Tag: Del Mar

Collected’s Conclude Strong in Oceanside on Del Mar’s Opening Weekend

Conclude (Collected) brought his stakes-winning form with him from Santa Anita and returned to the winner's circle in Del Mar's customary opening day feature–the Caesars Sportsbook Oceanside S.

A winner a black-type winner at the turf sprint distance last out May 21 in Santa Anita's Desert Code S., Conclude's first race after his freshening from that contest proved fruitful as the 9-2 second choice here. Showing some early speed after the jump but quickly overtaken and outrun by a loose leader on the clubhouse turn, the chestnut son of GI Kentucky Oaks heroine Believe You Can bided his time in second as Game Time (Not This Time) reeled off :22.17, :46.58 and 1:11.32 splits. Three furlongs out and locking horns with that one around the far turn, Conclude took over nearing the head of the stretch and drove clear to a stylish 1 1/4-length victory. The 5-2 favorite Classical Cat tried gamely to catch him but had to settle for second while 26-1 shocker Ah Jeez gave his sire two of the top three placings in the trifecta. Conditioner Philip D'Amato went 1-2 as well as picking up his 45th stakes victory and third Oceanside S.

“When he opened up a length or two at the top of the lane, I thought he was the horse,” said D'Amato after the race. “Classical Cat was coming on pretty good, but I think when Conclude felt him, he just spurted out again. I'm proud of both my horses.”

Conclude is his dam's most recent to the races as she aborted her 2021 American Pharoah. Believe You Can did have a yearling filly by Nyquist but her 2023 foal by Essential Quality was stillborn. The mare is a full-sister to the dam of GISP King Russell (Creative Cause) and a half to the dam of MSP Baytown Bear (Upstart). This is the family of MGSW Classic Elegance; MGISP Standard Deviation (Curlin); and multiple course record-setter GSP Summer to Remember (Summer Front). Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

 

CAESARS SPORTSBOOK OCEANSIDE S., $104,000, Del Mar, 7-21, (C), 3yo, 1mT, 1:35.09, fm.
1–CONCLUDE, 120, c, 3, by Collected
        1st Dam: Believe You Can (GISW, $1,280,324), by Proud Citizen
        2nd Dam: El Fasto, by El Prado (Ire)
        3rd Dam: Taegu, by Halo
($140,000 RNA Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-Little Red Feather Racing, Madaket Stables LLC and Brereton C. Jones; B-Brereton C. Jones (KY); T-Philip D'Amato; J-Hector Isaac Berrios. $60,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-0, $179,600. *1/2 to Believe in Royalty (Tapit), SW & GSP, $194,385.
2–Classical Cat, 124, c, 3, Mendelssohn–Conquest Strate Up, by Not Bourbon. ($65,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-Michael House; B-Pippa's Hurricane LLC (KY); T-Philip D'Amato. $20,000.
3–Ah Jeez, 120, c, 3, Mendelssohn–Poetic, by Violence. ($80,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP; $55,000 2yo '22 OBSAPR). O-Great Friends Stables, LLC and Mark Davis; B-Machmer Hall (KY); T-Doug F. O'Neill. $12,000.
Margins: 1 1/4, 1HF, 3/4. Odds: 4.70, 2.50, 26.00.
Also Ran: Mas Rapido (GB), Game Time, Agency, Ze'bul, El Oro (Fr), Zalamo (Fr), Mr Fisk, Escape Artist, Kid Azteca, Ever a Rebel. Scratched: Panic Alarm (Ire).

The post Collected’s Conclude Strong in Oceanside on Del Mar’s Opening Weekend appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.

Source of original post

Ghostzapper Firster Highly Impressive On Del Mar Debut

2nd-Del Mar, $84,500, Msw, 7-21, 3yo/up, 6 1/2f, 1:15.18, ft, 5 1/4 lengths.
DR. VENKMAN (g, 3, Ghostzapper–Theory of Change, by Archarcharch), one of two first-starters in the field, took a fair bit of action at 4-1 with apprentice Armando Aguilar claiming a five-pound weight allowance. Off to a bit of a hesitant beginning, the $105,000 KEESEP yearling quickly made up for lost time and was right in behind the leading trio approaching the turn. Traveling strongly on the bend, he was produced four wide into the lane and pulled away smartly to score by open lengths. A half-brother to this year's Fasig-Tipton Juvenile S. hero Tranche (Collected)–whose paternal grandsire City Zip is a half-brother to Ghostzapper–Dr. Venkman is also related to a yearling colt by Street Sense. Theory of Change was barren to Maxfield for this year. Sales history: $105,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $49,200. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
O-Dan J Agnew, Clint Bunch, James Hailey & Philip J Wood; B-Ghostzapper Syndicate & Hidden Brook Farm (KY); T-Mark Glatt.

 

The post Ghostzapper Firster Highly Impressive On Del Mar Debut appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.

Source of original post

Saturday Insights: Mage Full-Brother Entered ‘MTO’ at the Spa

1st-SAR, $136k, Msw, 2yo, 1 1/16mT, post time: 1:10 p.m. ET
His full-brother Mage is about three hours south at Monmouth Park to contest Saturday's GI TVG.com Haskell S., but DORNOCH (Good Magic) could still represent the family should the Saratoga opener be transferred to the main track. Whereas Mage cost $235,000 at Keeneland September in 2021 (before fetching $290,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale last year), Dornoch was a $325,000 acquisition in Lexington. The pair's dam SW & GSP Puca (Big Brown), a 'TDN Rising Star' and also responsible for MSP Gunning (Gun Runner), is a half-sister to GISW Finnegans Wake (Powerscourt {GB}). Also entered for the main track only is Deterministic (Liam's Map), a $625,000 KEESEP purchase who hails from the Helen Alexander family of champion Althea. TJCIS PPs

7th-SAR, $136k, Msw, 2yo, 6f, post time: 4:26 p.m. ET
BC Stables co-principle John Bellinger's name was on the docket when DAILY GRIND (Medaglia d'Oro) was hammered down for $1.35 million at last year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Sale, and the dark bay debuts for the operation's Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas. Lochlow Farm acquired dam Walk Close (Tapit) for $550,000 in foal to Uncle Mo at the 2018 Fasig-Tipton November Sale and the mare's value appreciated over the course of the next 12 months, as her foal of 2017 Anneau d'Or (Medaglia d'Oro) was runner-up in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile and GII Los Alamitos Futurity. Daily Grind, whose second dam is SW & GISP Spring Awakening (In Excess {Ire}), is bred on a foal share with Godolphin. Anointed (Justify) is a maternal grandson of Pearling (Storm Cat)–a full-sister to the 'Iron Horse' Giant's Causeway and You'resothrilling, et al–whose son Decorated Knight (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) was a two-time Group 1 winner in Ireland and victorious at Group 1 level in Dubai. Also in the mix is Dive Bomber (Omaha Beach), a $400,000 KEESEP grad and half-brother to this year's Bourbonette Oaks heroine Botanical (Medaglia d'Oro). TJCIS PPs

8th-DMR, $82k, Msw, 2yo, f, 5f, post time: 8:35 p.m. ET
HOPE ROAD (Quality Road) is the first produce from Marley's Freedom (Blame), easy winner of the 2018 GI Ballerina S. for Cicero Farms and Bob Baffert. Connections elected to enter the Jan. 15 foal for last year's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga, but they took her home after bidding fizzled out at $575,000. John Sadler conditions the bay, who breezed a smart five furlongs from the gate in 1:00 flat (5/44) at Santa Anita July 16. C R K Stable's Ashley (Into Mischief) draws the fence for this debut run for John Shirreffs. A $385,000 KEESEP buyback turned $400,000 OBSAPR breezer (see Summer Breezes below), the April-foaled bay is out of a full-sister to Japanese Group 1-winning sprinter Mozu Superflare (Speightstown) and a half to GSW Sacristy (Pulpit). Mocha Grande (Uncle Mo), a $475,000 KEESEP purchase by Talla Racing and West Point Thoroughbreds, is out of a daughter of GSP Stage Magic (Ghostzapper), of course the dam of Triple Crown-winning Horse of the Year Justify (Scat Daddy). TJCIS PPs

The post Saturday Insights: Mage Full-Brother Entered ‘MTO’ at the Spa appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.

Source of original post

Summer Breezes: July 19, 2023

Some of the most highly anticipated races during the summer racing season are the 'baby' races during the boutique meetings at both Saratoga and Del Mar and at Ellis Park, which attract its fair share of high-priced offspring from a variety of top national outfits.

Summer Breezes highlights debuting 2-year-olds at those meetings that have been sourced at the breeze-up sales earlier in the year, with links to their under-tack previews. To follow are the horses entered for Saratoga Wednesday:

Wednesday, July 19, 2023
Saratoga 6, $83k, 2yo, f, (R), 5 1/2f, 4:00 p.m. ET
Horse (Sire), Sale, Price ($), Breeze
Almond Fudge (Practical Joke), OBSAPR, 50,000, click
C-Sterling Thoroughbreds, Agent; B-Glenn Del Russo
Bertrille (Vino Rosso), FTMMAY, 35,000, see below
C-Top Line Sales LLC, agent; B-Bruce Brown, agent

 

 

Crazy Cami (Audible), OBSAPR, 45,000, click
C-Mayberry Farm, Agent; B-Mike Maker
Tempting Lady (Enticed)–AE, FTMMAY, 40,000, see below
C-Pick View LLC, agent; B-Legion Bloodstock, agt. for Ryan Scott

 

The post Summer Breezes: July 19, 2023 appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.

Source of original post

Verified by MonsterInsights