Month: December 2023

Dec. 9 Insights: Debuters for Royalty at Oaklawn Park

4th-OP, $115k, Msw, 2yo, 1m, 2:54p.m. ET
A $350,000 FTSAUG purchase for HRH Prince Sultan Bin Mishal Al Saud, RIDE FOR SUL (Candy Ride {Arg}) looks to open his tab as 2023 winds down to a close. Out of Southern Honey (Colonel John), winner of the GIII Winning Colors S. and graded-placed on two other occasions, the colt hails from the same female family which yielded MGSW & MGISP Runway Model and her son MGISW McKinzie (Street Sense). Trained by Steve Asmussen and ridden by Keith Asmussen, the morning line currently tabs him at 5-1 odds. TJCIS PPs

8th-OP, $115k, Msw, 2yo, 1m, 4:46p.m. ET
Another debuter for His Royal Highness on the card is Imperial Gun (Gun Runner), who is also trained and ridden by the Asmussens. The field here looks to be a competitive one with several six figure auction grads and one seven-figure sale from KEESEP with redemption to find. The dark bay colt was a pick-up from KEEJAN for $375,000, and has two other winning siblings. Second dam GSW & MGISP Memorette couldn't quite reproduce her talent, but nonetheless hailed from a family rife with talent–she was one of five multiple winners for her own dam–which included GISP Fondly Remembered and MGSP Paradise Found. TJCIS PPs

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Grade 1 Winner Gufo Retired To Ballycroy Bloodstock In Ontario

Gufo, a multiple Grade 1 winner and earner of more than $2 million, has been retired from racing to enter stud at Ballycroy Bloodstock in Loretto, Ontario, Daily Racing Form reports.

The 6-year-old Declaration of War horse finished his career with nine wins in 21 starts, earning $2,176,530 for owner Otter Bend Stables and trainer Christophe Clement.

Gufo racked up seven stakes victories over the course of his career, winning two editions of the Grade 1 Sword Dancer Stakes, along with victories in the G1 Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes, the G2 Pan American Stakes, and the G3 Kent Stakes.

Bred in Kentucky by John Little and Stephen Cainelli, Gufo is out of the unplaced Petionville mare Floy, making him a half-brother to graded stakes winner Hogy.

Gufo will stand for an advertised fee of $4,500 (Canadian), with discounts for multiple mares and a 50 percent-off special for mares under 12 years old that were maiden special weight or stakes winners at age two, or stakes-producing mares.

Read more at Daily Racing Form.

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Belmont-Winning Trainer Thomas “Lou” Rondinello Dies At 95

Trainer Thomas L. “Lou” Rondinello, winner of the 1974 GI Belmont S., passed away Nov. 27 at the age of 95 according to a release issued Friday by the NYRA Communications Office.

Among Rondinello's leading runners was Eclipse champion 3-year-old colt Little Current (Sea-Bird) who took the last two of the three legs of the 1974 Triple Crown series after coming fifth in the GI Kentucky Derby. He also trained 1978 Eclipse champion 3-year-old filly Tempest Queen (Graustark). In training for Darby Dan Farm, Rondinello topped over $8.6m in earnings upon his retirement in 1987.

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