained son of Practical Joke, Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained son of Maclean's Music, Jenna Antonucci-trained son of Munnings, and Vernon Allison-trained son of Cairo.

Saffie Joseph Jr.-trained Novo Sol, a multiple graded stakes-placed 6-year-old, headlines a field of eight 3-year-olds and up in the Race 8 feature, a 1 1/16-mile optional claiming allowance on Tapeta. Novo Sol, who finished third in the Autumn on Tapeta at Woodbine last fall, will be making his second start off a layoff following a late-fading seventh in the April 1 Pan American (G2) on turf.

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‘A Good Horse From The Beginning’: Treason Posts First Stakes Win In Eclipse

Lightly raced Treason put in a polished performance to take the $175,000 Eclipse Stakes (G2) on Sunday afternoon at Woodbine.

Making his first start since a fourth in last November's Autumn Stakes (G2), the 5-year-old Kentucky-bred Constitution gelding looked in mid-season form after a huge off-the-shelf effort in the 1 1/16-mile race for 4-year-olds and up.

Multiple stakes winner War Bomber and multiple graded stakes-placed Wolfie's Dynaghost tussled for early control of the Eclipse as Kazushi Kimura, aboard Treason, kept his charge unfettered just outside of the front-runners through an opening quarter-mile reached in :24.80.

The lead pair continued their head-to-head battle into the half in :48,74, while Treason continued to watch the proceedings from in third. Kimura then roused the gelding for his best run into the turn for home and the Josie Carroll trainee responded with an explosive turn of foot to assume control.

Carrothers came calling in midstretch, but Treason was unrattled and went on to record a 1½-length win in a time of 1:43.09. Tyson, also trained by Carroll, finished third, while Artie's Storm, last year's Eclipse victor, rallied to finish fourth.

Kimura, off to another strong start at Woodbine, made the most of his first opportunity to partner the bay owned by LNJ Foxwoods and MSK Racing Ventures.

“He's a natural speed horse, that's why when I get on him in the morning, I just try and take it easy. Today, he was really comfortable beside the horse in the backstretch. Everything was going smooth. I was just trying to make sure to stay with Johnny's [Velazquez] horse [Wolfie's Dynaghost], but he really exploded and picked it up really quick from the three-eighths.”

For Carroll, inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 2019, it was a rewarding result for a horse she had high hopes for early on in his career.

“When people ask you about what makes you successful with horses, I say patient owners, owners that give you the opportunity to let their horses develop and do what they can do. I knew that this horse had a little bit higher cruising speed than my other horse [Tyson], but they were both going to be right there. Treason is just a good horse. We thought he was a good horse from the beginning, and he really proved himself today.”

Bred by Ramspring Farm, Treason ($14.60) earned his first stakes win and is now 3-0-0 from seven starts.

Wolfie's Dynaghost, the 4-5 choice, was fifth, followed by Conglomerate, War Bomber, Rondure, Avoman, Bringer of Rain, and Luckman.

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