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Delahaye Graduates After Sharp Big A Return To The Races

4th-Aqueduct, $85,000, Msw, 11-5, 3yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16mT, 1:42.89, fm, 3 1/4 lengths.
DELAHAYE (f, 3, Medaglia d'Oro–Bella Carina, by War Front) was last seen missing by a neck on debut in February at Gulfstream Park. Rewarded as the 3-5 choice here, the dark bay was taken back into second along the rail as she passed the grandstand, waited for her cue around the far turn and she powered past War Princess (War Front) to triumphantly return to the races. Her unraced dam's first progeny, the winner has a yearling half-brother by Not This Time and an April half-brother by Gun Runner. Not bred for next year, Bella Carina counts as half-siblings MGSW Valid (Medaglia d'Oro) and GI Ruffian Invitational H. victress Malibu Prayer (Malibu Moon), who herself produced $1.2 million Keeneland September buy from last year Cartucho (Gun Runner). Under Delahaye's third dam we find GI Carter H. hero Swagger Jack (Smart Strike) and his older half-sister GSW Tap Dance (Pleasant Tap). Sales History: $550,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $61,450. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.
O-William H. Lawrence and Three Chimneys Farm, LLC (Goncalo B. Torrealba); B-Three Chimneys Farm, LLC (KY); T-Chad C. Brown.

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Breeders’ Cup Friday Aftermath

All five of the 'Future Stars Friday' winners at Santa Anita appeared to emerge from the efforts unscathed, with connections looking forward to their Classics campaigns in 2024.

The very domination of the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile winner and 'TDN Rising Star' Fierceness (City of Light) will likely have put the colt at the head of the class for champion 2-year-old honors, and the Repole Stable homebred looked good Saturday morning.

“We were extremely happy with the way Fierceness ran,” trainer Todd Pletcher said. “The race kind of unfolded the way we envisioned it would. We wanted to get involved and get to the first turn in good position, which he was able to do. Just a powerful performance.”

'Rising Star' Locked (Gun Runner) looked to be going nowhere at short odds on the Juvenile, but got going late to finish a respectable third.

“Locked got shuffled back a little more than we wanted and then got stuck inside,” Pletcher said. “There was a lot of kickback. I thought once he kind of got into the clear down the lane he started closing pretty well. At that point, the race had kind of gotten away from him. He was a couple strides away from being second, but he just had too much to do at that point.”
Pletcher said both colts will return first to Churchill Downs before shipping to the trainer's South Florida base at Palm Beach Downs to chart a course towards the new year.

There will be no such gray area where it comes to the Eclipse Award-winning juvenile filly after George Krikorian's Just F Y I (Justify) stamped her authority on her race Friday, lowering the colors of the previously undefeated divisional front-runner 'TDN Rising Star' Tamara (Bolt d'Oro). If he wasn't totally surprised that his filly proved best, he was slightly taken aback with the way she did it.

“She actually showed a bit more early speed than I expected,” Mott said. “She put herself right up there, which was great.”
The connections of Tamara confirmed that she emerged with a 'small knot' and the back of her rear hind.

“We'll take a look at it and see what it is,” said trainer Richard Mandella. “That will determine whether we may need to give her a rest. I could see at the half-mile pole that she wasn't running her race. I thought Mike (Smith) would have a tight hold on her.”

Chad Brown said that Hard to Justify, who gave her sensational young stallion a second straight Breeders' Cup winner on Friday in the Juvenile Fillies Turf, would get a rest with an eye on her sophomore season.

European horses unsurprisingly made their presence felt in the afternoon's other grass races. Big Evs (Ire) (Blue Point {Ire}) gave her sire, trainer Mick Appleby and jockey Tom Marquand their first Breeders' Cup winner with their first starter.

“It hasn't sunk in yet, it really is a dream come true,” trainer Michael Appleby said. “I'm still pinching myself. It was the best day of my career and I'm just so proud of all my team at home, Tom Marquand and Big Evs's owners Rachael and Paul Teasdale.”

Trainer Aidan O'Brien was dealt a disappointing blow when River Tiber (Ire) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) was withdrawn from the Juvenile Turf Friday morning, but the team was mollified some when Unquestionable (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) validated favoritism in the final Breeders' Cup event of the day.

“It's very tough to win here, but I'm delighted for the lads as they put so much into it,” O'Brien said. “It's hard to explain because when things start bad like what happened with River Tiber as it usually goes down because there are a lot of areas you can't control.”

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Goodnight Olive Repeats In the Filly and Mare Sprint

ARCADIA, CA – You've got company Groupie Doll.

Goodnight Olive (Ghostzapper) successfully defended her title at Santa Anita on Saturday and joined the 2012-13 champion female sprinter as the only repeat winners of the GI Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Sprint. Longshots Yuugiri (Shackleford) and Three Witches (Into Mischief) collected the minors.

Favored at even-money, Goodnight Olive broke nicely from her rail draw and found a good spot beneath Irad Ortiz, Jr. in a joint third behind the first-time blinkered Eda (Munnings) and second-choice Society (Gun Runner) through an opening quarter in :22.29. Locked and loaded on the far turn, Goodnight Olive revved up with a menacing three-wide sweep and took over with ease passing the quarter pole. She turned for home in complete command and was kept to her task with a couple of needless left-handers from Ortiz, Jr. to win by 2 3/4 lengths dominating lengths.

Trainer Chad Brown picked up his third victory in the race and 18th Breeders' Cup victory overall. He also saddled Hard to Justify (Justify) to a win in Friday's GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf.

“It's very satisfying,” Brown said. “She trained perfect her last two works. Really beautifully. When she broke good and got behind Society, which I was really happy to see because we knew she was the second choice in the race and really fit on paper. If we could find her, she was going to take us at least to the quarter-pole. And I said to Irad (Ortiz, Jr.), it's likely that other horses will be tired around you at that point and when she got outside of her, she was able to put the race to bed. Rarely does 'Plan A' go into effect and actually finish all the way through. That was our plan and Irad executed it perfectly.”

“Beautiful trip,” Ortiz Jr. said of his 18th career winner at the Championships. “She was there for me every time I asked. She gives me confidence. I knew I was on the best horse. She did it again.”

The First Row Partners and Team Hanley colorbearer, a complete steal for $170,000 as a FTKOCT yearling, will head into the ring for Tuesday's Fasig-Tipton's 'Night of the Stars' November Sale.

“It was obviously the goal that we started after last year's win,” winning co-owner Steve Laymon of First Row Partners said. “A lot of folks were thinking we'd retire her, and it was never a consideration with this group. We're sad to see her go, but what a career for this mare.”

Goodnight Olive faced the starter four previous times since concluding her 2022 season with a powerful victory over Echo Zulu (Gun Runner) at Keeneland last fall. Goodnight Olive returned to the site of her first Filly & Mare Sprint victory and successfully launched her 5-year-old campaign with a win in the GI Madison S. Apr. 8. With absolutely nowhere to run down the stretch, her seven-race winning streak, however, came to a frustrating end after finishing a luckless third in the GI Derby City Distaff S. on the GI Kentucky Derby undercard. Goodnight Olive got there in time with a neck victory in the GII Bed o' Roses S. at Belmont June 17, then earned a career-best 108 Beyer Speed Figure while finishing 2 1/2 lengths adrift the aforementioned recently retired 2021 GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies heroine while failing to repeat in the GI Ballerina H. at the Spa Aug. 26, a race she won impressively in 2022.

Pedigree Notes:

Horse of the Year Ghostzapper, an unforgettable winner of the 2004 GI Breeders' Cup Classic, is now a three-time winning sire of this contest. He is also responsible for 2014 Filly & Mare Sprint heroine Judy the Beauty. Goodnight Olive is one of 14 top-level winners for Ghostzapper. Goodnight Olive is one of two winners from three to the races out of dual Grade III winner Salty Strike, who was acquired by the Stonestreet team for $800,000 at the Keeneland January Sale in 2013. A half-sister to the stakes-winning Salty Response (Cozzene) and to the stakes-placed dam of MSP Mohawk Trail (Pioneerof the Nile), Salty Strike is also the dam of the unraced Katie's Keepsake (Medaglia d'Oro), who was sold for $250,000 in foal to Ghostzapper to D. C. Goff at this year's Keeneland January Sale. Goodnight Olive is two of three Breeders' Cup winners out of a daughter of the late Smart Strike, joining GI Filly & Mare Turf upsetter Shared Account (Pleasantly Perfect).

 

 

Saturday, Santa Anita Park
PNC BANK BREEDERS' CUP FILLY & MARE SPRINT-GI, $910,000, Santa Anita, 11-4, 3yo/up, f/m, 7f, 1:22.97, ft.
1–GOODNIGHT OLIVE, 124, m, 5, by Ghostzapper
          1st Dam: Salty Strike (MGSW, $485,266), by Smart Strike
            2nd Dam: Lake Huron, by Salt Lake
            3rd Dam: My Rainbow, by Lyphard
($170,000 Ylg '19 FTKOCT). O-First Row Partners and Team Hanley; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Chad Brown; J-Irad Ortiz, Jr.. $520,000. Lifetime Record: Ch. Female Sprinter, 12-9-2-1, $2,196,200. Click for the http://www.werkhorse.com/free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Yuugiri, 124, f, 4, by Shackleford
             1st Dam: Yuzuru (SW, $105,759), by Medaglia d'Oro
             2nd Dam: Macarena Macarena, by Gone West
             3rd Dam: Angelic Song, by Halo
1ST G1 BLACK TYPE. O/B-Sekie & Tsunebumi Yoshihara (KY); T-Rodolphe Brisset. $170,000.
3–Three Witches, 124, f, 4, by Into Mischief
             1st Dam: Layreebelle, by Tale of the Cat
             2nd Dam: Voodoo Lily, by Baldski
             3rd Dam: Cap the Moment, by For The Moment
1ST G1 BLACK TYPE. ($350,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP). O-e Five Racing Thoroughbreds; B-Machmer Hall (KY); T-Saffie A. Joseph, Jr.. $90,000.
Margins: 2 3/4, 1 1/4, HF. Odds: 1.10, 26.20, 34.40.
Also Ran: Society, Kirstenbosch, Clearly Unhinged, Eda, Matareya, Meikei Yell (Jpn).
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Sale-Topping Sierra Leone ‘Guns’ To Rising Stardom

When you sell for a sale-topping $2.3m as a yearling at Fasig-Tipton's New York Saratoga Sale to connections like White Birch Farm and M. V. Magnier, the expectations are going to be sky high. And while Sierra Leone (c, 2, Gun Runner–Heavenly Love, by Malibu Moon) proved he still has a lot to learn but still showed enough ability in the end to graduate at first asking and become the latest 'TDN Rising Star' for Three Chimney's super-stallion Gun Runner.

Facing a field of mostly more experienced runners, the 3-1 shot had to contend with another million-dollar purchase in Change of Command (Into Mischief) from the inside along with the younger half-brother to dual GI Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile winner Cody's Wish in Hunt Ball (Into Mischief). A step slow from a middle gate, Sierra Leone was quickly outrun into the opening furlong and dropped back to beat only runner while taking dirt from nearly the entire field. Caught in tight quarters into the turn in this one-mile event, he had to back out and faced a wall of horses with a quarter mile to run. Jockey Manny Franco moved to angle his mount to the outside but Sierra Leone ducked out sharply on the wrong lead, lugged back in toward the rail and then drifted back out before finally swapping leads right at the furlong marker. Finally in the clear, he came sweeping past the inside leaders and won going away despite still needing to be straightened out when passing horses.

The second foal out of GI Darley Alcibiades S. winner Heavenly Love, Seirra Leone is from the extended female family of Japanese Horse of the Year Zenno Rob Roy (Jpn) (Sunday Silence) and from a third dam that also produced the dams of no fewer than three Group winners in Japan. The dam's yearling Nyquist colt brought $250,000 at last month's Fasig-Tipton October Yearling Sale and she returned to Gun Runner for a full-sibling to Sierra Leone in 2024.

7th-Aqueduct, $85,000, Msw, 11-4, 2yo, 1m, 1:36.94, ft, 1 1/4 lengths.
SIERRA LEONE, c, 2, Gun Runner
                1st Dam: Heavenly Love {GISW, $346,200},
                                by Malibu Moon)
                2nd Dam: Darling My Darling, by Deputy Minister
                3rd Dam: Roamin Rachel, by Mining
Sales History: $2,300,000 Ylg '22 FTSAUG. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $46,750. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
O-Mrs John Magnier, Michael B Tabor, Derrick Smith, Westerberg, Rocket Ship Racing, LLC and Peter M. Brant; B-Debby M. Oxley (KY); T-Chad C. Brown.

 

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