October, 2023 | Horse Racing Free Tips

Grand Mo The First To Be Pre-Entered For BC Juvenile Turf After Zuma Beach Effort

Granpollo LLC's Grand Mo the First will be pre-entered in the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf (G1) at Santa Anita following the son of Uncle Mo's late-closing third in Sunday's Zuma Beach (G3) at the Southern California track.

“I was talking with the owner today and the owner will pre-enter for the Breeders' Cup,” said Barboza after saddling Harlan's Legacy for a victory in Friday's Race 3 at Gulfstream Park. “Also, there is a stake for 2-year-olds at one mile the same day.”

The pre-entries deadline for the Nov. 3-4 Breeders' Cup races is Oct. 23.

Grand Mo the First, a $335,000 purchase at the OBS March sale, lost for the first time in three career starts while stretching out around two turns for the first time in the mile stakes for juveniles on turf. Following a slow start, he trailed the eight-horse field before launching a four-wide sweep on the far turn to enter contention at the top of the stretch, where his rally felt short of catching the Michael McCarthy-trained duo of Endlessly, the 4-5 favorite, and Ngannou.

“I was happy with his race first time around two turns,” Barboza said.

Gran Mo the First, who finished four lengths behind undefeated Endlessly, had previously won his first two career starts over Gulfstream's Tapeta course, both in off-the-pace style under Emisael Jaramillo, who was aboard in the Zuma Beach.

Jaramillo returned to Gulfstream to ride the winners of the first three races on Friday's eight-race program.

Barboza-trained Petulante and Long Range Toddy breezed Friday morning at Gulfstream Park.

Lugamo Racing Stable LLC's Petulante, a 4-year-old son of Arrogate who is coming off a victory in the June 17 Salvatore Mile (G3) at Monmouth, breezed five furlongs in 58.64 seconds.

“Petulante had a good workout and his gallop-out was really good,” Barboza said.

Zenith Racing's Long Range Toddy, a contender on the 2019 Kentucky Derby trail who has recaptured his winning form since joining Barboza's stable, breezed five furlongs in 1:02.14.

“Long Range Toddy is doing good. He weighs 40 pounds more since being in our barn,” said Barboza, who saddled the 7-year-old son of Take Charge Indy for a front-running victory over win-machine Big and Classy, in the Aug. 26 Edwin T. Broome Memorial Handicap at a one-turn mile.

A next-out decision for both horses is pending following a discussion with their owners, Barboza said.

Also on Friday's worktab, graded-stakes winner Dean Delivers breezed five furlongs in 1:01.41 in preparation for the $100,000 Gil Campbell Memorial Oct. 21 at Gulfstream. Michael Yates-trained Dean Delivers captured the Smile Sprint (G3) at Gulfstream July 1 before finishing third in the July 29 Alfred G. Vanderbilt (G1) at Saratoga.

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‘I Literally Was Colicking Like A Horse’: Tyler Baze Scores First Win After Severe Health Scare

The return of jockey Tyler Baze from a near-fatal health scare this spring was made complete Monday at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif., when the veteran reinsman won his first race in nearly six months.

In the fourth race, a $50,000 maiden claimer going six furlongs on dirt, Baze guided longshot Lonesome Stew ($25.20) to a front-running victory for trainer Mark Glatt. It was Baze's first win since April 14 at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas.

“I needed it,” Baze said Friday morning at Clocker's Corner. “It took a lot for me to get to this point after being in the hospital and almost dying.”

Baze, 40, was riding at Oaklawn Park this winter when he first started to feel periods of discomfort. In response, he visited an urgent care facility in Hot Springs.

“The doctors couldn't find anything, so they prescribed me medication. But things didn't really get any better” Baze said.

Then one morning, a friend asked Baze if he was up for going fishing.

“I woke up and felt fine. So we went. When I got back to my house about noon, I had a sandwich, and it was just instant pain,” Baze said. “I can't even describe it. I've broken a lot of bones, but I've never felt pain like that.”

Baze managed to drive himself to a hospital despite the severe discomfort.

“As soon as I opened the door to get out of my car, I threw up the sandwich. I don't remember walking into the hospital or anything after that for five days,” he said.

Baze remained hospitalized for about two weeks. Doctors were still struggling to diagnose the problem.

“On May 1, I told my nurse I need to see a doctor now. They took me in for another CT scan and by the time I got back to my room the doctor was in there waiting for me. Two minutes later the surgeon walked in. They said, 'If we don't do surgery right now, you're going to die.'”

Doctors determined Baze had a bowel obstruction.

“It was my intestine. I literally was colicking like a horse,” Baze said. “They didn't have to cut any out. They untangled it basically. The doctor's words were 'We had to remold it.'”

Baze spent 10 days in the hospital post-surgery, then rode with his mother from Hot Springs back to his home in Monrovia near Santa Anita.

Doctors told Baze he would need eight to 10 months to recover.

“I was back in the gym in eight weeks,” he said.

Baze rode his first race back at Del Mar on Sept. 9. At the current Santa Anita Autumn Meet, he has the one win on Lonesome Stew from seven mounts.

Following the health scare, Baze said he's living with a new perspective.

“It's no longer going through the motions. You realize how precious life is,” Baze said. “Instead of just getting through your morning or through the day, you need to enjoy every minute of it. I get to be out here and look at these beautiful mountains and watch the sun come up every morning. It's an amazing gift from God.”

Baze, a native of Seattle, is scheduled to ride a combined seven races at Santa Anita Saturday and Sunday.

“Now with the winner, hopefully things will pick up and I'll get on better horses,” Baze said. “But this whole ordeal has given me a whole new perspective. I'm only here for a minute. I'm going to enjoy it.”

Baze won the 2000 Eclipse Award for outstanding apprentice jockey. He enters this week's action with 2,889 wins and more than $132 million in purse earnings.

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Darby Dan’s 2024 Roster Headed by Flameaway and Dialed In

Freshman sire Flameaway and multiple Grade I sire Dialed In will together lead the 2024 stallion roster at Darby Dan Farm, the Central Kentucky farm announced in a release Friday afternoon. The pair, each standing for $15,000 S&N, will head a dozen stallions on the Darby Dan roster.

A son of Scat Daddy, Flameaway is fourth on North America's freshman sire list with 15 first-crop winners. His 2-year-olds include MGSW Dreamfyre, winner of the GIII Surfer Girl S. Oct. 8 who is pointing to the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. Flameaway is one of only two U.S. freshmen of 2023 with a graded stakes winner to date. Flameaway will have limited season availability at $15,000 as Breeders' Cup results could warrant a change in fee.

Dialed In, the top freshman sire of 2016, has a number of top runners on his CV, including 2023's GI Hollywood Gold Cup S. winner Defunded–second in the Sept. 30 GI Awesome Again S.–and GI Kentucky Oaks runner-up Gambling Girl, who also finished third in the GI Coaching Club American Oaks.

Darby Dan stallions for 2024 with fees:

Bee Jersey–Private
Copper Bullet–$7,500
Country House–$7,500
Dialed In–$15,000
Flameaway–$15,000
Higher Power–$10,000
Leofric–$7,500
Modernist–$10,000
Tale of Ekati–Private
Tale of Silence–Private
Tapiture–$7,500
Title Ready–Private

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Darby Dan Farm Announces Stallion Roster And Fees For 2024

Darby Dan Farm has set 2024 stud fees for its roster of 12 stallions that will stand the upcoming breeding season, led by Flameaway, a leading first-crop stallion this year, who will stand for $15,000 S&N, and Dialed In, who will also stand for $15,000 S&N. In addition, the roster features Higher Power and Modernist, who will both stand for $10,000 S&N.

Flameaway, a multiple graded stakes-winning son of Scat Daddy, is currently the fourth-ranked First-Crop Sire with progeny earnings of more than $1.2 million. The sire of 15 first-crop winners overall, including a new maiden special weight winner in New York Oct. 13 in Reagan's Flame, Flameaway is the co-leading First-Crop Sire by black-type winners with two. His top runner is undefeated three-time stakes winner Dreamfyre, a leading contender for next month's Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) at Santa Anita.

A front-running winner of the Surfer Girl Stakes (G3) on turf at Santa Anita in her most recent start, Dreamfyre also annexed the Sorrento Stakes (G3) at Del Mar by a dominating 3 ½ lengths in her second start and broke her maiden in winning the Everett Nevin Stakes at Pleasanton by 3 ½ lengths in her career debut. A $140,000 OBS Spring Sale graduate, Dreamfyre has already banked $285,000. Flameaway is also represented in his initial crop by She's Fire, victorious in the Fitz Dixon Jr. Memorial Stakes at Presque Isle Downs, and stakes-placed Bella Haze, runner-up in the $500,000 Juvenile Fillies Stakes at Kentucky Downs.

With interest from breeders peaking, Flameaway will have limited season availability at $15,000 as Breeders' Cup results could warrant a change in fee.

Dialed In, Champion Freshman Sire of 2016 and a perennial leading sire of his crop ever since, is represented this year by Defunded, winner of the Hollywood Gold Cup Stakes (G1) and the Californian Stakes (G2), both at Santa Anita. In addition to his graded stakes scores, Defunded was runner-up in both the $3 million Pegasus World Cup (G1) and most recently in the $300,000 Awesome Again Stakes (G1), and third in the Santa Anita Handicap (G1) en route to amassing earnings of $1,058,500 this year, alone. Dialed In's Gambling Girl, a stakes winner last year at two, finished second in this year's Kentucky Oaks (G1) and third in the Coaching Club American Oaks (G1). Dialed In has been represented by Grade 1 winners each of the last four years, and he boasts progeny earnings in excess of $43 million.

Higher Power, a Grade 1-winning millionaire by Medaglia d'Oro from a deep Pin Oak family, is represented in 2023 by first yearlings that have sold for up to $150,000, $120,000, $100,000, etc. A dominant 5 ¼-length winner of the $1 million Pacific Classic (G1), Higher Power posted three triple-digit Beyers during his racing career, including a 107 Beyer in the Pacific Classic. He will be represented by his first 2-year-olds in 2024.

Modernist, a multiple graded stakes winner by Uncle Mo, welcomed his first foals in 2023. A front-running winner of the $400,000 Risen Star Stakes (G2) as a 3-year-old, Modernist was a strong 2 ½-length winner of the $150,000 Excelsior Stakes (G3) as a 4-year-old. He is produced from the Bernardini mare Symbolic Gesture, a half-sister to both Sweet Catomine, Champion 2-Year-Old Filly and winner of the 2004 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1), and Life is Sweet, winner of the 2009 Breeders' Cup Ladies Classic (G1).

The 2024 Darby Dan Farm roster is as follows:

Stallion	S&N Fee
Bee Jersey	Private
Copper Bullet	$7,500
Country House	$7,500
Dialed In	$15,000
Flameaway	$15,000**
Higher Power	$10,000
Leofric	$7,500
Modernist	$10,000
Tale of Ekati	Private
Tale of Silence	Private
Tapiture	$7,500
Title Ready	Private

**Subject to change

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