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My Girl Red, Prat Team For Sorrento Stakes Victory
Erich Brehm's homebred filly My Girl Red showed speed from the start and won the 52nd edition of the Grade 2 Sorrento Stakes for juvenile fillies by 4 3/4 wide open lengths Friday at Del Mar near San Diego, Calif.
The bay daughter of 2014 Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner Texas Red – owned in part by Brehm and trained by My Girl Red's conditioner, J. Keith Desormeaux – covered six furlongs in 1:12.12 in eased-up fashion and picked up a check for $90,000 from the $150,500 total purse.
My Girl Red is the first stakes winner from the first crop by Texas Red.
Flavien Prat, Del Mar's leading rider with 20 firsts in 11 days of racing, rode My Girl Red for his seventh stakes win of the meet, far and away the most by any jockey at the shore session.
“I didn't have any special instructions; just ride her with confidence,” said Prat. “She showed speed away from there, then we got a nice breather on the turn. From there she just went on and won in hand.”
Finishing second was Reddam Racing's first-time starter Get On the Bus and running third was Tricar Stables' Exchange Vows.
My Girl Red, a Kentucky-bred, paid $3.80, $2.40 and $2.20 across the board as the 9-10 favorite in the field of six fillies.
Desormeaux indicated that his charge would point next for the meet's top offering for young fillies, the Grade 1, $250,000 Del Mar Debutante on Sunday, September 6.
“I know it's still early and the time is average,” said Desormeaux. “But I think she can go even quicker and I sure don't want to complain. She has always shown signs of class and it's nice to see one duplicate in the afternoon what we see in the mornings.”
Prat won two races on the afternoon, as did riders Umberto Rispoli and Juan Hernandez.
In the Pick Six, a lone ticket holder had races 4 through 9 tabbed correctly and picked up a score of $181,849 for his/her efforts. The $9,216 winning ticket was sold to a Player Management Group wagering through Xpressbet at their Oregon hub.
The winning horses were: Race 4 – #2 Madame Barbarian ($8.40); Race 5 — #10 Nero ($7.60); Race 6 — #10 Tripple Shake ($8.00); Race 7 — #5 Solitaire ($36.40); Race 8 — #4 My Girl Red ($3.80), and Race 9 — #6 Leggs Galore ($12.20).
Racing resumes at Del Mar Saturday with an 11-race card starting at 2 p.m.
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Jackie’s Warrior Outlegs The Competition In Saratoga Special
Kirk Robison's Jackie's Warrior broke sharply from the gate and never looked back, making the grade in the 115th running of the Grade 2, $150,000 Saratoga Special presented by Miller Lite at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
The son of Maclean's Music joined the likes of champions Colin (1905), Regret (1914), Morvich (1921), Blue Larkspur (1928), Top Flight (1931), Whirlaway (1941), Native Dancer (1952), Nearctic (1956), Bold Forbes (1975), Conquistador Cielo (1981), and Favorite Trick (1997) as winners of the historic six-furlong event for 2-year-olds.
Piloted by Joel Rosario, Jackie's Warrior was swift in breaking from his outside post and was sent straight to the lead, recording fractions of 22.06 seconds for the opening quarter-mile and the half-mile in 44.85.
At the top of the stretch, Jackie's Warrior was still in command with Therideofalifetime unleashing a bid to his outside. But Jackie's Warrior prevailed and crossed the wire under a hand ride to win by three lengths in a final time of 1:09.62 on the fast main track.
Therideofalifetime finished another four lengths ahead of third-place finisher Momos.
Completing the order of finish were Garoppolo, Cazadero, Papetu, Market Alert, Pickin' Time and Hold the Salsa. Roderick and Caramel Chip were scratched.
Returning $8.20 for a $2 win ticket, Jackie's Warrior arrived off a 2 ½-length debut win at Churchill Downs over subsequent Saratoga Special runner-up Therideofalifetime. He boosted his earnings to $127,564.
The victory was a fifth triumph in the Saratoga Special for Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen, who is just one short of Hall of Famer James Rowe Sr.'s record six Saratoga Special wins.
“With babies, I just wanted a clean break as he did in his first race and let his talent take over,” Asmussen said. “Being Saratoga, there were a lot of nice forms coming into it but when you get to Saratoga, not everybody likes the circumstances. I'm glad to see that he does. Good final time. Watching today's races, I think the track played fair. I don't think it [the lead] was anywhere he had to be, it's just where he was.”
The victory marked the meet-leading seventh stakes score for Rosario, who said he felt confident throughout aboard Jackie's Warrior.
“He [trainer Steve Asmussen] wanted me to get him out of there where he put himself,” Rosario said. “He broke well and we were just hanging on the lead, so I just rode it from there. He was looking really nice and he was enjoying that. He had his going ears back and forth and he looked like he was going easy even though the fractions were fast. He was having no problem with that. When they came close to him he wanted to go, and I felt even more confident at that point. I knew he had something left.”
Bred in Kentucky by J & J Stables, Jackie's Warrior is out of the A.P. Five Hundred mare Unicorn Girl.
Live racing returns on Saturday with an action-packed 12-race program for Runhappy Travers Day. Spearheaded by the 151st running of the Grade 1, $1 million Runhappy Travers, the enticing undercard includes the Grade 1, $300,000 Longines Test for sophomore fillies; the Grade 1, $300,000 Ballerina presented by NYRA Bets, a “Win and You're In” qualifier for the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Sprint; the Grade 3, $200,000 Troy for 4-year-olds and up on Mellon turf and the Grade 3, $150,000 Waya for older fillies and mares on the inner turf. First post is 12 p.m. Eastern.
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Texas Red Filly too Fast in Sorrento
My Girl Red, who became the first winner from her freshman sire (by Afleet Alex)’s small first crop when she aired by 4 1/4 lengths at Santa Anita June 14, ran to short odds in Friday evening’s GII Sorrento S. to become his first stakes and graded stakes winner as well. Campaigned by the same connections who raced the 2014 GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile S. winner and 2015 GII Jim Dandy S. winner, the bay out-footed her five rivals in the early scramble for position to take a narrow advantage into the turn. She posted splits of :22.17 and :45.88, and was not for catching as she kicked on wrapped up and clear of buzzed-about firster Get On the Bus, who did well from the rail draw and raced like a horse who would benefit from Friday’s experience.
“I didn’t have any special instructions; just ride her with confidence,” said winning rider Flavien Prat. “She showed speed away from there, then we got a nice breather on the turn. From there she just went on and won in hand.”
Trainer Keith Desormeaux added, “Flavien was telling me how she was looking around and kind of lost interest the last eighth. What was nice to me was that she was doing that the first quarter. I know it’s still early and the time is average. But I think she can go even quicker and I sure don’t want to complain. She has always shown signs of class and it’s nice to see one duplicate in the afternoon what we see in the mornings.
My Girl Red will be pointed towards the GI Del Mar Debutante S. Sept. 6.
Friday, Del Mar
SORRENTO S.-GII, $150,500, Del Mar, 8-7, 2yo, f, 6f, 1:12.12, ft.
1–MY GIRL RED, 120, f, 2, by Texas Red
1st Dam: Morakami (SP, $145,532), by Fusaichi Pegasus
2nd Dam: Astrid, by Concern
3rd Dam: Mescalina, by Smarten
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($70,000
RNA Ylg ’19 OBSOCT). O/B-Erich Brehm (KY); T-J. Keith
Desormeaux; J-Flavien Prat. $90,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0,
$120,000. *1/2 to Over Thinking (Overanalyze), SP, $261,081;
Oh Marvelous Me (Bluegrass Cat), GSP, $207,558; and Gold
Street (Street Boss), MSW, $229,468. Werk Nick Rating: B.
Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Get On the Bus, 118, f, 2, Uncle Mo–Storybook (UAE), by
Halling. ($150,000 Ylg ’19 FTSAUG; $340,000 2yo ’20
OBSMAR). O-Reddam Racing LLC; B-Mr. Joseph Allen LLC (KY);
T-Doug F. O’Neill. $30,000.
3–Exchange Vows, 118, f, 2, Tapiture–Champagne Exchange, by
Exchange Rate. ($6,000 Ylg ’19 FTCAYR). O-Tricar Stables, Inc.;
B-Bar C Racing Stables Inc (CA); T-Sal Gonzalez. $18,000.
Margins: 4 3/4, 5, 1HF. Odds: 0.90, 2.80, 19.90.
Also Ran: Scat’s Choice, September Secret, Scaterra. Scratched: Trip to Seoul. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
Pedigree Notes:
Just a $17,000 KEESEP yearling, Texas Red missed by a neck from far back in his sprint debut before breaking through third out on the Del Mar synthetic in August of his juvenile season. He was third behind eventual champion American Pharoah in Santa Anita’s GI FrontRunner S. that September, and with that one absent crushed his competition in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at a tick under 14-1, besting fellow young sires Carpe Diem and Upstart in the process. He added the GII Jim Dandy S. at Saratoga the following year with a narrow defeat of Frosted, and eventually took up stud duties at Crestwood Farm.
Dam Morakami, meanwhile, was just a $21,000 pick-up at the 2017 Keeneland January sale while carrying a Street Boss colt. That colt was later sold for $150,00 at Keeneland September and would go on to take a pair of stakes (thus far) as Gold Street. Morakami produced another Texas Red filly last May and a Kitten’s Joy filly this year before visiting Into Mischief for 2021.
Prominent owner/breeder G. Watts Humphrey has a connection to both of Friday’s Grade II-winning juveniles. He raced Morakami, and bred GII Saratoga Special S. winner Jackie’s Warrior’s dam sire A. P. Five Hundred.
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