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Former Newmarket-Based Trainer Ed Vaughan Scores First U.S. Win

Former European-based trainer Ed Vaughan recorded his first win in North America on Sunday when front-running Alnaseem (GB) captured a $104,000 conditioned allowance event at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.

Alnaseem, who was ridden to a 3 ¾-length victory on the Matt Winn Turf Course by Adam Beschizza, was Vaughan's ninth starter in the U.S.

“We got over to the U.S. in November and have been stabled at Keeneland since then,” Vaughan said. “In (Alnaseem's) stateside-debut, she ran as we expected. She was training well but had to get used to learning how horses run here being quicker from the gates.”

Beschizza and Vaughan have teamed up several times in Europe prior to Beschizza moving his tack to the U.S. in late 2017. The 28-year-old Beschizza used to be Vaughan's primary stable jockey in Europe.

Vaughan took out his trainer's license in 2004 and was based at Newmarket until his move to Keeneland in 2020. He spent four years working in the U.S. after graduating from the Irish National Stud course. He served as the assistant trainer to Noel Chance prior to joining forces with the late Alec Stewart. Vaughan started training on his own following Stewart's death in 2004, eventually moving his stable to Newmarket in 2011.

In Europe, Vaughan campaigned multiple Group 2 winner Dame Malliot and Group 3 winner Robin Hoods Bay (GB).

“The Kentucky circuit is a good place to be based,” Vaughan said. “Being at Keeneland it gives you the option to ship to many tracks around the area including Churchill Downs.”

For more information on Vaughan, fans can follow him on his Twitter at @edvaughan1.

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Gam’s Mission Gives DeVaux First Stakes Winner in Regret

Carrying the silks of the famed Lazy F Ranch, Gam's Mission (Noble Mission {GB}) rallied through the final eighth of a mile to take out Saturday's GIII Regret S. at Churchill, giving trainer Cherie DeVaux her first stakes winner since going out on her own.

Bumped soundly at the break by her inside rival Postnup (Declaration of War), the homebred settled slightly worse than mid-division from fifth, as favored Spanish Loveaffair (Karakontie {Jpn}) argued a moderate pace from the fence inside of Postnup, who raced in the two path. Ground-saving around the clubhouse turn, Gam's Mission switched off nicely through the middle stages and traveled three deep down the back of the track in the slipstream of the bald-faced Flown (Kitten's Joy). Urged along three furlongs out, Gam's Mission continued to follow Flown into the stretch, was switched off heels and grabbed a game Spanish Loveaffair in the final 50 yards en route to the victory. Flown held for third ahead of Oyster Box (Tapit), who ran a deceptively good race to be fourth after trailing those soft fractions.

“I'm very pleased with her effort today,” DeVaux, a long-time assistant to Chad Brown, said. “[Jockey] Adam [Beschizza] had her in a really good position throughout. She was a little green coming up the stretch, but she's lightly raced and still figuring it out. The Triple Tiara (in New York) is definitely on the table; it would be great to go compete in that.”

Second behind a 'TDN Rising Star'-worthy maiden-breaker from future GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies' Turf winner Aunt Pearl (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) over this course last September, Gam's Mission came from last to graduate at the Fair Grounds Mar. 21 and was exiting a neck defeat of Flown in a first-level allowance over 8 1/2 furlongs of this turf course May 8.

Pedigree Notes:

Gam's Mission is the fourth graded and black-type winner for her expatriated stallion and is his second stakes-winning 3-year-old filly of 2021, joining GII Appalachian S. heroine and 'TDN Rising Star' Jouster.

The February foal is one of two winners from as many to the races for her dam, a winning daughter of Lazy F Ranch's outstanding turf distaffer Auntie Mame, winner of the GI Flower Bowl Invitational H. and runner-up in the GI QE II Challenge Cup, a race that would certainly be on the radar for Gam's Mission. Auntie Mame's year-older half-sister was Star de Lady Ann (Star de Naskra), who upset Yanks Music (Air Forbes Won) in the 1996 GI Acorn S. at Belmont Park.

Auntie Martha sold for $11,000 in foal to Tonalist at the 2018 Keeneland November sale and produced a colt now named Tricky Lee, who is in training at Emerald Downs. The dam of a yearling filly by Cat Burglar, Auntie Martha foaled a colt by Dads Caps this season.

Saturday, Churchill Downs
REGRET S.-GIII, $150,000, Churchill Downs, 5-29, 3yo, f, 1 1/8mT, 1:51.02, gd.
1–GAM'S MISSION, 118, f, 3, by Noble Mission (GB)
                1st Dam: Auntie Martha, by War Pass
                2nd Dam: Auntie Mame, by Theatrical (Ire)
                3rd Dam: Lady Vixen, by Sir Ivor
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. O/B-Lazy F
Ranch (KY); T-Cherie DeVaux; J-Adam Beschizza. $90,210.
Lifetime Record: 4-3-1-0, $201,258. Werk Nick Rating: C. Click
for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Spanish Loveaffair, 118, f, 3, Karakontie (Jpn)–Spanish
Bunny, by Unusual Heat. ($35,000 Ylg '19 KEESEP). O-Eclipse
Thoroughbred Partners, Michael Hernon & Gary Barber;
B-Gainesway Thoroughbreds Ltd (KY); T-Mark Casse. $29,100.
3–Flown, 118, f, 3, Kitten's Joy–Rumbaua, by Bernstein.
($90,000 Ylg '19 KEESEP; $90,000 2yo '20 OBSAPR). O-Marc
Detampel; B-John R Cummins, Kenneth L & Sarah K Ramsey
(KY); T-Brendan P Walsh. $14,550.
Margins: 3/4, HD, 3/4. Odds: 6.10, 1.40, 5.20.
Also Ran: Oyster Box, Barista, Munnyfor Ro, Line Dancing, Postnup. Scratched: Saranya. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

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Gam’s Mission Gives Trainer Cherie DeVaux First Graded Victory In Regret

Carrying jockey Adam Beschizza and the yellow and black silks of Lazy F Ranch made famous by Hall of Fame gelding Forego in the 1970s, Gam's Mission rallied down the middle of the Churchill Downs turf course in Louisville, Ky., to win Saturday's Grade 3 Regret Stakes for 3-year-old fillies. The win gave Cherie DeVaux her initial graded stakes victory since taking out her trainer's license in 2018.

A daughter of the Galileo stallion Noble Mission (a full brother to Frankel), Gam's Mission covered 1 1/8 miles on good turf in 1:51.02, winning by three-quarters of a length. Spanish Loveaffair, the 7-5 favorite, finished second after battling on the front end with Postnup for much of the race. Flown finished third, with Oyster Box fourth in the field of eight, followed by Barista, Munnyfor Ro, Line Dancing and Postnup. Saranya scratched.

Gam's Mission raced in fifth early after being bumped at the start by Postnup, who veered outwardly from the number six post position and then raced to the front to secure an early advantage over Spanish Loveaffair. Postnup went the opening quarter mile in :24.55 and the half in :49.56 under pressure from the favorite, who put Postnup away after six furlongs in 1:14.27.

Beschizza swung Gam's Mission out for a clear run at the top of the stretch, battled with Spanish Loveaffair and Flown inside the eighth pole after a mile in 1:38.90, then gradually edged away approaching the wire. Flown was beaten just a head for second.

The win was the third consecutive triumph for Gam's Mission, whose only defeat came at the hands of eventual G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Aunt Pearl in a Sept. 1, 2020, maiden race at Churchill Downs. She won her 2021 debut in a maiden race at Fair Grounds on March 21, then came back for an allowance victory at Churchill on May 8.

Gam's Mission was produced from the War Pass mare, Auntie Martha, a Lazy F Ranch homebred presumably named after Martha Gerry, who campaigned three-time Horse of the Year Forego and was honored as an Exemplar of Racing at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., just prior to her death in 2007. Gerry was the aunt of William S. Farish, who stood Noble Mission at his Lane's End prior to the horse's export to Japan.

Cornelia Corbett, the daughter of Martha Gerry, continues to race a handful of horses in the name of Lazy F Ranch. Her son, Rick, is a partner in Gam's Mission, the first horse he bought into, according to Bill Farish, son of the Lane's End owner.

Cherie DeVaux, right, in the winner's circle with husband David Ingordo and jockey Adam Beschizza following the Regret

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Silver Dust Finds Sloppy Going To His Liking In Ben Ali

Tom Durant's veteran Tapit gelding, Silver Dust, emerged from a five-horse blanket finish to win Saturday's Grade 3, $150,000 Ben Ali Stakes over a sloppy main track at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. Adam Beschizza was aboard the winner for trainer Bret Calhoun.

Night Ops, the 4-5 favorite, was second, beaten a half-length, with Beau Luminarie third, Sprawl fourth and Treasure Trove rounding out the field of five older runners. A total of three-quarters of a length separated the entire field at the wire.

Silver Dust covered 1 1/8 miles on the sloppy surface in 1:50.21 after fractions of :23.79, :47.63, 1:12.32 and 1:37.28. The third choice in the wagering at 9-2, Silver Dust paid $11.20 to win.

Sprawl jumped out to the early advantage, with Silver Dust just to his outside throughout the running of the Ben Ali. Beau Luminarie and Night Ops were in the second flight with Treasure Trove trailing the field.

Silver Dust poked his head in front rounding the final turn, but Sprawl continued to fight back along the inside. Those two were joined in deep stretch, by Beau Luminarie to Silver Dust's outside and Night Ops and Treasure Trove further to the outside.

The win was the fourth G3 victory for Silver Dust and his seventh win overall from 33 starts. The winner's share moved his career earnings to $975,677.

Silver Dust was bred in Kentucky by Don Alberto Corporation. He was produced from the Hard Spun mare, Filare L'Oro.

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