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Tribhuvan Steals Fourth Straight Manhattan for Chad

Dismissed at more than twice his morning line to be off at 19-1, TRIBHUVAN (FR) (g, 6, Toronado {Ire}–Mahendra {Ger}, by Next Desert {Ire}) provided trainer Chad Brown with his third Grade I victory of the afternoon, and fourth of the weekend, while also capping an exacta for the barn in Belmont's GI Manhattan S. Having gotten away to an easy early lead, the bay blew the race apart on the home bend with a move reminiscent of Highland Reel (Ire) (Galileo {Ire})'s 2016 GI Breeders' Cup Turf victory and never looked back as he cruised home some 3 1/2 lengths clear. Adhamo (Ire) (Intello {Ger}) completed an exacta for overlapping owners. The winner stopped the clock in 1:59.24, and earned an automatic spot in the starting gate for this year's GI Breeders' Cup Turf in the process. Second in this race last year to stablemate Domestic Spending (GB) (Kingman {GB}), Tribhuvan took last July's GI United Nations S. and most recently finished fifth in the GI Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic S. at Churchill on Derby day. Brown has now won the last four Manhattans, seven of the last nine and eight of the last 10 for a record number of victories in the event. Sales history: €30,000 Wlg '16 ARQDEC; €58,000 RNA Ylg '17 AROYRG. O-Dubb, Michael, Madaket Stables LLC, Wonder Stables and Caruso, Michael J. B-Jean Charles Haimet, Elza Petit & Hannah Petit (FR). T-Chad C. Brown.

Saturday, Belmont Park
RESORTS WORLD CASINO MANHATTAN S.-GI, $750,000, Belmont, 6-11, 4yo/up, 1 1/4mT, 1:59.54, fm.
1–TRIBHUVAN (FR), 122, g, 6, by Toronado (Ire)
                1st Dam: Mahendra (Ger), by Next Desert (Ire)
                2nd Dam: Minaccia (Ger), by Platini (Ger)
                3rd Dam: Maji (GB), by Shareef Dancer
(€30,000 Wlg '16 ARQDEC; €58,000 RNA Ylg '17 AROYRG).
O-Michael Dubb, Madaket Stables LLC, Wonder Stables &
Michael J. Caruso; B-Jean Charles Haimet, Elza & Hannah Petit
(FR); T-Chad C. Brown; J-Manuel Franco. $400,000. Lifetime
Record: 23-6-3-3, $1,119,954. Werk Nick Rating: A+++.
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2–Adhamo (Ire), 118, c, 4, Intello (Ger)–Foreign Tune (GB), by
Invincible Spirit (Ire). (€250,000 3yo '21 ARARC). O-Madaket
Stables LLC, Michael Dubb, & Louis Lazzinnaro LLC;
B-Wertheimer et Frere (IRE); T-Chad C. Brown. $140,000.
3–Gufo, 122, h, 5, Declaration of War–Floy, by Petionville.
O-Otter Bend Stables, LLC; B-John Little & Stephen Cainelli
(KY); T-Christophe Clement. $75,000.
Margins: 3HF, 1, NK. Odds: 19.10, 4.40, 2.25.
Also Ran: Highland Chief (Ire), Rockemperor (Ire), Santin, L'Imperator (Fr), In Love (Brz), Channel Maker, Tokyo Gold (Fr).
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Jack Christopher as Impressive as it Gets in Woody Stephens

ELMONT, NY – Did the best 3-year-old in the country run on the undercard?

Unbeaten 'TDN Rising Star' Jack Christopher (Munnings) put on an absolute show with a jaw-dropping win against five overmatched rivals in Saturday's GI Woody Stephens S. at Belmont Park.

Away in good order from his rail draw, the flashy, blaze-faced chestnut conceded the early advantage to Provocateur (Into Mischief) and was astutely guided by Jose Ortiz to the outside of that rival. Traveling kindly in second through fractions of :22.61 and :45.38, Ortiz took a peek over his right shoulder and had to be feeling mighty good as the 1-5 favorite cruised up to take over leaving the quarter pole. It was only a question of how much he'd win by from there. And the answer was 10 lengths while stopping the timer for seven furlongs in a very sharp 1:21.18. Pappacap (Gun Runner) was second. The pacesetter held third.

Jack Christopher is campaigned in partnership by Jim Bakke, Gerald Isbister, Coolmore Stud and Peter M. Brant.

“I felt really good as he was coming down the lane,” winning trainer Chad Brown said. “Once Jose [Ortiz] was able to extract himself and get this horse out in the clear, I didn't see any way the horse could lose.”

Jack Christopher once again received some awfully high praise from Brown, who also trains the talented 3-year-old duo of GI Preakness S. winner Early Voting (Gun Runner) and GI Kentucky Derby third Zandon (Upstart).

“This horse is an exceptional talent,” Brown said. “This is my 15th year of training and I've never had a dirt horse with this much pure brilliance. He reminds me a lot of Ghostzapper when I worked for Bobby Frankel. He's a brilliant horse that can probably run any distance.”

Brown added, “Everybody wants to have horses like this–horse of a lifetime–including me.”

A no-brainer 'Rising Star' on debut at the Spa Aug. 28, he concluded his juvenile season with a powerful performance in Belmont's GI Champagne S. Oct. 2. Scratched from the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile with a stress fracture in his left shin, he returned with a facile win in the GII Pat Day Mile S. at Churchill Downs May 7.

Jack Christopher will receive his first test around two turns going 1 1/8 miles in the GI TVG.com Haskell S. at Monmouth July 23.

“I'm looking to keep him healthy and looking forward to the next one,” Brown said.

Pedigree Notes:

Jack Christopher, a $135,000 FTKOCT yearling, is one of five Grade I winners for Coolmore's Munnings. He is the lone graded winner for broodmare sire Half Ours. The winner's dam is also represented by an unnamed Mo Town 2-year-old filly and a Complexity filly of this year. The former RNA'd for $145,000 at last week's Fasig-Tipton June Digital Sale. Rushin No Blushin, a maiden of eight career starts, was claimed for $50,000 out of her career finale by owner/trainer Neil Pessin at Keeneland in 2013. The half-sister to MGISW and useful sire Street Boss (Street Cry {Ire}) subsequently brought $70,000 from Castleton Lyons, in foal to Congrats, at the 2014 KEENOV sale.

Saturday, Belmont Park
WOODY STEPHENS S. PRESENTED BY MOHEGAN SUN-GI, $392,000, Belmont, 6-11, 3yo, 7f, 1:21.18, ft.
1–JACK CHRISTOPHER, 124, c, 3, by Munnings
1st Dam: Rushin No Blushin, by Half Ours
                2nd Dam: Blushing Ogygian, by Ogygian
                3rd Dam: Fruhlingshochzeit, by Blushing Groom (Fr)
($145,000 RNA Ylg '20 FTKSEL; $135,000 Ylg '20 FTKOCT).
'TDN Rising Star' O-Bakke, Jim, Isbister, Gerald, Coolmore Stud
and Brant, Peter M.; B-Castleton Lyons & Kilboy Estate (KY);
T-Chad C. Brown; J-Jose L. Ortiz. $220,000. Lifetime Record:
4-4-0-0, $841,400. Werk Nick Rating: Click for the
   eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Pappacap, 124, c, 3, Gun Runner–Pappascat, by Scat Daddy.
O/B-Rustlewood Farm, Inc. (FL); T-Mark E. Casse. $80,000.
3–Provocateur, 118, c, 3, Into Mischief–Cayala, by Cherokee
Run. 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE, 1ST G1 BLACK TYPE.
($600,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP). O-My Racehorse Stable and
Spendthrift Farm LLC; B-Kingswood Farm & David Egan (KY);
T-Todd A. Pletcher. $48,000.
Margins: 10, 1 3/4, 2 1/4. Odds: 0.35, 11.50, 19.20.
Also Ran: Wit, Chasing Time, Morello. 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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Third Time The Charm For Regal Glory In Just a Game

Having finished fourth to then-stablemate Newspaperofrecord (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) in the 2020 renewal and again behind the impressive Althiqa (GB) (Dark Angel {Ire}) in the 2021 running–while tactically disadvantaged to varying degrees on each occasion–Peter Brant's 'TDN Rising Star' Regal Glory (Animal Kingdom) got the ideal set-up in Saturday's GI Just A Game S. and came with her trademark flying finish to strike for the third time at the highest level. Wakanaka (Ire) (Power {GB}), winner of the G3 Premio Regina Elena (Italian 1000 Guineas) last season, picked up some valuable Grade I black-type in second, while the winner's commonly owned stable companion 'Rising Star' In Italian (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) stuck on gamely for third after attending demanding fractions.

The rail-drawn Leggs Galore (Bayern) flaunted her speed from the fence on the stretchout and led In Italian through an opening few furlongs in :22.25 as they put the better part of 10 lengths on Regal Glory. Wakanaka landed in fourth, while Speak of the Devil (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}), so impressive in winning the GIII Distaff Turf Mile on Derby Day May 7, missed the kick and trailed early.

The duel continued up front through a half-mile in :45.53, and Regal Glory was the first to make serious inroads, cutting into the deficit with every stride leaving the three-eighths pole. With things much more in her favor this time around from a tactical standpoint, Regal Glory had the pacemakers at her mercy in upper stretch, raced up to In Italian with about a furlong to race and kicked home a much-the-best winner as Wakanaka closed off well to complete the exacta. Similar to Rougir (Fr) (Territories {Ire}) in Friday's GI New York S., Speak of the Devil turned in a dull effort to be fourth.

It was a fifth Just A Game in the last six years–each for different ownership–for trainer Chad Brown, but perhaps none of those is as meaningful as winning this particular event for Brant, who campaigned Just A Game to champion grass mare honors in 1980. Among her victories were the local GII Flower Bowl H. and the GIII New York H. Brant's Bleecker Street (Quality Road) annexed Friday's running of the latter event.

“The first day I met him [owner Peter Brant] and I saw the trophy at his house and it was from Just a Game–it was the first thing I noticed,” said Brown. “We had a conversation about it, and I said, 'This is the one race I'm going to win for you one day.' We got to talking about it this week. It's meant a lot to him, this race.”

Brown indicated that the Aug. 13 GI Fourstardave H., a 'Win and You're In' qualifier for the GI Breeders' Cup Mile, would be next for Regal Glory.

A three-time graded winner for the late Paul Pompa, Jr., Regal Glory shared top honors at the 2021 Keeneland January Sale when selling to Brant for $925,000 as part of the Pompa dispersal. A listed winner either side of her Just A Game effort last term, she completed a Brant 1-2 behind Blowout (GB) (Dansili {GB}) in the GI First Lady S. in Lexington in October ahead of a richly deserved maiden Grade I tally in Del Mar's Matriarch S. Nov. 28. Easy winner of the GIII Pegasus Filly & Mare Turf Jan. 29, she most recently outsprinted stablemate Shantisara (Fr) (Coulsty {Ire}) to take Keeneland's GI Jenny Wiley S. Apr. 16.

Pedigree Notes:

A half-sister to dual G1 February S. winner Cafe Pharoah (American Pharoah) and dual-graded winning turfer Night Prowler (Giant's Causeway), Regal Glory is one of four Grade I/Group 1 winners worldwide for Animal Kingdom, who now stands in Japan. Dam Mary's Follies, trained by the late John Forbes to a victory in the GIII Boiling Springs S., was acquired privately by Pompa and added the GII Mrs. Revere S. before her retirement to stud. Mary's Follies was purchased by the BBA Ireland for $500,000 out of the Pompa dispersal and produced a colt by the Pompa-raced Grade I winner Connect that was recently sold to Saudi Arabian interests for $180,000 at the OBS March Sale. Having aborted to Curlin for 2021, Mary's Follies produced a full-brother to Cafe Pharoah this past Feb. 26.

Saturday, Belmont Park
LONGINES JUST A GAME S.-GI, $480,000, Belmont, 6-11, 4yo/up, f/m, 1mT, 1:32.00, fm.
1–REGAL GLORY, 124, m, 6, by Animal Kingdom
1st Dam: Mary's Follies (MGSW, $338,889), by More Than Ready
                2nd Dam: Catch the Queen, by Miswaki
                3rd Dam: Wave to the Queen, by Wavering Monarch
($925,000 5yo '21 KEEJAN). 'TDN Rising Star'. O-Peter M. Brant; B-Paul P Pompa (KY); T-Chad C. Brown; J-Jose L. Ortiz. $275,000. Lifetime Record: 19-12-4-0, $2,111,009. *1/2 to Night Prowler (Giant's Causeway), MGSW, $535,682; 1/2 to Cafe Pharoah (American Pharoah), MG1SW-Jpn, $3,001,697. Werk Nick Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Wakanaka (Ire), 118, f, 4, by Power (GB)
                1st Dam: Storyline (Ire), by Kodiac (GB)
                2nd Dam: Petite Histoire (Ire), by Desert Story (Ire)
                3rd Dam: Danccini (Ire), by Dancing Dissident
1ST G1 BLACK TYPE. (£3,500 Ylg '19 GOFFPR). O-Team Valor International and Gary Barber; B-Mrs Jean Brennan (IRE); T-William I. Mott. $100,000.
3–In Italian (GB), 118, f, 4, by Dubawi (Ire)
1st Dam: Florentina (Aus) (GSW-Aus, $250,958), by Redoute's Choice (Aus)
                2nd Dam: Celebria (Aus), by Peintre Celebre
                3rd Dam: Twyla (Aus), by Danehill
1ST G1 BLACK TYPE. (475,000gns Ylg '19 TATOCT). ''TDN Rising Star' . O-Peter M. Brant; B-Fairway Thoroughbreds (GB); T-Chad C. Brown. $60,000.
Margins: 3HF, 1 1/4, 6. Odds: 1.40, 15.20, 7.30.
Also Ran: Speak of the Devil (Fr), Leggs Galore
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All Matareya in Four-Horse Acorn After Echo Zulu Scratched at Gate

ELMONT, NY – With the late-arriving crowd still filing in as John Imbriale announced champion Echo Zulu (Gun Runner) as a stunning late scratch at the gate, Godolphin homebred Matareya (Pioneerof the Nile) showed no mercy on her three remaining rivals going a one-turn mile in Saturday's GI Acorn S. at Belmont Park.

Matareya broke like a shot beneath Flavien Prat and led through an opening quarter in an easy :23.39. In cruise control and increasing her advantage as the quartet hit the quarter pole, Matareya was handridden down the stretch to stay perfect in four starts in 2022. It was 6 1/4 lengths back to Divine Huntress (Divining Rod) in second; Dream Lith (Medaglia d'Oro) was third.

Kicking off her sophomore campaign with an allowance win at Fair Grounds Feb. 26, Matareya added Keeneland's GIII Beaumont S. Apr. 10 and Churchill's GII Eight Belles S. May 6. Her latter two tries were both going seven furlongs.

After airing first out at Ellis last August, her juvenile campaign also included a dead-heat fifth-place finish in last fall's GI Darley Alcibiades S. at Keeneland and a second-place finish in the Fern Creek S. at Churchill Downs Nov. 27.

“It was unfortunate what happened right before the race with the scratch [of Echo Zulu], and a little unusual, but Matareya handled it all and ran her race,” said winning trainer Brad Cox, also responsible for brilliant 2018 Acorn winner Monomoy Girl. “She ran great and we're really proud of her. I was a little concerned running her back in this spot so soon after the Eight Belles, but she was doing so great we decided to come here and she rose to the occasion.”

The GI Longines Test S. at Saratoga Aug. 6 will be next.

“I think this sets her up well for the Test next,” Cox said. “Now she's a Grade I winner and this filly deserves it. It's great to win a Grade I on Belmont Day and in New York. It's always great to win a Grade I anywhere.”

Last year's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies heroine and 'TDN Rising Star' Echo Zulu suffered her first career defeat finishing fourth last time in the GI Kentucky Oaks. Jockey Joel Rosario said that something felt amiss during the post parade.

“It took a little while to warm up,” Rosario said. “She looked a little bit off and they decided to scratch her.”

Dr. Anthony Verderosa, Director of NYRA Veterinarians, added, “The filly was lame in her left front.”

Pedigree Notes:

Matareya becomes the fourth Grade I winner for her late sire Pioneerof the Nile. This is the 15th Grade I winner for broodmare sire Bernardini. Matareya's Grade III-winning dam is a daughter of Golden Velvet, who was stakes-placed in France before adding a pair of graded victories and a runner-up effort in the GI Ogden Phipps H. Golden Velvet is a daughter of Harbor View Farm's outstanding turfer Caress, who was purchased by John Ferguson on behalf of Sheikh Mohammed's operation for $3.1 million at the 2000 Keeneland November Sale a handful of months after the mare foaled a Pulpit colt. That offspring, Sky Mesa ($750,000 KEESEP yearling), was raced by John Oxley to a victory in the GI Hopeful S. Caress is also the dam of Velvety (Bernardini), whose son Maxfield (Street Sense) closed out his career victoriously in the GI Clark H. and now stands at Darley at Jonabell. Innovative Idea is the dam of the unraced 2-year-old filly Methodology (Uncle Mo), a yearling colt by the same stallion and visited him once again last season.

Saturday, Belmont Park
ACORN S.-GI, $465,000, Belmont, 6-11, 3yo, f, 1m, 1:35.77, ft.
1–MATAREYA, 120, f, 3, by Pioneerof the Nile
                1st Dam: Innovative Idea (GSW, $229,343), by Bernardini
                2nd Dam: Golden Velvet, by Seeking the Gold
                3rd Dam: Caress, by Storm Cat
1ST GRADE I WIN. O/B-Godolphin (KY); T-Brad H. Cox;
J-Flavien Prat. $275,000. Lifetime Record: 8-5-2-0, $946,867.
Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Werk Nick
Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus*
2–Divine Huntress, 118, f, 3, by Divining Rod
                1st Dam: Thrill Seeker, by Housebuster
                2nd Dam: Georgia K., by Horatius
                3rd Dam: Pleasure Point, by Honest Pleasure
1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE, 1ST G1 BLACK
TYPE. ($16,000 RNA Ylg '20 EASOCT). O-Eclipse Thoroughbred
Partners & Long Valley Stables, LLC; B-Dr. & Mrs. Thomas
Bowman, Ricky L. Buckley & Joshua Dreiband (MD); T-H.
Graham Motion. $100,000.
3–Dream Lith, 120, f, 3, by Medaglia d'Oro
                1st Dam: Elle Sueno, by Street Cry (Ire)
                2nd Dam: Mi Sueno, by Pulpit
                3rd Dam: Madcap Escapade, by Hennessy
1ST G1 BLACK TYPE. ($590,000 RNA Wlg '19 FTKNOV).
O-Cypress Creek Equine & Arnold Bennewith; B-Southern
Equine Stables, LLC (KY); T-Robertino Diodoro. $60,000.
Margins: 6 1/4, 5HF, 16. Odds: 0.30, 6.60, 10.40.
Also Ran: Inventing. Scratched: Echo Zulu.
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