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Mystic Guide Remains Atop NTRA Poll; Belmont Winner Essential Quality Up To Fifth Position

Godolphin's 4-year-old Mystic Guide, winner of the Group 1 Dubai World Cup, remains the top horse in the latest NTRA National Thoroughbred Poll. Mystic Guide, a 4-year-old son of Ghostzapper, trained by Mike Stidham, received 26 first-place votes and 325 points. On Sunday, Mystic Guide breezed 5 furlongs at Fair Hill in 1:00.20.

Winchell Thoroughbreds and Willis Horton Racing's 4-year-old Silver State stays in second place. Trained by Steve Asmussen, Silver State is unbeaten in four starts this year, which includes the June 5 Grade 1 Hill 'N' Dale Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park. Silver State has one first-place vote and 228 points.

Just three points back in third place is St. George Stable's 5-year-old mare Letruska (225 points), who won Belmont's Grade 1 Ogden Phipps for trainer Fausto Gutierrez.

Klaravich Stables' 4-year-old gelding Domestic Spending, trained by Chad Brown, retains fourth place, and is the only turf horse in the top 10. Winner of the Grade 1 Resorts World Casino Manhattan Stakes at Belmont, Domestic Spending has five first-place votes and 218 points.

Godophin's Essential Quality, who last week finished first in the final NTRA Top 3-Year-old Poll of 2021 following his Grade 1 Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets victory, moves from ninth to fifth place. Trained by Brad Cox, Essential Quality has two first-place votes and 181 points.

SF Racing, Starlight Racing, Madaket Stables, Stonestreet Stables, Frederick Hertrich, III, John Fielding and Golconda Stables' 4-year-old Charlatan (143 points), runner-up in the Group 1 Saudi Cup for trainer Bob Baffert, drops from fifth to sixth place.

The 4-year-old Maxfield, trained by Brendan Walsh, is the third Godolphin runner in the top 10. Maxfield, winner of the Grade 2 Alysheba Stakes presented by Sentient Jet, is now in seventh place with one first-place vote and 133 points.

The 4-year-old Gamine (121 points), last year's champion female sprinter, also trained by Baffert, remains in eighth place.

My Racehorse, Spendthrift Farm LLC and Madaket Stables' 6-year-old Monomoy Girl, the 2020 older dirt female Eclipse Award-winner, drops from seventh to ninth place with 99 points.

Korea Racing Stable's Knicks Go (34 points), winner of the Grade 1 Pegasus World Cup Invitational, remains in 10th place.

The NTRA Top Thoroughbred polls are the sport's most comprehensive surveys of experts. Every week eligible journalists and broadcasters cast votes for their top 10 horses, with points awarded on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis. All horses that have raced in the U.S., are in training in the U.S., or are known to be pointing to a major event in the U.S. are eligible for the NTRA Top Thoroughbred Poll. Voting in the Top Thoroughbred Poll is scheduled to be conducted through Nov. 6.

The full results for the NTRA Thoroughbred Polls can be found on the NTRA website at: https://www.ntra.com/ntra-top-thoroug…oll-june-14-2021/

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Palace Pier Leads LONGINES World’s Best Racehorse Rankings; Domestic Spending Ranked Third

Following his performance in the Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes (G1), Palace Pier (GB) [125] leads the fourth edition of the LONGINES World's Best Racehorse Rankings for 2021.

LONGINES World's Best Racehorse Rankings Leading Horses click here for complete rankings
Rank	Horse	Rating	Trained
1	PALACE PIER (GB)	125	GB
2	NATURE STRIP (AUS)	123	AUS
3	DOMESTIC SPENDING (GB)	122	USA
3	MISHRIFF (IRE)	122	GB
3	MYSTIC GUIDE (USA)	122	USA
6	ADAYAR (IRE)	121	GB
6	ADDEYBB (IRE)	121	GB
6	EDUARDO (AUS)	121	AUS
6	ESSENTIAL QUALITY (USA)	121	USA
6	GRAN ALEGRIA (JPN)	121	JPN
6	PYLEDRIVER (GB)	121	GB

With his 1 ½-length victory in the Lockinge, Palace Pier improved his rating to 125 from 121 and is now two-for-two in 2021. He came into the race off of his winning seasonal debut in the bet365 Mile (G2), which he won by eight lengths. Palace Pier is expected to race next in the Queen Anne Stakes (G1) during Royal Ascot.

Additionally, Domestic Spending (GB) [122] joins Mishriff (IRE) [122] and Mystic Guide (USA) [122] in the third position after winning the Resorts World Casino Manhattan Stakes (G1) by 2 ¾ lengths. His first start of the year came in May when he dead-heated for first in the Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic Stakes (G1).

There is now a six-way tie for the sixth position following a number of impressive performances around the world. In England, Adayar (IRE) [121] won the Cazoo Derby (G1) by 4 ½ lengths, and Pyledriver (GB) [121] defeated Al Aasy (IRE) [120] by a neck in the Coral Coronation Cup (G1). In the United States, Essential Quality (USA) [121] took the Belmont Stakes presented by NYRA Bets (G1) by 1 ¼ lengths, while in Japan Gran Alegria (JPN) [121] won the Victoria Mile (G1) by four lengths.

A number of horses are also equally rated at 120, making them co-12th in the latest rankings. In addition to Al Aasy, newcomers include Shahryar (JPN) [120], who defeated Efforia (JPN) [120] by a nose in the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby) (G1); Snowfall (JPN) [120], who romped home in the Cazoo Oaks (G1) by a record 16 lengths; St Mark's Basilica (FR) [120], who won the Qatar Prix du Jockey Club (G1) by 1 ¾ lengths; and Zaaki (GB) [120], who joins the rankings following his victory in the Channel 7 Doomben Cup (G1), which he won by seven lengths.

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Brown Plans Next Stops For Domestic Spending, Search Results

Trainer Chad Brown said he was pleased on Sunday morning with the efforts of his Belmont Stakes Day card horses, with highlights being a one-two finish in the Grade 1, $1 million Resorts World Casino Manhattan Stakes; a victory in the Grade 1, $500,000 Acorn Stakes; and successfully debuting a promising 3-year-old earlier in the day in maiden company, all at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. All three winners were owned by longtime client Klaravich Stables.

Domestic Spending continued his lavish ascent in the Grade 1 Manhattan Stakes, closing to win his sixth race from seven starts and stay perfect on the year, following a dead-heat win in the Grade 1 Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic on May 1. The gelding is the latest in a line of top-class sons of Kingman — also the sire of Europe's top miler Palace Pier — to scorch the turf recently and is destined for a similar path to 2019 Horse of the Year Bricks and Mortar, who won the G1 Turf Classic and G1 Manhattan before taking the 10-furlong Arlington Million and 12-furlong Breeders' Cup Turf — both Grade 1s.

“If you had asked me this time of year about Bricks and Mortar [pointing to the G1 Breeders' Cup Turf], I would have said 'no' and that's why I was considering the [G1 Breeders' Cup] Mile for that horse for a while, thinking he's not going to be a three-turn horse,” Brown explained. “These horses, as they get older and get some seasoning under them, you're starting to see them have more range. Anything is possible, let's see, but his next start—all going well—is at Arlington.”

Left in Domestic Spending's deficit was pace-setting Brown pupil Tribhuvan, who backed up his victory in the Grade 2 Fort Marcy on May 1 with an admirable runner-up effort.

“He surprised me in the Fort Marcy, but he didn't surprise me yesterday,” Brown explained. “That horse has been a different horse since we gelded him and the more I looked at his Fort Marcy, the more I started to believe it. That's why we chose as a team – me and [owners Wonder Stables, Madaket Stables, Michael Dubb and Michael Caruso] – to give it a shot in the Manhattan instead of running at Monmouth yesterday. Fortunately we did because I thought he ran great.

“They both ran their hearts out and gave two great performances.”

Search Results won her fourth race from five starts in Saturday's G1 Acorn, stalking and pouncing with aplomb under Hall of Famer Javier Castellano, who was substituting for injured Irad Ortiz, Jr. The daughter of Flatter landed her first Grade 1 after coming up a neck short in last month's Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks to divisional leader Malathaat.

“I really wanted to try to do that and give myself a little breathing room with her between now and Saratoga,” said Brown. “We have a decision to make there on whether or not we're going to bring her back in the Coaching Club, which was my original plan, or if I think she needs more time for any reason, we can always train her up to a race like the [Grade 1, $500,000 Longines] Test (on August 7). I couldn't see myself running her past a mile and an eighth.”

Earlier in the day, Brown unveiled Klaravich Stables' Soft Power, a sophomore son of Kingman's sire Invincible Spirit, who overcame a bit of traffic to get up in the final jump over seven grassy furlongs. The bay colt was a $256,604 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale 2019 purchase and is out of a half-sister to Grade 1 Dubai Duty Free winner Cityscape and world-class sprinter Bated Breath.

“He ran super and we really liked that horse last year, but unfortunately he got hurt during the summer, so we had to rest him,” Brown said. “He trained well and ran a big race, so I'm really excited about his future. I'd love to get him into a mile '1-X' allowance and then go up to a stakes in a perfect world. I'm going to have to look around. If I don't get that, I might have to put him in a stakes.”

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Domestic Spending Gives Chad Brown Record Seventh Manhattan Victory

Back in 1926, the legendary songwriting team of Rodgers and Hart wrote that “we'll turn Manhattan into an isle of joy.” That song, “Manhattan,” written for the Broadway musical “Garrick Gaities,” was a big hit around the time a Thoroughbred trainer named James Rowe Sr. was recording the last of his six victories in the Manhattan Stakes, a race inaugurated in 1867 at defunct Jerome Park.

Fast forward nearly a century to 2021, when another Thoroughbred trainer, Chad Brown, was turning the Manhattan Stakes into a personal isle of joy, winning the119th running of the Grade 1, $750,000 turf fixture over a mile and a quarter for the seventh time – all in the last 10 years. It took Rowe 45 years to collect his six Manhattan wins.

Brown entered four of the Manhattan's field of 10 older turf runners, and he finished 1-2, with Klaravich Stables Inc.'s 4-5 favorite Domestic Spending coming from well off the pace under Flavien Prat to corral Brown's pacesetting Tribhuvan and Eric Cancel in the final furlong to win going away by 2 3/4 lengths. Tribhuvan held second, with early trailer Gufo getting up for third and West Coast invader Masteroffoxhounds finishing fourth. Brown-trained Rockemperor and Master Piece finished fifth and sixth, with Channel Cat, Colonel Liam, City Man and Bye Bye Melvin completing the order of finish.

Time for 1 1/4 miles was 1:59.08. Domestic Spending, a 4-year-old Kingman gelding bred in Great Britain by Rabbah Bloodstock Limited, paid $5 for the win, his sixth in seven lifetime starts.

An inquiry was conducted into the stretch run concerning the winner drifting into the path of Masteroffoxhouds, but the original order of finish stood.

This was the second Manhattan hat trick for Brown, a four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer who scored with Horse of the Year and male turf champion Bricks and Mortar in 2019 and Instilled Regard last year. He put three consecutive Manhattan successes together from 2014-16 with Real Solution, Slumber and Flintshire, respectively. Brown won his first Manhattan in 2012 with Desert Blanc.

“This has been an important race for us,” said Brown. “It's such a great tradition, and to be run before the Belmont Stakes every year. It is one of the premier turf races for males at a classic distance in the country and I hold it in high regard. We point for it every year, and I've been so lucky, me and my team, to have some good horses through the years to work with.”

The Manhattan victory was the second G1 triumph on the Belmont Stakes card for Brown and Seth Klarman's Klaravich Stables. They teamed with Jose Ortiz to win the G1 Acorn Stakes with Search Results.

Cancel seemed intent on securing the early lead on the French-bred Tribhuvan, who came into the Manhattan off a wire-to-wire victory in the G2 Fort Marcy at Belmont Park May 1. He sailed along at a good clip, getting the first quarter mile in :23.81 and the half in :46.95, then opening up a wide margin approaching the far turn after six furlongs in 1:11.00.

Prat settled Domestic Spending into seventh early, a few paths off the hedge rounding the first turn. He remained unhurried until going into the final turn, gradually gaining ground and swinging five wide into the stretch to take aim on his front-running stablemate. Tribhuvan kept running strong through a mile in 1:35.51, but Domestic Spending had too much class and momentum in the final quarter mile, taking command inside the sixteenth pole.

“We had a good trip,” said Prat. “He broke well and I got him to relax all the way around there. It was a pretty strong pace. When it was time to make a move, he responded very well. Then, he was floating a little bit down the lane when he was by himself. He ran a good race.

“He went a mile and a quarter well today. He showed a good turn-of-foot last time and today, with the strong pace it's hard to show the same turn of foot and he did. I think I had more in reserve. He was floating a little bit down the lane, but I felt that I had more horse.”

“My horse ran a great race,” Cancel said of Tribhuvan. “It was a wonderful performance. The instructions were to go to the lead and if you can take it, take it. I tried to work hard to get the win, but he got beat by the other horse. He still ran great. And I can't take it away from him.

“I try to let him relax and put my hands down on him. From there on, he was doing everything by his himself. When I asked him, he picked it up. He just got beat by a better horse.”

The victory was the third consecutive G1 for Domestic Spending, purchased by Klaravich Stables for about US$414,000 as a yearling at the Tattersalls October yearling sale in England. He came into the Manhattan off a dead-heat win with Colonel Liam in the G1 Turf Classic at Churchill Downs, his first race since winning the G1 Hollywood Derby at Del Mar last Nov. 28. Before that, Domestic Spending won the Saratoga Derby Invitational in August after suffering his lone defeat when third in the G2 Hall of Fame Stakes at Saratoga.

“This horse has been a particular challenge,” said Brown. “We had to geld him after his 2-year-old year, even with that breeding, because he wouldn't train. We had several different people on our team working with this horse, down at Stonestreet and down in Ocala. So many people have touched this horse and really worked with and got his natural ability out of him. The latest is Flavien [Prat], who is now getting along just terrific with this horse. It's really my team. They've done an outstanding job developing this horse. There was a point in time when he was a baby that I didn't think we'd ever get him to the races.”

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