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Early Voting to Jim Dandy

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY- Klaravich Stables's GI Preakness S. winner Early Voting (Gun Runner) was shipped from Belmont Park to Saratoga Race Course Sunday and will run in the GII Jim Dandy July 30.

Trainer Chad Brown announced that Early Voting will go in the Jim Dandy with stablemate Zandon (Upstart), rather than face another stablemate, unbeaten Jack Christopher (Munnings) in the GI Haskell S. July 23. Brown is aiming all three of his graded stakes-winning 3-year-old colts for Saratoga's signature race, the $1.25-million GI Runhappy Travers S. Aug. 27. He waited until after Early Voting's work Saturday at Belmont Park before deciding whether the colt would go to Monmouth Park with Jack Christopher in a Grade I contest or come to Saratoga and have a race over the track before the historic Travers.

“Jack Christopher looked great this morning, he looks ready to go for the Haskell and at the end of the day I'm going to run two horses in one race and one on the other,” Brown said. “I'd rather only run the one in the Haskell and I just didn't see the benefit of putting Early Voting in a larger field against a really fast horse, what it might do to him five weeks out from the Travers.”

In the Jim Dandy, for decades the local prep for the Travers, Jeff Drown's Zandon will be making his first start since finishing third in the GI Kentucky Derby May 7. He won the GI Toyota Blue Grass S. April 29.

Early Voting gave Brown his second Triple Crown race win in the Preakness May 21. In 2017, Brown brought his Preakness winner Cloud Computing back in the Jim Dandy.

Jack Christopher, co-owned by Jim Bakke, Gerald Ibister, Coolmore Stud and Peter Brant, extended his record to 4-0 with a smashing 10-length victory in the seven-furlong GI Woody Stephens June 11. The nine-furlong Haskell will be his first race beyond one mile and his first around two turns.

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‘Rising Star’ In Italian Forgets To Stop in Diana

At 8-1, Peter Brant's In Italian (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) may have been the least fancied of the four Chad Brown runners in this six-horse renewal of the GI Diana S. Saturday at Saratoga, but she did the most running, wiring the field in a course record-setting performance. Her three stablemates–Technical Analysis (Ire) (Kingman {GB}), favored Brant colorbearer Bleecker Street (Quality Road) and Rougir (Fr) (Territories {Ire}), partially owned by Brant–finished behind her in that order for a Brown superfecta.

Hesitating for just a breath while breaking from post six, In Italian quickly got underway beneath Joel Rosario, hustling up to take control with the only two non-Brown runners Creative Flair (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) and Dalika (Ger) (Pastorius {Ger}) tracking her through a :22.45 opening quarter. Seeming well within herself as she set a :45.83 half-mile, the 'TDN Rising Star' clocked three-quarters in 1:09.50 as barnmate Technical Analysis revved up on her outside. The chestnut turned for home in front with Technical Analysis trying to make a race out of it from second, but that foe never posed a serious threat. In Italian kept on finding in the lane, crossing the line 1 1/2 lengths clear in a new course record time for nine furlongs of 1:45.06.

It was Brown's seventh Diana win overall and sixth in the last seven years. Two of those wins came with Brant's champion Sistercharlie (Ire) (Myboycharlie {Ire}).

“We had a plan,” Brown said. “She was training super in the morning. She's been the lead horse in the works with Regal Glory two or three weeks in a row at Belmont. I've been so impressed with her not letting Regal Glory by her, who I regard as the top mare in the division just slightly over Bleecker Street. I instructed Joel [Rosario] to just try to make the break. I told him to, 'Go and don't worry about it. If you give her a little breather down the backstretch, fine, but she's going to run the race of her life today,' and she sure did. We had a good feeling.”

He continued, “They separate each other when you run them together. My approach is, I would rather run them against each other and settle it on the track than start to cherry pick who's running and who's not and a bunch of “What Ifs” if I ran the one I didn't run. I felt good about Technical Analysis maybe getting a jump on Rougir and Bleecker Street, but sure enough In Italian found another gear, much like she has in the mornings recently.”

“I just think she's a terrific filly and she wouldn't be in here if we didn't think she had the ability to win,” Brant said. “The instructions to Joel [Rosario] were ride this race like you can win, not just for pace, and he did it.”

“It looked like she had the speed on paper,” Rosario said. “It looked like there were other horses with speed too on paper, but Chad told me to let her break and go on into the first turn and she put herself forwardly placed. She was nice and relaxed in front and ran a big race.”

A second-out graduate at Belmont in May 2021, In Italian resurfaced in January, wiring a Tampa allowance. She followed suit with a win in Gulfstream's Mar. 5 GIII Honey Fox S. and was second next out in the GII Churchill Distaff Turf Mile S. May 7. The 475,000gns TATOCT buy entered this test off a third behind stablemate Regal Glory (Animal Kingdom) in Belmont's 10-panel GI New York S. June 10.

Pedigree Notes:

In Italian is the 51st Grade I/Group 1 winner for her legendary sire Dubawi. She is also one of 152 graded winners and 234 black-type scorers for that Darley stallion. The winner is a half-sister to GSP Villa Carlotta (Aus) (Street Cry {Ire}) and SP Fasano (Aus) (Lonhro {Aus}). Her Group 3-winning dam Florentina (Aus) (Redoute's Choice {Aus})–a half to Group 1 winner Gathering (Aus) (Tale of the Cat)–is also the dam of the 2-year-old colt Spanish Empire (GB) (Kingman {GB}), who summoned just shy of A$1.8 million from Tom Magnier at the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. She was bred back to Kingman on Southern Hemisphere time and sent through the 2020 Inglis Chariman's Sale, bringing A$650,000. That breeding resulted in a still unnamed juvenile filly. Florentina visited Yes Yes Yes (Aus) Dec. 23.

Saturday, Saratoga
DIANA S.-GI, $500,000, Saratoga, 7-16, 4yo/up, f/m, 1 1/8mT, 1:45.06 (NCR), fm.
1–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 GRADE I WIN. (475,000gns Ylg '19 TATOCT). O-Peter M.
Brant; B-Fairway Thoroughbreds (GB); T-Chad C. Brown;
J-Joel Rosario. $275,000. 'TDN Rising Star' Lifetime Record:
7-4-2-1, $591,220. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the
eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Technical Analysis (Ire), 120, f, 4, by Kingman (GB)
               1st Dam: Sealife (Ire), by Sea The Stars (Ire)
               2nd Dam: Bitooh (GB), by Diktat (GB)
               3rd Dam: Sitara (GB), by Salse
(200,000gns Ylg '19 TATOCT). O-Klaravich Stables, Inc.;
B-Rabbah Bloodstock Limited (IRE); T-Chad C. Brown.
$100,000.
3–Bleecker Street, 122, f, 4, by Quality Road
               1st Dam: Lemon Liqueur (SP), by Exchange Rate
               2nd Dam: Limoncella, by Lemon Drop Kid
               3rd Dam: Trip Around Heaven, by Halo
($400,000 Ylg '19 FTSAUG). O-Peter M. Brant; B-Branch
Equine, LLC (KY); T-Chad C. Brown. $60,000.
Margins: 1HF, 1HF, NK. Odds: 8.30, 3.80, 0.80.
Also Ran: Rougir (Fr), Dalika (Ger), Creative Flair (Ire).
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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Pletcher and Brown Stars Highlight Saratoga Worktab

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – Todd Pletcher and Chad Brown were both quite busy Saturday morning at Saratoga, working some of their respective stables' top stars. GI Belmont S. runner-up Nest (Curlin) turned in her final breeze Saturday morning before her rematch with Secret Oath (Arrogate) July 23 in the GI Coaching Club American Oaks.

Hall of Fame trainer Todd Pletcher said the filly “worked really well” after she covered five furlongs in company with champion Corniche (Quality Road) in 1:01.44 under jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. on the main track.

Secret Oath and Nest ran one-two in the GI Kentucky Oaks. They then jumped into the Triple Crown series with Secret Oath finishing fourth in the GI Preakness S. and Nest running second to stablemate Mo Donegal (Uncle Mo) in the Belmont. Secret Oath and Nest could also meet in the GI Alabama Aug. 20.

Nest is a member of Pletcher's battalion of runners headed to graded stakes at Saratoga. Life is Good (Into Mischief) breezed a half-mile in :49.49 on July 15 for the GI Whitney S. Aug. 6. Americanrevolution (Constitution), runner-up in the GII Stephen Foster, and Dynamic One (Union Rags), winner of the GII Suburban, are on course for the GI Jockey Club Gold Cup Sept. 3.

Pletcher said that Charge It (Tapit) will train up to the GI Runhappy Travers Aug. 27. In his first start since a 17th-place finish in the GI Kentucky Derby, the Whisper Hill Farm homebred crushed his competition in the GIII Dwyer S. July 2 at Belmont Park, winning by 23 lengths.

“It's the first time I've ever watched a race at Belmont and actually looked at that Secretariat pole as they were coming to the finish line,” Pletcher said. “It was like, 'wow'. He's a horse that we've thought a lot of from the beginning. He showed he's still a little green in the Florida Derby and displaced his palate in the Kentucky Derby, so I think we're starting now to get it all together. From a talent perspective, he is as good as good as anyone in the crop, if he can just continue to mature.”

Jeff Drown's Zandon (Upstart) worked a half-mile in :49.69 Saturday in preparation for his scheduled start in the GII Jim Dandy July 30.

The Jim Dandy, the local prep for the Travers, will be Zandon's first race following his third-place finish in the GI Kentucky Derby May 7.

Meanwhile, Brown's two other graded stakes-winning 3-year-old colts, GI Preakness S. star Early Voting (Gun Runner) and the unbeaten Jack Christopher (Munnings) worked at Belmont Park. Jack Christopher is headed to the GI Haskell Invitational S. next weekend at Monmouth Park. Brown has not yet made the call on whether Early Voting will go in the Haskell or the Jim Dandy.

“I'll decide in the morning,” Brown said. “I'll see how all the horses come out before I make a decision.”

Brown was pleased with the way Zandon handled the breeze.

“The horse worked super,” he said.

Zandon's work under veteran exercise rider Kriss Bon was his first at Saratoga this summer and satisfied a couple of goals.

“Just to get him to stretch his legs,” Brown said. “He's been working along down at Belmont. I freshened him up after the Derby. I'm really pleased with him. He put some weight on. He really looks better than ever right now. I have just given him a little bit of a breather from the racing end of it anyway. Our plan was just to get him over the track and get him a good feel for it and he couldn't have went any better.”

Despite his strong performance in the Derby, Zandon was never a possibility for the Belmont because Brown said he doesn't consider him a mile and a half horse. But Brown is confident that he will be sharp off a nearly three-month break between races.

“Just knowing the horse, he'll run good, fresh,” Brown said. “I can just see it in his training. The way he's matured, the way he's worked gives me a lot of confidence that he will be ready to go.

Early Voting worked four furlongs in :49.25 and Jack Christopher was timed in :49.80 for the same distance.

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Once Again, Chad Brown is Loaded for the Diana

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY – It is pretty much impossible to overstate just how invested trainer Chad Brown is in the Diana S., the first Grade I of the Saratoga season, which will be run on Saturday.

Brown earned the first Grade I victory of his career when Zagora (Fr) (Green Tune) prevailed in 2011. He has won the race five more times, all in a row, for a stakes record six. He has entered the race for 13 consecutive years and had at least one horse in the top three for 11 straight years, a streak that ended last year.

The depth and strength of the turf fillies in Brown's stable is no secret and was made clear again this summer when he was responsible for 10 of the 14 nominations for the race. He will saddle four of the six horses that were entered, three of them owned or co-owned by Peter Brant. Brown also had four starters in 2019 when his runners swept the top three spots.

Brown's lineup for the 1 1/8-mile race Saturday is led by Brant's unbeaten Bleecker Street (Quality Road). The seven-time winner earned her first Grade I in the New York S. June 10 at 1 1/4 miles. Bleecker Street will start from post three, just to the inside of Brant and Michael Tabor's Rougir (Fr) (Territories {Ire}), who is making her third start in the U.S. Rougir was a Group 1 winner in France last year. Brant's speedy In Italian (GB) (Dubawi {Ire}) drew the outside. She was most recently third to stablemate Regal Glory (Animal Kingdom) in the GI Just A Game S. On the rail is Klaravich Stable's Technical Analysis (Ire) (Kingman {GB}), winner of the GIII Lake George S. and GII Lake Placid S. at Saratoga last summer.

Brown said his crew of 4-year-old Diana runners have arrived at the race from a variety of directions.

“There are the horses that we develop from scratch, so to speak, like a Bleecker Street that we had as a baby,” Brown said. “We bought her across the street [at the Fasig-Tipton Saratoga 2019 Yearling Sale for $400,000], Mr. Brant and I. She's an overachiever. When we bought her, we thought she was going to be a dirt horse. She didn't really train well on it. We started her off kind of at 'Triple A' down there between Monmouth and the Meadowlands and then she just got good. And we gave her a shot in the big leagues, and this horse is undefeated.

“Then we have some European horses to go along with her that are really good. You know, like Rougir and Technical Analysis and In Italian.”

Brown said that many of his turf stakes fillies arrive as young horses and grow in his program.

“You go through the list and they're all different types of horses,” he said. “Fluffy Socks is a homebred with a modest pedigree. She's by Slumber (GB). Bleecker Street is a horse we bought across the street. Yes, there's some European horses that we bought. Technical Analysis I bought as a yearling and broke her. In Italian was the same. Rougir was a horse Mr. Brant paid a lot of money for. It gets a little bit misconstrued in the press sometimes, like 'these guys get sent the best horses.' We develop them.”

Though he nominated Regal Glory for the Diana, Brown has a more ambitious plan for the multiple Grade I winner he has handled throughout her career. Brown trained her for her breeder, Paul Pompa, and recommended that Brant buy her at the dispersal following Pompa's death.

“Probably run against the boys in the GI Fourstardave. I have another horse for the race, Masen (GB) (Kingman {GB}). They're probably going to have to run against each other. I think at this point, Regal Glory, I think she's best at a mile, a mile and a sixteenth. I really do. My long-term target for her is the Breeders' Cup against the boys at a mile. So, I'm leaning that way, but not for certain.”

Saturday's Saratoga card also features a loaded renewal of the GIII Sanford S. for 2-year-olds. 'TDN Rising Stars' Forte (Violence) and Andiamo a Firenze (Speightstown) lead the way in the 12-horse field following sparkling debuts downstate.

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