Robin Goodfellow’s racing tips: Best bets for Tuesday, September 26
Mail Sport's racing expert Robin Goodfellow delivers his tips for Tuesday's meetings at Beverley, Lingfield, Nottingham and Newcastle.
Month: September 2023
Baffert Runners Head Busy Monday Work Tab
Several top horses trained by Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert were among 174 workers at Santa Anita Monday morning. Among those working four furlongs for Baffert on the main track were GISWs Adare Manor (Uncle Mo) (:46.40), Arabian Lion (Justify) (:46.80), Faiza (Girvin) (:49.20) and National Treasure (Quality Road) (:48.20).
GI Starlet S. winner Faiza's drill was her first since being scratched from the Torrey Pines S. on Sept. 2 at Del Mar. National Treasure, winner of this season's GI Preakness S., had his second work since finishing fifth in the GI Travers at Saratoga on Aug. 26. Adare Manor has been working weekly following her win in the Aug. 5 GI Clement L. Hirsch at Del Mar. GI Woody Stephens S. scorer Arabian Lion has also been working steadily since a third-place effort in Saratoga's GI H. Allen Jerkens Memorial on Aug. 26.
Working four furlongs on the training track for Baffert was Du Jour (Temple City), who completed the move in :49.20. This was Du Jour's second work since winning the GII Del Mar Mile Sept. 2.
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Sister to Johannes Vermeer Debuts at Cork
15.40 Cork, Mdn, €16,000, 2yo, f, 8fT
FLIGHT OF FANCY (IRE) (Galileo {Ire}) is the latest Ballydoyle newcomer to come to the stage and this is no back-number, being a full-sister to six black-type performers of varying degrees of quality headed by the G1 Criterium International winner and G1 Melbourne Cup runner-up Johannes Vermeer (Ire) and the G1 Dewhurst S. runner-up Wembley (Ire). Among her opponents is the similarly-unraced Wendla (GB) (Ulysses {Ire}), Juddmonte's 12th foal out of their high-class Intercontinental (GB) (Danehill) who is part of Ger Lyons's set-up.
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Omaha Beach’s Code Omaha Off The Mark at First Asking
7th-Horseshoe Indianapolis, $34,000, Msw, 9-25, 2yo, 5fT, :58.40, fm, 2 1/4 lengths.
CODE OMAHA (c, 2, Omaha Beach–Lantiz {SP, $271,821}, by Tizway) was favored by $15 over fellow firster Silent Heart (Heart to Heart) in a five-furlong turf dash Monday at Horseshoe Indianapolis and the duo comprised what turned out to be a fairly rich return to exacta players. A $180,000 Fasig-Tipton July yearling turned $550,000 OBS April breezer, the bay broke sharply, but inward, causing a bit of a chain reaction to his inside. Easing to the lead for Manny Esquivel, the bay carved out an opening quarter in :22.63 with a host of pursuers and maintained a clear advantage into the stretch. Briefly challenged by Azteca's Gold (Sharp Azteca) approaching the eighth pole, Code Omaha kicked on nicely and covered his final furlong in a smart :11.39 to score comfortably at odds of 27-10. Silent Heart was forced to cover extra ground while rallying into the final quarter mile and boxed on gamely for second to complete a $31 exacta.
Emmanuel Esquivel scores the riding double, taking the 7th @HSIndyRacing aboard Code Omaha! Thank you to @ThomasStables and his team for another winner on the card pic.twitter.com/t7n0Yl3BgR
— Jose Santos Jr. (@joesantos_33) September 25, 2023
The 12th winner for his first-crop sire (by War Front), Code Omaha is the first foal from a turf stakes-placed dam. There is further grass influence down the pace, as third dam Candleinthedark (Cox's Ridge) was placed in the GIII Modesty H. on the grass and was a half-sister to GII Hall of Fame S. winner Islefaxyou (Storm Bird). The yearling half-brother to Code Omaha, a colt by Complexity, cost Thomas & Mitchell Bloodstock $50,000 at Keeneland September last week, and Lantiz is also the dam of a yearling colt by Maclean's Music. She was most recently covered by Jackie's Warrior (Maclean's Music). Sales history: $185,000 Ylg '22 FTKJUL; $550,000 2yo '23 OBSAPR. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $20,400. Click for the Equibase.com chart.
O-Lauren and Rene Woolcott; B-Hartmut H. Malluche & Silesia Farm (KY); T-Jonathan Thomas.
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