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Travers Runner-Up Disarm Sidelined For Rest Of Year

Graded stakes winner and former classic starter Disarm, runner-up in the Travers (G1) Aug. 26 at Saratoga, will not start again this year and has been sent to Dr. Larry Bramlage at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington for evaluation, trainer Steve Asmussen told Daily Racing Form.

Asmussen said the Gun Runner colt, who finished one length behind winner Arcangelo in the Travers, emerged from the race “pretty jammed up.”

Following evaluation, Disarm is to be sent to Winchell's Corinthia Farm in Lexington and the length of his stay would be contingent on Bramlage's recommendations, Asmussen told the Form.

A Winchell Thoroughbreds homebred, Disarm's lone win from seven starts this year came in the Matt Winn (G3) June 11 at the Churchill Downs meet at Ellis Park. After taking an allowance optional claimer Feb. 19 at Oaklawn to start his sophomore campaign, he posted a second in the Louisiana Derby (G2) March 25 at Fair Grounds and a third in the Stonestreet Lexington (G3) at Keeneland before finishing a creditable fourth in the Kentucky Derby (G1) May 6 at Churchill Downs, then rebounding to take the Winn over Verifying. He followed up with a fourth in the Jim Dandy (G2) at Saratoga in his start prior to the Travers in which he finished one length behind winner Arcangelo.

Overall, Disarm, who was produced by the Tapit mare Easy Tap, has a 2-3-2 record from nine career starts and $1,000,200 in earnings.

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Mendelssohn Filly Graduates at the Spa

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – A narrow loser in her debut on Aug. 6, Klaravich Stables's 2-year-old chestnut filly Weigh the Risks (Mendelssohn) showed grit again Sunday to break her maiden in the first race of the afternoon at Saratoga Race Course.

At the end of a nose-to-nose battle through the stretch with Appellate (Constitution), Weigh the Risks reached the wire first with the margin of victory listed as a head. Appellate's Hall of Fame jockey Javier Castellano claimed foul, alleging interference in the stretch of the 1 1/16 miles turf race, but after a lengthy review the stewards did not change the order of finish. Later Darling (More Than Ready) closed from six lengths back at the top of the stretch to finish third by a neck.

Progeny (Goldencents) and Appellate set the pace with splits of 24.53, 51.14 and 1:16.28. Weigh the Risks was three or four paths off the rail in the backstretch, but had clear running. She went after Appellate in the stretch and they came close to each other three times, which prompted the claim of foul by Castellano.

“She was quite wide in the race off a slow pace,” Brown said. “I'm not saying it was a dream trip, but she didn't have as much trouble.”

Weigh the Risks, the 3-5 favorite, reached the wire in 1:45.49. She paid $3.50 to win. Klaravich purchased Weigh the Risks for $205,000 at Fasig-Tipton October. She was bred by Porta Pai Stables.

“She had a rough trip first time out,” Brown said. “We've always thought a lot of her. An ugly, slow pace today, but she was able to grind it out against another filly who looks like

she's got a bright future. We were just lucky to get our nose down first.”

Weigh the Risks was leading trainer Brown's sixth 2-year-old maiden winner of the Saratoga meet. Five of them have been for Seth Klarman's Klaravich Stables.

1st-Saratoga, $105,000, Msw, 9-3, 2yo, f, 1 1/16mT, 1:45.49, fm, head.
WEIGH THE RISKS (f, 2, Mendelssohn–Beautiful Liar, by Candy Ride {Arg}) was favored in her career unveiling over this course and distance Aug. 6, closing from far off the pace to just get pegged a neck by Ozara (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}). Sent off the 3-5 choice to get the job done this time, the chestnut settled into a stalking fifth behind the leading pair of Progeny (Goldencents) and Appellate (Constitution) through a sensible opening quarter in :24.53. Biding her time two wide down the backstretch, she took aim at the leaders from the four-path approaching the quarter pole. Straightening for home, Progeny began her retreat, while Appellate hung tough as Weigh the Risks reached even terms midstretch. With the leading pair seemingly alternating on the front end with each stride, it was the Chad Brown trainee that gained the narrow victory over Appellate at the wire. Arguably the best performance, however, was produced by Later Darling (More Than Ready), who closed like a freight train after a problematic run early on to finish third. The winner, a half to Cheapskate Diva (Animal Kingdom), MSW, $188,040, is also half to a yearling filly by Protonico and a 2023 colt by Flameaway. Beautiful Liar, who sold for $23,000 carrying a Goldencents colt at Keeneland November in 2019, was bred back to Hard Spun this season. Sales History: $205,000 Ylg '22 FTKOCT. Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $78,750.
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One Stroke Over The Line: Fresu To Sit At Least 16 Days For Repeated HISA Whip Violations

Jockey Antonio Fresu, who has been making a run at Juan Hernandez for the leading rider title at Del Mar, will miss the final three days of the seaside track's summer meet and another 13 race days at Los Alamitos and Santa Anita for repeated violations of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority's riding crop rules.

Fresu, a 31-year-old native of Italy who came to Southern California from Dubai in April, was found to violate the six-strike limit on Sanger in the seventh race Aug. 27 and aboard Trouville in the fourth race Aug. 31. In each case, stewards said Fresu went one stroke over the limit.

Fresu was suspended one racing day for each violation, but because he has now been cited five times over a six-month period, the violations triggered two additional seven-day suspensions. Class 3 riding crop violations (1 to 3 strikes over the limit) result in a $250 fine (or 10 percent of jockey's portion of purse, which ever is greater), a minimum one-day suspension, and three points. For multiple violations, accumulation of 11-15 points over a six-month period results in a seven-day suspension; 16-20 points 15 days; 21 or more points, 30 days.

Fresu's 16 days of suspensions run Sept. 8-9-10-15-16-17-22-23-24-29-30 and Oct. 1-6-7-8-9.

Tom Knust, Fresu's agent, said the rider would meet with the stewards on Sunday over another potential violation of the six-strike limit rule from a race on Saturday that could extend his suspension another 16 days. Knust said each violation Fresu received has been for being one strike over the limit.

“He just taps a horse at the top of the stretch, then uses the crop six times down the lane,” Knust said during a Sunday morning interview with Mike Willman on the Thoroughbred Los Angeles radio show. “That puts him at seven. He can't do that tap first.”

Fresu came to Southern California from Dubai at the recommendation of Doug O'Neill assistant trainer Leandro Mora, who has managed a string for O'Neill at Meydan racecourse in recent years. Fresu reached the top 10 during his first full meet at Santa Anita but has excelled at Del Mar, wining 27 races from 150 mounts, with 20 seconds and 19 thirds. That puts him second behind Hernandez, who leads with 33 wins from 137 mounts.

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NTWAB To Honor Team Cody’s Wish, Gregson Foundation, Kane, Rice

Team Cody's Wish – led by Cody Dorman and his multiple Grade 1-winning namesake – will be honored along with the Edwin J. Gregson Foundation, Turf writer Mike Kane, and broadcaster Kenny Rice during the National Turf Writers And Broadcasters' 63rd annual Awards Dinner on Nov. 1 in Arcadia, California.

The NTWAB Awards Dinner is the organization's only fund-raiser, and a portion of the proceeds of the event will fund Thoroughbred industry charities and internships for prospective racing journalists. The 2023 NTWAB Awards Dinner will be held at The Woolf Den by The Derby near Santa Anita Park.

Team Cody's Wish, which also includes the Dorman family, owner-breeder Godolphin, trainer Bill Mott and his team, and jockey Junior Alvarado, will be honored with the Mr. Fitz Award for typifying the spirit of racing. The Cody's Wish story began at Godolphin's Gainsborough Farm in October 2018 when Cody Dorman, 13 at the time, was introduced to a five-month-old weanling by Curlin. There was an immediate connection between the horse and Cody, who was born with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome, a rare genetic disease that causes serious and often fatal physical issues. Godolphin staff that witnessed that first meeting were so impacted they decided to name the horse for Cody. The Cody's Wish story has resonated with people inside and outside of racing.

The Gregson Foundation, a nonprofit foundation developed to benefit California Thoroughbred racing's backstretch workers and their families, will be honored with the Joe Palmer Award for meritorious service to racing. Named for the late trainer and past California Thoroughbred Trainers President Eddie Gregson, the foundation provides financial resources for children of backstretch workers to attend college. In 2022, the foundation issued five new scholarships with $23,000 in grants, which coupled with 19 past recipients' applications approved, resulted in a $187,000 overall grant total for the year. The foundation has provided well over $1.3 million in scholarship grands over the past two decades.

Mike Kane, an NTWAB member since 1996 who served as president and five-time vice-president, has covered racing in print, radio, television and online since 1980, will be honored with the Walter Haight Award for career excellence in Turf writing. Kane's early newspaper work led the Schenectady Gazette from enhanced coverage of the Saratoga meetings to national coverage of Thoroughbred racing. With that, he won the Red Smith Kentucky Derby Writing Contest for five consecutive years. Still active, Kane is a longtime New York correspondent for BloodHorse and covers Saratoga and New York racing for Thoroughbred Daily News. His work has appeared in Daily Racing Form, Thoroughbred Racing Commentary, the Louisville Courier-Journal, New York Times, New York Daily News, Albany Times Union, USA Today, and Saratoga Living.

Kenny Rice, one of the most recognized and respected racing broadcasters who rose to national prominence on NBC's coverage of the Triple Crown and Breeders' Cup starting in 1999, will be honored with the Jim McKay Award for career excellence in broadcasting. Rice earned an Eclipse Award for outstanding local television achievement in 1996, the same year he became the youngest winner of the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association's Charles W. Engelhard Award for lifetime contributions to the Kentucky Thoroughbred industry. He has also been honored with a John Hervey Award for outstanding television reporting of the Standardbred racing industry.

Tickets for the NTWAB Awards Dinner, which can be purchased through the NTWAB website, are $85 for NTWAB members and Breeders' Cup credentialed media and $110 for non-members and guests. Invitations will be mailed to NTWAB members, and non-members can request an invitation by contacting Jennifer Kelly at thesirbarton@gmail.com.

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