#1 Ham Sandwich splashes home to break his maiden in the opener at Ellis Park under @b_hernandezjr for trainer @KennyMcPeek!

This 2-year-old colt is the first winner for sire Heart to Heart!

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— TwinSpires Racing (@TwinSpires) July 15, 2023

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Nothing like seeing the first winner for one of your stallions! Congratulations Preservationist?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Preservationist! Here's to many, many more! Trained by Aaron West for owner Paul King, Hannah Leahey up. Bred by T/C Stable & Larmon Cowles! https://t.co/W7WMcvxAX4

— Airdrie Stud (@AirdrieStud) June 29, 2023

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Going a sixteenth shorter in his May 15 debut over this surface, the Kentucky bred came home second, beaten two lengths by Laugh Now (Vino Rosso).

Bred by Equinox Inc., the April foal is out of Rambling Rhonda, a half to MGSW Go Forth North (North Light {Ire}). The 8-year-old mare was bred back to World of Trouble.

1st-Horseshoe Indianapolis, $34,000, Msw, 6-6, 2yo, 5f, 1:00.53, ft, 1 1/4 lengths.
UNTROUBLED, c, 2, by World of Trouble
1st Dam: Rambling Rhonda, by Tapizar
2nd Dam: Witch Tradition, by Holy Bull
3rd Dam: Hall's Lake Fire, by Cure the Blues
Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $27,200.O-Equinox Inc. & Bobby McIntyre; B-Equinox Inc. (KY); T-Eduardo Caramori.
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Coolmore Stud's Triple Crown hero and dual-hemisphere sire Justify (Scat Daddy) is off the mark in Australia and with a smart one. Learning To Fly (Aus) found plenty at her racecourse debut in Saturday's G3 Widden S. at Rosehill (video), having shown plenty of talent at the trials.

Bred by Katom and purchased by Kia Ora Stud for A$900,000 from the Coolmore Stud draft at the 2022 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, the Annabel Neasham-trained filly is her sire's seventh worldwide stakes winner and his first winner of any variety on Australian soil.

She is the second foal for the G3 Chairmans' S. winner Ennis Hill (Aus) (Fastnet Rock {Aus}) whose dam is the G2 Reisling S. winner Hips Don't Lie (NZ) (Stravinsky)–also dam of the Listed winners Lake Geneva (Aus) and Acrobat (Aus), both also by Fastnet Rock.

Served last spring by Snitzel (Aus) after foaling an I Am Invincible (Aus) filly, Ennis Hill also has a Pierro (Aus) filly who is catalogued as lot 117 at this year's Inglis Easter sale.

Learning To Fly boasts a cross of the wonderful mare Crimson Saint (Crimson Satan) via her grandson Storm Cat and son Royal Academy.

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7th-Lone Star, $33,000, Msw, 6-10, 2yo, 5f, :58.62, ft, 3 1/2 lengths.
TODDCHERO (c, 2, Bucchero–French Politics {SP, $161,388}, by Political Force) Sales history: $77,000 2yo '22 OBSAPR. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $19,740. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
O-Mark Norman and Norman Stables LLC; B-GDS Racing Stable (FL); T-Jayde J. Gelner.

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GISP Connie and Michael is also responsible for the SP 3-year-old filly Fannie and Freddie (Malibu Moon). Her most recent produce is a yearling colt by Gun Runner. Connie and Michael is a half to graded winners High Ridge Road (Quality Road) and Senor Rojo (Out of Place).

Good Magic broke his maiden in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile, resulting in an Eclipse Award. The GI Haskell Invitational S. winner stands alongside his sire Curlin at Hill 'n' Dale for $30,000.

2nd-Churchill Downs, $118,095, Msw, 6-2, 2yo, 5 1/2f, 1:04.28, ft, 4 lengths.
CURLY JACK (c, 2, Good Magic–Connie and Michael {GISP, $136,860}, by Roman Ruler) Sales history: $180,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $69,460. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
O-Michael McLoughlin; B-Betz/J.Betz/Burns/Camaquiki/C.Kidder/et al (KY); T-Thomas M. Amoss.

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The winner is a half to Bad Debt (Grand Reward), MSW & MGSP, $838,330. Pleasant Ring has not produced a foal since Awesome Strong, but was bred to Bucchero last term.

2nd-Gulfstream, $58,000, Msw, 5-6, 2yo, 4 1/2f, :51.62, ft, 6 lengths.
AWESOME STRONG (c, 2, Awesome Slew–Pleasant Ring, by Pleasant Tap) Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $38,000. O-Elena Racing, Inc.; B-John B. Penn (FL); T-Jorge Delgado. **$30,000 Ylg '21 OBSOCT. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

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Rowland, who turned 18 on Nov. 6, lost her father to cancer in 2012 at age 44. Primarily a steeplechase trainer, Paul Rowland conditioned such notables as multiple stakes winner Preemptive Strike, Suntara, Rainbows For Luck, Swimming River and Across The Sky.

“Every race I've ridden, before I leave the jockeys' room, I talk to my dad. Right before I leave the gate, I think to myself, keep the faith. Thank you. Because even though I don't have him here with me, at least I can count on him to look out for me,” Rowland said.

The youngster didn't need much help from outside forces in today's third race. Riding 4-year-old gelding Sancocho with the confidence of a grizzled veteran, rather than an apprentice with a 10-pound weight allowance making her ninth career start, Rowland moved Sancocho smartly to the lead in the stretch of the 7-furlong, $5,000 claiming race and rolled to a 3 ½-length score from runner-up Cliffy for the teen's first career victory.

Sancocho, who is owned and trained by Juan Arriagada, improved to 5-for-20 with the victory. He paid $10.60 to win. In another endearing twist to the story, Rowland and Sancocho were ponied to the starting gate by her boyfriend Nicolas Arriagada, Juan's son and a former jockey who earned his first career triumph aboard one of his dad's horses here on April 16.

Rowland's fellow jockeys did their part to make the occasion memorable, spraying her with a hose, dumping a couple of buckets of ice water on her head and smearing her with shaving cream on her return to the jockeys' quarters.

“Danny (Centeno) got me real good, and Skyler (Spanabel) was there with a hose waiting for me. I was like, I'm ready. I've been waiting for this.”

Juan was almost as far over the moon as “Maddie” after the race.

“I'm very happy for her. She's a good girl who deserves somebody to help her out, and I like to help young people who need support to keep pushing so they can do better,” he said. “She's been working for me the past couple of weeks and it's worked out well. There are a couple of things we have to fix, but everything went perfect today.”

Rowland, who grew up outside Fair Hill, Md., had ridden eight previous races at Delaware Park, Penn National and Laurel, with a second and a third. She said after today's victory that it felt at times like an out-of-body experience, as she reflected on the influence of her father, mom Jodi and others who have advanced her fledgling career.

“As I was crossing the wire, I thought that I hoped (owner-trainer Elizabeth) Merryman was watching me. She is like my racehorse mom – she taught me how to gallop racehorses,” Rowland said. “My own mom has been a huge support for me. At first when I wanted to do pony racing when I was 11 or 12, she tried to keep me away – 'No, do the show horses, don't go into racing' – but once she realized she couldn't keep me away she said 'Do it.'

“There are so many people I owe a lot to for me getting here. I thought about joining the military for a while because it would be great to serve my country that way, but now that I'm doing this, I can't imagine myself doing anything else,” she said.

“Breaking from the gate today, I already felt a smile on my face because I love doing it. Every race I've done, it's the same adrenaline whether I win or not.”

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She said, “It was a bit of a steering job to be honest. He's very good and it was just very easy, I didn't need to do much more than push the button. I did my pony amateur course back in June so I was all ready to go the second I turned 16. I had my last pony race four days ago, turned 16 two days ago and now I'm here.

“I was lucky with the draw in that I was in quite late and only sat in for a maximum of 30 seconds and it was very easy after that. From halfway I was thinking he was still travelling very well and I found a bit of a gap which opened up for me, he went through that and just stayed on all the way to the line–which was really good.”

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