Month: October 2023

Catching Up with 2019 Breeders’ Cup Classic Winner Vino Rosso

The first of back-to-back GI Breeders' Cup Classic winners retired to Spendthrift, Vino Rosso currently leads the U.S. freshman sire list and has had four individuals place in Grade I races in the last five weeks, including three on Oct. 7.

“Since he is a son of Curlin, we were fortunate enough to acquire the breeding rights to him in his 4-year-old year, and that's when he really began to take off,” said Ned Toffey, general manager of Spendthrift. “He won the Wood Memorial, so he was good early in his 3-year-old year, too. He had talent, did have some precocity, and really got good as he got into those Classic distances. His Breeders' Cup Classic was one of the most impressive. He was a horse that had a really good fall and continued to thrive into Breeders' Cup week. He was the wise guy horse and didn't disappoint on race day; he's come to stud and done the same. He's demonstrated more precocity as a sire than we even expected. We're really excited about him.”

Vino Rosso (2015 chestnut horse, Curlin–Mythical Bride, by Street Cry {Ire})

Lifetime record: Ch. older male, MGISW, 15-6-1-3, $4,803,125

Breeders' Cup connections: B-John D. Gunther (KY); O-Repole Stable and St. Elias Stable; T-Todd Pletcher; J-Irad Ortiz, Jr.

Current location: Spendthrift Farm, Lexington, Ky.

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Game Tony Ann Denies Caravel Second Franklin Victory

Southern California-based Tony Ann outdueled defending winner Caravel through a deep stretch run to post a neck victory in the 27th edition of the $336,525 Franklin (G2) for fillies and mares Sunday afternoon at Keeneland.

Trained by Phil D'Amato and ridden by Flavien Prat, Tony Ann covered the 5½ furlongs on a turf course rated as good in 1:02.42.

Twilight Gleaming (IRE) set a quick pace of :21.09 and :43.93 through a half mile while being pressured by B G Warrior as Caravel and Tony Ann raced in the second flight.

Twilight Gleaming shook off B G Warrior at the top of the stretch and owned a clear advantage until the eighth pole, when Caravel and Tony Ann closed in. Inside the sixteenth pole, Caravel and Tony Ann surged past, but Tony Ann had more energy in reserve and inched past in the final yards.

“It felt like the pace was strong enough, and I was traveling really well behind (eventual runner-up) Caravel, so I was pleased with my trip,” Prat said. “When I tipped her out, (Tony Ann) responded really well. I was a bit worried by the sixteenth pole because Caravel came back on us, but she was really game. To go by Caravel you've got to go all out, but she was really game today.”

Trainer Brad Cox said despite the narrow defeat Caravel gave a good accounting of herself.

“Good run, just came up a touch short,” he said of Caravel, who is scheduled to return to his Churchill Downs base on Monday with plans to ship to Santa Anita on Oct. 30 with an eye on the Breeders' Cup. “I am proud of the effort. She likes it here at Keeneland and ran another great race. Breeders' Cup is definitely still something we are pointing towards. We'll see how she comes out of this race and go from there.”

Anthony Fanticola and A Venneri Racing's Tony Ann is a 5-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Cairo Prince out of the In Excess (IRE) mare Never Ever and was bred by co-owner Alex Venneri. The win marked the first in a stakes for Tony Ann, who improved her record to 10-5-1-3 and boosted her career earnings to $511,883 with Sunday's $208,863 winner's share of the purse.

Tony Ann rewarded backers with a win payoff of $17.60.

Caravel, ridden by Tyler Gaffalione, finished three-quarters of a length in front of Train to Artemus under Gerardo Corrales.

It was another half-length back to Twilight Gleaming with Wakanaka (IRE), Bay Storm, Linguistic and B G Warrior completing the order of finish.

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Facteur Cheval to Queen Elizabeth II on British Champions Day

Group 3 winner Facteur Cheval (Ire) (Ribchester {Ire}) will likely start next in the G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. on British Champions S. Day at Ascot if the anticipated wet weather holds, Team Valor's Barry Irwin said Sunday. The 4-year-old gelding was most recently third behind Sauterne (Fr) (Kingman {GB}) in the G1 Prix Du Moulin de Longchamp on Sept. 3.

“It's the plan and he could run on any type of surface, but he's better with some give in the ground and the wetter the better, like when he won the Prix Perth at Saint-Cloud,” Irwin said. “We have skipped some other races he could have run in waiting for the race next weekend figuring it would be really wet again.”

“I think at this point we're looking at it as much, if not more, as a test to see how he handles that [quicker] going at this point of his life, as our goal next year is the G1 Dubai Turf. This will be a good test to see how he handles that type of track. That mile up the straight at Ascot is more like a mile and eighth and that's the distance of the Dubai Turf.”

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