Saratoga Race Course attendees will be in for a rare sight later this week, as trainer Jack Sisterson will unveil a one-eyed filly in the second race there Sept. 1. Perfectly Mperfect, owned and bred in New York by Torie Gladwell, has reportedly been progressing in her morning workouts and is set to debut at six furlongs on the dirt.
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Carolina Reaper Too Hot For Baden-Baden Rivals, Third Group Winner For Too Darn Hot
Gallop Racing's G3 Sweet Solera S. fifth Carolina Reaper (GB) (Too Darn Hot {GB}–Dark Promise {GB}, by Shamardal) lined up as the 9-5 favourite for Wednesday's 150th Renate & Albrecht Woeste Zukunfts-Rennen at Baden-Baden, Germany's first juvenile Group-race contest of the year, and became the third pattern-race winner for her freshman sire (by Shamardal) with a last-gasp triumph in the seven-furlong Iffezheim feature.
The March-foaled bay had earlier registered a sixth over the same trip in Royal Ascot's Listed Chesham S., before breaking through at Newmarket in her penultimate start, and was settled off a solid early tempo in eighth. Coming under pressure when slipping one spot on the home turn, she made headway out wide in the straight to launch her bid underneath the stands' side rail passing the furlong pole and stayed on in relentless fashion to secure a career high by a neck in the dying strides. Jean-Pierre Carvalho trainee Schutzenzauber (Ger) (Amaron {GB}) finished second, a half-length in front of West Man (Ger) (Areion {Ger}), in a thrilling three-way tussle for the prize.
“It was a tough race for her,” said winning rider Jack Mitchell. “In England, she's very sharp and she can make the running, but today she just didn't want to. I had to ride her differently, wherever she was happy, and she just did enough for me.”
Pedigree Notes
Darley's Too Darn Hot now leads his European first-season sire class in the group winners category with his trio of fillies. The list also features G3 Sweet Solera S. winner Fallen Angel (GB) and G3 Prestige S. victrix Darnation (Ire). Carolina Reaper is the seventh of nine foals and one of four winners produced by Listed Rosemary S. victrix Dark Promise (GB) (Shamardal), herself half to four black-type performers headed by G1 Oaks heroine Love Divine (GB) (Diesis {GB}). Love Divine's trio of stakes performers includes G1 St Leger-winning sire Sixties Icon (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) while another half-sister, Love Excelling (Fr) (Polish Precedent), is the dam of dual G1 Singapore International Cup and G1 Champions Mile hero Dunboyne Express (Ire) (Shamardal). The leading performer out of Carolina Reaper's third dam Maryinsky (Northern Dancer) is G1 Champion S. and G1 Premio Roma-winning sire Legal Case (Ire) (Alleged). The March-foaled bay is kin to a yearling colt by New Bay (GB) and a weanling filly by Time Test (GB).
Wednesday, Baden-Baden, Germany
150TH RENATE AND ALBRECHT WOESTE – ZUKUNFTS-RENNEN-G3, €55,000, Baden-Baden, 8-30, 2yo, 7fT, 1:27.14, g/s.
1–CAROLINA REAPER (GB), 125, f, 2, by Too Darn Hot (GB)
1st Dam: Dark Promise (GB), by Shamardal
2nd Dam: La Sky (Ire), by Law Society
3rd Dam: Maryinsky, by Northern Dancer
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN. (46,000gns Ylg '22 TATOCT). O-Gallop Racing; B-Lordship Stud (GB); T-Charlie Johnston; J-Jack Mitchell. €32,000. Lifetime Record: 5-2-0-0, €54,051. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Schutzenzauber (Ger), 128, c, 2, Amaron (GB)–Schutzenpost (Ger), by American Post (GB). 1ST BLACK TYPE; 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. O/B-Walter Busch (GER); T-Jean-Pierre Carvalho. €12,000.
3–West Man (Ger), 128, c, 2, Areion (Ger)–Wild Approach (Ger), by New Approach (Ire). 1ST BLACK TYPE; 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. (€52,000 Ylg '22 BBAGS). O-msn-racing; B-Gestut Brummerhof (GER); T-Andreas Suborics. €6,000.
Margins: NK, HF, 1 1/4. Odds: 1.80, 7.40, 5.20.
Also Ran: Mademoiselle Ninet (Ger), Geography (Ger), New Emerald (Ger), Son Roc (Ger), Emir (Fr), Royal Rose (Fr), Sommerblitz (Ger), Taifa (Ger).
Carolina Reaper
(Too Darn Hot– Dark Promise
)
(Amaron, by American Post
Zukunfts-Rennen
— Aydın Stud (@aydin_stud) August 30, 2023
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Bloodlines Presented By Iowa Thoroughbred Breeders And Owners Association: Travers Stakes Result Extends Rivalry Between Arrogate, Gun Runner
Seven years ago, a gray colt named Arrogate (by Unbridled's Song) won the Grade 1 Travers Stakes in a galloping tour de force on his way to becoming the season's champion 3-year-old colt, and on Aug. 26, a gray colt from the second crop by Arrogate followed suit by winning the Saratoga centerpiece.
Arcangelo has now won his last four races (from six lifetime starts), beginning with a maiden victory in March, then ascending to win the G3 Peter Pan Stakes in May, adding a classic in June with the Belmont Stakes, and now affirming his ranking at the top of this division with success in the Travers on Saturday.
This was a strong weekend of racing achievements for the deceased Arrogate. On the same day as the Travers, another of the stallion's second-crop sons, Abeliefinthislivin, won the G3 Canadian Derby at Century Mile Racetrack in Edmonton, Alberta. On the previous day at Saratoga, Arrogate's first-crop star, Kentucky Oaks winner Secret Oath, was second in the G1 Personal Ensign, the filly's third second-place finish in a G1 this season.
Then Arcangelo laid down trumps in the Travers. This race might also be referred to as the “Tapit Travers,” because the first two finishers are out of mares by Tapit (by Pulpit), and the third-place finisher, Tapit Trice, is a son of the three-time leading national sire.
Immediately behind Arcangelo in the Travers was Disarm, whose sire Gun Runner had been third to Arrogate in the 2016 Travers. Arrogate had then proceeded to win the 2016 Breeders' Cup Classic over California Chrome, the 2017 Pegasus, and the 2017 Dubai World Cup, when he overcame a poor start that put him last in the opening furlong and made up many lengths from a very disadvantageous position to catch Gun Runner about 200 yards from the finish and win by open lengths.
After the race in the desert, their careers diverged: Arrogate never won another race from three subsequent starts; Gun Runner never lost another one, from five, all G1s.
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If you appreciate our work, you can support us by subscribing to our Patreon stream. Learn more.Just as they were competitors on the racetrack, so Arrogate and Gun Runner have proven exciting rivals at stud. Despite Arrogate's early death before the end of his third season at stud, both have plentiful representation and have made their marks.
But, just as Arrogate blasted all his rivals to bits in the 2016 Travers, Gun Runner provided a similar display with this first crop of racers in 2021 and 2023, beginning his initial term at stud with juvenile champion Echo Zulu and G1 Hopeful Stakes winner Gunite, and continuing with a second season of stallion success that included G1 Preakness Stakes winner Early Voting; G1 Arkansas Derby and Haskell winner Cyberknife; Santa Anita Derby, Pennsylvania Derby, and Malibu winner Taiba; and G1 Cotillion winner Society. He was the leading freshman sire by a whacking margin, and Gun Runner has continued to show an extraordinary dominance as the leading sire of his third-year cohort.
Yet for all Gun Runner's excelling, there was one shocking fact about this season for the chestnut son of Candy Ride. As of Derby Day, Gun Runner hadn't had a single graded stakes winner in 2023. Not one.
By the end of June, he'd racked up a couple at the G3 level. After the year's midpoint, the tide has turned, and Gun Runner has now had how many graded winners? Six in the last 60 days.
Over the past weekend, Gun Runner had a pair of G1 winners at Saragota: Echo Zulu in the Ballerina and Gunite in the Forego, as well as Vahva in the G3 Charles Town Oaks. Now the tide is floating one boat, the Gun Runner boat.
With the number of the stallion's stock training forwardly and racing effectively, it is almost certain that the Gun Runner tide will be even more overwhelming in the months to come.
Bred in Kentucky by Besilu LLC, Gun Runner is the most successful stallion son of leading sire Candy Ride and is out of the graded stakes winner Quiet Giant, who's a top-quality daughter of leading sire Giant's Causeway. With that pedigree, combined with superior athletic ability, Gun Runner had every opportunity to make a mark at stud, and the handsome chestnut has done just that. Long may he run.
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2023 Jockey Club Gold Cup Cheat Sheet: Get to Know the Horses
The road to the 2023 Longines Breeders’ Cup Classic winds through Saratoga Race Course one final time this weekend on Saturday, Sept. 2, as older male dirt horses race 1 ¼ miles in the $1 million Jockey Club Gold Cup.
