Ride a Comet, a multiple Grade 2 winner and half-brother to Belmont Stakes winner Tapwrit, will begin his stallion career at Haras Los Notables in Argentina for the 2023 Southern Hemisphere breeding season, the South American publication Turf Diario reports.
The 8-year-old son of Candy Ride retired with eight wins in 18 starts, and he earned $593,743 for trainer Mark Casse and owners John Oxley and My Meadowview Farm.
A $375,000 purchase by Oxley at the 2017 Ocala Breeders' Sales Co. Spring 2-year-olds in training sale, Ride a Comet broke his maiden in his fourth career starts, winning a rained-off-the-turf maiden special weight at the Fair Grounds in December of his 2-year-old season. He followed that effort with a 3 1/2-length allowance optional claiming score over the Fair Grounds turf in his 3-year-old seasonal bow.
After a brief try on the Kentucky Derby trail in the Grade 3 Jeff Ruby Steaks at Turfway Park, where he finished eighth, Ride a Comet returned primarily to the turf and won six of his next seven starts, if in abbreviated fashion.
He shipped to Woodbine for the summer of his sophomore campaign and tallied an allowance win before scoring his first black type victory in the Charlie Barley Stakes. Ride a Comet then shipped to Saratoga to finish third in the G2 National Museum of Racing Hall of Fame Stakes, and he finished the year with a win in the G2 Del Mar Derby.
The injury bug caught up to Ride a Comet after his Del Mar Derby score, and a pair of tendon injuries kept him away from the races for 25 months. He returned in October of his 5-year-old season with a two-length allowance optional claiming win over the all-weather Tapeta at Woodbine, then he returned to the graded stakes ranks with a sweeping victory in the G2 Kennedy Road Stakes over the same surface.
Ride a Comet's 6-year-old campaign then started on a winning note in the G3 Tropical Turf Stakes at Gulfstream Park. He raced through the end of the season with the highlight of the rest of the year being a runner-up effort in the G1 Maker's Mark Mile Stakes at Keeneland.
Bred in Kentucky by My Meadowview, Ride a Comet is out of the Grade 1-winning Successful Appeal mare Appealing Zophie, making him a half-brother to 2017 Belmont Stakes winner Tapwrit, a resident of Gainesway whose first runners are 3-year-olds of 2023. He is also a half-brother to the Grade 3 winning Frosted filly Inject.
Ariel Lusardi of Haras Los Notables told Turf Diario that Ride a Comet already had about 90 mares committed to him before he even arrived to the farm, and he aimed to have a final book of at least 120 mares.
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