Month: July 2023

Into Mischief’s Daring Do Wins Her First Stakes In Pea Patch

Daring Do (Into Mischief) broke her maiden in early March at Turfway Park in her second career race and then switched to Keeneland's turf where she won by a head to clear the next condition.

Last seen running third by a length behind stablemate Kaufymaker (Jimmy Creed) against optional claimers May 28 at Churchill Downs, the 15-8 second choice here dropped back to settle into fourth up the backstretch. Chasing the pace set by favorite American Apple (American Pharoah) around the far turn, the bay filly hugged the fence, tipped to the three path before the eighth pole and ran on nicely to win by a length over the late running Twice as Sweet (Candy Ride {Arg}).

Out of an extended female family which includes GISW Cat Moves (Tale of the Cay), the winner's dam is a half-sister to both GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf hero Hootenanny (Quality Road) and his full-sister GSP Ryder Ryder Ryder. Daring Do is her dam's first to the make the races, but she does have an unraced 2-year-old half-sister named Letmenowhenurready (Quality Road) and a yearling half-brother. Her dam foaled a filly Apr. 7 by Not This Time.

PEA PATCH S., $100,000, Ellis, 7-16, 3yo, f, 5 1/2fT, 1:01.82, fm.
1–DARING DO, 118, f, 3, by Into Mischief
                1st Dam: More'n Likely, by Blame
                2nd Dam: More Hennessy, by Hennessy
                3rd Dam: Dance Move, by Capote
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-Lael Stables; B-M. Roy Jackson (KY); T-Wesley A. Ward; J-Walter A. Rodriguez. $59,140. Lifetime Record: 5-3-0-2, $184,275.
2–Twice as Sweet, 118, f, 3, Candy Ride (Arg)–Snowbell, by Tapit. O-Godolphin, LLC; B-Godolphin (KY); T-Brendan P. Walsh. $19,900.
3–American Apple, 118, f, 3, American Pharoah–Miss Mary Apples, by Clever Trick. ($600,000 RNA 2yo '22 KEENOV). O/B-KatieRich Farms (KY); T-Daniel Leitch. $9,700.
Margins: 1, 2HF, HF. Odds: 2.86, 4.64, 1.77.
Also Ran: Erna, Condensation, Twirled, Mornin' Boss, Foolish, Zoom Erin. Scratched: Isabel Alexandra (Ire), Liliesformillie.
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Sanford Upsetter Yo Yo Candy Likely To Return In Hopeful

Equipment changes by an attentive trainer and a stumbled start by heavy favorite Gold Sweep landed Happy Tenth Stable's Yo Yo Candy a 46-1 upset score in Saturday's  Sanford (G3), a six-furlong sprint for juveniles, at Saratoga Race Course.

The victory provided trainer Danny Velazquez his first win at the Spa in his fifth attempt and jockey Angel Castillo a first graded win in North America. An understandably happy winner's circle was only missing one thing.

“My owners went to Monmouth — we were 46-1 — and they were beating themselves up they didn't come,” Velazquez said, with a laugh.

The Danzing Candy colt, a $35,000 OBS March Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training purchase, graduated on debut in May sprinting 4 1/2-furlongs over the main track at Velazquez' Parx Racing base. He followed with a distant third in the 5 1/2-furlong Tremont in June at Belmont Park, finishing 10 1/4-lengths back of the victorious Gold Sweep.

Velazquez went back to work on the lightly raced colt after the Tremont and made a number of equipment changes as well as sharpening Yo Yo Candy for his graded debut with a five-eighths breeze from the gate in 1:01.02 on July 1 at Parx.

“That day at Belmont when we ran third, he ran very green and was in and out and never switched his lead. He was a green horse on a new, big track,” Velazquez said. “So, went back home and added blinkers and put a figure-eight to shut his mouth and tongue tie. We took him back to the gate three times to get that speed into him because he didn't break sharp, either.”

The adjustment paid dividends Saturday as Yo Yo Candy broke well and tracked in third position while Dickens and Market Street dueled through splits of :22.15  and :45.83 over the fast main track. Castillo angled Yo Yo Candy four-wide for the stretch run and he drew off to win by 2 1/4 lengths over the late-charging Gold Sweep. Yo Yo Candy stopped the clock in 1:11.83 and earned a career-best 71 Beyer Speed Figure.

“I loved when he was sitting third. It seemed like Angel had him real comfortable behind the pace and when he tipped outside, it was just enough to go,” Velazquez said. “I tried to keep one eye on him [Gold Sweep]. I saw the stumble and you hate to see that, but that's horse racing. After that, we were just cruising and I lost all track of Gold Sweep. I was just focused on my horse.”

Yo Yo Candy is likely to train up to the $300,000 Hopeful (G1) on September 4 at the Spa.

“I think that would be a good target,” Velazquez said. “He's an easy horse to maintain and he loves his training program. We pressed him a little harder going into this race because I felt we needed to come ready. We put in three big works — an extra gate work — I wanted everything to go right. I didn't want him to break slow or have no gas. If we lose, we lose because the horse didn't have the talent – but not because of preparation.”

The California-bred colt out of the multiple graded-stakes placed Two Punch mare Yolanda B. Too is a half brother to graded stakes-placed Treble.

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Multiple Graded Stakes Winner Tax Retired

Multiple graded stakes winner Tax (Arch) has been retired from racing. The 7-year-old gelding, who was claimed by trainer and co-owner Danny Gargan for $50,000 out of his debut race in 2018, won the 2019 GII Jim Dandy S. and GIII Withers S., as well as the 2020 GIII Harlan's Holiday S. He earned a trip to the 2019 GI Kentucky Derby with a runner-up effort in the GII Wood Memorial. Fourteenth in the Derby, he returned to finish fourth in the GI Belmont S.

On the board in 11 of 19 races, he won five times and earned $1,102,190.

“We've decided to retire him because it was the right thing to do by the horse,” said Gargan. “He's done enough. We just wanted him to win over the million-dollar mark, and he got well over that.”

In his final career start, Tax was runner-up in the GIII Challenger S. at Tampa Bay Downs in March.

Gargan said Tax has been sent to the farm of Dean Reeves, who co-owned Tax through 2021, and he will be retrained with an eye to a pony career.

“He went to Dean Reeves's farm and we're probably going to break him to be the farm pony next year,” said Gargan. “Maybe he'll come here to Saratoga next year and be our barn pony here.”

Tax retires as the all-time top earner for Gargan.

“He's my favorite horse of all-time,” said Gargan. “He's so pretty and so kind for such a big horse.”

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