Loriloupies was quickest out of the gate at the Hallandale Beach, Fla., track, setting early fractions of :21.72 for the quarter mile and :44.18 for a half mile. She was part of a four-across quartet of Frank's Rockette, Center Aisle, and Quinoa Tifah down the backstretch and into the race's only turn. As they straightened for home, Center Aisle and Frank's Rockette began to separate themselves from the field, dueling down the Gulfstream straight.

The two fillies were head to head throughout the stretch run, but Center Aisle was able to pull away from Frank's Rockette to win by a length. Bronx Beauty was third.

The final time was 1:09.54. Find this race's chart here.

Center Aisle paid $6.20, $2.80, and $2.60. Frank's Rockette paid $2.60 and $2.20. Bronx Beauty paid $2.80.

Bred in Kentucky by Breffni Farm, Center Aisle is by Into Mischief out of the Empire Maker mare Specification. She is owned by OXO Equine LLC and trained by Paulo Lobo. The filly was consigned by Tom McCrocklin and purchased by her owners for $1.5 million at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton Florida Select Two-Year-Olds In Training Sale. With her win in the G3 Sugar Swirl, the 4-year-old filly has three wins in three starts in 2021, for a lifetime record of four wins in eight starts and career earnings of

The post Center Aisle Much The Best In Sugar Swirl, Earns First Stakes Victory appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

“Don't mess it up,” said O'Connell, laughing as she recalled the conversation with her good friend.

Plesa, based at Gulfstream Park, needn't have been concerned.

Miss Auramet, handled perfectly by jockey Dylan Davis, found a seam along the rail coming out of the final turn after a stalking early trip and cruised to a two-length victory in the $75,000 Politely Stakes that served as the feature on Monmouth Park's Sunday card in Oceanport, N.J.

“This was her first start for me,” said O'Connell. “(Plesa) saw an opportunity for her at Monmouth and wanted her here. She has trained really good. I'm not surprised she ran this well.

“The wonderful thing about her is she's an all-terrain model. She just oozes with class. Just an ultra-consistent mare.”

In posting her ninth victory in 22 career starts (with six seconds and three thirds), Miss Auramet easily handled a solid field of fillies and mares 3 and up, covering the five furlongs over a sloppy track in :57.60.

Bronx Beauty rallied for second, six lengths ahead of longshot No Mercy Percy.

The Politely, contested for the 27th time, was originally scheduled for the turf.

“She can handle any surface,” O'Connell said.

Davis, sitting behind early speedsters Tracy Ann's Legacy, Beaux Arts and Honey I'm Good, kept Miss Auramet close behind that trio through an opening quarter of :22.01. Davis began nudging the 5-year-old daughter of Uncaptured-Hello Rosie by Yes It's True midway through the turn before finding a hole along the rail – beating Bronx Beauty and Isaac Castillo to the spot.

“Our plans coming out of there were to break sharp, not necessarily on the lead but breaking well within the pack,” said Davis, who recorded his first winner since being sidelined with a broken clavicle on March 20 on Monmouth Park's Saturday card. “I was very happy where I was at in a nice stalking position in the first flight. I saw an opportunity up the rail and she was doing great. She was on the bridle. I just took the opening and she pushed through there. It was exciting.

“Once she pushed through she opened up another stride. This was my first time on her. I love the way she ran. She listened to me the whole time. She came to run today.”

Sent off at 7-2 in the field of seven that was reduced by one when My Lovely Girl was a gate scratch, Miss Auramet returned $9.40 to win. The Florida-bred mare is coming off a 2020 campaign that saw her win six of nine starts with a second and a third. She sports a 2-2-1 line from six starts this year.

Racing resumes at Monmouth Park on Monday with a nine-race Memorial Day card headlined by the $75,000 Spruce Fir Stakes. First race post time is 12:15 p.m.

The post New Barn No Problem For Miss Auramet In Monmouth Park’s Politely Stakes appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

The 42nd running of the seven-furlong Inside Information for fillies and mares 4 and older is among seven graded-stakes worth $4.725 million on a blockbuster 12-race Pegasus World Cup Invitational Series program featuring the $3 million Pegasus World Cup (G1) at 1 1/8 miles on dirt and $1 million Pegasus World Cup Turf (G1) at 1 3/16 miles on the grass.

First race post time is 11:40 a.m. Both Pegasus races will be part of NBC's live national telecast from 4:30 to 6 p.m. The Inside Information is carded as Race 9 (4:35 p.m.).

Bronx Beauty, a daughter of Grade 1 winner Liaison bred in Pennsylvania, owns 10 wins and $618,070 in purse earnings from 25 career starts, all for owners Richard and Marie Woll, for whom Margotta purchased the now 6-year-old mare as a yearling. Both natives of the Bronx, Woll named the horse after his wife.

Twenty-two of Bronx Beauty's starts have come in stakes, six of them graded, including a head loss to Lady's Island in the Dec. 12 Sugar Swirl (G3) at Gulfstream, a race where the winner survived a jockey's objection for interference to earn her second straight win in the six-furlong sprint.

It marked the third straight year Bronx Beauty capped her season in the Sugar Swirl, running fourth in 2018 and 2019. She also launched 2020 in the Inside Information, where she got hung out wide and raced near the back of the pack before finishing eighth.

“We bought her to take advantage of the Pa-bred program because we're right across the road in New Jersey. She really turned out to be a very, very hard-knocker,” Margotta said. “We didn't pay much for her but she's earned over $600,000 and she just got the elusive Grade 3 placing. It was almost a Grade 3 win. We almost got it by default.

“She's been a very productive, very sound filly. You look at her record. Fortunately we've been able to manage her along nicely,” he added. “She won the MATCH series the year before last when that came back into play, which was a great thing for everybody. She's just really been a pleasure to have around.”

Bronx Beauty signaled her ability early on by winning five of her first six races including the open Colleen Stakes in her second start and both open and state-bred stakes at Penn National and Parx. She's won at least one stake in each of her racing seasons, including two stakes at 2 and 3 and three stakes at 4.

“When I was first breezing her in the morning she identified herself that she was going to be good. How good we didn't know,” Margotta said. “She's always shown us that she had ability.

“We're going to give her another year. The people that own the horse are longtime clients and sportsmen and they don't jump right into the breeding shed. They like to race,” he added. “We're going to see how we do here. Obviously, a Grade 2 on her resume, if she hits the board, would be great. If she wins, we're over the moon. She's a valuable broodmare no matter what happens.”

Margotta said he has not seen a decline in interest from Bronx Beauty as occasionally happens with older mares. Luis Saez, aboard in the Sugar Swirl, will ride back from Post 3 in a field of eight.

“Sometimes that will happen and she's shown no signs of that. And on the flipside of that coin, you will see some older fillies and mares that really light up the board later in their careers at 4 or 5,” Margotta said. Quite frankly, we had offers to sell her as a broodmare but [the owner] in the game to race. He loves the game. We're blessed to have her in the barn.”

Bronx Beauty will face a familiar foe in Madaket Stables, Michael Dubb, Michael Anspach and Bethlehem Stables' Cinnabunny, the 4-year-old Golden Lad filly trained by Brad Cox that closed to be third in the Sugar Swirl, beaten three-quarters of a length for it all.

Cinnabunny was making her stakes debut in the Sugar Swirl after winning four of her first six career starts by 10 combined lengths, all last year at Parx for trainer Kathleen Demasi and Anspach's Shooting Star Stable, which also bred the filly in Pennsylvania.

“She ran really well last time. She didn't break quite as well as we needed to in order to win,” Cox said. “When she was coming, she got sandwiched late. She just didn't have much racing luck down the lane. But, she's a really nice filly that we're hoping can win a graded stakes.”

Irad Ortiz Jr. has the return call on Cinnabunny from Post 2.

CJ Thoroughbreds, Left Turn Racing and Casner Racing's two-time Grade 3 winner Sally's Curlin will attempt to rebound off a pair of off-the-board finishes, the most recent coming in the one-mile Rampart (G3) Dec. 12 at Gulfstream. Trained by Dale Romans, the 5-year-old daughter of two-time Horse of the Year and 2014 Hall of Famer Curlin mare won the seven-furlong Hurricane Bertie (G3) at Gulfstream last March and the one-mile Chilukki (G3) in late 2019 at Churchill Downs.

Corey Lanerie has the riding assignment from Post 7.

Miracle International Trading, Inc.'s Dream Marie is a 4-year-old daughter of Graydar that ran second in the Rampart, her third career graded-stakes placing. She owns a 2-2-1 record from eight lifetime trips at Gulfstream, including seconds in the one-mile Davona Dale (G2) and 1 1/16-mile Hollywood Wildcat last winter and spring, respectively.

Dream Marie will break from Post 1 with jockey Leonel Reyes.

Completing the field are Pacific Gale, five times Grade 3-placed; Piedi Bianchi, twice Grade 1-placed as a juvenile in 2017; Sound Machine, winner of the Glitter Woman last winter at Gulfstream and most recently fourth by length in the Sugar Swirl; and Thissmytime, riding a two-race win streak including an off-the-grass Filly & Mare Turf Preview Nov. 22 at Gulfstream Park West.

The post ‘Hard-Knocker’ Bronx Beauty Chasing Graded Success In Saturday’s Inside Information appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

Able to get the jump on 3-5 favorite Royal Charlotte coming out of the final turn, Castillo and Bronx Beauty drew off for a 4 1/4-length victory in Sunday's $75,000 Regret Stakes at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J., giving the 22-year-old Panamanian rider his first stakes win of the meet.

Trained by Anthony Margotta, Jr., Bronx Beauty was racing for the second time in six days. The classy 5-year-old mare was a late-running third in the Teresa Garofolo Memorial Stakes at Parx on Sept. 7 after breaking last in the seven-horse field.

“We typically do not run back this quickly,” said Margotta. “But we will do it if the circumstances surrounding it are good. These happened to be good circumstances. She fit very well against these, she loves Monmouth Park – four out of five now on the racetrack – she's very sound and she's fit right now. Isaac Castillo rides her really well. They get along great. All of those things led to us to coming back quickly in this race. Isaac did an outstanding job.”

Castillo, who began riding full-time in 2017, has already set personal bests this year for victories and earnings in a season.

“It feels great to win my first stakes race of the meet,” Castillo said. “This has been a really good year for me. It shows how hard work every morning can pay off. I'm very happy to win this.”

With Bridlewood Cat, Day by Day and Decoupage all vying for the early lead through fractions of :22.14 to the opening quarter and :45.29 to the half, Castillo had Bronx Beauty just behind that group but ahead of the Chad Brown-trained Royal Charlotte.

Both made their moves on the outside coming out of the final turn but Bronx Beauty and Castillo got there first, passing a tiring Bridlewood Cat at the sixteenth pole and having more than enough to hold off Royal Charlotte, who finished a head in front of Day by Day.

The winning time for the six furlongs was 1:10.45.

“I knew I needed to be aggressive against (Royal Charlotte),” said Castillo. “I had to time my move just before she made hers to get clear. I knew I would have enough left if I was able to get the lead in the stretch because I have ridden this horse many times and I know her.”

Owned by 2W Stables LLC, Bronx Beauty won for the 10^th time in 22 career starts, with the daughter of Liaison boosting her career earnings to $572,270. She paid $9.60 to win.

The post Bronx Beauty Wins Monmouth’s Regret Off Short Rest appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

He was able to ride in a graded stakes race for the first time. He had his first three-winner day (on Aug. 22). He has already exceeded his victory total at the meet from a year ago, doing so in 64 fewer mounts. And he has cracked the top 10 in a competitive jockey colony after finishing 14th a year ago.

But there's one thing missing: A stakes victory.

The 22-year-old Panamanian hopes to add that final piece to a breakout year this weekend, first aboard Absentee in Saturday's $100,000 Mr. Prospector Stakes, then again on Sunday when he re-unites with the Anthony Margotta, Jr.-trained Bronx Beauty in the $75,000 Regret Stakes.

“It's all about hard work, being there every morning to show you want to work, a good attitude and staying positive.”

Castillo, a 2014 graduate of the Panama jockey school started by Laffit Pincay, Jr., heads into the weekend at Monmouth Park with 17 winners from 145 mounts (compared to 15 from 209 mounts a year ago). That's good for eighth place in the rider standings.

While a victory aboard Absentee on Saturday would represent a significant upset, Bronx Beauty looms as one of the horses to beat in Sunday's Regret Stakes, which has drawn a field of seven fillies and mares 3-and-up going six furlongs.

Castillo has ridden Bronx Beauty twice this meet, earning a win in a $50,000 optional claimer and then finishing second in the Incredible Revenge Stakes. A 5-year-old mare, Bronx Beauty has won nine of 21 career starts with lifetime earnings of $527,270.

“Every race I watch replays to see what I could have done better for the next time,” said Castillo. “I'm trying to improve with every ride. This has been a good year for me because my confidence is growing. I'm being more aggressive and I can see from the results that I can do it. I just have to keep working and keep getting better.”

Castillo said he was inspired to become a jockey by the success of Eddie Castro, the 2003 Eclipse Award-winning apprentice who grew up in the same town in Panama. He made the move to the United States to launch his riding career in December of 2016, getting two mounts that month.

It took until Sept. 5 for Castillo to land his first graded stakes mount, finishing fifth aboard Share the Ride in the Grade 3 Red Bank Stakes.

“That was a great experience,” he said. “It's part of the progress I am making and shows how things are coming along – not easily, but step by step.”

Castillo said he will head to Tampa for the first time following the nine-day Meadowlands-at-Monmouth meet in October in an effort to continue to build his business.

“The harder I work the better things will be. I can see that from the way things are going for me now,” he said.

The post ‘Everything Is About Being Consistent’: Panamanian Jockey Castillo Could Pick Up First Stakes Win This Weekend appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

Following is the complete list of winners from Friday's ceremony.

Horse of the Year, Older Female, Turf Female – Mirth

Bred by Barlar LLC

Mirth didn't make her stakes debut until June of her 4-year-old season in her 13th career start. Three months later, she was a Grade 1 winner. She won Santa Anita's Grade 1 Rodeo Drive Stakes at 1 1/4 miles while leading at every call in 1:58.47, wrapped up the year with a score in the G3 Robert J. Frankel Stakes, and in between, set the pace in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf before giving way late to be beaten less than six lengths. She won or placed in seven of 11 starts for the year and earned $347,281.

2-Year-Old Filly – Weed Wacker

Bred by Triple Threat Stables LLC

A winner first time out, a stakes winner in her second start and outfinishing all but Pennsylvania-bred champion juvenile colt Newstome in her third start, Weed Wacker dominated her own division. She won the Mrs. Henry D. Paxson Memorial Stakes at Presque Isle Downs by 3 1/4 lengths after a 2 3/4-length maiden win.

2-Year-Old Colt – Newstome

Bred by Equivine Farm

A stakes winner at Presque Isle Downs in the Mark McDermott by three lengths, and at Laurel Park in the James F. Lewis III against open company, Newstome had three wins from five starts for the year and concluded his season with a third-place finish in the Pennsylvania Nursery Stakes.

3-Year-Old Filly – Gotta Be Strong

Bred by Scott Naylor

A busy season saw the bay filly win or place in 11 of 14 starts. Tops among her five wins was Penn National's New Start Stakes in which she rallied from last to win in the final strides. She also finished third in the Alma North Stakes at Laurel Park.

3-Year-Old Colt – Parsimony

Bred by Maria Montez Haire

Starting at least once a month through November in 2019, Parsimony made starts at Santa Anita, Oaklawn Park, Keeneland, Los Alamitos and Del Mar. Four times he was sent out in graded stakes, and finished second to champion Game Winner in the G3 Los Alamitos Derby. He was also second in the Cinema Stakes and finished in the top three in nine of his 16 starts at three.

Older Male – Prince Lucky

Bred by Daniel W. McConnell Sr.

The richest Pennsylvania-bred runner of 2019, Prince Lucky kicked off his 4-year-old season with dominating back-to-back stakes scores in the G3 Hal's Hope, winning by six lengths, followed by the G2 Gulfstream Park Mile by nearly five lengths. Racing exclusively in stakes, he added a win in the State Dinner Stakes at Belmont in July and turned in a game performance to just miss when second in the G2 Kelso Handicap.

Turf Male – Pumpkin Rumble

Bred by Smart Angle

Making his first start of the season in late June, the veteran Pumpkin Rumble made five starts, four in graded stakes company, and won twice – defending his title in Woodbine's G3 Valedictory Stakes by more than five lengths, and taking his only start away from his base in Canada in Parx Racing's Alphabet Soup Handicap. He also finished third in the G2 Nijinsky and G3 Dominion Day Stakes.

Female Sprinter – Bronx Beauty

Bred by Blackstone Farm LLC

Six starts, all stakes. Three wins at three different tracks. Bronx Beauty flew home in the Penn Ladies Dash at Penn National in 1:08.57 for six furlongs; battled home to win the Dashing Beauty at Delaware Park; and proved tough when taking Monmouth Park's Regret. She was also third in the Roamin Rachel at Parx.

Male Sprinter – Midtowncharlybrown

Bred by Godric LLC

A two-time stakes winner in the tough sprint division, Midtowncharlybrown shot to the lead and flew home in the Chocolate Town Sprint at Penn National, and followed with a gutsy performance in the Banjo Picker Sprint at Parx Racing while turning back multiple challengers.

Steeplechaser – Senior Senator

Bred by Charles C.D. McGill

The timber star made history by winning the Maryland Hunt Cup for a third time, the first horse to do so in 36 years, and also accounted for his third consecutive Grand National Timber Stakes.

Pennsylvania-Preferred Female – Imply

Bred by Barlar LLC

2019 earnings: $240,980

Won Lyphard Stakes at Penn National, Northern Fling Stakes at Presque Isle Downs and Mrs. Penny Stakes at Parx Racing.

PA-Preferred Male – Midnightcharly

Bred by Uptowncharlybrown Stud LLC and Godric LLC

2019 earnings: $267,888

Won Lyman Handicap at Parx Racing; 2nd Fabulous Strike Stakes at Penn National, Banjo Picker Sprint Stakes at Parx Racing; 3rd Chocolate Town Sprint Stakes at Penn National

Broodmare – Di's Delight

Owned by Barlar LLC

A stakes-placed daughter of French Deputy owned by Barlar since being purchased in November 2011, she has five Pennsylvania-bred foals of racing age, all winners, three of them stakes performers. Two were stakes winners in 2019 – Grade 1 winner and Pennsylvania-bred Horse of the Year Mirth and the Jump Start filly Vault, who won or placed in seven of eight starts.

Leading Breeding Fund Recipient (horse) – Imply

Bred by Barlar LLC

$307,170

Leading Total Breeding Fund Recipient – Northview Stallion Station Inc.

$434,751

Leading Overall Breeder of Pennsylvania Breds – Blackstone Farm LLC

$2,151,160

Leading Stallion – Jump Start

$251,650

Lifetime Achievement Award – Bettina Jenney

OTTB – Fairly Obvious

Bred by Ghost Ridge Farm

Award of Merit – Touch of Kindness Sanctuary

The post Mirth Named 2019 Pennsylvania-Bred Horse Of The Year appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post