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As Time Goes By Ekes Out Santa Maria Win

Michael Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier and Derrick Smith's As Time Goes By (American Pharoah) aired by 9 1/4 lengths in her latest start in the Apr. 24 GII Santa Margarita S., however, she had to work a lot harder when nosing out 23-1 longshot This Tea (Curlin) in Saturday's GII Santa Maria S. at Santa Anita.

Breaking from the outside of a four-horse field, the 4-year-old allowed Miss Stormy D (Tapizar) to assume the helm through opening fractions of :23.83 and :47.12. Given the cue by Mike Smith at the three-furlong marker, the 2-5 favorite easily overtook the early pacesetter and was joined by Ce Ce (Elusive Quality), who loomed on her outside hip as This Tea started to make her move from the back. Narrowly ahead of the tightly-bunch field turning for home, the daughter of GISW Take Charge Lady dispensed of Miss Stormy D to her inside as Ce Ce also began her retreat. Meanwhile, This Tea continued to inch closer through the length of the lane and the two fillies hit the wire seemingly in unison, although the photo gave the edge to the Bob Baffert trainee. Miss Stormy D was third with Ce Ce fourth.

“I told Mike, we've been going easy on her, not too hard for this race,” said Baffert, who registered his meet-leading 14th stakes victory. “This is the first time she's come back really blowing. That filly that ran second, ran a big race. “[As Time Goes By]'s heart and true grit made her hang in there. We knew Miss Stormy D was quick, and you could tell turning for home that my filly wasn't doing it that easily.”

As Time Goes By broke her maiden at third asking at Los Alamitos last December before returning with a flashy score going a mile in a Santa Anita allowance Jan. 17. Finding GI Preakness S. heroine Swiss Skydiver (Daredevil) 2 3/4-lengths too good in the GI Beholder Mile S. Mar. 13, she bounced back to hand This Tea a sound defeat in the nine-furlong Santa Margarita.

“They ran good, you know, my hat's off to the filly that finished second, she ran a huge race,” added Smith. “She'll get more out of this race. After she ran the last time out, they kind of backed off her a little bit. She's a big mare with a big frame and she'll tend to gain some weight and I could tell she was a little more stocked today. She got a little tired, but she'll get a whole lot out of that.”

Pedigree Notes:
In spite of her status as a MGSW & GISP runner, As Time Goes By still has a long way to go to live up to family expectations. She is the final foal of Broodmare of the Year, MGISW, and $4.2-million Keeneland sales mare Take Charge Lady (Dehere), making her a half-sister to champion Will Take Charge (Unbridled's Song), GISW Take Charge Indy (A.P. Indy), and to the dam of champion Take Charge Brandi (Giant's Causeway) and MGISW Omaha Beach (War Front). Not all of Take Charge Lady's 10 total foals went through the sales ring–As Time Goes By didn't–but they've often made waves when they have: Charming (Seeking the Gold) sold for $3.2 million as a yearling in 2006, I'll Take Charge (Indian Charlie) was a $2.2-million yearling in 2013, and Lady Take Charge (War Front) was a $3.2-million weanling in 2015.
Take Charge Lady was one of 80 stakes winners for 1993 champion 2-year-old Dehere, who died in 2014 in Turkey after previously standing in Kentucky, Australia, and Japan. His daughters have produced 117 black-type winners to date, including champion Midnight Lute (Real Quiet) and Breeders' Cup winner City of Light (Quality Road). As Time Goes By is a member of the first crop of Triple Crown champ American Pharoah, who is enjoying the fruits of stellar books of mares with 15 black-type winners in his first two crops. Among his 10 graded winners are three who have achieved the Grade I/Group 1 echelon: Harvey's Lil Goil, Café Pharoah, and Van Gogh.

Saturday, Santa Anita
SANTA MARIA S.-GII, $196,000, Santa Anita, 5-22, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16m, 1:43.77, ft.
1–AS TIME GOES BY, 126, f, 4, by American Pharoah
              1st Dam: Take Charge Lady (Broodmare Of The Year,
                             MGISW, $2,480,377), by Dehere
              2nd Dam: Felicita, by Rubiano
              3rd Dam: Grand Bonheur, by Blushing Groom (Fr)
O-Michael B. Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier & Derrick Smith;
B-Orpendale & Chelston (KY); T-Bob Baffert; J-Mike E. Smith.
$120,000. Lifetime Record: GISP, 7-4-2-1, $380,600. *1/2 to
Will Take Charge (Unbridled's Song), Ch. 3yo Colt, MGISW,
$3,924,648; Take Charge Indy (A.P. Indy), GISW, $1,103,496.
Werk Nick Rating: B+. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–This Tea, 122, f, 4, Curlin–Funny Moon, by Malibu Moon.
($135,000 Ylg '18 KEESEP). O-Kretz Racing LLC; B-My
Meadowview LLC (KY); T-George Papaprodromou. $40,000.
3–Miss Stormy D, 122, m, 5, Tapizar–Miss Relentless, by Mr.
Greeley. ($37,000 Ylg '17 KEESEP). O-Keith Brackpool;
B-Lantern Hill Farm LLC, Phil & Judy Needham (KY); T-Carla
Gaines. $24,000.
Margins: NO, 8, 2 1/4. Odds: 0.40, 23.40, 15.30.
Also Ran: Ce Ce. Scratched: Last First Kiss.
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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Odds-On Favorite As Times Goes By Noses Out Longshot This Tea In Santa Maria

A runaway 9 ¼-length winner of her most recent Grade 2 stakes assignment, As Time Goes By was all-out to prevail by a nose over 23-1 longshot This Tea in Saturday's Grade 2, $200,000 Santa Maria Stakes at Santa Anita in Arcadia, Calif. Trained by Bob Baffert and ridden by Mike Smith, As Time Goes By stalked the early pace and got 1 1/16 miles in 1:43.77.

Breaking from the outside of a four-horse field of fillies and mares, 3 and up, As Time Goes By was content to track speedster Miss Stormy D to the far turn, where she took charge by a neck at the three-furlong pole. From there, she had to work to shrug off Miss Stormy D to her inside and then faced the challenge of This Tea to her immediate outside, with well regarded Ce Ce unable to mount a challenge four-deep turning for home.

“I told Mike, we've been going easy on her, not too hard for this race,” said Baffert, who registered his meet-leading 14th stakes victory. “Today, this is the first time she's come back really blowing. That filly that ran second, ran a big race. “(My filly's) heart and true grit made her hang in there. We knew Miss Stormy D was quick, and you could tell turning for home that my filly wasn't doing it that easily.”

When asked what might be next for As Time Goes By, Baffert responded, “Right now, with the Breeders' Cup at Del Mar, we wanna keep her here and run her here in the fall.”

A scintillating gate to wire winner of the Grade 2 Santa Margarita Stakes going a mile and one eighth on April 24, As Time Goes By was off at 2-5 and paid $2.80 and $2.10 with no show wagering.

“They ran good, you know, my hat's off to the filly that finished second, she ran a huge race,” said Smith. “The Lakers don't always blow every team out, every now and then you gotta fight it out, and that's what she had to do today.

“She'll get more out of this race. After she ran the last time out, they kind of backed off her a little bit. She's a big mare with a big frame and she'll tend to gain some weight and I could tell she was a little more stocked today. She got a little tired, but she'll get a whole lot out of that.”

Owned by Michael Tabor, Mrs. John Magnier and Derrick Smith, As Time Goes By, a 4-year-old filly by Baffert's 2015 Triple Crown winner American Pharoah, out of the Dehere mare Take Charge Lady, notched her second stakes win and improved her overall mark to 7-4-2-1.

With the winner's share of $120,000, As Time Goes By increased her earnings to $380,600.

Ridden by Kent Desormeaux for trainer George Papaprodromou, This Tea, who was second by 9 ¼ lengths to As Time Goes By in the Santa Margarita, came within a nose of turning the tables in a huge effort. The longest shot in the field at 23-1, she paid $6.60 to place while finishing eight lengths clear of Miss Stormy D.

Ce Ce, ridden by Victor Espinoza, was off at 3-2 but tired badly through the lane while never threatening.

Fractions on the race were 23.83, 47.12, 1:10.95 and 1:36.98.

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Sunday Insights: Seven-Figure Colt Gets Going at Santa Anita

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6th-SA, $61K, Msw, 3yo/up, 1m, post time: 6:50 p.m. ET
Dixiana Farms-bred AMERICAN ADMIRAL (American Pharoah) was purchased by Hunter Valley Farm for $340,000 at Keeneland November in 2018 and fetched $1.3 million from Jamie McCalmont on behalf of M.V. Magnier and Sarah Kelly at KEESEP the following fall. That price was the richest of 70 of his sire's second-crop yearlings to sell in 2019, bar the sales-topping $8.2 million Mandy Pope paid for the half-sister to Beholder (Henny Hughes) and Into Mischief (Harlan's Holiday). The colt's stakes-winning second dam Alchemilla (Deputy Minister) was a daughter of champion Althea's full-sister Aquilegia (Alydar), whose produce include GSW & MGISP Bertolini (Danzig) and SW Amelia (Dixieland Band), dam of GSWs Rabbit Run (Tapit) and Asakusa Genki (Stormy Atlantic); MGSW & GISP Rainha da Bateria (Broken Vow); GSW & GISP Kindergarden Kid (Dynaformer); GSW Assateague (Stormy Atlantic); and GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile runner-up He's Had Enough (Tapit). TJCIS PPs

Glen Hill Debuts Cleverly Named Filly at GP…
7th-GP, $47K, Msw, 3yo/up, f/m, 5fT, post time: 3:56 p.m. ET
Glen Hill Farm's Craig Bernick is also a member of the board of directors for the Thoroughbred Idea Foundation, an organization that champions issues of importance to the Thoroughbred industry. Several months ago, TIF proposed the idea of making information, such as past performances, available to the betting public at no cost, and the aptly named FREE DATA (War Front) makes her first trip to the races Sunday. The gray filly is a daughter of former 'TDN Rising Star' Cassatt (Tapit), winner during her racing days of the GIII Monmouth Oaks before being purchased by Bernick's Elevage for $2.5 million in foal to Curlin at the 2016 Fasig–Tipton November sale. Free Data's third dam, MSW Justenuffheart (Broad Brush), was a half-sister to Kitten's Joy (El Prado {Ire}) and produced champion Dreaming of Anna (Rahy), the dam of GSW Dreamologist (Tapit), the late GISP Fast Anna (Medaglia d'Oro) and SP Big Dreaming (Declaration of War); GSW Lewis Michael (Rahy); and MGSW & GISP Justenuffhumor (Distorted Humor). TJCIS PPs

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Five Juveniles Clock Fastest Furlong At Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale’s Second Under Tack Session

Wednesday's group of juveniles at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds In Training Sale under tack show was led by a quintet of horses that covered an eighth of a mile in :10 flat.

Hip 211, a Quality Road colt out of the unraced Storm Cat mare Stormy Welcome, whose runners include the stakes-placed Welcoming. His third dam is the cornerstone broodmare Weekend Surprise, putting this colt in the family of Horse of the Year A.P. Indy, Preakness Stakes winner Summer Squall, and Grade 1 winners Happy Saver and Court Vision. Eddie Woods consigns the colt, as agent.

Hip 260, a Munnings colt out of the winning Medaglia d'Oro mare Tweet, whose three foals to race are all winners. Wavertree Stables consigns the Pennsylvania-bred, as agent.

Hip 264, a first-crop Tom's Ready colt out of the winning Macho Uno mare Uno Royale. The Florida-bred is consigned by de Meric Sales, agent.

Hip 337, an American Pharoah colt out of the Theatrical mare Baroness Aamoura. King's Equine consigns the half-brother to stakes-placed Madam Aamoura, as agent.

Hip 340, Pippilotta, a Race Day filly who is the first foal out of the winning Into Mischief mare Battle Tux. Grassroots Training and Sales consigns the filly, as agent.

Wednesday's fastest worker at a quarter-mile was Hip 295, a Union Rags filly out of the stakes-winning Northern Afleet mare Afleet Lass. The filly is a half-sister to Grade 3-placed stakes winner Honor the Fleet, and Brazillian champions Juno and Love 'N' Happiness are in the extended family. Tom McCrocklin consigns the filly as agent.

The Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale under tack show concludes Thursday, beginning at 8 a.m. Eastern. The auction will take place May 17-18, beginning each day at 11 a.m.

To view the full breeze show results, click here.

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