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Uncle Lino Sires First Winner At Delaware Park
Pennsylvania stallion Uncle Lino was represented by his first winner at stud on Saturday, when the filly Hipnotizada drew off to win a Delaware Park maiden special weight by 6 1/4 lengths, BloodHorse reports.
In her second career start, Hipnotizada took the lead out of the gate under jockey Carol Cedeno and drew off relatively unchallenged to win the 5 1/2-furlong race and stop the clock in 1:04.29 over a fast main track. Anthony Pecoraro trained the filly for owner Black Cloud Racing Stable.
Hipnotizada was bred in Pennsylvania by White Diamond Inc., out of the placed Harlan's Holiday mare Precious Penny. Champion Victorian Prince is in her extended family.
Uncle Lino stood the 2020 breeding season at Northview PA in Peach Bottom, Pa., for an advertised fee of $4,000.
The 7-year-old son of Uncle Mo won two of eight starts during his on-track career for earnings of $316,160. In addition to winning the California Chrome Stakes, Uncle Lino finished second in the Grade 3 Robert B. Lewis Stakes and third in the G1 Santa Anita Derby.
Uncle Lino is out of the unraced Orientate mare Haysee. His second dam is 2011 Broodmare of the Year Oatsee, making Haysee a sibling to Preakness Stakes winner Shackleford, Grade 1 winner Lady Joanne, Grade 2 winner Afleeting Lady, Grade 3 winner Baghdaria, Grade 2-placed stakes winner Stephanoatsee, and graded stakes producer Grand Portege.
Read more at BloodHorse.
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Fort Erie Hosting Its First Massachusetts-Bred Stakes Race On Tuesday
On Tues, July 21, Fort Erie Race Track will be hosting a Massachusetts-bred Stakes race for the first time. The Rise Jim Stakes will have six contenders for a $35,000 guaranteed purse. The race is for four-year-olds and upwards, foaled in Massachusetts and registered with the Massachusetts Thoroughbred Breeders Association (MTBA).
Dr Blarney, trained by Karl M Grusmark for owner Joseph DiRico is the heavy favorite, with 20 career wins in 28 starts, and $628,000 in career earnings. Jockey Emile Ramsammy will be in the irons, taking over the reigns for Dr Blarney's veteran jockey, Tammi Piermarini. The seven-year-old chestnut gelding by Dublin out of Dr. Capote is the reigning champ of the Rise Jim Stakes, taking the crown in the last three runnings of the race.
The MTBA reached out to Fort Erie in the fall to build a partnership that would allow Fort Erie to host a selection of Massachusetts-bred thoroughbred races throughout the year, after Suffolk Downs race track in Boston shut down at the end of last season.
Due to COVID-19, it has been more challenging to host the races than was anticipated, however arrangements have been made that will allow us to do so safely. All six horses will be shipped across the border in one van. Fort Erie's regular jockeys have been called to ride the stakes race, and local grooms and trainers will be responsible for the horses while they are at Fort Erie. Only the van driver will be coming across with the horses, and will be required to quarantine while in Canada.
“We were happy to establish this partnership with the Massachusetts Thoroughbred Breeders Association to help support Mass-bred racing. We need to do what we can to support thoroughbred racing across North America,” said Tom Valiquette, chief operating and financial officer of the Fort Erie Live Racing Consortium. “With purse money and no where to race, and a track with racing capacity in need of horses, this partnership works well for all parties.”
Racing begins at 1:10 p.m. on Tuesday and continues to be spectator-free. Wagering is available in Ontario through HPI Bet, or fans can watch online at http://forterieracing.com/streaming-and-replays.
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GreenMount Farm’s Bernardini Filly Named 2020 Champion At Maryland Yearling Show
GreenMount Farm's filly by Bernardini out of Mystic Love, by Not For Love, outshined the competition as judge Michael Matz selected her as grand champion of the 86th annual Maryland Horse Breeders Association's Yearling Show, held Sunday, July 19 at the Timonium Fairgrounds horse show ring in Timonium, Md.
Bred by GreenMount Farm in partnership with Godolphin, the champion filly was the winner of Class IV (for fillies foaled in Maryland, by out-of-state sires). She was shown by Sabrina Moore, manager and co-owner of GreenMount.
“I had a good feeling about her, I mean I think she's really nice, but until you get there and see how nice all the other horses are [you don't know],” said Moore. “It's surreal, but I count my blessings, I know it doesn't happen all the time. Knowing the people that are genuinely happy for you, that's probably the best part of it.
“I love the show because they get out and you kind of get a feel for them, what they're going to be like as soon as you get them off the farm and they [get to] school a little bit. I just think the yearling show is really key for them and I was glad to get her there.”
A total of 67 yearlings in four classes were judged by two-time classic-winning trainer and hall of fame show jumping rider Matz, who lives in Pennsylvania and trains out of Fair Hill Training Center in Elkton, Md.
“I thought the last [class], that the [champion] filly won, was the strongest group,” Matz said. “She was a nice mover. She just had an overall look. I thought she was well-made and pretty well balanced.”
The reserve championship went to R. Larry Johnson's homebred Whenigettoheaven, a colt by Street Magician out of Heaven Knows What, by Holy Bull, who won Class I (for colts and geldings foaled in Maryland, by Maryland sires). He was one of two ribbon winners for Johnson, as his Street Magician filly won Class III (for fillies foaled in Maryland, by Maryland sires).
Street Magician was awarded the Northview Stallion Station Challenge Trophy as the leading sire of the show. Bred and campaigned by Johnson, the graded stakes winner stands as part of Legacy Farm Stallions at Roland Farm in Warwick, Md.
All yearlings who entered the show ring are now eligible for the $40,000 premium award which is split annually, with $20,000 going to the exhibitors of the four show contestants who earn the most money as 2-year-olds during 2021, and another $20,000 divided among the exhibitors of the four highest-earning 3-year-old runners the next year.
To view the show's complete results, click here.
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