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No Nay Never’s TDN Rising Star Les Pavots Strikes At Vichy

Adding more gravitas, if any were needed, to her compatriot Ramatuelle (Justify) who had handed her a comprehensive beating in the G3 Prix du Bois, Haras d'Etreham and Craig Bernick's TDN Rising Star Les Pavots (Ire) (No Nay Never) found her level on Wednesday evening when winning Vichy's Listed Prix des Jouvenceaux et des Jouvencelles. Beaten 6 3/4 lengths by that hugely-talented Christopher Head trainee in the six-furlong test at Chantilly last month, the Francis-Henri Graffard-trained half-sister to the G1 Cox Plate and G1 Tancred S. hero Sir Dragonet (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) was up a furlong here and Mickael Barzalona was able to sit near the back and bide his time.

Still towards rear turning for home, the 19-10 favourite got rolling soon after to swoop on the front end passing the furlong pole. At the line, the filly who had been one of a trio of private purchases from Coolmore last year had half a length to spare over Juddmonte's Employ (Ire) (Caravaggio), with a neck back to Tulipa Chope (Fr) (Born To Sea {Ire}) in third.

Les Pavots, who had been handed the TDN Rising Star tag on her impressive debut over the Prix du Bois course and distance in early May, had found Balsam (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) 3/4 of a length too strong in this track's Listed Prix des Reves d'Or dropping to five later that month. That form was shown in a kind light when the winner went on to finish just over five lengths behind Crimson Advocate (Nyquist) in Royal Ascot's G2 Queen Mary S. next time and five furlongs was always going to be on the sharp side for a filly with this pedigree.

Les Pavots is the fifth of six foals out of Coolmore's G3 Ballyogan S.-placed Sparrow (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}), who also produced the dual stakes winner and G3 Gordon S. runner-up Sir Lucan (Ire) (Camelot {GB}). Her dam is the G3 Middleton S. winner and Oaks runner-up All Too Beautiful (Ire) (Sadler's Wells), a daughter of the legendary Urban Sea (Miswaki) and therefore a full-sister to the great Galileo (Ire). Sparrow's yearling colt is by Camelot (GB).

Wednesday, Vichy, France
PRIX DES JOUVENCEAUX ET DES JOUVENCELLES – BERNARD FERRAND-Listed, €60,000, Vichy, 7-19, 2yo, 7fT, 1:26.09, g/s.
1–LES PAVOTS (IRE), 125, f, 2, by No Nay Never
1st Dam: Sparrow (Ire) (GSP-Ire), by Oasis Dream (GB)
2nd Dam: All Too Beautiful (Ire), by Sadler's Wells
3rd Dam: Urban Sea, by Miswaki
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. O-Craig Bernick & Haras d'Etreham; B-Coolmore Stud (IRE); T-Francis-Henri Graffard; J-Mickael Barzalona. €30,000. Lifetime Record: GSP-Fr, 4-2-1-1, €69,000. *1/2 to Sir Dragonet (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), MG1SW-Aus, GSW-Eng & G1SP-Ire, $3,663,231; and Sir Lucan (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), SW & GSP-Aus, SW-Ire & GSP-Eng, $192,495.
2–Employ (Ire), 125, f, 2, Caravaggio–Emergent (GB), by Oasis Dream (GB). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-Juddmonte; B-Juddmonte Farms Ireland Ltd (IRE); T-Henri-Francois Devin. €12,000.
3–Tulipa Chope (Fr), 125, f, 2, Born To Sea (Ire)–Tulipe Rouge (Fr), by Panis. 1ST BLACK TYPE. (€5,000 Ylg '22 OSASEP). O-Alain Jathiere; B-Alain Chopard & Cedric Boutin (FR); T-Stephane Wattel. €9,000.
Margins: HF, NK, 2HF. Odds: 1.90, 7.60, 3.90.
Also Ran: Lightning Leo (GB), Man With The Plan (Ire), Vive La Reine (Fr), Wootton Verni (Fr), Gee Whizzer (Fr), Rose Academy (Fr). Video, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

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‘Quirky’ Canadian Champion Hazelbrook Makes 5-Year-Old Debut In Hendrie

Hazelbrook, Canada's 2022 champion female sprinter, will defend her crown in Saturday's $150,000 Hendrie Stakes (G3) at Woodbine.

Owned by True North Stable and trained by Lorne Richards, the multiple graded stakes-winning daughter of Bayern posted a 4-2-0 mark from six starts last season en route to her Sovereign recognition. Her 2022 triumphs also included the Sweet Briar Too and Ontario Fashion (G3).

Bred in Kentucky by Mike Bilbrey, Hazelbrook will be making her first start since a second to Our Flash Drive in the Bessarabian (G2) in November.

She brings a 6-2-1 record from 10 starts, accompanied by $348,058 (U.S.) in career earnings, into the 6 ½-furlong Tapeta race for fillies and mares, 3-year-olds and up,

“It's time to get her going,” said Richards, who watched Hazelbrook win last year's Hendrie by a hard-fought neck over multiple graded stakes winner Amalfi Coast, at odds of 26-1. “She spent the winter here in Ontario, at CamHaven Farms. A couple of people who work for me work there over the winter, so it was a good place to send her.”

Hazelbrook debuted with a third-place effort in a six-furlong main track race at Woodbine on November 7, 2020, in her only start of the year.

The bay returned to action the following September and proceeded to rhyme off two straight wins. After an eighth (the only time she's finished outside the top three) in the Duchess, Hazelbrook was shut down again for the season.

“I liked her from the very start,” said Richards, in an earlier interview. “The only thing is that she's very quirky. She has had issues with her digestive system for a while, so that's something we've had to monitor closely. The clinic in Guelph told me it's kind of like colitis. It's something where you have to take it day-by-day, but there's no denying she has plenty of talent. She can be high-strung, so we do our best. But I'm not going to complain. She shows up every time.”

As for her most impressive win to date, Richards can't narrow it down to one in particular.

“I couldn't really say because all of her races were pretty good. Hopefully, she comes up with another good one on Saturday. She should run well. When the gate opens, she tries. Hopefully, she gets a good trip with something to run at. She's a brute. She's a big, strong horse.”

Other starters include graded stakes-placed runners Loyalty, Sweet Enough (GB), Miss Speedy, and Baby No Worries.

Nine 3-year-old fillies will test one mile on the E.P. Taylor Turf Course in the $150,000 Ontario Colleen Stakes (G3T).

Mark Casse trainee Ryder Ryder Ryder, a bay daughter of Quality Road-More Hennessey, has two wins and a second from four career starts for owner Live Oak Plantation.

The 3-year-old dark bay, bred in Kentucky by Summer Wind Equine LLC, arrives at the Ontario Colleen off a fourth, one length behind the winner, in the 6 ½-furlong turf Alywow Stakes on June 25.

It was the filly's first run over the grass.

“I was a little disappointed in her last start, but Patrick [jockey, Husbands] assures me that she likes the turf,” said Casse. “He said she was just confused, but in the gallop out, she was very strong. So, we're going to give it another try.”

The race also features stakes winner Blind Spot, Soaring Softly Stakes (G3T) winner Queen Picasso (GB), 2022 Johnnie Walker Natalma Stakes (G1T) winner Last Call, and Alywow Stakes winner Mohawk Trail.

The Hendrie is race eight on Saturday's 10-race card. The Ontario Colleen is slated for race seven. First post time is 1:05 p.m. Fans can also watch and wager on all the action through HPIbet.com and the DarkHorse app.

FIELD FOR THE $150,000 GRADE 3 HENDRIE
Post – Horse – Jockey – Trainer

1 – Loyalty – Kazushi Kimura – Josie Carroll

2 – Hazelbrook – Jason Hoyte – Lorne Richards

3 – Talk to Ya Later – Ryan Munger – Ian Black

4 – Sweet Enough (GB) – Emma-Jayne Wilson – Roger Attfield

5 – Clitheroe (GB) – Rafael Hernandez – Graham Motion

6 – Miss Speedy – Sahin Civaci – Mark Casse

7 – Hard Edge – Eswan Flores – Stuart Simon

8 – Baby No Worries – Pablo Morales – Tim Girten

FIELD FOR THE $150,000 GRADE 3 ONTARIO COLLEEN
Post – Horse – Jockey – Trainer

1 – Preliminary (GB) – Kazushi Kimura – Chad Brown

2 – Blind Spot – Rico Walcott – Saffie Joseph, Jr.

3 – Queen Picasso (GB) – Declan Carroll – Christophe Clement

4 – Violet Gibson (IRE) – Sahin Civaci – Saffie Joseph, Jr.

5 – Born to Boogie – Jason Hoyte – Sylvain Pion

6 – Love to Shop – Emma-Jayne Wilson – Kevin Attard

7 – Ryder Ryder Ryder – Patrick Husbands – Mark Casse

8 – Last Call – Rafael Hernandez – Kevin Attard

9 – Mohawk Trail – Adam Beschizza – Kelsey Danner

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Skipping Shuvee, Secret Oath Targets Personal Ensign

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – Though Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas rarely passes on big stakes opportunities, he is skipping the GII Shuvee S. Sunday with Secret Oath (Arrogate).

After she turned in an uncharacteristic dull performance in the June 10 GI Ogden Phipps S., Lukas and the 4-year-old filly's breeder-owners Robert and Stacy Mitchell are using a little-bit-less-is-more approach at Saratoga Race Course.

“She's really, really doing well,” Lukas said Wednesday morning, “but we have made a decision to run here only once. We're trying to space her program so it leads to the Breeders' Cup. What we've got mapped out is the [Aug. 25 GI] Personal Ensign and then the [GI] Spinster at Keeneland. [The Mitchells] live in Louisville, so the Spinster is like the Kentucky Derby to them, and then the Breeders' Cup. That's the program that they have asked me to follow and that's not bad.”

Lukas, who will turn 88 on Sept. 2, brought 19 horses–10 of them 2-year-olds–to Saratoga this summer. Typically, he has been active at the entry box. Through the first four days of the meet, he has three seconds from five starters.

It's a very safe bet that by the time Secret Oath goes into the gate for the Personal Ensign, the other 18 horses in the stable will have made at least one start. Lukas said that Saratoga is the ideal spot for Secret Oath to get ready for the Personal Ensign, where she is likely to re-engage with standouts Clairiere (Curlin), Nest (Curlin) and Played Hard (Into Mischief), who are headed to the Shuvee.

“She thrives here because we don't have an opportunity to graze for an hour every afternoon like we do here,” he said. “We've got a chance to get her out every afternoon.”

Last year, Secret Oath won the GI Kentucky Oaks and finished fourth in the GI Preakness S. At Saratoga, Nest avenged her loss in the Kentucky Oaks and trounced Secret Oath in the GI Coaching Club American Oaks and the GI Alabama S. Secret Oath was third in the GI Cotillion S. and fifth in the GI Breeders' Cup Distaff.

Beginning this season at Oaklawn Park, Secret Oath beat Clairiere by 2 3/4 lengths in the GII Azeri S. and was beaten a neck by that foe in the GI Apple Blossom. On Oaks Day, May 5 at Churchill Downs, Secret Oath and Tyler Gaffalione were second by a neck to Played Hard. In the Phipps on June 10 at Belmont Park, she never was able to muster her off-the-pace run. It was just the fourth off-the-board finish in her 17-race career.

“The other day, I definitely think it was the track, and so does Tyler, that she had a sub-par race,” Lukas said. “He said it was rolling underneath her. Every time he gathered her up, she moved. Every time he asked her to run, he said she didn't get a hold of it. What happens here in the Personal Ensign, who knows?”

Lukas saddled his first starters at Saratoga in 1984, launching a run of 36 consecutive years at the track. He skipped 2020 and 2021 because of Covid-19 and a downturn in the quality of his stable. With Secret Oath as the centerpiece of the stable, he returned last summer and compiled a 7-6-2 record from 31 starts. He picked up his 61st stakes win at Saratoga with Naughty Gal (Into Mischief) in the GIII Adirondack S.

Secret Oath breezed five furlongs in 1:01 Monday over the Oklahoma training track in the midst of her longest break between races this season.

“I think it helps her,” Lukas said. “She's a better horse this year. If you want to know the truth, she can probably take more, but we're not going to test that. We're just going to space it out and come into the Breeders' Cup. We're skipping the Shuvee. It would be pretty easy to drop into the Shuvee, test the waters and see how she handles the track. We're going to just go for broke in the Personal Ensign.”

The Mitchells had planned to sell Secret Oath last fall, though Lukas urged them to keep her in training as a 4-year-old. He said he told them Secret Oath could earn millions more in purses this season and still bring a multi-million price at auction. They did pull her out of the sale and she has earned $576,350 this year.

“Well, if she never did anything more that would be pretty good,” Lukas said, “but she's going to get more. Three more and they're all big [purses].”

Lukas picked up a pair of seconds with his 2-year-olds on opening day–Lady Moscato (Quality Road) in a maiden special weight and Saratoga Secret (Arrogate) in the GIII Schuylerville S. His third second came Sunday with Just Steel (Justify), a $500,000 yearling purchase, making his second career start.

An easy winner in her debut at Ellis Park, Lukas said that BC Stable's Saratoga Secret showed in the Schuylerville that she is a promising filly.

“I thought her race was good,” he said. “She's another Arrogate and she's very immature, even more so than Secret Oath was. She's small and slight. She will benefit from the time. She's going to go in the [Sept. 3 GI] Spinaway.”

Lukas never lacks enthusiasm for his young horses and he is high on this crop.

“I think it's the best bunch we've had since probably the mid-'80s or '90s when we were a lot stronger than most,” he said.

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Parx Trainer Joseph Taylor Provisionally Suspended For Clenbuterol, Methylphenidate Positives

The Horseracing Integrity & Welfare Unit has provisionally suspended Parx Racing-based trainer Joseph Taylor after two of his horses tested positive for banned substances, according to the HIWU website.

HIWU reports that on June 18, Lymarie Arroyo's Cajun Cousin tested positive for methylphenidate and clenbuterol after finishing second in a $10,000 claiming race for fillies and mares at the Bensalem, Pa., track. Barbara Geraghty's Classy American tested positive for the same two banned substances after a second-place finish in a Parx starter allowance on June 20. Both were trained by Taylor.

Cajun Cousin subsequently won a $10,000 claiming race at Parx on July 12 before the positive test from June 18 was reported. She was claimed July 12 by trainer Michael V. Pino for Smart Angle LLP. According to the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority's Anti-Doping and Medication Control (ADMC) program, Rule 2262 (c) (5), a claim shall be voided if “the horse has a positive test for a prohibited substance.”

Both Cajun Cousin and Classy American are provisionally suspended.

The ADMC program lists methylphenidate as a stimulant that lacks FDA approval for use in horses. The drug, sold under various brand names, including Ritalin, is used in human medicine to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and narcolepsy.

Clenbuterol is listed among HISA's controlled medications as a Beta-2 agonist and bronchodilator that is sold under the brand name Ventipulmin (though the HIWU notice called clenbuterol a “banned” substance). It is a Class B drug approved for treatment of horses on a vet's list under specific dosing requirements. Horses are required to stay on the vet's list for a minimum of 21 days following their last dose and have official workout and clearance testing before racing eligibility may be reinstated.

Taylor was leading trainer at Parx in 2019, winning 103 races from 467 starts in just his third full year of training. A former assistant to Tony Correnti, Taylor got his start with harness horses at Liberty Bell Park in the 1977. He's saddled a total of 328 Thoroughbred winners from 2,011 starts for career earnings of $9,722,780. Taylor has won 13 races from 85 starts in 2023. His most recent runner was at Penn National on July 13.

During his provisional suspension, Taylor's horses are required to be moved to other trainers to be eligible to race.

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