Tom Pedulla presents five takeaways from the weekend in horse racing, including Kentucky Derby preparations and the results of the Sword Dancer Stakes at Saratoga and other major races:
Author: News
Bayern Filly Last to First in Muskoka S.
Overlooked at long odds here and one of two unraced juvenile fillies in the line up, El Bayern became her GI Breeders’ Cup Classic-winning sire’s first black-type winner in the Muskoka S. on Sunday. Awkwardly away, she looked like she was spinning her wheels while dead last by several lengths for the first few furlongs. Asked for her bid with 2 ½ furlongs left to travel, she looped the field very wide out in the center of the track. Finding more as favored For My Elbi began to run out of steam, she swept by that foe to win going away, breaking her maiden and her black-type duck simultaneously.
Since foaling the winner, El Tara has a yearling colt by Silent Name (Jpn) and a filly of this year by Seattle Serenade. Under the third dam is Canadian Champion Sprinter and MGSW Apelia (Cool Victor), herself the dam of Canadian Champion Older Mare and MGSW Saoirse (Cure the Blues) and GII Adirondack S. victress More Happy (Vindication).
MUSKOKA S., C$250,800, Woodbine, 8-30, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f (AWT), 1:18.91, ft.
1–EL BAYERN, 119, f, 2, by Bayern
               1st Dam: El Tara (SP), by Schossberg
               2nd Dam: Parkview Hills, by Iskandar Elakbar
               3rd Dam: Arbela, by Conquistador Cielo
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN.(C$8,000 Ylg ’19 CANSEP). O-Stacey Van
Camp; B-Hill ‘N’ Dale Farms (ON); T-Michael Mattine; J-Sheena
Ryan. C$150,000. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $114,523. *1/2 to
Quidi Vidi (Marcavelly), MSP, $354,384. **1st SW for her sire
(by Offlee Wild).
2–For My Elbi, 119, f, 2, Souper Speedy–Executrix, by Bold
Executive. (C$24,000 Ylg ’19 CANSEP). O-Krasauskaite Racing
Stable and Raymon, Marco; B-John Carey (ON); T-Laura
Krasauskaite. C$50,000.
3–Ms Wicked, 119, f, 2, War Dancer–Sinful, by Touch Gold.
(C$4,500 RNA Ylg ’19 CANSEP). O-Centennial Farms (Niagara)
Inc.; B-Janeane Everatt, James Everatt & Arika Everatt-Meeuse
(ON); T-Cole Bennett. C$25,000.
Margins: 1, HD, 2HF. Odds: 23.00, 1.75, 3.95.
Also Ran: Howmuchistoomuch, Sensational Girl, Holy Lighting, Leave It With Me, Flawless Pink, Hekla’s Aura, Silent Mamba.
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Ketner Sweeps NJ Thoroughbred Festival Card
Dr. Mark Ketner was celebrating a rare feat at the conclusion of Monmouth’s New Jersey Thoroughbred Festival Sunday–the Colts Neck-based vet foaled all 10 winners on the card.
“It was pretty crazy,” Ketner said. “We have kind of an unusual practice. I have a farm practice with a racetrack practice based here in Monmouth County. Most of the Jersey-breds are foaled here in Monmouth County, and we’ve just been lucky enough to have some of the same farms for many years–they’re all good farms and they’re all right here.”
Highlights of the card included Prendimi (Dance With Ravens)’s head victory over favorite Golden Brown (Offlee Wild) in the Charles Hesse III H. for older males around two turns; heavy favorite Liz’s Cable Girl (Cable Boy)’s seventh win at Monmouth and second in the Eleven North H. to increase the 6-year-old mares earnings to more than $500,000; and in-form Royal Urn (Kantharos)’s runaway victory in the New Jersey Breeders H. for sprinters.
“I’m just very fortunate to have good associates who help at the farms,” said Ketner, who also noted that he foaled two runners-up on the card as well. “With some of them, we’ve actually had the stallions, and some of them we’ve bred, and foaled and then worked on them all the way through their racing career. In some cases, even after they’re done racing. It’s a neat little niche.”
Five-year-old Prendimi’s dam Cigno d’Oro (Tour d’Or) completed a double of her own, as her 3-year-old son Our Man Luke (Redeemed) broke his maiden one race after the Hesse. Both horses were bred and owned by Jon Coles’s GJ Stable and trained by Luis Carvajal, Jr., who also saddled Don’s Marsh (Don Six) to an optional claiming victory two races later. Coles and Carvajal campaigned Cigno d’Oro to seven career wins and earnings of more than $372,000.
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Distorted Humor Filly Rolls in Del Mar Unveiling
3rd-Del Mar, $55,000, Msw, 8-30, 2yo, f, 6f, 1:11.67, ft.
VARDA (f, 2, Distorted Humor–She’ll Be Right, by Sky Mesa), sent off at 5-1 in this debut, battled with I’m the Boss of Me (Midshipman) just in front to her inside for the first quarter mile and soon led by a half-length. After a half in :46.36, she jetted away from her foes to win going away by 3 1/4 lengths. Heels Up (Twirling Candy) ran second, 7 1/2 lengths in front of I’m the Boss of Me. The $700,000 OBS Spring sale buy–who breezed a quarter mile in :20 4/5Â at the sale–is a half to Getouttamyway (Cross Traffic), MSP, $170,660; Big Family (Any Given Saturday), GSP, $148,433; a yearling by Lookin At Lucky and a weanling by Maclean’s Music. Her dam is a half-sister to GI Blue Grass S. runner-up Storm Treasure (Storm Boot). Sales history: $100,000 Ylg ’19 SARAUG; $700,000 2yo ’20 OBSAPR. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $33,000. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
O-Baoma Corporation; B-Masters 2013 LLC & Distorted Humor Syndicate (NY); T-Bob Baffert.
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