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Summer Breezes: Brown Saddles Pair In Travers Day Maiden

Some of the most highly anticipated races during the summer racing season are the 'baby' races during the boutique meetings at both Saratoga and Del Mar and at Ellis Park, which attract its fair share of high-priced offspring from a variety of top national outfits.

Summer Breezes highlights debuting 2-year-olds at those meetings that have been sourced at the breeze-up sales earlier in the year, with links to their under-tack previews. To follow are the entries for Saturday at Saratoga, Ellis Park and Del Mar:

Saturday, August 26, 2023
Ellis 2, 2yo, f, 6f, 1:17 p.m. ET
Horse (Sire), Sale, Price ($), Breeze
Lookster (Hard Spun), FTMMAY, 185,000, :10.2
Consignor: Sequel Thoroughbreds, agent
Buyer: Deuce Greathouse, agent

 

Makeup (Classic Empire), OBSAPR, 260,000, :10
Consignor:Thorostock LLC, agent
Buyer: Heiligbrodt/Jackpot/Whispering Oaks

 

Saratoga 6, $136k, 2yo, f, 6f, 2:31 p.m. ET
Here'syourtrouble (Munnings), OBSAPR, 270,000, :10
Consignor: Scanlon Training & Sales, agent
Buyer: Bradley Thoroughbreds LLC, agent

 

Lady de Berry (Practical Joke), OBSMAR, 270,000, :10.1
Consignor: Wavertree Stables Inc (Ciaran Dunne), agent
Buyer: Mike Ryan, agent

 

She's Wicked Smart (Runhappy), OBSMAR, 120,000, :10
Consignor: de Meric Sales, agent
Buyer: John Grossi

 

Ellis 5, 2yo, f, 1m, 2:53 p.m. ET
Promismeanempire (Classic Empire), OBSMAR, 30,000, :10.4
Consignor: Golden Rock Thoroughbreds, agent
Buyer: Carla Christoffersen, agent for Bill Dory

 

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Making Waves: Oceanport The Place To Be

   In this series, the TDN takes a look at notable successes of European-based sires in North America. This week's column is highlighted by the victory of Camila T in a maiden race at Monmouth Park.

 

Monmouth Suits Filly To A T

First-time starter Camila T (No Nay Never) won on debut at Monmouth Park for R.T Racing Stable and Victoria's Ranch, LLC and trainer Juan Avila (video).

Bred by Barronstown Stud, the January foal was a €120,000 Goffs Orby yearling on the bid of Stripes Stables. The first winner for her dam, Just Imagining (War Front), the filly has a yearling half-brother by Wootton Bassett (GB) and a weanling full-sister. Her second dam Imagine (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), herself responsible for five stakes winners led by Group 1-winning juveniles Van Gogh (American Pharoah) and Horatio Nelson (Ire) (Danehill), is a daughter of blue hen matriarch Doff The Derby (Master Derby), the dam of standout runner Generous (Ire) (Caerleon).

A total of 39 of Coolmore's No Nay Never's 76 U.S. runners have now won (51%) with the victory of Camila T. Of these, nine, or 12%, have earned at least one black-type score, including GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies heroine Meditate (Ire), dual graded winner Nay Lady Nay (Ire), and GIII Palm Beach S. victor Vitalogy (GB).

 

 

The Forest Through The Trees

Robert S. Evans's Poet's Woods (Lope De Vega {Ire}) put it all together in her fifth start, winning at Monmouth Park for trainer Kent Sweezey this past weekend (video).

Bred by SF Bloodstock, the 3-year-old filly was a $300,000 Keeneland September yearling buy by P. Lawley-Wakelin and she is a half-sister to a trio of Kitten's Joy stakes winners led by GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint hero turned Lanwades Stud sire Bobby's Kitten. Yet to race for Celestial Woods (Forestry) is a juvenile filly by Kitten's Joy named Gerwig and a yearling filly by Twirling Candy. The mare was bred back to the last-named sire this spring. This is the extended family of at least four Group/Grade 1 winners and sires anchored by Wild Event (Wild Again).

Ballylinch Stud's Lope De Vega is going from strength to strength, and he has sired 38 winners from 70 runners (54%) in America. His seven stakes winners from that batch (10%) are anchored by Grade I winners Newspaperofrecord (Ire), Aunt Pearl (Ire), and Program Trading (GB), with the latter striking in the Saratoga Derby earlier this summer.

 

 

Honourable Mention

Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners' Anisette (GB) (Awtaad {Ire}) is on something of a roll, taking her fourth start in a row in Del Mar's GI Del Mar Oaks on Saturday (video). Trained by Leonard Powell, she first appeared in Making Waves just under two months ago and won the GII San Clemente S. at the seaside track in July.

 

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University Of Kentucky Opens Aged Horse Care And Education Facility

The Linda Mars Aged Horse Care and Education Facility, located on the University of Kentucky Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment's C. Oran Little Research Farm, recently marked its official opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony — unlocking future training and research innovations in care for revered, older horses.

The new center will help lead breakthroughs in care for older horses, a demographic making up approximately one-third of the worldwide horse population. Additionally, the space will help train the next generation of scientists and serve as an important resource for the university's equine undergraduate students.

Support from Linda Mars, philanthropist and avid horsewoman, made the facility possible.

“By supporting the enhancement of our scientific knowledge, I hope more horses around the world will be able to grow old gracefully, remain healthy, active and enjoy a high quality of life in their older years,” Mars said.

Gluck Equine Research Center associate professor Amanda Adams, established the University of Kentucky's Aged Horse Research Program. Adams, who specializes in caring for senior horses, is also an adjunct faculty member at Lincoln Memorial University College of Veterinary Medicine. She established and supports a herd of aged horses with conditions ranging from pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (more commonly known as Cushing's disease), to obesity, equine metabolic syndrome and insulin dysregulation.

“We are thrilled that the facility is now open and that we can put it to good use. We need this space to support our efforts and in training the next generation of scientists,” Adams said. “The best part of the ceremony was Linda Mars leading the first senior horse into the new facility. I am incredibly thankful for her dedication and love of senior horses.”

The new facility features state-of-the-art laboratory space to support Adams' onsite research program, allowing previously unfeasible studies. The facility will also house teaching and workshop space for 40 graduate and undergraduate students and serve as home to the MARS EQUESTRIAN™ Scholar program. The space will host small public workshops focusing initially on topics such as the care of aging horses, nutrition, management and endocrine diseases.

“For the past 20 years Mars Horsecare, via the WALTHAM™ Equine Studies Group, has been proudly helping to lead the way with numerous global research collaborations to support the wellbeing, performance and longevity of senior horses and ponies,” said Pat Harris, head of the WALTHAM™ Equine Studies Group, “The new the Linda Mars Aged Horse Care and Education Facility is an extremely exciting addition to our resources, to help us expand and share knowledge to support our mission to make the world a better place for horses.”

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