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Got Stormy Digs Deep, Flies Late To Win Franklin County Stakes

Gary Barber's Grade 1-winning mare Got Stormy made a giant late run in Friday afternoon's Grade 3 Franklin County Stakes at Keeneland, making up over 10 lengths to nail Into Mystic on the wire. A photo finish showed Got Stormy the winner by a head under Tyler Gaffalione, paying $3.80 as the heavy favorite. Trained by Mark Casse, the 5-year-old daughter of Get Stormy ran 5 1/2 furlongs over the turf course rated “good” in 1:02.33.

The Franklin was Got Stormy's second win in a row this season, following her victory in the Kentucky Downs Ladies Sprint Stakes on Sept. 12. She has not been worse than fourth this season, including a second-place finish in the 2020 Grade 1 Fourstardave, the race she won over males in 2019 before a strong second-place finish behind Uni in the Breeders' Cup Mile.

“My goodness, I wasn't sure (if she got there),” Casse said after the Franklin County. “I called (owner) Gary (Barber) and he was like 'I think we got beat.' She got shuffled back pretty good and I was like 'Oh, Tyler'. And then I kind of got excited because I knew when he wheeled her out she would come running. But that second place horse (Into Mystic) was tough, she hung in there. She didn't give it up. But what a wonderful mare (Got Stormy) is. Unbelievable.”

Got Stormy will now be pointed to the Breeders' Cup on Nov. 7 at Keeneland, and Casse said she will run in either the Turf Sprint or the Mile, depending on the condition of the turf course.

Jakarta led the field of 10 through a first quarter-mile in :21.84 as Gaffalione had Got Stormy in ninth and in the clear. Jakarta maintained the advantage through the half-mile, turning back initial bids from Surrender Now and Stillwater Cove.

At the head of the stretch, Into Mystic launched a bid three wide to get first run at the leader while Got Stormy swung six wide with three horses beat to begin her run. Into Mystic got the lead at midstretch from Jakarta but could not hold off the final surge from Got Stormy.

The victory was worth $90,000 and boosted Got Stormy's career earnings to $1,991,378 with a record of 25-10-5-3 that includes two Grade 1 victories.

A Keeneland sales graduate, Got Stormy is a 5-year-old Kentucky-bred daughter of Get Stormy out of the Malabar Gold mare Super Phoebe.

Got Stormy paid $3.80, $3 and $2.60. Into Mystic, ridden by Joe Talamo, returned $4.40 and $2.80 and finished a length in front of Jakarta, who paid $3.80 to show under Javier Castellano.

It was another length back to Change of Control, who was followed in order by Winning Envelope, Surrender Now, Stillwater Cove, Ambassador Luna, Violent Times and Chalon.

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Get Stormy Stays Sprinting at Keeneland

Gary Barber’s Got Stormy (Get Stormy) cuts even farther back to the shortest distance of her career in Friday’s GIII Buffalo Trace Franklin County S. over 5 1/2 turfy furlongs at Keeneland. Twice a Grade I winner going a mile last term and second behind fellow female and last Saturday’s GI First Lady S. heroine Uni (GB) (More Than Ready) in the GI Breeders’ Cup Mile, the Mark Casse pupil failed to find her best form through the first half of 2020. She was fourth at 1-5 in the GIII Lambholm South Endeavour S. at Tampa in February, and was upset by a neck in Santa Anita’s GI Frank E. Kilroe Mile at Santa Anita a month later. Faring no better when fourth in both Belmont’s June 3 GIII Beaugay S. and July 4 GIII Poker S., she stepped up when attempting to defend her title in Saratoga’s open GI Fourstardave H. Aug. 22 to be second, good for a 103 Beyer Speed Figure. Got Stormy paired up that number last time when successfully cutting back to a quirky 6 1/2 panels for the GIII Kentucky Downs Ladies Sprint S. over soft ground Sept. 12, besting five returning rivals. Winning Envelope (More Than Ready) and Into Mystic (Into Mischief) completed the exacta and trifecta, respectively. New challengers include Wesley Ward trainee Stillwater Cove (Quality Road), who was second in last April’s Limestone Turf Sprint S. here and was last seen taking a course-and-distance allowance just under a year ago; and near millionaire Chalon (Dialed In), who scratched out of two spots at Pimlico last week for this and makes her turf debut in career start number 23.

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Got Stormy Handles Soft Turf, Shorter Distance In Kentucky Downs Ladies Sprint Stakes

One thing trainer Mark Casse has had on a wish list for his charge Got Stormy in 2020 was for the 5-year-old mare to finally get the foot-rattling ground she has done her best running over. So when rain began soaking the turf at Kentucky Downs in Franklin, Ky., over the course of Saturday afternoon, turning the conditions to soft in the process, one could forgive the Hall of Fame conditioner if he started to get a twist of dread in his stomach heading into the Grade 3 Real Solution Ladies Sprint Stakes.

Class can overcome a lot of would-be setbacks and for Got Stormy, her superiority would not be dulled this day even if the ground beneath her was. The multiple Grade 1-winning daughter of Get Stormy exploded down the lane to take the $500,000 Ladies Sprint Stakes by 3 1/4 lengths, ending a five-race losing skid and earning her first victory of 2020.

Prior to the 6 1/2-furlong Ladies Sprint, the only time Got Stormy had raced at shorter than a mile was her debut as 2-year-old in a 7 1/2-furlong race, which at Gulfstream Park is staged around two turns. Since capturing the Grade 1 Matriarch Stakes last December to close out a 2019 campaign that also saw her best males in the Grade 1 Fourstardave Handicap, the chestnut mare hadn't been able to find the form that made her an Eclipse Award finalist for champion turf female last season.

“For her to get a mile, she needs it extremely, extremely hard. And she hasn't gotten that once this year,” Casse said. “We always felt that way (that she'd sprint) but there's never been an opportunity. For $500,000, we figured this would be a good time to do it. I've always said she'd handle soft going; it just limits how far she can run.

“The bit of the give in the ground (today) was a little worrisome, but it kind of played to her favor.”

With her regular pilot Tyler Gaffalione in the irons on Saturday, Got Stormy indeed looked at home as the 9-5 favorite rated between horses in fourth through the opening quarter mile in :22.54 in the Ladies Sprint. After pacesetter Surrender Now took the field 12-horse field through a half mile in :46.27 and into the stretch, Got Stormy was angled to the outside around rivals by Gaffalione, striking the front near the eighth pole and continuing to draw clear en route to covering the distance in 1:15.41.

“The filly broke great today. We were worried about the soft ground, but she handled it beautifully,” Gaffalione said. “She felt like a winner every step and when I got her out she finished the job. She's got so much class and is a tremendous filly. Great job by Mark and his team having her ready.”

“She's hard not to love,” Casse added. “I've felt bad for her this year because she's gotten some bad 'rap,' that she isn't what she was. And it's not true. Like when she won the Fourstardave last year the track was so hard and so fast. And she just hasn't gotten that. That's what she likes. The softer it is, the shorter she needs to run.”

Winning Envelope ran on from well back to get second in the Ladies Sprint with Into Mystic third.

Owned by Gary Barber, Got Stormy improves her record to nine wins from 24 starts with $1,901,378 in earnings.

“I'll talk to Gary (owner Gary Barber) but we'll probably come back and run her 5 1/2 (furlongs) in the Breeders' Cup” (Turf Sprint at Keeneland),” Casse said “I think she'll like that 5 1/2. (Gaffalione) said he could have been on the lead, no problem. I know she cannot go a mile at Keeneland in the fall. We know that.”

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Got Stormy Returns to Winning Ways in KYD Ladies Turf Sprint

After winning two Grade Is last year, Got Stormy had a hard time finding the wire first this season, but finally returned to the winner’s circle Saturday at Kentucky Downs. Rushing up to contest the pace in the initial strides, the heavy favorite was shuffled back to fifth through a :22.54 opening quarter and :46.27 half-mile. Searching for running room turning for home, the chestnut swung out four wide in the lane and charged clear in the final sixteenth for an authoritative victory.

“We always felt that way [that she’d sprint], but there’s never been an opportunity,” winning trainer Mark Casse said. “For $500,000, we figured this would be a good time to do it. I’ve always said she’d handle soft going; it just limits how far she can run. So for her to get a mile, she needs it extremely, extremely hard. And she hasn’t gotten that once this year. So the bit of the give in the ground was a little worrisome, but it kind of played to her favor.”

As for what’s next, Casse said, “I’ll talk to Gary [Barber], but we’ll probably come back and run her 5 1/2 [furlongs] in the [GI] Breeders’ Cup [Turf Sprint at Keeneland]. I think she’ll like that. [Tyler Gaffalione] said he could have been on the lead, no problem.”

Got Stormy captured the GI Fourstardave H. last term and was a close second in the GI Woodbine Mile next out in September before filling the same spot behind subsequent champion Uni (GB) (More Than Ready) in the GI Breeders’ Cup Mile in November. Returning to winning ways when sent west for the GI Matriarch S. Dec. 1, she was fourth in the GIII Endeavour S. at Tampa Feb. 8 and missed by a neck next out in Santa Anita’s GI Frank E. Kilroe S. Mar. 7. The 5-year-old was fourth in both the June 3 GIII Beaugay S. at Belmont and filled the same spot against the boys in that venue’s GIII Poker S. July 4. Got Stormy entered this test off a second to Halladay (War Front) in this term’s Fourstardave Aug. 22.

Pedigree Notes:

The winner’s dam Super Phoebe is a half-sister to MGSW & MGISP Smooth Air (Smooth Jazz) and GSW Overdriven (Tale of the Cat). The 16-year-old mare is also responsible for the unraced juvenile colt Got Curly (Super Saver); a yearling colt by Mohaymen; and a 2020 colt by Bolt d’Oro. She was bred back to Uncle Mo.

Saturday, Kentucky Downs
KENTUCKY DOWNS LADIES SPRINT S.-GIII, $498,000, Kentucky Downs, 9-12, 3yo/up, f/m, 6 1/2fT, 1:15.41, sf.
1–GOT STORMY, 121, m, 5, by Get Stormy
1st Dam: Super Phoebe, by Malabar Gold

2nd Dam: Air France, by French Deputy
3rd Dam: Twin Propeller, by Known Fact
($23,000 Ylg ’16 KEESEP; $45,000 2yo ’17 EASMAY). O-Gary
Barber; B-Mt Joy Stables, Pope McLean, Marc McLean & Pope
McLean Jr (KY); T-Mark E. Casse; J-Tyler Gaffalione. $288,300.
Lifetime Record: MGISW, 24-9-5-3, $1,901,378. *1/2 to Sky
Gold (Successful Appeal), SP, $151,020. Werk Nick Rating: A.
Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Winning Envelope, 121, f, 4, More Than Ready–Granby Girl,
by Badge of Silver. ($3,000 2yo ’18 KEEJAN). O-Lothenbach
Stables Inc. (Bob Lothenbach); B-Ramspring Farm (KY); T-Chris
M Block. $93,000.
3–Into Mystic, 123, f, 4, Into Mischief–Loveofalifetime, by
Medaglia d’Oro. ($650,000 2yo ’18 OBSAPR). O-George Chris
Coleman & Brad King; B-Runnymede Farm Inc & Catesby W
Clay Investment 2 LLC (KY); T-Brendan P Walsh. $46,500.
Margins: 3 1/4, HF, 3/4. Odds: 1.90, 14.20, 6.10.
Also Ran: Lady Lawyer, Surrender Now, Quebec, Change of Control, Dixieincandyland, Mentality, Bohemian Bourbon, Cariba, I’llhandalthecash. Scratched: Intuicao (Brz), Jakarta, Kimari. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

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