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Dam Of Grade 1 Winner Dream Tree Among Latest Supplemental Entries To Fasig-Tipton November Sale

Fasig-Tipton has cataloged two new supplemental entries to its 2020 November Sale. Both entries are connected to Grade 1 winners:

Voting Agreement (Hip 280): Three-year-old daughter of More Than Ready is a half-sister to 2020 Grade 1 winning 2-year-old filly Vequist. Vequist romped by 9 1/2 lengths in the Spinaway S. (G1) at Saratoga on September 6, followed by a close second in the Grade 1 Frizette Stakes at Belmont on Oct. 10. She will make her next anticipated start in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies. A $130,000 yearling purchase, Voting Agreement took her career debut at Saratoga last year at two and is placed again this year at three. Consigned as a racing/broodmare prospect by ELiTE, agent.

Afleet Maggi (Hip 281): Dam of Grade 1 winning 2-year-old filly Dream Tree. Dream Tree won her first five career starts at two and three, including the G1 Starlet Stakes, G2 Las Virgenes Stake, and G2 Prioress Stakes. Among those she defeated in her brilliant career are Grade 1 winners Mia Mischief and Moonshine Memories. Afleet Maggi is the dam of four winners from five to race, including another stakes performer in O' Maggi. Offered in foal to Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, already the sire of group/graded stakes winners on three continents, including recent G1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup winner Harvey's Lil Goil. She is consigned by Mike Freeny, agent for Dunquin Farm.

These entries may now be viewed online and will also be available in the equineline sales catalogue app. Print versions of all supplemental entries will be available on-site at Fasig-Tipton at sale time.

Fasig-Tipton will continue to accept approved November Sale supplemental entries through the Breeders' Cup.

The November Sale will be held on Sunday, November 8, in Lexington, Kentucky. The sale will begin at 2 p.m.

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Del Mar Releases Protocols for Owners Attending the Fall Meet

For the Del Mar Fall meet, which begins Saturday, Oct. 31, all CHRB licensed owners will be permitted on track for both morning workouts and afternoon races. Unfortunately, due to state and local guidelines, non-licensed guests are still not permitted. Owners wishing to attend the races should email or call Mary Forney, Executive Director of TOC (mforney@toconline.com) to secure access, and reservations can be made up until 24 hours before race day. To attend morning workouts, no advanced reservation is required.

On race days, owners must show their license when entering the track and park in the designated area just outside the clubhouse. Owners will enter through the gate on the east side of the track across from the receiving barn. Owners will be required to be on the owner reservation list, provide their CHRB owners license, and undergo a full COVID-19 health screening, including a temperature check. Masks will be required to be worn at all times, and owners must respect social distancing guidelines.

On non-race days owners attending morning workouts must use the vehicle gate adjacent to the fire-station off Jimmy Durante Blvd. The first come, first served seating is located in the spacious clubhouse box seat area. At this time, owners must remain in the clubhouse seating area and may not enter the paddock or the winners circle. Owners are still not permitted to access the backstretch. Any violation of this strict policy will result in a forfeiture of racetrack privileges.

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‘Everything Has Come Together This Year’ For Jersey-Based Trainer Rory Huston

For a trainer whose stable consists of “about 95 percent” Jersey-breds, Rory Huston could not have hand-picked a better final card for the Meadowlands-at-Monmouth Park meet as he closes out the best year of his career.

Saturday's 11-race program features three stakes races for Jersey-breds: The $75,000 Smart N Classy for fillies and mares 3 and up going a mile; the $75,000 Dan Horn for 3 year olds and up at a mile and a sixteenth on the grass, and the $75,000 Pinot Grigio for fillies and mares 3 and up at 5½ furlongs on the turf.

Huston has entered five horses in the three stakes races.

“I told someone the other day it's like New Jersey Thoroughbred Festival Day all over again,” said Huston.

With six horses entered overall for the final day of the Thoroughbred racing season in New Jersey, Huston has a chance to finish the best season of his 11-year training career with a flourish.

He has already matched a personal best with 14 wins (from 100 starters) this year and his 2020 earnings of $701,125 are a career-best.

“I would say yes, it has been our best year yet,” said Huston, who gears down most of his operation when the New Jersey racing season ends, returning to his role as manager of Overbrook Farm in nearby Colts Neck. “Everything came together well this year. The horses, knock on wood, have been healthy. The track has been good. A lot of the pots we won were for Jersey-breds worth $60,000, so that accounts for the earnings we've had.”

Huston will only start a handful of horses at other tracks after Saturday, with his focus every year on Monmouth Park.

“We'll run a few elsewhere after this, but mostly I will be at the farm,” he said. “We're foaling 15 mares and we have 11 yearlings that we're breaking. I usually stop once the weather starts to go bad. We give the horses a couple of months off and then have them ready to come back when Monmouth Park re-opens.”

Before that happens, Huston has some unfinished business.

He has Groovy Surprise and Dantastic in the Smart N Classy, Wallercito in the Dan Horn and both Joy's Pride and Pretti Tricki in the Pinot Grigio.

Groovy Surprise is coming off a third-place finish in a $16,000 optional claimer while Dantastic is coming off a solid Maiden Special Weight victory.

“I like the way Groovy Surprise is coming into this race,” he said. “I feel good about her. I feel good about Dantastic, too. She has needed to go longer. We've tried to go long all summer with her but every time we entered her the race didn't go.”

Wallercito comes into the Dan Horn off of consecutive runner-up finishes and is trying the turf again after breaking his maiden on the grass last year in his only career try on the surface. In the Pinot Grigio Stakes, Pretti Tricki will race for the final time, with the 5-year-old mare having banked $161,136 during a 21-race career.

“She's going to be a broodmare after this,” said Huston. “Hopefully she will run big and end her career well.”

Joy's Pride comes into the same race with her only career win on the turf, but is trying a grass sprint for the first time.

If just one of Huston's starters manages to find the winner's circle his win total for the year will be a career best.

“If it happens it happens,” he said. “This has been a very good year either way. My crew did a great job, my wife helps gallop and run the shed row, and everything has come together this year, even with the late start due to the virus.

“I have no complaints.”

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Making Money Betting Against the Favorite in Wonder Where Stakes

Based upon credentials, Woodbine Oaks Presented by Budweiser winner Curlin’s Voyage looks like a standout among the 10 entrants for the $250,000 Wonder Where Stakes Oct. 25 at Woodbine.