The Grade 1 stakes winner, who hadn't seen racing action since finishing fourth in the Aug. 28 H. Allen Jerkens (G1) at Saratoga, set fractions of 22.08, 44.42 and 56.19 seconds while under heavy outside pressure from Gatsby and asserted his class in the stretch to win by a half-length in a quick 1:08.63.

“At the top of the stretch, I said, 'Go on Champ!' Normally, I watch a race and watch it very nervous. With him, I never thought he would get beat,” trainer Saffie Joseph Jr. said. “I don't think we have him fully cranked, so to see him back like that…”

Tyler Gaffalione rode Drain the Clock for the first time Friday.

“There was speed on the inside and outside of us. Saffie told me to use him going away from there. He broke alertly and put himself in a great spot. He took a lot of pressure the whole way around there but he's a classy horse, very classy individual, and he responded when I asked him,” Gaffalione said.

“He's a racehorse. You can see on his form, he's very consistent. He shows up every time. Coming off the layoff, it's not an ideal situation taking that much pressure, but he handled everything great and Saffie always does a great job getting them ready.”

Sent to post as the 2-5 favorite, the 4-year-old son of Maclean's Music had won three races in four prior starts at Gulfstream, including last season's Swale (G3), before hitting the road to win the Bay Shore (G3) at Aqueduct and the Woody Stephens (G1) at Belmont. His only loss at Gulfstream came in a second-place finish in the two-turn Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth (G2).

“I think he's going to have a big year,” said Joseph, who mentioned the Gulfstream Park Sprint (G3) on Feb. 19 as a likely target.

Gatsby held second, 5 ¼ lengths ahead of Where Paradise Lay.

Todd Pletcher-trained Nocturnal, the 2-1 second choice who was out of action since a Feb. 28 optional claiming allowance at Gulfstream, was never a factor after breaking a step slowly from his rail post position.

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The son of Into Mischief has not raced since March due to injury, when he was sent to his co-owner WinStar Farm to recover. WinStar trainer Destin Heath had the colt in training at Keeneland until mid-July, when he was shipped up to Pletcher' barn in New York. Life Is Good has now breezed twice at Saratoga since his arrival. WinStar's Elliott Walden indicated that the Jerkens will be used a step toward a return to two-turn races later in the year.

Also pointed to the Jerkens are Jackie's Warrior, last weekend's runaway winner of the G2 Amsterdam for trainer Steve Asmussen, as well as Pletcher trainee Following Sea, elevated to second last out in the G1 Haskell.

“That's our current target,” Pletcher told DRF of Life is Good and the Jerkens. “See how the horse continues to train, but you're not going to find any easy spots to come back in, I wouldn't think.”

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Born April 15, 1992, Pleasantry is by Cutlass, out of the Master Derby mare Logiealmond. She had 13 starts winning $72,455 and was trained by Hall of Fame trainer Allen Jerkens (who also campaigned War Front, Devil His Due, Belong to Me and many other known names in Thoroughbred history). Pleasantry's breeder/owner also had an illustrious career in the Thoroughbred industry, with the latest winner being Country House, the 2019 Kentucky Derby winner.

Pleasantry has had 12 foals, sired by such names as Rubiano, Wagon Limit and Full Mandate.

Florida TRAC reached out to Our Mims Retirement Haven owner/President Pete Mirabito late last fall, inquiring about an opening for the mare. Diagnosed with Cushings, she wasn't tolerating the Florida heat and humidity. Katie Schmit, TRAC Farm Manager commented on the Florida TRAC Facebook page that Pleasantry has “handled the trip with her usual class and grace and is looking forward to meeting her new friends at her forever home.”

Jimmy Jerkens, the son of Allen Jerkens, trained Pleasantry during winter racing while his father was in Florida. He remembered Pleasantry, sired by Cutlass, who he also remembered well. He said “She was sort of a small chestnut with a white face, and I remember she tried really hard and certainly had 'desire.'” Jimmy was also happy to hear she has a soft landing now at the Haven.

Haven President Pete Mirabito said “Jeanne built Our Mims Retirement Haven for horses like Pleasantry: horses who have contributed to the industry as best they could and are now ready for a forever home where they can roll in the bluegrass and relish in the love and adoration of their fans”. He also added, “I am looking forward to getting to know Pleasantry and watching her find her place among “the ladies of Our Mims”. I am grateful to Florida TRAC for taking such great care of this wonderful soul and to all our loving supporters who keep Jeanne's dream alive.”

“It is very heartbreaking when we lose one of our residents here because we love them all dearly”, said Ann Cheek, OMRH Vice President and Farm Manager. “But the excitement of getting a new 'lady,' knowing she will spend the rest of her life in peace and comfort, always helps with that heartbreak, because they reminded us of what our mission is.”

OMRH became a 501(c)3 nonprofit in 2006: Founded by Jeanne Mirabito. Featured in Barbara Livingston's More Old Friends, the Haven specializes in “restoring health and spirit in aged mares.” The Haven is supported through donations, and its online shop.

Our Mims Retirement Haven is accredited by the Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance and the Kentucky Equine Health and Welfare Council. OMRH has received grants from Thoroughbred Charities of America (TCA), After The Finish Line (ATFL) and the Annenberg Foundation.

Current horses include Exciting Bucket, Braggin Rights, Jo Jo's Gypsy, Play Book, Kidnap Katie, My Heart Sez Yes, Theheartofdixie, Alpha Heat, Sweet Ambition, and the OMRH mascot, Tea Bisquit. Our Mims grandson, Elmhurst, arrived at the Haven in October of 2011, and passed at the age of 31 on January 4, 2021.

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TVG will be live on site this weekend at Del Mar covering a loaded weekend of racing that includes two Breeders' Cup Challenge Series “Win and You're In” races – the Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes and the Grade 1 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes as well as the $100,000 Shared Belief Stakes which will serve as a prep race for the Kentucky Derby in September.

Fans of international racing can also tune in to TVG to watch racing from Goodwood Racecourse in England. Coverage begins at 5:30 a.m. PT/8:30 a.m. ET on Saturday.

NBC Sports presents three hours of live horse racing this Saturday at 7 p.m. ET on NBCSN, highlighted by the $250,000 Bing Crosby Stakes.

Saturday August 1

3:28 p.m.—$500,000 Grade 1 Personal Ensign Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on FS2

Reigning champion older dirt female Midnight Bisou, the No. 1-ranked horse on the NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll, will seek a 14th graded stakes victory when she aims to defend her title in the Personal Ensign. Midnight Bisou, a dark bay 5-year-old daughter of Midnight Lute, has put together a sensational record of 21-13-5-3 with purse earnings of $7,371,520. Trained by Hall of Famer Steve Asmussen, Midnight Bisou will attempt to be the first horse to score back-to-back Personal Ensign triumphs since John C. Oxley's champion Beautiful Pleasure did so in 1999-00. This year, Midnight Bisou has sustained her winning form, displaying an inside-closing effort in the inaugural $20 million Saudi Cup in February and last out won the Grade 2 Fleur de Lis at Churchill Downs by 8 ¼ lengths.

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5:30 p.m.—$100,000 Shared Belief Stakes at Del Mar on TVG

In a season of unusual happenings, Saturday's Shared Belief Stakes fits right in. The 3-year-old feature – which has drawn six runners – breaks new ground in that it is the first time a Kentucky Derby prep race has been conducted at the seaside oval in its 81-year history. Heading the lineup is Honor A.P., the No. 2 ranked horse on the NTRA Top Three-Year-Old Poll, who comes into the race off a tally in the Grade 1 Santa Anita Derby on June 6. Honor A.P. was second in the San Felipe at Santa Anita in his race prior to that and has been training forwardly at Del Mar for his prep. Mike Smith, who has handled Honor A.P. in all four of his starts so far, once again has the call Saturday.

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5:31 p.m.—$200,000 Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks at Monmouth Park on TVG

With the top six finishers back from the Grade 3 Delaware Oaks on July 4, as well as fourth-place Acorn Stakes finisher Lucrezia, the Monmouth Oaks field has several accomplished fillies. Dream Marie, off her second-place finish to Project Whiskey in the Delaware Oaks, where she was beaten a half-length, certainly fits. Dream Marie signaled her arrival as a potential stakes winner after winning a $50,000 starter allowance at Gulfstream Park in December, following that up with a win in a $75,000 optional claimer on January 20 and a second on May 15 in the Hollywood Wildcat.

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5:42 p.m.—$750,000 Grade 1 Whitney Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on FS1

A field comprised of five millionaires – including three horses in the top 10 of the NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll – will make up a talented group of older horses assembled for the 93rd running of Saturday's Whitney going 1 1/8 miles. Trainer Al Stall, Jr. saddled subsequent Breeders' Cup Classic winner and champion Blame to victory in the 2010 Whitney off a four-race win streak. This year, the conditioner sends out red-hot Tom's d'Etat, who also arrives at the race off similar form with four straight wins. Owned by Gayle Benson's G M B Racing, the 7-year-old son of Smart Strike enters the Whitney off graded stakes triumphs in the Grade 2 Fayette on October 26 at Keeneland, the Grade 1 Clark on November 29 at Churchill Downs and the Grade 2 Stephen Foster on June 27 at Churchill Downs. Tom's d'Etat also leads all Whitney entrants with three victories at the Spa. As a 3-year-old, he broke his maiden at third asking by four lengths and won an allowance optional claiming event by nine lengths the following year. Last season, he was a one-length winner of the Alydar.

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6:18 p.m.—$300,000 Grade 1 H. Allen Jerkens Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on FS2

A rematch featuring the superfecta of last month's Grade 1 Woody Stephens will highlight another high-caliber contest, with No Parole looking to propel his 3 ¾-length victory into more glory in Saturday's H. Allen Jerkens Memorial. No Parole, owned by Maggi Moss and Greg Tramontin, is unbeaten going one turn, registering a perfect 4-for-4 ledger in sprints. Overall, the Tom Amoss trainee has won 5-of-6 starts, including his gate-to-wire win in the seven-furlong Woody Stephens on June 20.

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6:50 p.m.—$250,000 Grade 2 Bowling Green Stakes at Saratoga Race Course on FS2

Grade 1-winning veterans Channel Maker and Sadler's Joy, who together have combined to earn more than $4.7 million in purses during their lengthy careers, will attempt to put the brakes on frustrating losing streaks Saturday in the Bowling Green on the inner turf. Channel Maker has gone winless in nine starts since his neck victory in the Grade 1 Man o' War in May 2019 at Belmont Park, also contested at the Bowling Green distance. Most recently, he finished fourth by a length after pressing the pace into the stretch of the 1 ¼-mile Manhattan on July 4 at Belmont. Sadler's Joy earned his lone career Grade 1 victory in the 2018 Sword Dancer at Saratoga. The 7-year-old gelding capped his 2019 campaign by winning the Grade 3 Red Smith last November at Aqueduct, but has gone winless in four tries this year.

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9:30 p.m.—$250,000 Grade 1 Bing Crosby Stakes at Del Mar on NBCSN and TVG

The Bing Crosby appears likely to have nine starters Saturday when the venerable sprint stakes will be run for the 75th time. Multi-millionaire McKinzie was slated to head up the Crosby field for this go-round, but trainer Bob Baffert has called an audible and indicated he'd rather run him later in the meet at seven furlongs in the Pat O'Brien Stakes on August 29. Stepping up to fill the role of favorite in the Crosby is Fashionably Fast, a 5-year-old gelding who is just what his name indicates. The son of the late Lucky Pulpit has won six of his last seven starts, each time using his exceptional speed to make or stalk the pace. His last outing – the Grade 2 Triple Bend Stakes over seven panels at Santa Anita on June 7 – saw him run a sharp second to McKinzie.

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Sunday August 2

9:30 p.m.—$250,000 Grade 1 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes at Del Mar on TVG

Three Grade 1 winners are slated to start in the six-horse field of fillies and mares assembled for the Clement L. Hirsch. Ce Ce, winner of the Grade 1 Beholder Mile and Apple Blossom Handicap this year, comes in off a third-place finish behind fellow Hirsch entrant Fighting Mad in the Grade 2 Santa Maria Stakes at Santa Anita on May 31. Hard Not to Love, who took the Grade 1 La Brea Stakes last December, was second in the Santa Maria while Ollie's Candy seeks her first victory since taking last year's edition of the Clement L. Hirsch.

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As one of the original partners of the Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital, Dr. Scott Pierce could scarcely have gone into breeding with fewer illusions. Yet perhaps that is precisely why he has proved so adept; why no more than 100 acres at Omega Farm, straddling the Bourbon and Scott County border, should have launched a couple of alpha males from the same crop towards Grade I prizes at Saratoga. On Saturday, Three Technique (Mr Speaker) lines up for the Allen Jerkens S.; and then, a week later, Country Grammer (Tonalist) is sizing up the Travers S. (Both races, incidentally, under the Runhappy sponsorship umbrella.)

Certainly Pierce meets in similarly wry vein the suggestion that his professional experiences might sooner have put him off.

“Actually it was quite refreshing, not having to call owners and go through all the bad news,” he says. “And it also helped me relate to what my clients were going through, because now it was happening to me too. So no, it wasn’t discouraging at all. In fact, it made you tolerate and accept when things go wrong. That’s just part of the industry, part of a natural process, part of raising a horse. Things go wrong with all living species. And, when things do go well, this industry is a lot of fun. Especially when you have a business plan, and it starts to bear fruit, and you start to watch your horses run on the weekend.”

True, the 20-year transition out of veterinary practice–these days Pierce confines himself to public auction work–into a farm owned with his wife, Debbie Spike-Pierce, was a guarantee that he would never have anything recognizably resembling “retirement”. But there’s no mistaking the accompanying fulfilment.

And that breadth of perspective, critical to both his vocations, prepares Pierce even for the times when the best of fortune is sometimes conflated with regret. When Country Grammer made a splendidly game Travers reconnaissance in the GIII Peter Pan S., he confirmed that Pierce and his team can breed and raise a good horse: perhaps he can even emulate Saoirse Abu (Mr Greeley), a dual Group 1 winner in Europe. On the other hand, there’s no getting away from the fact that Country Grammer’s dam Arabian Song (Forestry) was culled—for just $5,000, apparently to Saudi Arabia—a couple of months after her son had been sold, for $60,000, at the 2018 September Sale.

“Let me just say I have no illusions; I don’t have any problem with that,” Pierce says candidly. “As we all know, the perfect, 20/20 vision is hindsight. If we had that, we’d make a lot less mistakes in this world. That’s just life. But we’re a small farm, and small farms usually purchase lesser-valued mares. I purchased Arabian Song [privately] for very little, as a maiden mare. And I’d been a little disappointed in her first three foals to hit the races. On a small farm, when things don’t happen relatively quickly, then there’s turnover; there’s downsizing.

“If you can buy more expensive mares, they’re longer-term investments; and they require bigger stud fees. I don’t go there. That’s not been our model. It’s extremely expensive to keep mares. So small breeders like me typically tend to have more turnover. I had way too much inventory, and when it came time to be downsizing, she was one that got away. And that’s okay. You know, I’ve had clients tell me that when they look back and ask how many mares they regret selling, they can maybe count one or two out of 100. Now I did break my rule a little bit, because typically I try to let four of them get to racing age, and she’d just had three. But they were claimers.”

All that makes perfect sense. On the face of it, after all, with another $90,000 banked for her Runhappy weanling at that same Keeneland November Sale, you could argue that a nugatory initial investment had produced a perfectly acceptable yield from her stint on the farm. Both Country Grammer and the Runhappy filly, moreover, proved productive pinhooks for their purchasers, much as Pierce had promised would prove the case. Country Grammer, remember, is a May 11 foal.

“I asked quite a few 2-year-old pinhookers to go see him,” Pierce recalls. “They loved his big walk, but said he was too immature, too small, to make a 2-year-old sale. Then somebody bought him out of California, I believe–and, lo and behold, he ended up going to a 2-year-old sale. Ciaran Dunne had him and when they got $450,000 I was over the moon. That’s awesome. Those people will come back and want to buy another one from you.

“He was always a bit of a diamond in the rough, quite frankly: always a very nice individual, just not the super-obvious yearling that everyone just had to have. The mare was always bred late, which was a disadvantage because her foals were always a bit small. Always correct, but just a little immature. So he was not a great big bull. But he had that huge walk, and a great mind.”

Three Technique, sold as a weanling at the previous November Sale for $50,000, was found to have suffered a minor ankle injury after flattening into fourth in the GII Rebel S. He now reverts to seven furlongs, over which trip he twice impressed–by an aggregate 10 lengths–at the end of his juvenile campaign.

His dam has already produced Stan the Man (Broken Vow), runner-up in the GII True North S. on his latest start, and Three Technique will be going out to bat for a full brother entered in the September Sale.

“Three Technique was getting a lot of press early on so we’ll see, maybe he’ll be as good as some of the early reports,” Pierce says. “The yearling is very nice and correct, real similar to Three Technique. That mare Nite in Rome (Harlan’s Holiday), she just has lovely foals.”

Another smart sophomore from the same little Omega crop is Bank On Shea (Central Banker), winner of a $500,000 stakes in the New York Stallion Series last winter. He was bred from a $5,000 mare, another that was flipped: brought into the program for 18 months, to do a job. Bank On Shea made six figures at auction, and his dam had no pedigree that warranted longer investment. (“Thank goodness for the breeders’ fund!” exclaims Pierce.)

Even Saoirse Abu, who made $260,000 as a yearling, was bred from an unraced Florida-bred, picked up cheaply as a maiden mare. One way or another, then, it would certainly seem that Pierce has developed a shrewd eye for a horse during a career that had no roots in the Thoroughbred world.

Yes, his father was also a veterinarian, but in rural Missouri. “I knew I didn’t want to do small animals and I didn’t want to do food animals,” Pierce recalls. “So I went to Oaklawn Park as a vet student back in the early ’80s and worked for a track vet there. And I recall standing by the first turn and hearing the sound of the horses galloping by during the race. And that was my epiphany, the ‘ah-ha’ moment that said: this is for me.”

For the education of his eye, in the years since, he gives much credit to a long professional association with Mike Ryan.

“If you hang out for 30 years with probably the best agent in the world, you hope some of that rubs off,” he says. “Just in my visualizing the type of horse people want, the type to breed for. I don’t get down in the weeds with him: I’m his veterinarian, and I value our friendship. But vetting horses for him, I do see the type that he picks. That athletic horse, typically very correct. And obviously some that others tend to not choose. Mentally and physically, they have certain characteristics. A big stride. No question, he’s the best; and it’s been a privilege to work for him for so long.”

Pierce was one of a handful of partners when Rood and Riddle launched in 1985. “I was fortunate to meet Bill Rood early in my career,” he says. “And this has been a really fun endeavor: to start off with four or five of us and end up, I’ve lost count, with over 70 vets now. So it’s been fulfilling. I always say how sorry I feel for people that get up in the morning and don’t want to go to work, because I was never that person. I got tired, obviously, and wore out, but I always loved doing what I was doing.”

His veterinary career spanned a period of unprecedented advances. When Rood and Riddle opened for business, the first ultrasound pregnancy tests had been conducted only three years previously. But the restless quest of science goes on, each new answer raising new questions. The rest of us can only envy people like Pierce, viewing each breakthrough not as a conclusion but as a platform for fresh discovery.

“It’s been phenomenal, all the advancements that have occurred,” Pierce enthuses. “I started off in mare work for years, loved it, but then became interested in upper airways: there was really nothing published, we had nothing to go on. So I started to do a lot of research, and actually I’m working on another paper now.

“Technology is advancing to the point where we know now that you can miss a lot of things in the resting endoscopic exam. That’s why your ‘over-grounds’, your dynamics, are becoming so popular. We know a lot more; we know that certain airways aren’t good, and that you don’t want to buy those grade threes. But I think there’s still too much subjectivity. You can have 10 vets look at the same video, and half of them call it one thing and half call it something else.”

He rejects fears that veterinary checks are becoming too defensive, suggesting that this perception simply reflects better information.

“With the repositories now, everyone is looking at the same exam,” he says. “Obviously if you’re not happy with that, you can have your own exam performed by your vet. But I think there’s more transparency on the vetting end now. And the steroid bloods they installed, that’s another positive change. There hasn’t been a single positive reported yet. A lot of good stuff has happened.”

And that is no less true of his personal journey through the profession. Most obviously, he met Debbie at Rood and Riddle, where she took over as President/CEO two years ago. Besides being listed as co-breeders of Country Grammer, they have “bred” daughters Vivian and Audra.

“My partner in business, and partner in life,” Pierce says.

“Debbie’s helped me at sales since the mid-’90s, she’s one of the best at reading radiographs. She still helps me, goes to Tattersalls every year.”

And it was also at the “day job” that Pierce found Emma Quinn, originally his assistant but now–along with husband Dermot–indispensable to the day-to-day operation of Omega Farm.

“We started off small with just five or six mares,” Pierce says.

“And Emma and Dermot have done a great job, making the business as profitable as it could be–both with a few boarders, and in allowing me to do my thing. It’s important for the owner to have his or her boots on the ground, too: to see things, fix things, advise. But they’re the ones who have created the business, not me.

“Emma also has a little sale consignment, Garrencasey, that mostly sells off our farm; and she’s really good at that too. For years everyone has kept trying to hire her away from me, but she stuck it out–so something must be going right!”

Indeed it must. Omega may be a relative minnow: Pierce says that even around 20 mares is still too many. But this is a consignment that deserves attention. Its graduates are given a foundation that allows them to keep thriving. Pinhookers were able to get Country Grammer, Three Technique and Stan the Man for an aggregate $192,000, before selling them on for $780,000.

Pierce and his crew don’t cram these animals with supplements. They just try to raise a healthy, robust animal, physically competent for the next stage of its education. “We try to do things as naturally as possible,” says Pierce. “We try not to have an extended period in the stalls, etc. They’re not raised rough, they’re well cared for, but they’re raised naturally.”

So nobody is trying to be reinvent the wheel here. Cloth is cut according to resources, and it’s a case of keep things sufficiently shipshape to ride out the bumps in the tide.

“The way the small guy gets lucky is breeding to a new stallion in his second or third year and hoping he hits before the stud fees go up dramatically,” Pierce says. “But there’s downsides that go with that. A lot of stallions don’t hit, and you’re also buying mares you hope to make from scratch. So I’m pretty satisfied with our little program. We’re just waiting on our next Grade I winner, and I hope Country Grammer could be the one.”

If he is, then Pierce is seasoned enough to shrug off his dam’s exit. No farm, of any size, can afford to keep rolling every single dice; can persevere indefinitely with every mare just in case one of her ugly ducklings turns out a swan. The bigger picture is that the emergence, from so small a farm, of two legitimate Grade I contenders in consecutive weekends must be welcomed as a symbol of hope for anyone operating at the unforgiving margins of the business.

“It’s a win for the small guy,” Pierce says. “Kudos to the people that got lucky and bought Arabian Song. Hopefully we’ll have more in the pipeline. We’ve had a bit of success on this lower end, we’re very happy with how it’s going, and feel pretty good about the future. We’ve some really good 2-year-olds coming out, some nice yearlings. So I’m pretty encouraged. And it’s a lot of fun to watch these horses you’ve raised. There’s camaraderie, and congratulations, and relationships. And that’s what it’s all about. It’s fun when you see that the small guy can occasionally jump up there and be a winner.”

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