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Get Smokin, Bleecker Street Top Entries For Tampa Bay Downs’ Turf Champions Day

A full field of 12 males, headed by defending winner Get Smokin, are expected to compete in Saturday's Grade 3, $175,000 Tampa Bay Stakes, while 10 fillies and mares, including Grade 1 winner Lady Speightspeare, are entered in the Grade 3, $175,000 Endeavour. Both races will be contested at a distance of a mile-and-a-sixteenth on the turf course.

The Endeavour is the sixth race on a 10-race card on Tampa Bay Downs's “Turf Champions Day.” The Tampa Bay Stakes is the eighth race. There are 13 horses entered in the Tampa Bay Stakes and only 12 are permitted to run, so the connections of Carpenters Call would need a late scratch to compete.

The 5-year-old gelding Get Smokin will be making his first start since June. Now trained by Hall of Fame conditioner Mark Casse, Get Smokin, who will be ridden by Antonio Gallardo, won the G2 Hill Prince Stakes at Belmont as a 3-year-old. Get Smokin will break from the No. 7 post.

South Florida-based trainer Chad Brown will be sending two horses for the Tampa Bay Stakes in 5-year-old gelding L'Imperator and 8-year-old gelding Devamani. Samy Camacho is named to ride L'Imperator, while Pablo Morales will be aboard Devamani.

Tampa Bay Downs trainer Arnaud Delacour also has two entrants: 6-year-old horse Eons, who was second to Get Smokin last year, and 6-year-old gelding Talk Or Listen, last year's fourth-place finisher.

Brown, who is bidding for his first Tampa Bay Stakes trophy, has two entrants in search of his fourth Endeavour victory. Both of his 4-year-old fillies, Bleecker Street and In Italian, are owned by Peter M. Brant, with Bleecker Street a perfect 3-for-3 and In Italian 2-for-3 with a second. Hector Rafael Diaz, Jr., rides Bleecker Street and Camacho is on In Italian.

They could have their hands full with 4-year-old Lady Speightspeare, who is 4-for-5 for trainer Roger Attfield, including the G1 Natalma at Woodbine as a 2-year-old. Her regular rider, Emma-Jayne Wilson, again has the assignment.

Trainer H. Graham Motion will bid for his third Endeavour victory with 4-year-old Oyster Box, who will be ridden by Gallardo. She was third in last year's Florida Oaks at the Oldsmar oval.

“Turf Champions Day” kicks off the track's seven-event graded-stakes schedule, which continues on Feb. 12 with the 42nd running of the Grade 3, $250,000 Sam F. Davis Stakes, a “Road to the Kentucky Derby” points race for 3-year-old Triple Crown hopefuls.

The Sam F. Davis is the centerpiece of a four-stakes Festival Preview Day card that includes the mile-and-40-yard, $150,000 Suncoast Stakes, a “Road to the Kentucky Oaks” points race for 3-year-old fillies; the 6-furlong, $100,000 Pelican Stakes for horses 4-years-old-and-upward; and the $50,000, 6-furlong Minaret Stakes for fillies and mares 4-years-old-and-upward.

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Brown: ‘Longer Distance’ Of Risen Star Should Play To Zandon’s Strengths

Chad Brown-trained Triple Crown hopeful Zandon will make his next start in the Grade 2 Risen Star Stakes on Feb. 19 at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans, La., reports the Daily Racing Form. The 3-year-old son of Upstart, second by a nose in the G2 Remsen last out, has been working steadily at Payson Park in Indiantown, Fla. since late December.

“We went back and forth on whether to start out with him here,” Brown told DRF, referring to the G3 Holy Bull this Saturday at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla. “But we prefer the longer distance of the Risen Star, and it has more points.”

The Holy Bull is run at 1 1/16 miles, and offers 10 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby to the winner, while the Risen Star is held over 1 1/8 miles and offers 50 points.

Meanwhile, his Grade 1-winning stablemate Jack Christopher (Munnings) has not yet made it back to the work tab after being scratched from the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and later undergoing surgery to repair a shin issue.

“He is back galloping, and we're happy about that, but we are certainly behind with him,” Brown told DRF. “We're just going to have to take it week to week with him. We are not going to rush the horse just to make the Derby. The owners are completely on board with that.”

Regal Glory Reels Them All in in Inaugural Pegasus F/M Turf

Regal Glory closed her 2021 campaign with her first top-level score and she picked up right where she left off in her 2022 debut, capturing the inaugural GIII Pegasus F/M Turf S. Racing two wide, the chestnut bided her time near the back through a first half-mile in :48.03. Advancing up the outside four wide on the backstretch run, the heavy favorite charged clear in the lane under Jose Ortiz for a decisive victory.

“I was a little nervous early on because she didn't break that well, which she does sometimes,” trainer Chad Brown said. “Thankfully, Jose [Ortiz] knows her so well and she's so good that she was able to overcome it. He rode a beautiful Plan B type of race. It didn't go his way the first part of it. Once he got her down the backside and following a live horse to move him up, it was really good judgment for him and the horse was there for him. I was proud of both of them.”

Kicking off last term with a win in Aqueduct's Plenty of Grace S. last April, Regal Glory closed from well back to be fourth in Belmont's GI Just a Game S. in June. Rallying to victory in Saratoga's De La Rose S. in August, she was a close second in Keeneland's GI First Lady S. Oct. 9 and wired Del Mar's GI Matriarch S. last out Nov. 28.

Pedigree Notes:

Regal Glory is one of four Grade I winners, seven graded scorers and 15 black-type victors for her GI Kentucky Derby-winning sire Animal Kingdom. She is one of three graded winners for her MGSW dam Mary's Follies, who summoned $500,000 from BBA Ireland at last term's KEEJAN sale as part of the dispersal of the late Paul Pompa, Jr. Regal Glory was the co-topper at that auction at $925,000. Mary's Follies 2020 Connect colt brought $185,000 from Larry Best's OXO Equine at the same sale and RNA'd for $425,000 at KEESEP. Mary's Follies' first foal Night Prowler (Giant's Causeway) was also her first graded winner, earning over $535,000. Regal Glory came three foals later and was followed by Café Pharoah (American Pharoah), a Group 1 winner in Japan who has earned just shy of $2-million. Mary's Follies aborted her 2021 Curlin foal and was bred back to American Pharoah last season.

Saturday, Gulfstream
TAA PEGASUS WORLD CUP FILLY AND MARE TURF INVITATIONAL S. PRESENTED BY PEPSI-GIII, $490,500, Gulfstream, 1-29, 4yo/up, f/m, 1 1/16mT, 1:41.74, fm.
1–REGAL GLORY, 123, 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). O-Peter M. Brant; B-Paul P
Pompa (KY); T-Chad C. Brown; J-Jose L. Ortiz. $285,000.
Lifetime Record: GISW, 17-10-4-0, $1,529,884. *1/2 to Night
Prowler (Giant's Causeway), MGSW, $535,682; 1/2 to Café
Pharoah (American Pharoah), G1SW-Jpn, $1,928,283. Werk
Nick Rating: A+++. *Triple Plus* Click for the eNicks report
& 5-cross pedigree.
2–Alms, 119, m, 5, City Zip–Charity Belle, by Empire Maker.
O/B-Godolphin, LLC (KY); T-Michael Stidham. $95,000.
3–Shifty She, 121, m, 6, Gone Astray–Perilous Hope, by
Strong Hope. O-Pedigree Partners LLC; B-Chris Pallas &
George Klein (FL); T-Saffie A. Joseph, Jr. $47,500.
Margins: 2HF, NK, HD. Odds: 0.80, 19.10, 8.80.
Also Ran: Gift List (GB), Bipartisanship (GB), Wakanaka (Ire), Nicest (Ire), Summer in Saratoga, In a Hurry, Sweet Melania. Scratched: Lady Speightspeare.
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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Favored Regal Glory Makes It Look Easy In Inaugural Pegasus Filly & Mare Turf

Sent to post as the 4-5 favorite, Peter Brant's Regal Glory made short work of the inaugural Grade 3, $500,000 Pegasus Filly & Mare Turf at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Fla. The Chad Brown-trained 6-year-old daughter of Animal Kingdom burst into the clear in the stretch and pulled away to win by about three lengths under jockey Jose Ortiz. Regal Glory ran 1 1/16 miles over the firm turf course in 1:41.74.

Alms was game to deny Shifty She for the place, while Gift List checked in fourth.

Though typically near the pace or leading the way in her 16-race career, Regal Glory was last in the field in the early going. Alms and Shifty She were together at the front and led the way through fractions of 23.94 seconds, 48.03 and 1:11.98. Meanwhile, jockey Jose Ortiz guided Regal Glory to the outside on the run up the backstretch and began moving past other horses entering the turn.

“The '5' horse [Gift List] broke really sharp and took my position,” Ortiz said. “He broke a step faster than I did, but they went fast early and I was able to put her outside to follow Luis [Saez] on Sweet Melania – I rode her before and I know she likes the track and decided to follow her. At the three-eighths pole, I had a lot of horse and decided to go around everybody. You could see I had a lot of horse under me. She was just the best in the race.

“I was a little nervous early on because she didn't break that well, which she does sometimes,” trainer Chad Brown said. “Thankfully, Jose knows her so well and she's so good that she was able to overcome it. He rode a beautiful Plan B type of race. It didn't go his way the first part of it. Once he got her down the backside and following a live horse to move him up, it was really good judgment for him and the horse was there for him. I was proud of both of them.”

Godolphin's Alms, trained by Michael Stidham, was second at 19-1. Shifty She was third.

“I had a perfect trip,” said Alm's jockey Joel Rosario. “She dragged me up to the lead and it looked like she gave everything she got, just the winner came right by us. But she ran well. I was on the lead and then that horse came and put a little pressure there but she was fine with it, and then she came back a little bit the last part so that was good.”

Bred in Kentucky by Paul Pompa, Regal Glory is out of the multiple graded stakes-winning More Than Ready mare Mary's Follies. Pompa raced Regal Glory through her 2020 season, acquiring a trio of graded stakes wins on the turf, before Brant picked her up from the 2021 Pompa dispersal. Remaining in Brown's barn, Regal Glory got her first Grade 1 win at the end of 2021, capturing the Matriarch at Del Mar in late November.

Brant purchased Regal Glory in January 2021 for $925,000 at the disbursement sale of the late Paul Pompa's bloodstock. Following the Filly and Mare Turf victory, Brown said Brant might change his plans to retire her.

“She was scheduled to be bred to Into Mischief,” Brown said. “Mr. Brant and I were watching her train this week up at Payson, and we were remarking how sound she is and how great she looks at this age. We left it the morning, let's see how she runs and comes out of this race. It's not out of the question to run her at 6. So I'm going to let him enjoy this win, and we're going to look at the horse, and ultimately he's going to decide.”

Overall, Regal Glory has amassed a record of 10 wins and 4 seconds from 17 starts, for earnings of over $1.5 million.

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