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Gate-To-Wire Wilton Victory Could Put Randomized On Path To Grade 1 Test

Klaravich Stables' Randomized scored a commanding gate-to-wire triumph in Friday's second running of the $135,000 Wilton at Saratoga Race Course.

The Nyquist bay made amends for a disappointing stakes debut last out when sixth in the Grade 1 Acorn on June 9 at Belmont Park by posting a sharp score in the one-mile Wilton which was contested out of the Wilson Chute and restricted to sophomore fillies which have never won a sweepstakes other than state-bred.

Randomized made every pole a winning one to break her maiden two starts back going a one-turn mile at Aqueduct. After being unable to flaunt frontrunning tactics in the Acorn, where she finished 11 1/2 lengths behind the victorious Pretty Mischievous, she was able to regain her pacesetting form and fend off a late rally from Just Katherine to win by 1 1/2 lengths for trainer Chad Brown.

Breaking from the outermost post 4 under Irad Ortiz, Jr., Randomized cleared the field and was in front exiting the chute, leading Unsung Melody by 1 1/2 lengths through an opening-quarter mile in 24.18 seconds over the fast main track. Stablemate Accede and Just Katherine took up the rear of the compact field.

Around the far turn through a half-mile in 47.49, Unsung Melody tried launching a bid with Luis Saez going to the right hand aboard his charge. Ortiz, Jr. still sat calm aboard Randomized and did not began asking his charge until upper stretch through three-quarters in 1:11.27. Just Katherine began making up ground towards the rail, but Ortiz, Jr. took a peek back and implored Randomized for more. Just Katherine, with Hall of Famer Javier Castellano up, switched leads to pursue an outside rally, but Randomized kept her foe at bay to win in a final time of 1:35.83.

Just Katherine finished 10 lengths ahead of Unsung Melody with Accede completing the order of finish. Sacred Wish was scratched and will point to next Saturday's Grade 1, $500,000 Coaching Club American Oaks at Saratoga.

Ortiz, Jr. said he intended to be on the lead with his eye on Unsung Melody, who was stretching out in distance.

“That was my goal to be on the lead without using too much, but I realized the other filly had showed speed before, she came from six furlongs,” Ortiz, Jr. said. “I had that in mind, but if my filly helped me and break the way she break, I will go for it. And then if he goes, I'll sit second, but we are so good, we are better than the other one and I was able to clear. It was perfect.”

Brown said he was happy with Ortiz, Jr.'s well-executed ride.

“I gave the option [of going to the lead] for him. It looked like there was a speed horse on the inside, so I told Irad just to break and just see what happens inside,” Brown said. “He told me, 'in that first turn, it looked like I had an easy lead, so I just went for it.' When she broke her maiden impressively two back, she was on the lead. So, it might prove to be that she's happiest there.”

Brown has opened the possibility of targeting the Grade 1, $500,000 Test going seven furlongs on August 5 at Saratoga, a race he previously won with Klaravich Stables' Separationofpowers in 2018.

“You'd think a cut back [would suit]. It's a pretty good group this year. It's shaping up to be a really fast race. She might have to put her hat in the ring for that race. I think it would make sense,” Brown said. “For this filly that we had high hopes for – we ran her in a Grade 1 last time and she didn't run well – for her to get back into form and have a nice, impressive win in a listed stake here, it's time maybe for her to go back up in class and run in a better race next time.”

Despite another distant effort, Brown's confidence in Accede, third in the Grade 2 Eight Belles in May at Churchill Downs, has not wavered.

“She ran so well at Churchill and now two times in a row, she's had disappointing results. I think she'll be a fine horse. I just have to go back to the drawing board with her,” Brown said.

Randomized returned $4.60 for a $2 win wager and banked $74,250 in victory which enhanced her lifetime earnings past the six-figure mark to $135,850.

Randomized is out of the Elusive Quality mare French Passport, who is a half-sister to multiple graded stakes winning millionaire Smooth Air. She was bought for $420,000 at the 2021 Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

Live racing continues Saturday with an 11-race card, featuring the Grade 1, $500,000 Diana in Race 4 [2:46 p.m. Eastern], the Grade 3, $175,000 Kelso in Race 9 [5:45 p.m.] and the Grade 3, $175,000 Sanford in Race 10 [6:19 p.m.]. First post is 1:10 p.m.

Saratoga Live will present live coverage and analysis of the Saratoga Race Course summer meet on the networks of FOX Sports. For the broadcast schedule and channel finder, visit https://www.nyra.com/saratoga/racing/tv-schedule/.

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Randomized Collects First Stakes Victory In Wilton S.

After breaking her maiden by 5 1/2 lengths Mar. 31 at Aqueduct, Randomized (Nyquist) was last seen running sixth June 9 in the GI Acorn S. behind GI Kentucky Oaks heroine Pretty Mischievous (Into Mischief).

Installed here as the 13-10 second favorite to her stablemate Accede (Into Mischief), the bay filly broke alertly from the outside post, carved out a half-mile in :47.49 and off the final turn, the $420,000 Keeneland September Yearling purchase dug down and found the wire by 1 1/2 lengths over Just Katherine (Justify) to collect her first stakes win.

On a potential start for his filly in the GI Test S. Aug. 5, Chad Brown said, “You'd think a cut back [would suit]. It's a pretty good group this year. It's shaping up to be a really fast race. She might have to put her hat in the ring for that race. I think it would make sense.”

The winner is out of an extended female family which includes GISP Penny's Reshoot (Turkey Shoot), plus GISP and MGSW Justwhistledixie (Dixie Union). French Passport is a half-sister to MGSW Smooth Air (Smooth Jazz) and Super Phoebe (Malabar Gold), dam to both MGISW Got Stormy (Get Stormy) and MSW Sir Alfred James (Munnings). Randomized counts unraced 2-year-old colt Marginal Cost (Justify) as a half-brother and she has a yearling half-sister by Frosted. Her dam foaled a filly by Maxfield May 11.

WILTON S., $125,550, Saratoga, 7-14, (C), 3yo, f, 1m, 1:35.83, ft.
1–RANDOMIZED, 120, f, 3, by Nyquist
                1st Dam: French Passport, by Elusive Quality
                2nd Dam: Air France, by French Deputy
                3rd Dam: Twin Propeller, by Known Fact
($420,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-Klaravich Stables, Inc.; B-Cove Springs, LLC (KY); T-Chad C. Brown; J-Irad     Ortiz, Jr.. $74,250. Lifetime Record: 4-2-0-1, $135,850.
2–Just Katherine, 120, f, 3, Justify–Reve Enchante, by Medaglia d'Oro. ($85,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-R.T Racing Stable; B-Boyd Brooks, Louis Brooks Ranch Limited Partnership, Hugh Owen, et (KY); T-Jose M. Jimenez. $27,000.
3–Unsung Melody, 122, f, 3, Maclean's Music–Narrow Sea, by Bodemeister. ($65,000 Wlg '20 KEENOV). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-WSS Racing, LLC; B-Scott Pierce & Debbie Pierce (KY); T-John Alexander Ortiz. $16,200.
Margins: 1HF, 10, 12 1/4. Odds: 1.30, 8.70, 3.50.
Also Ran: Accede. Scratched: Sacred Wish.
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Grand Prix De Paris Glory For Kingman’s TDN Rising Star Feed The Flame

Putting the “wow factor” into Friday night's G1 Grand Prix de Paris at ParisLongchamp, Ecurie Jean-Louis Bouchard's TDN Rising Star Feed The Flame (GB) (Kingman {GB}–Knyazhna {Ire}, by Montjeu {Ire}) swooped on unsuspecting victims to provide further proof of the outstanding merit of the G1 Prix du Jockey Club form. Only fourth behind Ace Impact (Ire) (Cracksman {GB}) in that 10 1/2-furlong Chantilly Classic, the Pascal Bary trainee who had dazzled on his first two starts looked an unlikely winner throughout the early stages with Cristian Demuro detached in last.

It was not until the turn into the straight that the eventual winner truly engaged and while he had all rivals still to pass there, he was in their range and ready to fire his bullets. Ryan Moore committed first on the Irish Derby runner-up Adelaide River (Ire) (Australia {GB}) with the 8-5 favourite Soul Sister (Ire) (Frankel {GB}) chasing hard, but it was Feed The Flame who was finishing with the biggest rattle on the outside. Looking as if he had jumped in 100 metres from the finish, the 13-5 second favourite was in domineering mood as he registered a length verdict over Adelaide River, with the Oaks heroine Soul Sister a neck away in third.

“He's a great horse,” Bary said. “The Prix du Jockey Club came a little soon for him and 2400 metres is his true distance. He broke slow, but he needs time to warm up and he has terrific acceleration. I won this race for Juddmonte with Zambezi Sun and both horses had exactly the same career up to this, winning the same first two races and then finishing fourth in the Jockey Club, so history can repeat itself sometimes. We will give him a break now and wait for September and the [G2] Prix Niel and then the Arc.”

 

So demonstrative when successful by 5 1/2 lengths over 10 1/2 furlongs on the opening card of ParisLongchamp's 2023 season, Feed The Flame beat the subsequent G3 Prix Hocquart winner First Minister (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and fellow TDN Rising Star Silver Crack (Fr) (Cracksman {GB}) next time over another 55 yards in this venue's Prix de Ferrieres conditions race prior to his first genuine test in the Jockey Club. This was probably an upgrade on that effort after a subsequent freshener, but it is hard to get away from how strong that race looks this year, with Ace Impact recording stunning sectionals to deny the top-class Big Rock (Fr) (Rock Of Gibraltar {Ire}) and the G1 Poule d'Essai des Poulains hero Marhaba Ya Sanafi (Ire) (Muhaarar {GB}).

Jean-Louis Bouchard said, “Christophe Soumillon said after his second outing that he was probably more of a 2400-metre colt rather than a Prix du Jockey Club colt and so an Arc type. We've been working together with Pascal Bary for a long time. With my trainers, it's very much a team effort and I'm also thinking of Stephane Wattel because it's thanks to him that if I own Feed the Flame as he trained the colt's brother Sacred Life for me who should have won his race.”

Soul Sister appeared to have no excuses in third and Kieran Shoemark said, “We didn't go particularly quick, which suited us because she's got a strong turn of foot and I tried to utilise that into the straight. She picked up well for me, but I struggled to peg back Ryan [Moore] and I think we've been beaten by a very good colt.”

Thady Gosden echoed that sentiment. “The winner looks an exceptional colt. He quickened by the whole field from arguably the worst position in the race like a proper horse,” he said. “He looked smart coming into this and was supplemented like our filly, he's probably one of the best mile-and-a-half horses around at the moment. She's run a very good race in defeat to him. There are options back with the fillies now, we'll see how she comes out of it and probably do that.”

Pedigree Notes

Feed The Flame is the sixth of seven foals and fourth winner out of the unraced Knyazhna, a half-sister to the dual group 2-placed sire Migwar (Ire) (Sea The Stars {Ire}) who produced the aforementioned Sacred Life (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}) whose career successes included the GIII Monmouth S., GIII Knickerbocker S. and G3 Prix Thomas Bryon. Also responsible for the G2 Prix Hocquart third Khagan (Ire) (Le Havre {Ire}), she is a granddaughter of the Listed Rose Bowl S. winner Crystal Crossing (Ire) (Royal Academy) who produced the G1 St Leger-winning sire and Derby runner-up Rule Of Law (Kingmambo), the GII Churchill Distaff Turf Mile runner-up Dame Marie (Smart Strike) and the listed-placed dam of the G3 Chartwell Fillies S. winner Tomyris (GB) (Invincible Spirit {Ire}). Her unraced 2-year-old colt Gulf Legend (Fr) (Dubawi {Ire}) was a €300,000 private purchase at the Arqana Deauville August Yearling Sale.

Friday, ParisLongchamp, France
GRAND PRIX DE PARIS-G1, €600,000, ParisLongchamp, 7-14, 3yo, c/f, 12fT, 2:26.71, g/s.
1–FEED THE FLAME (GB), 129, c, 3, by Kingman (GB)
     1st Dam: Knyazhna (Ire), by Montjeu (Ire)
     2nd Dam: Katyusha, by Kingmambo
     3rd Dam: Crystal Crossing (Ire), by Royal Academy
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN; 1ST GROUP WIN; 1ST G1 WIN. TDN Rising Star. (€270,000 Ylg '21 ARQAUG). O-Ecurie Jean-Louis Bouchard; B-Ecurie des Monceaux, Lordship Stud & Clear Light SAS (GB); T-Pascal Bary; J-Cristian Demuro. €342,840. Lifetime Record: 4-3-0-0, €113,150. *1/2 to Sacred Life (Fr) (Siyouni {Fr}), MGSW-US & GSW-Fr, $920,768; and Khagan (Ire) (Le Havre {Ire}), MGSP-Fr. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree, or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Adelaide River (Ire), 129, c, 3, Australia (GB)–Could It Be Love, by War Front. O-Mrs J Magnier/M Tabor/D Smith/Westerberg; B-Coolmore (IRE); T-Aidan O'Brien. €137,160.
3–Soul Sister (Ire), 126, f, 3, Frankel (GB)–Dream Peace (Ire), by Dansili (GB). O/B-Lady Bamford (IRE); T-John & Thady Gosden. €68,580.
Margins: 1, NK, 3HF. Odds: 2.60, 4.20, 1.60.
Also Ran: First Minister (Ire), Winter Pudding (Fr), Rubis Vendome (GB), Peking Opera (Ire), Silawi (Ire). Video, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

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