November, 2023 | Horse Racing Free Tips

$80,000 Broodmare Precipitate Leads Wednesday’s Penultimate Day Of Keeneland November Sale

Precipitate, a 5-year-old daughter of Pioneerof the Nile in foal to Tacitus, sold to James Wyenandt for $80,000 to be the highest-priced purchase of Wednesday's next-to-last session of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

From the family of champion Close Hatches, 2023 Breeders' Cup Distaff winner Idiomatic and Grade 2 winner Tacitus, Precipitate was consigned by Lane's End, agent for Juddmonte. On Tuesday, her half-sister Forenoon sold as a broodmare prospect to JCB Stables for $150,000.

Lane's End, which sold horses that brought five of the 10-highest prices Wednesday, was the day's leading consignor with sales of $593,600 for 34 horses.

For the session, Keeneland sold 258 horses through the ring for $3,065,300, a 28.93 percent decrease from the eighth day of the 2022 November Sale, when total receipts were $4,313,300 for 260 horses. The average of $11,881 was 28.38 percent below $16,590 for the corresponding session last year. The median of $9,250 declined 15.91 percent from last year's $11,000.

With one session remaining in the auction, 1,873 horses have sold through the ring for $173,925,300, which is 15.45 percent below last's year's cumulative gross of $205,696,600 for 1,826 horses sold through eight days. The average of $92,859 is 17.57 percent lower than last year's $112,649, while the median of $40,000 declined 20 percent from $50,000 last year.

Scarabea, a 5-year-old winning stakes-placed daughter of American Pharoah bred to Hightail for her first foal, sold Wednesday to The Racing Advisory for $75,000. Buckland Sales (Zach Madden), agent, consigned the mare, who is out of Grade 3 winner Starstruck (IRE), by Galileo (IRE), and a half-sister to stakes winner Turf War. Scarabea is from the family of Irish and English highweight Agnetha, Group 2 winner Areion and Group 3 winner Dancing King.

Lane's End, agent, also consigned the day's most expensive weanling, a colt by Tonalist purchased by Raylan Givens for $60,000. Out of the winning Distorted Humor mare Playful Humor, he is from the family of champion Pleasant Stage along with Grade 1 winners Marsh Side and Seattle Meteor.

Tonalist also is the sire of a weanling filly consigned by Lane's End, agent, who sold to Boyd Crowder for $50,000. Out of the winning War Front mare Quant, she is from the family of 2023 Grade 1 Pennsylvania Derby winner Saudi Crown as well as Grade 1 winner Noble's Promise, Grade 2 winner New Economy and Grade 3 winner New Normal.

Wednesday's leading buyer was Triple Crown, which purchased 10 horses for $159,500.

Thursday is the final day of the November Breeding Stock Sale. The session starts at 10 a.m. ET.

On Friday, Keeneland will kick off the November Horses of Racing Age Sale at noon. Click here for the online catalog.

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Bourbonic Sells To Mexico’s Rancho Natoches At Keeneland November

Grade 2 winner Bourbonic will begin his stallion career in Mexico after selling to Rancho Natoches for $20,000 on Wednesday at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale.

The 5-year-old son of Bernardini raced as a homebred for Calumet Farm, winning four of 19 starts and earning $703,493. He was trained by Todd Pletcher.

After toiling in a pair of New York maiden special weights, Bourbonic dropped in class to take a maiden claiming race going a mile on the main track at Aqueduct. That confidence-building win helped the colt climb the ladder, with a starter allowance win at the same track and distance, and a runner-up effort in a Parx Racing allowance optional claiming race.

Bourbonic left the gate in the Grade 2 Wood Memorial Stakes with the longest odds on the board at 72-1. Under jockey Kendrick Carmouche, he sat in last and closed with a charge to best Dynamic One by a head and punch his ticket for the 2021 Kentucky Derby.

Once again a long price in the Derby, Bourbonic finished 13th, then he came back for the Belmont Stakes, where he finished fifth.

Bourbonic continued to race through the summer of 2023, winning an allowance optional claiming race to start his 5-year-old campaign, and finishing third in the G3 West Virginia Derby in his comeback start from the Belmont Stakes.

Guillermo Elizondo, owner of Rancho Natoches, said he was drawn to Bourbonic for his sire, Bernardini. Elizondo's farm was home to Bold Legacy, a half-brother to Bernardini by Seattle Slew, and he wanted to bring the familiar blood back to Mexico.

“I bought Bold Legacy a year before Bernardini raced,” Elizondo said. “When Bernardini raced, I wouldn't have been able to buy Bold Legacy. I like this bloodline. I like Bernardini. Even though he's best at getting females, I think he's got the blood to get a good stallion. We need these kind of horses here (in Mexico).

“I never thought we were going to be able to buy [Bourbonic],” he continued. “It was a very reasonable price.”

Bourbonic is out of the Grade 2-winning Afleet Alex mare Dancing Afleet, whose three foals to race are all winners, also including Grade 2-placed Avant Garde.

Buckland Sales consigned the stallion prospect as agent.

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“He's a big, good looking horse,” said Buckland Sales' Zach Madden. “When you're going up there and five hips before, you're selling a mare, and then you switch to stallion mode, you've got to recalibrate everything. I knew those guys had been back to the barn a few times, and their vet was there, and they were buying mares.

“We knew a few people were interested, and he's a really good horse,” Madden continued. “These guys are super-pumped to have him, so it's hard not to root for them, people that are excited to have their horses.”

Elizondo has been a frequent customer at Keeneland auctions to build his stallion roster. He purchased Win Willy, a multiple Grade 2-winning son of Monarchos, for $45,000 at the 2014 Keeneland November Sale. In 2018, he secured Fayeq, a half-brother to Horse of the Year Rachel Alexandra by Malibu Moon, for $55,000.

“Right now, we believe [Win Willy is] the best stallion in Mexico,” Elizondo said. “He's getting very good runners and stakes winners. We just won the 2-year-old champion filly with him (Vanadis Asquifar, Mexico's champion 2-year-old filly of 2022).”

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‘Technical Issues and Potential Fraud’ Involved In Large Mystery Wagers

A series of massive wagers into exotic pari-mutuel betting pools at several Thoroughbred and Standardbred racetracks on Wednesday have officials scratching their heads over how the bets were placed and why.

The wagers – which created pool sizes never before seen at some of the tracks in question – focused on superfecta and super high five wagers that require a gambler to pick the first four and first five finishers, respectively, in a race.

Horseracingnation.com and Daily Racing Form were the first to report the bets were placed through FanDuel/TVG, which said it has begun an investigation into the matter, citing “technical issues and potential fraud.”

A full statement from a FanDuel spokesman said: “Earlier today FanDuel Racing identified technical issues and potential fraud related to wagering pools and took the appropriate steps to stop wagering via its platform. This issue is no longer ongoing and wagering has resumed. The company is undertaking a full review of this matter and will be cooperating with regulatory authorities.”

The Thoroughbred tracks known to be the subject of these wagers were Finger Lakes and Churchill Downs, while the Meadows and Monticello harness tracks also had unusually large bets placed on their races.

Churchill Downs in Kentucky put a temporary hold on the super high five payout for Wednesday's fourth race after a reported $751,000 was wagered into the pool. Last Saturday, Nov. 11, Churchill Downs offered super high five wagering on four races, with no pool exceeding $20,000.

New York's Finger Lakes had $359,298 wagered into a superfecta pool for Wednesday's fifth race, far eclipsing any other pools for that or any bet type on the card.

Harness tracks had even more abnormally massive wagers.

New York's Monticello Raceway had $1,450,600 wagered into the sixth race superfecta pool and another $950,029 on the seventh race superfecta.

At the Meadows in Pennsylvania, $119,682 in superfecta wagers were placed in the fourth race and $1,082,884 in the fifth race.

Though they did not approach the other bets in volume, Mahoning Valley, a Thoroughbred track in Ohio, saw larger than usual superfecta pools in races five and six ($63,390 and $61,386) and the day's total handle jumped 59 percent from the previous Wednesday.

One track official who spoke on background said at least one of the bets was made with every combination selected in large increments.

Horseracingnation.com quoted Shawn Wiles, director of racing at Monticello, saying, “I'm waiting to see the report at the end of the day to see how all these combinations were bet.”

Curtis Linnell, head of the Thoroughbred Racing Protective Bureau, which monitors unusual wagering activities for North American racetracks, said he was investigating the bets.

“I'm kind of busy right now,” Linnell said when reached by the Paulick Report. He said he could not comment further at this time.

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Pennsylvania Leaderboard: Northview Stallion Station Continues Dominance Over Stallion Owner Division

Though it closed its Pennsylvania branch at the close of the 2020 breeding season, Northview Stallion Station still has a massive presence in the Keystone State's breeding program through the sons and daughters of the stallions that resided there.

Through the end of September, Northview Stallion Station leads all entities by Pennsylvania stallion award earnings, with $314,838. Coming in second was WynOaks Farm at $159,062.

The owner of a Pennsylvania-based stallion at the time of a foal's conception is eligible for stallion awards generated by that foal. Stallion owners receive 10 percent of the purse earned when a registered Pennsylvania-bred and -sired runner finishes in the top three in any pari-mutuel race within the state.

Leading the way among the Northview stallions is the late Jump Start, who tallied $108,115 in stallion awards through the first nine months of 2023. Jump Start was a perennial leader among Pennsylvania stallions by award earnings for nearly a decade, giving him a deep pipeline of runners to continue earning.

His top earner of stallion awards through the first three quarters of 2023 was Hey Mamaluke, who brought in $7,350 for Northview. The 7-year-old mare has won twice in 2023, and once in Pennsylvania. After taking an allowance optional claiming race in March at Aqueduct, Hey Mamaluke has bounced between several states in the Mid-Atlantic, returning to her home state to win a rained-off-the-turf edition of the Power By Far Stakes by a head on June 26 at Parx Racing.

Hey Mamaluke races as a homebred for Joe Capriglione, and she is trained by Patricia Farro.

Hey Mamaluke #2 wins the $100,000 Penn's Landing at Parx Racing in Bensalem, PA on March 7, 2022. The Pennsylvania-Bred daughter of Jump Start was ridden to victory by Andy Hernandez for trainer Patricia Farro. Hey Mamaluke is a homebred for Joseph Capriglione. Photo by Bill Denver/EQUI-PHOTO.

Northview was also helped greatly by Uncle Lino, a Grade 1-placed stakes-winning son of Uncle Mo who entered stud in 2017. His slate of Pennsylvania-sired runners have reaped $99,846 in stallion awards.

The biggest earner among them is One More Scoop, a 4-year-old gelding who has contributed $12,720 in stallion awards. One More Scoop has won four times this year, twice each at Parx Racing and Penn National.

The centerpiece of his 2023 resume is a half-length victory in the Fabulous Strike Stakes, a six-furlong race on Aug. 18 at Penn National where he sat in second, stalking the leader, before moving in the stretch and getting up in the final jumps. Kathleen Damasi trains One More Scoop for owner Shooting Star Stable.

Rounding out the trio of Northview stallions who made the top 10 by stallion award earnings was Hoppertunity, who had cashed in $58,625 through September.

The Grade 1-winning son of Any Given Saturday's top earner of stallion awards was Notice of Action, bringing in $11,880.

Owned by Andy Hawthorne and trained by Bobbi Anne Hawthorne, the 2-year-old colt is unbeaten in three starts at Parx, two of which came before the end of September. After breaking his maiden by a front-running four lengths on Aug. 21, Notice of Action made a successful jump in competition, holding on to win the 6 1/2-furlong Prince Lucky Stakes by a half-length on Sept, 23.

The final class of Northview-sired runners from the operation's former location in Peach Bottom, Pa., were born in 2021, making them 2-year-olds of 2023. While the pipeline for runners might have reached its end, the farm figures to continue having a presence at or near the top of this list as those last runners mature and continue to run and win at high levels.