Favored on the morning line at 3-1 for Friday's GIII Bank of America Valley View S. at Keeneland, Klaravich Stable's Surge Capacity (Flintshire {GB}) launched a furious final-furlong flourish and was along in the dying strides to–somewhat remarkably–give trainer Chad Brown a first victory in the event at an overlaid 5-1.
The homebred was off alertly from gate nine and was able to cross down to ride the rails into the first turn as Yesternight (Midnight Storm) was hard sent from the 11 hole to make the running. Appearing to overrace while traveling on the back of the speed through the middle furlongs, Surge Capacity continued to sit a good trip, but took an awkward stride as the field approached the stretch. Shuffled back a few spots as a result, the well-related filly commenced her rally in earnest at the eighth pole, was switched to the inside of GIII Music City S. winner Secret Money (Good Samaritan) shortly after and charged home along the fence to just touch off Heavenly Sunday (Candy Ride {Arg}), who raced prominently throughout. Bling (American Pharoah) was third. The victory provided a timely and valuable pedigree update for her dam, who just Thursday was supplemented to the Fasig-Tipton November Sale Nov. 7.
A debut winner over the Monmouth turf course June 10, Surge Capacity offered similarly juicy odds off 11-2 when proving 3/4 of a length too strong for her better-fancied and commonly owned stablemate Tax Implications (GB) (Mehmas {Ire}) in the GIII Lake George S. over yielding Saratoga turf July 21. No better than the third choice to Tax Implications in the GII Lake Placid S. Aug. 19, Surge Capacity was beaten to the punch by the Brown-trained Aspray (Quality Road) and was forced to settle for second.
Pedigree Notes:
Surge Capacity's dam was acquired by Klaravich for $200,000 at the 2014 OBS April Sale and, campaigned in partnership with William H. Lawrence, she won the 2015 Jammed Lovely S. The mare's first foal, Dew Springs (Temple City), was bred in partnership, but future GSW Highly Motivated (Into Mischief), Surge Capacity and 'TDN Rising Star' and troubled GI Spinaway S. runner-up Ways and Means (Practical Joke) all raced or race as Klaravich homebreds.
A half-sister to MSP Hall Pass (Freedom Child) and to the dam of 2022 GII Penn Mile S. upsetter Wow Whata Summer (Summer Front), Strong Incentive was blank the past two years and is currently in foal to Good Magic.
#9 SURGE CAPACITY ($12.16) was bottled up behind horses in the stretch, but snuck up an opening along the rail to win the G3 Valley View Stakes at Keeneland!
The Klaravich Stables homebred was ridden by @JRosarioJockey for trainer Chad Brown. pic.twitter.com/jCgUd9Cr91
— TVG (@TVG) October 27, 2023
Friday, Keeneland
BANK OF AMERICA VALLEY VIEW S.-GIII, $299,375, Keeneland, 10-27, 3yo, f, 1mT, 1:35.80, fm.
1–SURGE CAPACITY, 118, f, 3, by Flintshire (GB)
1st Dam: Strong Incentive (SW, $123,568), by Warrior's Reward
2nd Dam: G G's Dolly, by Comic Strip
3rd Dam: Parfait, by Kingmambo
O/B-Klaravich Stables (KY); T-Chad C. Brown; J-Joel Rosario. $169,725. Lifetime Record: 4-3-1-0, $338,975. *1/2 to Highly Motivated (Into Mischief), GSW, $667,375; and Ways and Means (Practical Joke), 'TDN Rising Star', GISP, $117,750. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree or free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Heavenly Sunday, 120, f, 3, Candy Ride (Arg)–Alien Giant, by Giant's Causeway. ($170,000 RNA Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-Miacomet Farm (William Harrigan); B-Randal Family Trust (KY); T-Brad H. Cox. $54,750.
3–Bling, 118, f, 3, American Pharoah–Blonde Bomber, by Fort Larned. ($160,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-G. Watts Humphrey, Jr.; B-Clarkland Farm LLC (KY); T-Victoria H. Oliver. $27,375.
Margins: 3/4, HF, NK. Odds: 5.08, 6.47, 5.36.
Also Ran: Sacred Wish, Safeen, Eternal Silence, Pride of the Nile, Speirling Beag (Ire), Secret Money, Flashy Gem, Abundancia, Yesternight. Scratched: Bolivie (Ire), Erna, Junipermarshmallow, Sweetlou'sgotaces.
Click for the Equibase.com chart or the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
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Following the retirement of its long time President Barry Pearl, the Jockeys and Jeans committee has elected new officers, refilled vacant task assignments, and is planning its Eighth Stallion Season Sale and negotiating with several tracks on hosting its 10th annual fundraising event.
Their last event, at Caesars Palace on June 24th raised a group record of $427,000, bringing the total raised for Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund to $3.6 million.
The all-volunteer group made Corey Johnsen its newest Ambassador. A long-time donor, track owner and manager, and now a thoroughbred owner and breeder will provide advice to the committee and continue to advocate for the cause of aiding disabled former jockeys. He joins Brian Elmore, Executive Director of the Indiana Horsemen's Benevolent & Protective Association and Joe Morris, Vice President of Racing for Caesars Entertainment, as the three non-jockey Ambassadors. Randy Sampson, CEO and Board Chairman of Canterbury Park, serves as a committee member.
The committee elected Vice President Dr. Eddie Donnally as Interim President. He was one of five former jockeys who founded the group, and he named it Jockeys and Jeans. During the fall of 2014, former jockey and committee member Darrell Brown called Donnally suggesting a jockeys' reunion at Tampa Bay Downs. Donnally decided to turn it into a fundraiser for Permanently Disabled Jockeys Fund and called friend and former jockey Barry Pearl who immediately joined the group.
“I served as president the first year and it became obvious, Pearl possessed far superior organizational and sales skills than I, so I suggested the committee make him president. Calling him was easily one of the best decisions of my life and we can't thank him enough for his nine years of leadership and the thousands of hours he donated.”
Donnally said Pearl left the committee with an extensively detailed database and is consistently available for consultation. Donnally, 80, holds a Doctorate in Ministry, is a former Eclipse Award winning horseracing writer for the Dallas Morning News, the author of three books and still works part-time as a Hospital Chaplain in New Orleans. As before, he is looking for his replacement as president.
“I am persistent and have had passion for this cause since we started,” he said. “I've arranged my life to devote far more time and effort. But I am just one member of an experienced and dedicated crew, and each feels strongly we should remain intact and continue our work. Until my replacement is found, I am dedicated to our success.”
Maureen Brown, Darrell Brown's wife, becomes Vice President of Operations and will assist with the day-to-day tasks. Kenny Katz who along with Harvey Kacer oversaw the event's auctions and is with Hall of Fame and other top jockeys when they sign elite memorabilia, becomes the head of Relationships with Hall of Fame Riders. He replaces Hall of Fame rider Sandy Hawley and his wife and former jockey Karou Tsuchiya who retired. They brought an average of 14 Hall of Fame Jockeys to each fundraising event and have become official Ambassadors. “We have long advocated for Jockeys and Jeans and PDJF,” said Hawley. “No matter where we go, we'll continue to do the same. We are here for the long term and as former jockeys we fortunately survived intact. We will always help those who did not.”
Katz and Kacer have traversed the nation producing elite signed memorabilia, which this year sold for some $100,000 at various PDJF fundraisers. Kacer will attend this year's Breeders Cup to secure memorabilia signatures. Katz will also hold his fourth Bobble Head sale, this time of Jose Ortez, at Gulfstream Park the week of February 14, 2024.
“The PDJF has enjoyed working with the Jockeys and Jeans Committee since the first event at Tampa Bay Downs and watching the efforts of this group grow,” said PDJF Director Nancy LaSala. “The success over the years is driven by the passion and support of so many who donate their time and talent to celebrate and raise awareness of permanently disabled jockeys. If not for our sport's great racing fans, donors, sponsors and our jockey racing legends, this success would not be possible. A special thanks to Barry Pearl for his many contributions and leadership of the committee over the years, we wish him and his wife, Dee all the best as they enjoy their retirement with family, friends, Florida sunshine, and a glass of wine.”
For more information contact Eddie Donnally at (818-653-3711) edjockeysandjeans@gmail.com or Maureen Brown (352 318-2118 maureen.jockeyandjeans@gmail.com
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The fall meeting at Churchill Downs gets underway Sunday in what has become its traditional way, with juvenile races comprising the entire 11-race program. When the Triple Crown trail begins in earnest following the turn of the calendar, it will likely feature a handful of horses that raced on the day en route to bigger and better things, and the $200,000 GIII Street Sense S. has the feel of a key race going forward.
The form of the GI Claiborne Breeders' Futurity is very much on display, and while that event's top two finishers–'TDN Rising Star' Locked (Gun Runner) and The Wine Steward (Vino Rosso)– will be making their way to Santa Anita for next Saturday's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile, the two horses that finished immediately in their wake will do their part to frank the race.
Despite graduating by a distance at odds-on and earning an 86 Beyer Speed Figure, Generous Tipper (Street Sense) was friendless in the market at better than 17-1 for the Breeders' Futurity, but turned in a bold effort to be third after trailing for the opening half-mile. When all was said and done, he was a neck better than Northern Flame (Flameaway), who won his maiden in wire-to-wire fashion at this track Sept. 15.
Locked's stable companion Moonlight (Audible) is the new shooter and potential fly in the ointment, as he stretched away to break his maiden by eight lengths in a rained-off maiden at Aqueduct Sept. 28, while Liberal Arts (Arrogate) looks to improve off his closing third in the one-mile GIII Iroquois S. Sept. 16.
Saturday marks the final day of racing for the Keeneland fall meet, with a pair of graded events on tap. You'd have to travel all the way back to Blame in 2009 for the last time a 3-year-old defeated his elders in the GII Hagyard Fayette S.–his sire Arch accomplished the same feat in 1998–and such is the objective for Il Miracolo (Gun Runner) on Saturday. Seventh to Arcangelo (Arrogate) in the GI Belmont S. June 10, the chestnut has since held his own in stakes company, finishing second in the Curlin S. July 21 before winning the GIII Smarty Jones S. at Parx Aug. 22. The chestnut was hardly disgraced when last seen in the GI Pennsylvania Derby Sept. 23, as he rallied from behind midfield to round out the exacta behind the GI Breeders' Cup Classic-bound Saudi Crown (Always Dreaming) and Dreamlike (Gun Runner), pre-entered for two championship races.
Trademark (Upstart) is the very lukewarm 9-2 morning-line favorite off his head defeat in the GII Lukas Classic Sept. 30, but he'll have to work out a trip from gate 10, while Giant Game (Giant's Causeway) is a threat on his best, though there appears to be plenty of other speed signed on.
The co-featured GIII Bryan Station S. lures a field of 10, led by the exciting Talk of the Nation (Quality Road), who bounced back from a pair of runner-up efforts to win the $1-million Gun Runner S. at Kentucky Downs Sept. 2. He squares off here with Smokey Mandate (Strong Mandate), third in the Gun Runner and second to More Than Looks (More Than Ready) in the Sept. 30 Jefferson Cup S. at Churchill. The latter was entered in the Bryan Station, but breezed Friday at Keeneland and appears headed for next Saturday's GI Breeders' Cup Mile.
For a time, Rigney Racing's Xigera (Nyquist) was under strong consideration for next weekend's GI Breeders' Cup Distaff, but connections have chosen a more conservative course and have the 6-5 morning-line choice for Satuday's GII Mother Goose S. at Aqueduct. Though the $190,000 Keeneland September yearling won her maiden on the turf and added this year's Tepin S. on the grass, she could not have been more impressive in shooting clear to take the Seneca Overnight S. by a dominating 6 1/4 lengths Sept. 23. Anything approaching that effort would be tough to topple here, but she does encounter some classy rivals in the form of GI Central Bank Ashland S. victress Defining Purpose (Cross Traffic) as well as the enigmatic Julia Shining (Curlin), winner of the GII Demoiselle S. at this venue last December.
The GII Forty Niner S., formerly the GII Kelso S., serves as a course-and-distance prep for the GII Cigar Mile H. during the Aqueduct meet and looks to be a two-horse affair between Accretive (Practical Joke), runner-up to Cody's Wish (Curlin) in the GII Vosburgh S. Oct. 1, and Everso Mischievous (Into Mischief), who looks to negotiate this class hike, having drawn away for a first black-type score in the Sept. 23 Harrods Creek S. at Churchill.
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