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Nations Pride Gets Up Late In Canadian International

It should shock no one that Godolphin homebred Nations Pride (Teofilo {Ire}) has a more-frequently used passport than most of his human connections. The star 4-year-old has raced (and won) in his native England, is a Grade I winner in the United States, a graded-stakes winner in the United Arab Emirates and most recently took a Grade I race in Germany July 30 before shipping north of the border to Woodbine.

Racing with the addition of Lasix for his Canadian debut, the son of Teofilo certainly wooed the betting public who dispatched him at favorable odds of 2-5 facing six rivals. Royal Champion (Shamardal) broke widest of the field but had enough early speed to clear down to the rail into the first turn and quickly opened up a multi-length gap back to Nations Pride in a stalking second. The leader cruised through a :25.42 opening quarter and no one bar the eventual winner was making up any ground as Royal Champion swung into far bend. Even by the top of the stretch, Nations Pride had plenty of work left to do and was angled out to come after the pacesetter. Gobbling up the ground late, the Godolphin runner reeled in Royal Champion and drove past in the closing yards to win in a driving finish.

“I've ridden in the Canadian International a few times before and I've been placed a few times so it's great to win it,” said winning jockey William Buick. “I knew with Nations Pride I had a pretty good horse so it's just about getting everything right. The track was a bit of a concern, the yielding surface, but he really showed how versatile he is and he's a high-class horse.”

“The concerns going out was the ground changing to yielding,” added Charlie Appleby, in the winner's circle. “To be fair, in Germany, it was probably on the slower side, but we thought the change might be positive.”

“We'll stick with plan A,” Appleby responded when asked about a potential next start. “We won't go to the Breeders' Cup. We don't think he stretches out that mile and a half, so we'll take him to [G2] Bahrain [Trophy], and then contemplate if Hong Kong might suit him. But our immediate target will be the Bahrain Trophy.”

Pedigree Note:

By European champion Teofilo and out of a mare who picked up her own stakes win in Germany, Nations Pride has a yearling full-sister and a weanling half-brother by Ghaiyyath (Ire). Important Time (Ire) is herself a daughter of G1SW Satwa Queen (Fr) who topped the 2007 edition of the Tattersalls December Mare Sale when bringing a final bid of 3,400,000gns to Godolphin (purchasers of the sales top three hips for a combined 9.8m guineas). Her daughter Amerindia (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) is responsible for Australian MG1SW Militarize (NZ) (Dundeel {NZ}) while another daughter produced GISW Lucky Vega (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}).

Sunday, Woodbine Racetrack
CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL S.-GI, C$753,000, Woodbine, 10-8, 3yo/up, 1 1/4mT, 2:03.65, yl.
1–NATIONS PRIDE (IRE), 126, c, 4, by Teofilo (Ire)
                1st Dam: Important Time (Ire) (SW-Ger), by Oasis
                                Dream (GB)
                2nd Dam: Satwa Queen (Fr), by Muhtathir (GB)
                3rd Dam: Tolga, by Irish River (Fr)
O/B-Godolphin (IRE); T-Charles Appleby; J-William Buick. C$450,000. Lifetime Record: GISW-U.S., G1SW-Ger, G1SP-UAE, 14-9-2-1, $2,583,754. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Royal Champion (Ire), 126, g, 5, Shamardal–Emirates Queen (GB), by Street Cry (Ire). 1ST G1 BLACK TYPE. O/B-Sheikh Mohammed Obaid Al Maktoum (IRE); T-Roger Varian. C$150,000.
3–Adhamo (Ire), 126, h, 5, Intello (Ger)–Foreign Tune (GB), by Invincible Spirit (Ire). (€250,000 3yo '21 ARARC). O-Madaket Stables LLC, Michael Dubb, Louis Lazzinnaro LLC and Michael J. Caruso; B-Wertheimer et Frere (IRE); T-Chad C. Brown. C$75,000.
Margins: 2 1/4, 7 1/4, 1 1/4. Odds: 0.40, 5.10, 5.50.
Also Ran: Palazzi, English Conqueror, Starting Over, British Royalty, Dynadrive.
Click for the Equibase.com chart and the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

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Jody’s Pride Goes From Maiden Winner To Matron Victress, Possible For Breeders’ Cup Bid

Parkland Thoroughbreds and Sportsmen Stable's Jody's Pride legitimized a strong debut effort when taking on stakes company for the first time and earned an easy score in an off-the-turf edition of Sunday's 114th running of the $150,000 Matron for juvenile fillies going six furlongs at Belmont at the Big A.

Jody's Pride entered from a 10 1/2-length romp in a 5 1/2-furlong maiden special weight on August 9 at Saratoga Race Course, which also was originally scheduled for the turf. The daughter of 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah proved the impressive first start to be no fluke when racing uncontested throughout the stretch en route to a 3 1/4-length conquest for trainer Jorge Abreu.

Leaving from post 5 under returning rider Flavien Prat, Jody's Pride settled fourth and in the clear after breaking a step slow while Devil At Midnight and Love to Eat engaged in battle on the front end through an opening quarter-mile in :22.17 over the fast main track. Rounding the far turn, Jody's Pride leveled her way up to the front and matched strides with the pacesetters and quickly garnered a one-length command through a half-mile in :45.93.

Prat kept his charge to task through the stretch drive, extending her advantage to 6 1/4 lengths at the stretch call before crossing the wire in hand, completing the distance in 1:10.77, earning the breakthrough stakes win in the race that was downgraded from a Grade 3 to a listed event when it waas moved to the dirt.

Tricky Temper made an inside rally to grab runner-up honors, 4 3/4 lengths in front of third-place finisher A Primera Vista.

Sugar Hi, Leslie's Loot, Love to Eat and Devil At Midnight completed the order of finish. Independenceavenue, Marco T., Star of Mystery, Ever So Sweet and Amidst Waves were scratched.

An objection was launched by Kerri Raven, the owner/trainer of A Primera Vista, against Tricky Temper alleging interference at the quarter pole. The objection was ultimately disallowed.

Prat said Jody's Pride was able to quickly recover after the tardy start.

“I broke a step slow and I asked her to get herself into the race from there,” Prat said. “Once I hit the turn, she just swapped leads and naturally on her own took me there. I didn't want to take anything away that came easy.”

Jody's Pride is out of the New York-bred Scat Daddy mare Jody's Song, who was a two-time winner on grass for Abreu.

After contesting in a pair of off-the-turf events, Abreu expressed desire to finally run Jody's Pride on grass.

“I want to get her on turf eventually, but Prat always said he liked her better on the dirt,” Abreu said. “I breezed her on the turf and she breezed pretty good on the turf at Saratoga. That was before she even ran, and I trained her mom – she was 2-for-2 on the turf.”

Abreu said his main concern was Prat getting her to relax.

“When she ran the first time five-and-a-half [furlongs], you know how they can be mentally, especially the fillies – they want to be a little keyed up and stuff like that,” Abreu said. “The first day we galloped her after the race, she looked like she was going to go the other way, but then she's got a pretty good, level head, that filly.”

Abreu expressed interest in targeting the Breeders' Cup World Thoroughbred Championships with his newly minted stakes winner and said the Grade 1 Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1) going a two-turn mile could be within play.

“I think she's that kind of horse,” Abreu said. “[Which race] is something we have to sit down and see. We'll see how she comes out in the morning and take it from there. I would rather go a mile. A mile on the turf. My first preference is turf.”

Jody's Pride, bred in Kentucky by Steve Weston from the Scat Daddy mare Jody's Song, returned $4.50 for a $2 win wager as the second choice and banked $82,500 in victory to enhance her lifetime earnings to $140,250. She is unbeaten in both of her career starts.

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Juddmonte’s Idiomatic Dominates Spinster

Juddmonte homebred Idiomatic (Curlin) continued her ascent to the top of the distaff division Sunday with a dominant and fitting front-running tally in the GI Juddmonte Spinster S., a “Win and You're In” qualifier for next month's GI Breeders' Cup Distaff.

This was the second Spinster title for Juddmonte, which began sponsoring the prestigious race in 2005. Emollient (Empire Maker) carried the famed green and pink to victory here in 2013.

Backed at even-money to repeat rival Nest (Curlin)'s 4-5 odds, the Brad Cox trainee took clear command from the outset, doled out splits of :24.49, :48.31 and 1:12.24 and never faced an ounce of pressure all the way to the wire, which she crossed 4 1/4 lengths to the good. Le Da Vida (Chi) (Gemologist) was second, while Bellamore (Empire Maker) rounded out the trifecta. Nest could only muster a mild late bid and settled for fourth. The final time was 1:49.82.

“Actually, it was not easy looking at the race on paper with Nest being in there, a very good filly,” said winning rider Florent Geroux. “But my filly just keeps on improving and we know the distance is not a problem. She just keeps improving, and Brad and his team had her at her prime again today. She's just getting better and better, and I can't wait to ride her again.”

After methodically moving through her allowance conditions at Turfway Park at the start of the year, Idiomatic made her stakes debut a winning one in that venue's Latonia S. in March. She was a well-beaten second in Belmont's GII Ruffian S. in May before putting them back-to-back in the GIII Shawnee S. at Churchill in June and GII Delaware H. the following month. Idiomatic was last seen defeating the accomplished pair of Secret Oath (Arrogate) and Nest in a sloppy renewal of Saratoga's GI Personal Ensign S. Aug. 25.

This was Brad Cox's first Spinster victory. Of winning it for the famed operation whose name it carries, he said, “It's very special, and I want to thank [owner Fahad bin] Mr. Khalid and his family and obviously the Juddmonte team here in America. This is a big win for this filly, it's her second Grade I. She's had a fantastic year. [This race is] a 'Win and You're In' [for] the Breeders' Cup so we're excited about that. I've run four or five fillies in the past in [this race] and haven't had much luck, so she was able to break through for us today.”

Cox said of Idiomatic, “She's a tremendous talent, very physical, really. When I was saddling her in the paddock, I was, like, 'Wow, she's the biggest horse I've ever trained.' She's a monster. She has a tremendous stride and covers so much ground. She's really a freak–I mean, she really is a tremendous talent, and we're very fortunate to have her.”

Sunday, Keeneland
JUDDMONTE SPINSTER S.-GI, $580,250, Keeneland, 10-8, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/8m, 1:49.82, ft.
1–IDIOMATIC, 124, f, 4, by Curlin
               1st Dam: Lockdown (SW & MGISP, $445,900),
                              by First Defence
               2nd Dam: Rising Tornado, by Storm Cat
               3rd Dam: Silver Star (GB), by Zafonic
O/B-Juddmonte Farms Inc (KY); T-Brad H. Cox; J-Florent
Geroux. $367,350. Lifetime Record: 11-8-1-2, $1,416,840.
Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Le Da Vida (Chi), 124, m, 6, by Gemologist
               1st Dam: Viene Cantando (Chi) (MG1SW-Chi,
                               $119,875), by Gstaad
               2nd Dam: Cantan Las Flores (Chi), by Dynamix
               3rd Dam: Lanza Flores (Chi), by Gallantsky
O-Masaiva Inc.; B-Haras Santa Olga (CHI); T-Ignacio Correas, IV.
$98,750.
3–Bellamore, 124, m, 5, by Empire Maker
               1st Dam: Smart N Soft, by Smart Strike
               2nd Dam: Softly, by Binalong
               3rd Dam: Coragil, by Metfield
($170,000 Ylg '19 KEESEP; $350,000 2yo '20 OBSAPR).
O-Kaleem Shah, Inc.; B-Gainesway Thoroughbreds Ltd. (KY);
T-Carlos Santamaria. $59,250.
Margins: 4 1/4, 2HF, 4HF. Odds: 1.06, 12.90, 25.51.
Also Ran: Nest, Sixtythreecaliber, Malloy. Scratched: Misty Veil.
Click for the Equibase.com chart and the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

Pedigree Notes:
Idiomatic is the second-straight Spinster winner by super sire Curlin (last year's winner Malathaat took the Distaff next out en route to her second-straight Eclipse), and one of his 22 highest-level winners.

Idiomatic is a fourth-generation Juddmonte-bred and hails from the direct female line of Broodmare of the Year Best in Show (Traffic Judge), whose daughters have been brilliant producers and are responsible for a plethora of top horses over the last 50 or so years. One of those top horses was Juddmonte homebred, 'TDN Rising Star', and champion Close Hatches (First Defence), a full-sister to Idiomatic's stakes-winning and multiple Grade I-placed dam, Lockdown, who was fourth in the 2017 Juddmonte as a sophomore. Close Hatches is the dam of Tacitus (Tapit), whose big wins included the 2019 GII Wood Memorial S. and whose placings included the GI Kentucky Derby and GI Belmont S.

Broodmare sire First Defence, another Juddmonte homebred descending from the operation's wonderful Broodmare of the Year Toussuad (El Gran Senor), has 14 stakes winners out of his daughters. He is also the broodmare sire of 2021 GI Hollywood Derby hero Beyond Brilliant (Twirling Candy). First Defence now stands in Saudi Arabia.

Lockdown died in 2022 after producing just three foals. She has an unraced 3-year-old filly named Abditory (Medaglia d'Oro) and a yearling filly by Into Mischief.

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Committee Of One Noses Out Amidst Waves For Indian Summer Win

Still a maiden off a pair of seconds in turf sprints at both Ellis and Kentucky Downs, Committee of One jumped up into stakes company and rewarded his backers at 7-1 with the narrowest of wins in the Indian Summer S. Racing in the back half of the field after a bumpy beginning, the Steve Asmussen trainee stayed wide and in the clear up the backstretch run in pursuit of Riparound (Uncle Mo) through a :21.40 opening quarter. As the group fanned across the track passing the quarter pole, Committee of One produced a strong outside bid, hooked up late with Amidst Waves and dueled that rival to the line in a head-bobbing result that had to be decided by the judges.

“I had a very nice trip,” said winning trainer Steve Asmussen. “I knew there was a lot of speed in the race. I was very confident with him and comfortable where he was traveling. As soon as we passed the three-eighths (pole), I asked him to pick it up, and he picked it up beautiful. Down the lane he just kept coming, and he got the job done.”

The fifth stakes winner for Mendelssohn, Committee of One is out of a half-sister to MGSP Saint Vigeur (Smart Strike) and GSP Victory Way (City of Light). This is also the family of champion 2-year-old filly Sweet Catomine (Storm Cat) and MGISW Life Is Sweet (Storm Cat). The winner has a yearling Mastery half-sister and a weanling half-sister by American Pharoah. Sweetest Sound visited Girvin for 2024. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

 

INDIAN SUMMER S. PRESENTED BY KEENELAND SELECT, $243,907, Keeneland, 10-8, 2yo, 5 1/2fT, 1:02.40, fm.
1–COMMITTEE OF ONE, 118, c, 2, by Mendelssohn
                1st Dam: Sweetest Sound, by Smart Strike
                2nd Dam: Sweet Way, by Giant's Causeway
                3rd Dam: Sweet Life, by Kris S.
($80,000 Ylg '22 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-J. Kirk and
Judy Robison; B-Gatewood Bell, Ken Donworth & Ike Van
Meter (KY); T-Steven M. Asmussen; J-Cristian A. Torres.
$145,313. Lifetime Record: 3-1-2-0, $190,713.
2–Amidst Waves, 117, f, 2, Midshipman–Troublesome, by Into
Mischief. ($100,000 Ylg '22 KEESEP). O-R. A. Hill Stable,
BlackRidge Stables LLC, Swinbank Stables, Big Tufff Stables and
Black Type Thoroughbreds; B-Woods Edge Farm, LLC &
Ballyfair Bloodstock (KY); T-George Weaver. $46,875.
3–Shards, 118, c, 2, Bucchero–Cynthia's Fury, by Utopia (Jpn).
($175,000 2yo '23 OBSMAR). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-NBS Stable,
Crown's Way Racing LLC and Kevin Marko; B-Craig L Wheeler
(FL); T-Kelsey Danner. $18,750.
Margins: NO, NK, 4. Odds: 7.67, 1.92, 6.76.
Also Ran: Cowes, Fairhopecurly, Bledsoe, Sponge Bath, Riparound, Pinotslilgirl, Candymaker.

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