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Gam’s Mission Gives DeVaux First Stakes Winner in Regret

Carrying the silks of the famed Lazy F Ranch, Gam's Mission (Noble Mission {GB}) rallied through the final eighth of a mile to take out Saturday's GIII Regret S. at Churchill, giving trainer Cherie DeVaux her first stakes winner since going out on her own.

Bumped soundly at the break by her inside rival Postnup (Declaration of War), the homebred settled slightly worse than mid-division from fifth, as favored Spanish Loveaffair (Karakontie {Jpn}) argued a moderate pace from the fence inside of Postnup, who raced in the two path. Ground-saving around the clubhouse turn, Gam's Mission switched off nicely through the middle stages and traveled three deep down the back of the track in the slipstream of the bald-faced Flown (Kitten's Joy). Urged along three furlongs out, Gam's Mission continued to follow Flown into the stretch, was switched off heels and grabbed a game Spanish Loveaffair in the final 50 yards en route to the victory. Flown held for third ahead of Oyster Box (Tapit), who ran a deceptively good race to be fourth after trailing those soft fractions.

“I'm very pleased with her effort today,” DeVaux, a long-time assistant to Chad Brown, said. “[Jockey] Adam [Beschizza] had her in a really good position throughout. She was a little green coming up the stretch, but she's lightly raced and still figuring it out. The Triple Tiara (in New York) is definitely on the table; it would be great to go compete in that.”

Second behind a 'TDN Rising Star'-worthy maiden-breaker from future GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies' Turf winner Aunt Pearl (Ire) (Lope de Vega {Ire}) over this course last September, Gam's Mission came from last to graduate at the Fair Grounds Mar. 21 and was exiting a neck defeat of Flown in a first-level allowance over 8 1/2 furlongs of this turf course May 8.

Pedigree Notes:

Gam's Mission is the fourth graded and black-type winner for her expatriated stallion and is his second stakes-winning 3-year-old filly of 2021, joining GII Appalachian S. heroine and 'TDN Rising Star' Jouster.

The February foal is one of two winners from as many to the races for her dam, a winning daughter of Lazy F Ranch's outstanding turf distaffer Auntie Mame, winner of the GI Flower Bowl Invitational H. and runner-up in the GI QE II Challenge Cup, a race that would certainly be on the radar for Gam's Mission. Auntie Mame's year-older half-sister was Star de Lady Ann (Star de Naskra), who upset Yanks Music (Air Forbes Won) in the 1996 GI Acorn S. at Belmont Park.

Auntie Martha sold for $11,000 in foal to Tonalist at the 2018 Keeneland November sale and produced a colt now named Tricky Lee, who is in training at Emerald Downs. The dam of a yearling filly by Cat Burglar, Auntie Martha foaled a colt by Dads Caps this season.

Saturday, Churchill Downs
REGRET S.-GIII, $150,000, Churchill Downs, 5-29, 3yo, f, 1 1/8mT, 1:51.02, gd.
1–GAM'S MISSION, 118, f, 3, by Noble Mission (GB)
                1st Dam: Auntie Martha, by War Pass
                2nd Dam: Auntie Mame, by Theatrical (Ire)
                3rd Dam: Lady Vixen, by Sir Ivor
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. O/B-Lazy F
Ranch (KY); T-Cherie DeVaux; J-Adam Beschizza. $90,210.
Lifetime Record: 4-3-1-0, $201,258. Werk Nick Rating: C. Click
for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Spanish Loveaffair, 118, f, 3, Karakontie (Jpn)–Spanish
Bunny, by Unusual Heat. ($35,000 Ylg '19 KEESEP). O-Eclipse
Thoroughbred Partners, Michael Hernon & Gary Barber;
B-Gainesway Thoroughbreds Ltd (KY); T-Mark Casse. $29,100.
3–Flown, 118, f, 3, Kitten's Joy–Rumbaua, by Bernstein.
($90,000 Ylg '19 KEESEP; $90,000 2yo '20 OBSAPR). O-Marc
Detampel; B-John R Cummins, Kenneth L & Sarah K Ramsey
(KY); T-Brendan P Walsh. $14,550.
Margins: 3/4, HD, 3/4. Odds: 6.10, 1.40, 5.20.
Also Ran: Oyster Box, Barista, Munnyfor Ro, Line Dancing, Postnup. Scratched: Saranya. 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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Gam’s Mission Gives Trainer Cherie DeVaux First Graded Victory In Regret

Carrying jockey Adam Beschizza and the yellow and black silks of Lazy F Ranch made famous by Hall of Fame gelding Forego in the 1970s, Gam's Mission rallied down the middle of the Churchill Downs turf course in Louisville, Ky., to win Saturday's Grade 3 Regret Stakes for 3-year-old fillies. The win gave Cherie DeVaux her initial graded stakes victory since taking out her trainer's license in 2018.

A daughter of the Galileo stallion Noble Mission (a full brother to Frankel), Gam's Mission covered 1 1/8 miles on good turf in 1:51.02, winning by three-quarters of a length. Spanish Loveaffair, the 7-5 favorite, finished second after battling on the front end with Postnup for much of the race. Flown finished third, with Oyster Box fourth in the field of eight, followed by Barista, Munnyfor Ro, Line Dancing and Postnup. Saranya scratched.

Gam's Mission raced in fifth early after being bumped at the start by Postnup, who veered outwardly from the number six post position and then raced to the front to secure an early advantage over Spanish Loveaffair. Postnup went the opening quarter mile in :24.55 and the half in :49.56 under pressure from the favorite, who put Postnup away after six furlongs in 1:14.27.

Beschizza swung Gam's Mission out for a clear run at the top of the stretch, battled with Spanish Loveaffair and Flown inside the eighth pole after a mile in 1:38.90, then gradually edged away approaching the wire. Flown was beaten just a head for second.

The win was the third consecutive triumph for Gam's Mission, whose only defeat came at the hands of eventual G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf winner Aunt Pearl in a Sept. 1, 2020, maiden race at Churchill Downs. She won her 2021 debut in a maiden race at Fair Grounds on March 21, then came back for an allowance victory at Churchill on May 8.

Gam's Mission was produced from the War Pass mare, Auntie Martha, a Lazy F Ranch homebred presumably named after Martha Gerry, who campaigned three-time Horse of the Year Forego and was honored as an Exemplar of Racing at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., just prior to her death in 2007. Gerry was the aunt of William S. Farish, who stood Noble Mission at his Lane's End prior to the horse's export to Japan.

Cornelia Corbett, the daughter of Martha Gerry, continues to race a handful of horses in the name of Lazy F Ranch. Her son, Rick, is a partner in Gam's Mission, the first horse he bought into, according to Bill Farish, son of the Lane's End owner.

Cherie DeVaux, right, in the winner's circle with husband David Ingordo and jockey Adam Beschizza following the Regret

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Spanish Loveaffair Looks to Secure Graded Glory in Regret

Spanish Loveaffair (Karakontie {Jpn}) seeks her graded stakes badge in Saturday's GIII Regret S. at Churchill Downs. Crossing the line first in her seasonal bow in Gulfstream's GIII Herecomesthebride S. Feb. 27, she was disqualified and placed fourth for interference and finished a non-factor sixth next out in Keeneland's GII Appalachian S. Apr. 3.

Brendan Walsh saddles a live contender in Flown (Kitten's Joy). A third-out graduate at Keeneland in October, the chestnut was fifth in the Appalachian and missed by a neck to Gam's Mission (Noble Mission {GB}) in a Churchill allowance May 8.

Graham Motion sends out the well-bred Oyster Box (Tapit) for Gainesway Stable. Opening her account with a pair of wins, the chestnut was third in the GIII Florida Oaks Mar. 6 and checked in fourth last out in the Memories of Silver S. at Aqueduct Apr. 18.

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