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After ‘False Start,’ Eagle Orb Dominates New York-Breds In Notebook

E.V. Racing Stable's Eagle Orb was anxious to get going, leaving the starting gate early in Saturday's $100,000 Notebook. But after the field re-loaded, the son of Orb settled down, tracked the early speed and finished strong for a 2 3/4-length victory in a stakes for New York-bred juveniles going six furlongs over the main track at Aqueduct in Ozone Park, N.Y.

Eagle Orb, who entered with a pair of runner-up efforts in three stakes appearances for trainer Rudy Rodriguez, was one of four entrants to burst through the gate before the official start. It was a case of no-harm, no-foul, as all seven horses were re-loaded for the start, with Eagle Orb breaking sharp from post 4.

Storm Shooter set the early speed for a tightly bunched pack, going the opening quarter-mile in 23.28 seconds over a track labeled good. Under current meet-leading rider Kendrick Carmouche, Blue Gator, the 7-5 favorite, took command with the half-mile going in 47.26 as Storm Shooter retreated to the back of the pack.

Out of the turn, jockey Manny Franco urged Eagle Orb from the outside, where he overtook Blue Gator and drew away, hitting the wire in 1:11.71 while improving to 2-2-0 in five career starts. Bred by Barry Ostrager, Eagle Orb built on runner-up efforts in Funny Cide going 6 1/2 furlongs on Sept. 4 at Saratoga Race Course and a last-out second in the one-turn mile Sleepy Hollow on Oct. 24 at Belmont Park.

“I think he's a better horse sprinting,” Franco said. “Today, he was in a nice stalking position and when I put him in position, he started going very comfortably and started opening up.”

Cutting back in distance, Eagle Orb won for the first time since a triumphant debut on Aug. 21 at the Spa. Off at 6-1, he returned $12.20 on a $2 win bet and improved his career earnings to $153,100.

“I didn't want to get involved in the speed duel early,” Franco said. “I was trying not to take my horse too far off the pace, but I didn't want to be up there. I wanted to wait behind the speed. My horse settled nice for me and when I put him in the clear, he took me there after that.”

Added Franco on the start: “The horse on the outside of us [Horn of Plenty] was kind of moving around and all the horses broke through the door, that's when it happened.”

Rodriguez praised Eagle Orb's consistent start to his career.

“This horse always shows up. I was a little disappointed why we didn't get the last two wins,” Rodriguez said. “He's been close at Saratoga and at Belmont. He was knocking at the door.”

Three Diamonds Farm's Blue Gator, a stakes winner last out in the New York Breeders' Futurity over a sloppy and sealed Finger Lakes track on Oct. 26, finished 6 1/4 lengths ahead of Market Alert for second for trainer Mike Maker.

“I didn't want him to be that close, but those horses weren't fast enough to beat my horse there, so I was just sitting as long as I could,” Carmouche said. “I asked my horse to run around the turn and at the quarter pole he quickened up, but the other horse quickened faster than me. I thought he ran his race.”

Horn of Plenty, Lookin for Trouble, Storm Shooter and Half Right completed the order of finish.

Live racing resumes on Sunday at the Big A with a 10-race card highlighted by the $100,000 Winter Memories for 3-year-old fillies in Race 9 at 3:47 p.m. Eastern and the $100,000 Key Cents for New York-bred juvenile fillies going six furlongs in Race 2 at 12:22 p.m. First post is 11:50 a.m.

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Gulfstream Park West: $200,000 Guaranteed Rainbow 6 Jackpot On Sunday

Gulfstream Park West in Miami Gardens, Fla., will have a $200,000 guaranteed pool in Sunday's 20-cent Rainbow 6.

First race post Sunday is 12:35 p.m. Eastern. The Rainbow 6 begins with the third race, a claiming event for 3-year-olds and up scheduled on the turf at 7 1/2 furlongs.

The Rainbow 6 began Saturday with Quenane winning the $60,000 Sunshine Millions Classic Preview and returning $57.60. There was one live ticket going into Saturday's last race, but the single Gandolfo was no factor.

Multiple tickets with six winners Saturday returned $5,524.70.

The Rainbow 6 jackpot pool is only paid out when there is a single unique ticket sold with all six winners. On days when there is no unique ticket, 70 percent of that day's pool goes back to those bettors holding tickets with the most winners, while 30 percent is carried over to the jackpot pool.

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Mo Town Colt Leads Way Into Book 4 at KEENOV

A total of 265 head changed hands for gross receipts of $6,278,400 Saturday during the first of two Book 4 sessions of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale. The average price was $23,692 and median was $15,000. The RNA rate was a notably low 16.4%. While year-to-year comparisons are perhaps slightly inexact due to a smaller KEENOV catalog this year, during last year’s corresponding sixth session the average was $29,426 and median was $20,000 with a 24.7% buyback rate.

Topping the day’s trade Saturday was hip 1913, a colt from the first crop of Mo Town purchased by agent Davant Latham for $185,000. Consigned by Alliance Sales Agency, the Jan. 18 foal hails from the female family of recent local GII Lexus Raven Run S. heroine Venetian Harbor (Munnings) and Hall of Fame sprinter Safely Kept.

The session’s second topper was also a foal by a stallion from a hot sire line, as trainer Wesley Ward went to $170,000 to secure a Practical Joke filly (hip 2088) from the Four Star Sales draft. Practical Joke weanlings brought $185,000 and $150,000 during the prior session.

Hip 2088 is out of a half-sister to GSWs Adventist (Any Given Saturday) and Dijeerr (Danzig). George E. Bates, Trustee purchased dam Yankee Bright (Elusive Quality) for just $1,000 in foal to Laoban here two years ago. The resulting foal was sold the next year for $2,000.

The day’s top broodmare was 3-year-old Dane (Dansili {GB}), who sold to H.F. Farm for $150,000 in foal to Demarchelier (GB). Consigned by Claiborne Farm as hip 2174, the bay was a €410,000 in utero purchase by Peter Brant’s White Birch Farm at the 2016 Goffs November sale. Her dam is Group 2 winner Peinture Rare (Ire) (Sadler’s Wells), a half-sister to European Horse of the Year and sire Peintre Celebre (Nureyev).

Through three and a half books, not counting post-sale transactions, 1,247 horses have sold for $134,979,400. The average is $108,243 and median is $55,000, while the RNA rate is 23.4%.

The trend continued Saturday of more and more horses selling on the internet each session–39 were bought online Saturday for a combined $954,600. A total of 150 horses have now been sold electronically for $14,653,600.

Selling begins again Sunday at 10:00 a.m. ET and continues through Wednesday. Visit www.keeneland.com for more information.

Latham Playing the Mo-Mentum
Bloodstock agent Davant Latham set the bar relatively high early in Saturday’s Keeneland November session when stretching to $185,000 for a weanling colt (hip 1913) from the first crop of Coolmore resident, GISW and ‘TDN Rising Star‘ Mo Town.

Consigned by Ralph Kinder’s Alliance Sales Agency and bred by Erv Woolsey and Kinder, the Jan. 18 foal is out of a half-sister to the dam of this year’s flashy MGSW and MGISP Venetian Harbor (Munnings). His fourth dam is Hall of Famer Safely Kept.

“He was a beautiful horse; absolutely beautiful,” said Latham. “He had a big walk on him, and hopefully we’ll do well with him. We will be selling him next year.”

Latham said his confidence in Mo Town, who stood for $12,500 in his first year at Coolmore in 2019 after annexing the GI Hollywood Derby in 2017 and GII Remsen S. the year before that, was bolstered by the success of other sons of Uncle Mo with first runners this season.

“[The Mo Towns] have been good overall, and further confidence comes from Laoban, Nyquist and Outwork,” he said. “I was lucky last year with a Nyquist who we pinhooked and sold in September. Those three are all in the top five freshman sires, so you’ve got to believe in the sire line and this was just a beautiful horse. We were very fortunate to get him.”

Despite a perceived buyers’ market amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, Latham said it had been difficult, particularly earlier in the sale, to land weanlings of perceived higher quality.

“This whole sale, it’s been tough to find really high-quality weanlings,” he said. “There’s been kind of a shortage–a lot of people are holding them, not willing to sell in the covid market; they’re going to hold them and sell them as yearlings. So, for the really nice weanlings when they come up there, there’s been a ton of competition. For us, we’ve got to be careful about what we pay for them because we’re not an end user, so that knocked [us pinhookers] out on a lot of weanlings earlier because there were so many end users buying weanlings.”

The day’s third-priciest weanling was also a colt by Mo Town–hip 2150, consigned by Lane’s End, sold to Stella Stables for $75,000. He’s out of a Bernardini half-sister to the dam of millionaire Stanford (Malibu Moon) and hails from a deep female family responsible for the likes of Johannesburg and Tale of the Cat.

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Speightstown’s Astute Stays Undefeated for Mandella in Desi Arnaz

Astute debuted Oct. 12 on the Santa Anita lawn, going 5 1/2 furlongs and getting a neck win after leading throughout. The $425,000 Keeneland September yearling graduate skipped a few conditions to move straight to black-type company in the Desi Arnaz S. In addition to the jump in company, she was also switching over to the main track and upping the distance by a furlong.

Just like in her maiden, Astute went to the front, but this time she got headed by Private Mission (Into Mischief) to her inside after a :22.21 quarter and the foe had a head on her as the battle unfolded through the half in :45.30. Astute won the war, shaking clear with ease coming off the turn and simply drawing away, taking command with authority to win by 7 1/2 lengths.

“The owners and the manager–Alex Solis, Jr.–told me before I ever saw her that she’s special and it’s kind of held true,” said Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella. “She got a little sick on me in the summer and I had to give her a month off, so that’s why she’s a little late [starting her career]. I only put her in the maiden turf [debut win] because I knew she could do turf and I was afraid a dirt race the next day wouldn’t fill. I expected she’d run well today, but maybe not this well. We’ll think about the [GI] Starlet [S., Dec. 5 at Los Alamitos].”

Astute is the second black-type winner for her dam following 2015 GII Inside Information S. and 2014 GIII Go For Wand H. victress Classic Point. Discerning died in 2019, as did her Flatter foal that year. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.

Saturday, Del Mar
DESI ARNAZ S., $100,500, Del Mar, 11-14, 2yo, f, 6 1/2f, 1:17.28, ft.
1–ASTUTE, 120, f, 2, by Speightstown
               1st Dam: Discerning, by Langfuhr
               2nd Dam: Clandestinely, by Forty Niner
               3rd Dam: Personal Business, by Private Account
($425,000 Ylg ’19 KEESEP). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-LNJ
Foxwoods; B-WinStar Farm, LLC (KY); T-Richard E. Mandella;
J-Mike E. Smith. $60,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $93,000.
*1/2 to Classic Point (Flatter), MGSW, $685,794.
2–Queengol, 120, f, 2, Flashback–Nechez Dawn, by Indian
Charlie. ($22,000 Wlg ’18 KEENOV; $90,000 2yo ’20 OBSMAR).
O-Saragol Stable Corp. & Johana Viana; B-John R. Penn (KY);
T-John W. Sadler. $20,000.
3–Heels Up, 120, f, 2, Twirling Candy–Tale Untold, by Tale of
the Cat. ($17,000 RNA Wlg ’18 KEENOV; $65,000 Ylg ’19
KEESEP; $350,000 2yo ’20 OBSAPR). O-Karl Watson, Michael E.
Pegram, & Paul Weitman; B-Two Stamps Stables (KY); T-Bob
Baffert. $12,000.
Margins: 7HF, NO, HF. Odds: 5.10, 5.70, 10.40.
Also Ran: Private Mission, Canoodling, Miss Costa Rica. Scratched: Plum Sexy, Varda.

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