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Kelso Winner Complexity, First Lady Winner Uni Will Prepare For Breeders’ Cup Engagements In New York

Four-time Eclipse Award-winning trainer Chad Brown won a pair of graded races on Saturday taking the Grade 2 Kelso Handicap at Belmont Park with Breeders' Cup-bound Complexity and the Grade 1 First Lady at Keeneland with reigning Champion Turf Female Uni.

Owned by Seth Klarman's Klaravich Stables, Complexity earned a career-best 110 Beyer for his prominent score in the one-turn mile Kelso in which he got the jump on multiple Grade 1-winner Code of Honor, who had to settle for second.

Brown said Complexity will now point to the two-turn Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile, although he will also nominate the 4-year-old Maclean's Music colt to the six-furlong Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Sprint.

“He ran super yesterday,” said Brown. “I'm pointing him towards the Breeders' Cup Dirt Mile. I think six furlongs might be a little quick for him, but I'll keep him eligible for both races.”

A five-time winner from nine starts, Complexity captured the 2018 Grade 1 Champagne at Belmont and was runner-up in the Grade 1 Forego on August 29 contested during a rainstorm over a sloppy and sealed Saratoga main track.

Michael Dubb, Head of Plains Partners, Robert LaPenta and Bethlehem Stables' Uni earned a 99 Beyer in her successful title defense in the Grade 1 First Lady at Keeneland. The 6-year-old More Than Ready chestnut overtook stablemate Newspaperofrecord in deep stretch to secure her fourth career Grade 1 win with a one-length score over Beau Recall, who nosed out Newspaperofrecord for place.

Brown said Uni will return to Belmont to prepare to defend her title in the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Mile against the boys on Nov. 7 at Keeneland.

“Uni ran really well and we'll bring her back here to train up to the final start of her career in the Breeders' Cup Mile,” said Brown. “Hopefully, she can defend her title.”

Klaravich Stables' Newspaperofrecord, who captured the 2018 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf, has enjoyed a productive 4-year-old campaign with wins in the Grade 3 Intercontinental on June 6 and the Grade 1 Longines Just a Game on June 27, both at Belmont.

Brown said the Irish-bred daughter of Lope de Vega could target the Grade 1 Matriarch, a one-mile turf test on November 29 at Del Mar.

“Newspaper will come back here and I'll talk to Seth Klarman about if we want to run her one more time or not this year,” said Brown. “If we do, it would be in the Matriarch. We could just rest her.”

Brown said Newspaperofrecord is likely to return to the races as a 5-year-old.

“I would say probably if she is in good health we'd like to run her another year,” said Brown.

Brown breezed a number of upcoming stakes starters on the Belmont inner turf on Sunday morning, including the Peter Brant-owned 2018 Champion Turf Female Sistercharlie, who went five-eighths in 1:02.88.

The breeze took place less than an hour before the Brant-owned Sottsass, Sistercharlie's 4-year-old half-brother by Siyouni, captured the prestigious Group 1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp. Sottsass is trained by Jean-Claude Rouget.

“I'm so happy for Peter,” said Brown. “It's a race he's wanted to win for a long time. He kept him over there this year to point for that race and I'm so happy that it worked out. It's an incredible family.”

Both Sistercharlie, a seven-time Grade 1-winner, and Sottsass are out of the Galileo mare Starlet's Sister, who also produced the Group/Graded winner My Sister Nat, a 5-year-old Acclamation mare who captured the Grade 3 Waya in August for Brown and Brant.

Sistercharlie, who ran third in both the Grade 2 Ballston Spa and Grade 1 Diana this summer at Saratoga, will look to secure the first win of her 6-year-old campaign in Saturday's 10-furlong Grade 1, $250,000 Flower Bowl which offers a berth in the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf in November at Keeneland.

“The breeze went good,” said Brown. “She's running back into form. Her last race was an acceptable one. She got a late start this year but I think she'll run well.”

Sistercharlie is likely to square off with stablemates Cambier Parc and Nay Lady Nay in the Flower Bowl.

OXO Equine's multiple Grade 1-winner Cambier Parc worked five furlongs in 1:01.40 Sunday on the Belmont inner turf.

“She breezed good. She'll run in Flower Bowl,” said Brown.

The Medaglia d'Oro bay, out of Canada's 2007 Horse of the Year Sealy Hill, captured the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks and Grade 1 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge Cup last year in a sophomore campaign that also included wins in the Grade 3 Wonder Again at Belmont and the Grade 3 Herecomesthebride at Gulfstream Park.

First Row Partners and Hidden Brook Farm's Irish-bred Nay Lady Nay, a multiple graded-stakes winning 4-year-old daughter of No Nay Never worked a half-mile in 49 flat on Saturday on the Monmouth Park main track.

Nay Lady Nay made the grade last year in the Grade 2 Mrs. Revere at Churchill Downs and on July 18 added the Grade 3 Matchmaker at Monmouth to her ledger.

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Uni Numero Uno Again in First Lady

Uni (GB) (More Than Ready), the “other” Chad Brown trainee here despite garnering champion turf mare honors last season, ran down her more fancied stablemate Newspaperofrecord (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) to defend her title Saturday in Keeneland’s GI First Lady S., a “Win and You’re In” qualifier for the GI Maker’s Mark Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf.

Given a 2-1 chance to atone for a pair of disappointing efforts as the chalk this term, the chestnut broke alertly and settled into third as her stablemate was forced to rate when longshot Crystal Lake (Distorted Humor) zipped off to lead. The Brown runners were both asked to quicken slightly after a :47.92 half, and Newspaperofrecord took the turn for home very wide, forcing her stablemate even further out into the course. A sprint for home figured to favor Uni over the typically front-running Newspaperofrecord, and the former kicked to the front in midstretch and widened her margin of victory to a length at the line. Beau Recall (Ire) (Sir Prancealot {Ire}) tagged the favorite for second, just like she had for the win in the GII Distaff Turf Mile S. last month.

“I was close,” winning rider Joel Rosario noted. “She was comfortable there, a couple of lengths behind Newspaperofrecord and the other horse in front of me, She’s nice to ride, she’s easy. Thanks to Chad Brown and all his people for the opportunity.”

Saturday, Keeneland
FIRST LADY S. PRESENTED BY UK HEALTHCARE-GI, $343,000, Keeneland, 10-3, 3yo/up, f/m, 1mT, 1:34.90, fm.
1–UNI (GB), 124, m, 6, by More Than Ready
                1st Dam: Unaided (GB), by Dansili (GB)
                2nd Dam: Wosaita (GB), by Generous (Ire)
                3rd Dam: Eljazzi, by Artaius
(€40,000 Ylg ’15 ARAUG). O-M. Dubb, Head of Plains Partners
LLC, R. LaPenta & Bethlehem Stables LLC; B-Haras d’Etreham
(GB); T-Chad C. Brown; J-Joel Rosario. $210,000. Lifetime
Record: Ch. Turf Female-US, SW-Fr, 21-11-3-4, $2,590,880.
Werk Nick Rating: A.
Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Beau Recall (Ire), 124, m, 6, by Sir Prancealot (Ire)
                1st Dam: Greta d’Argent (Ire), by Great Commotion
                2nd Dam: Petite-D-Argent (GB), by Noalto (GB)
                3rd Dam: Honey to Spare, by Track Spare (Ire)
(€17,000 Ylg ’15 TISEP; $385,000 RNA 5yo ’19 KEEJAN).
O-Slam Dunk Racing & Medallion Racing; B-Tom Wallace (IRE);
T-Brad H. Cox. $70,000.
3–Newspaperofrecord (Ire), 124, f, 4, by Lope de Vega (Ire)
                1st Dam: Sunday Times (GB), by Holy Roman Emperor (Ire)
                2nd Dam: Forever Times (GB), by So Factual
                3rd Dam: Simply Times, by Dodge
(200,000gns Ylg ’17 TATOCT). O-Klaravich Stables, Inc.; B-Times
of Wigan Ltd (IRE); T-Chad C. Brown. $35,000.
Margins: 1, NO, 4. Odds: 2.40, 3.20, 1.00.
Also Ran: Dalika (Ger), Crystal Lake. Scratched: Daddy Is a Legend. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

A stakes winner in France as a sophomore, Uni was a graded winner Stateside at three, but blossomed and the end of her 4-year-old campaign when stringing together her fourth straight in Del Mar’s GI Matriarch S. She picked up where she left off in Belmont’s Perfect Sting S. last June, and was third behind fellow female Got Stormy (Get Stormy) and stablemate Raging Bull (Fr) (Dark Angel {Ire}) in the Spa’s GI Fourstardave H. that August. She flew home from far back to take last year’s First Lady, and duplicated that performance in the GI Breeders’ Cup Mile at Santa Anita while leading home a one-two for the fairer sex ahead of Got Stormy.

Third in the GI Just a Game S. at Belmont June 27 behind Newspaperofrecord and Beau Recall, she left wondering if she was the same horse at six when seventh in the Fourstardave over yielding sod Aug. 22.

Co-owner Sol Kumin confirmed after the race that Uni would now attempt to defend her Mile title Nov. 7.

“I was so stressed out,” he admitted. “If she doesn’t run well here, you couldn’t run her back in the Breeders’ Cup after the year she had. Now you run her back, same track, four weeks and you feel like she might be back. [Trainer] Chad [Brown] said her last two breezes, he felt like she was circling back to the form she had last year, so we were hopeful. But until you see it, you just don’t know. Just an incredible filly.

“Her last race for us will be the Breeders’ Cup against the boys and if she is able to do it again, it would be Hall of Fame good.

“I’m just so happy. This year was tough. When you bring these horses back at this age, you sort of question yourself of ‘did we do the right thing?’. She seemed like she had been doing well the last couple of months so we felt like we did the right thing. Today obviously you feel like we did right by her. Hopefully she can give us one more big effort. If not, she’s given us everything we could have ever asked for.”

Uni is slated to be offered by ELiTE Sales at Fasig-Tipton’s “Night of the Stars” on the day after the Breeders’ Cup.

Pedigree Notes:
It has been a productive weekend at Keeneland for international super sire More Than Ready, who was also responsible for the dam of Friday’s GI Darley Alcibiades S. heroine Simply Ravishing (Laoban). Uni has a yearling half-brother by Almanzor (Fr).

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Newspaperofrecord, Beau Recall Rematch in First Lady

Appearing well on her way to a divisional championship, Klaravich Stables’ Newspaperofrecord (Ire) hit a roadblock named Beau Recall (Ire) (Sir Prancealot {Ire}) last time out, and the two will face off once more in a six-horse renewal of Saturday’s GI First Lady S. at Keeneland, a Breeders’ Cup “Win and You’re In” qualifier for the Filly & Mare Turf.

Runner-up for a Champion Juvenile Filly Eclipse Award after a dominant 2018 campaign that culminated in a 6 3/4-length GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf romp, Newspaperofrecord had a lost 3-year-old campaign, running second as a prohibitive favorite in the GIII Edgewood S. and GIII Wonder Again S. before a disastrous last-place run in the GI Belmont Oaks Invitational S. Returning after 11 months on the shelf, the ‘TDN Rising Star’ looked like her old self with a four-length score in the GIII Intercontinental S. and three-length success in the GI Just A Game S. at Belmont. Left alone on the lead at 1-2 in the GII Longines Churchill Distaff Turf Mile S. Sept. 5, she was overhauled late with no visible excuse.

The bay faces other speed in here, which could set up Beau Recall for a long overdue Grade I victory. Placing in the GI Del Mar Oaks as a 3-year-old, she added runner-up finishes in the Just A Game and GI Rodeo Drive S. last season and was second to Newspaperofrecord in this year’s Just A Game. Fifth at 6-5 in the GII Yellow Ribbon H. Aug. 8 at Del Mar, she bounced back with an 8-1 upset in the Distaff Turf Mile, her fourth Grade II success.

It’s now or never for champion Uni (GB) (More Than Ready) to get her 6-year-old campaign on track. Annexing the GI Matriarch S. to close out 2018, the chestnut went three-for-four last year, including a score in this race and a fast-finishing triumph over males in the GI Breeders’ Cup Mile to wrap up her Champion Turf Female title in a loaded year for the division. This year though, she ran an even third in the Just A Game at even-money and never made any impact in an uncharacteristically dull seventh in the GI Fourstardave H. Aug. 22 at Saratoga.

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All Grade 1 Cross Country Pick 5 Features Free Equibase Past Performances

A Cross Country Pick 5 that encompasses five Grade 1 contests across Belmont Park and Keeneland Race Course will highlight exciting action on Saturday in a wager hosted by the New York Racing Association, Inc.

Live coverage will be available with America's Day at the Races on FOX Sports and MSG Networks. Free Equibase past performances for the Cross Country Pick 5 sequence are now available for download at https://www.nyra.com/belmont/racing/cross-country-wagers.

Top-caliber racing will start at Belmont in Race 7 at 4:03 p.m. Eastern with the $250,000 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic for 3-year-olds and up going 1 1/2 miles on the Widener course. Grade 1-winning multimillionaires Channel Maker and Sadler's Joy will face one another for the 15th time, while 2-1 morning-line favorite Rockemperor will look to build on a last-out third-place effort to stablemate Digital Age in the Grade 1 Old Forester Bourbon Turf Classic on September 5 at Churchill Downs. In his prior effort, he was second, beaten by a neck to stablemate Instilled Regard, in the Grade 1 Manhattan on July 4 at Belmont, earning a career-best 102 Beyer Speed Figure. New York-bred Cross Border, the winner of the Grade 2 Bowling Green on August 1 at Saratoga, also will contend in the seven-horse field.

Keeneland will host the first of its three races in the sequence with the $350,000 First Lady for fillies and mares 3-year-olds and up going one mile on the turf in Race 8 at 4:51 p.m. Trainer Chad Brown trains two of the field's six entrants for a race that is a “Win and You're In” qualifier to the Grade 1, $2 million Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf on November 7 at the same track, saddling 2019 champion grass mare Uni and Newspaperofrecord, winner of the 2018 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf. Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas will send out Crystal Lake, with the field also comprising Beau Recall, Dalika and Daddy Is a Legend.

Another Breeders' Cup qualifier will highlight the third leg back at Belmont, where a nine-horse field of sophomores will compete in the 71st running of the Grade 1, $250,000 Belmont Derby Invitational going 1 1/4 miles on the inner turf in Race 9 at 5:06 p.m. A spot in the Grade 1, $4 million Breeders' Cup Turf on November 7 will be on the line for a race that features the top-three finishers of the Saratoga Derby Invitational – Domestic Spending, Gufo and No Word – all returning for a rematch. The Brown-trained Domestic Spending, who outlasted the Christophe Clement-conditioned Gufo by a head in August, has three wins in four career starts. Other contenders include Mo Ready, South Bend, Pixelate, Venezuelan Hug, Moon Over Miami and Ajourneytofreedom.

Keeneland will conclude the wager with the final two legs, starting with the $400,000 Claiborne Breeders' Futurity for juveniles going 1 1/16 miles on the main track in Race 8 at 5:24 p.m. A spot in the Grade 1, $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile will be on the line, with Godolphin homebred Essential Quality, a winner on Kentucky Derby Day last month at Churchill Downs, headlining a nine-horse field. King Fury, trained by two-time Breeders' Futurity winner Kenny McPeek, was a 2 ¾ length debut winner going 1 1/16 miles on September 3.

The finale will be the $750,000 Shadwell Turf Mile for 3-year-olds and up in Race 10 at 5:57 p.m. Halladay, the winner of the Grade 1 Fourstardave this summer at Saratoga, will look for additional glory in a race that's an automatic qualifier to the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Mile on November 7, though Halladay earned a spot in the race with his last-out victory. Other contenders looking to punch a return ticket to Keeneland include Grade 1-winners Bowies Hero and Raging Bull, as well as Group 1-victors in Without Parole [Great Britain] and Ivar [Brazil].

The minimum bet for the multi-track, multi-race wager is 50 cents. Wagering on the Cross Country Pick 5 is also available on ADW platforms and at simulcast facilities across the country. Every week will feature a mandatory payout of the net pool.

The Cross Country Pick 5 will continue each Saturday throughout the year. For more information, visit NYRABets.com.

Cross Country Pick 5 – Saturday, October 3:

Leg 1 – Belmont, Race 7: G1 Joe Hirsch Turf Classic (4:03 p.m.)
Leg 2 – Keeneland, Race 8: G1 First Lady (4:51 p.m.)
Leg 3 – Belmont, Race 9: G1 Belmont Derby Invitational (5:06 p.m.)
Leg 4 – Keeneland, Race 9: G1 Claiborne Breeders' Futurity (5:24 p.m.)
Leg 5 – Keeneland, Race 10: G1 Shadwell Turf Mile (5:57 p.m.)

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