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Rowdy Yates The Morning-Line Favorite In Friday’s Oklahoma Classics Cup

For the second year in a row, Deal Driven, a stakes winner at Parx in Philadelphia is shipping in from the East Coast to try his wares in the $175,000 Oklahoma Classics Cup on Friday, Oct. 16 at Remington Park.

In 2019, now-retired millionaire Shotgun Kowboy, a four-time winner of the Oklahoma Classics Cup, easily put Deal Driven away. This year, Deal Driven has been made the second choice in the morning-line at 5-2 odds, behind only Rowdy Yates who is the 2-1 favorite. Remington Park odds-maker Jerry Shottenkirk established the latter at the top of the line, based off his multiple stakes wins at this Oklahoma City track. Rowdy Yates won the Oklahoma Classics Juvenile last year and then followed that with a victory in the Don McNeill Stakes here.

Rowdy Yates, a 3-year-old colt by Morning Line, out of the Yes It's True mare Spring Station, is the top earner in the field with $346,556 in his bankroll, just barely more than Deal Driven at $342,896. Deal Driven, a 6-year-old gelded son of the hottest sire in the country this year – Into Mischief – comes from the Tiznow mare Tiz Merry. Deal Driven won the $60,000 Parx Hall of Fame Handicap on Sept. 14, 2019.

Deal Driven could do no better than fifth in the Classics Cup last year, beaten 20-1/4 lengths by Shotgun Kowboy, who holds the record for winning the race four times. Shotgun Kowboy took the trophy in 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2019, for owner-trainer C.R. Trout of Edmond. Shotgun Kowboy also is one of two horses to have won this race three years in a row. The other was Mr. Ross from 1999-2001. Zee Oh Six won three times but not in consecutive years.

Fifteen-time Remington Park top trainer Steve Asmussen, and the country's top conditioner by money earned, campaigns Rowdy Yates. That colt, owned by L and N Racing of Tulsa, Okla., is coming off a sixth-place finish in the Grade 3, $200,000 Oklahoma Derby here on Sept. 27 at 1-1/8^th miles. Deal Driven last raced Sept. 10 at Laurel, running second in an allowance-optional $50,000 claiming race at seven furlongs. The Oklahoma Classics Cup is raced at 1-1/16^th miles. Jockey Stewart Elliott gets the call on Rowdy Yates, while Ramon Vazquez is aboard Deal Driven for trainer Robert Mosco and owner Troy Johnson and Charles Lo of Vacaville, Calif.

Trout will try to keep his winning streak alive in the cup with Fast Breakin Cash at 5-1 odds. His resume is blackened with excellent efforts in stakes-company, running second in the $75,000 Kip Deville and $100,000 Oklahoma Classics Juvenile in 2018, and the $70,000 Jim Thorpe Stakes in 2019. All those races were over the Remington Park surface. Fast Breaking Cash finished third behind two-time Oklahoma Horse of the Year, Welder, in last year's $130,000 Oklahoma Classics Sprint.

Here's a look at Classics Cup field of eight, from the rail out with jockey, trainer and morning-line odds:

1) Dont Tell Noobody: Sophie Doyle, Federico Villafranco, 15-1

2) Georgia Deputy: Ezequiel Lara, Joe Petalino, 20-1

3) United Patriot: Lori Biehler, Michael Biehler, 10-1

4) Rowdy Yates: Stewart Elliott, Steve Asmussen, 2-1

5) Fast Breakin Cash: Luis Quinonez, C.R. Trout, 5-1

6) Dak Da Man: Lane Luzzi, Kari Craddock, 6-1

7) Kwik: David Cabrera, Karl Broberg, 10-1

8) Deal Driven: Ramon Vazquez, Robert Mosco, 5-2

Remington Park racing continues Saturday, Oct. 10, with nine races underway at 7:07pm-Central.

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Tattersalls December Foal Sale Catalog Now Online

The catalog for the Tattersalls December Foal Sale is online now at www.tattersalls.com and will be available from Tattersalls and Tattersalls representatives on Oct. 23. Numbering 934 lots, the December Foal Sale will take place Wednesday, Nov. 25 to Saturday, Nov. 28.

Europe's premier foal sale boasts an outstanding catalog, with 135 foals by the current top 20 active British and Irish sires including Camelot, Dark Angel, Dubawi, Exceed and Excel, Fastnet Rock, Frankel, Kingman, Kodiac, Invincible Spirit, Lope de Vega, Pivotal, Sea the Stars, Teofilo, and Zoffany.

The catalog also features own and half brothers and sisters to 121 group and listed winners headed by the Dubawi half-brother to champion Irish 2-year-old filly Skitter Scatter and siblings to an array of this year's star juveniles, including Alkumait, Minzaal, Nando Parrado, Pretty Gorgeous, and The Lir Jet. There are 86 foals out of group and listed winning mares cataloged including a colt out of the dual Group 1 winner La Collina by champion Australian sire Zoustar, who will be represented by 23 foals from his first Northern Hemisphere crop.

As ever, first-crop sires feature prominently with a total of 26 represented including classic and Group 1 winners Cracksman, Expert Eye, Harry Angel, Havana Grey, Hawkbill, Jungle Cat, Lightning Spear, Poet's Word, Roaring Lion, Saxon Warrior, Sioux Nation, US Navy Flag, and Unfortunately.

French-based sires also feature prominently with leading stallions Kendargent, Le Havre, Siyouni, and the recently relocated Wootton Bassett well represented alongside Group 1 winning first-crop sires Mekhtaal and Recoletos and a sole representative of the multiple Grade 1 winning U.S. based sire Oscar Performance.

The largest consignment is the team of 32 foals coming from Richard Kent's Mickley Stud, closely followed by the 29 to come from The Castlebridge Consignment and 27 from Norelands Stud. Tweenhills Farm and Stud which topped the 2019 December Foal Sale with the Frankel colt first foal out of the outstanding classic winner Simple Verse, has a team of 23 foals.

Commenting on the 2020 Tattersalls December Foal Sale, Tattersalls Chairman Edmond Mahony said;

“The Tattersalls December Foal Sale is the premier fixture of its kind in Europe, consistently attracting the cream of the British and Irish foal crop and this year's catalog has the quality and diversity to appeal to pinhookers and owners from throughout the world. Graduates of the sale continue to fly the flag globally with Dream of Dreams, Barney Roy, and Matterhorn all successful at the highest level. The December Foal Sale has also been the source of many of this season's most exciting juveniles with the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes winner Alkumait, the Group 2 Coventry Stakes winner Nando Parrado, the Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes winner Minzaal and the exciting Group 3 winning Japanese 2-year-old Shock Action all graduates of the 2018 renewal.”

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Grasshopper Gelding Tops Iowa Fall Mixed Sale

The 2020 Iowa Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association Fall Mixed Sale posted across-the-board declines on Oct. 8, topped by a $60,000 gelding by Grasshopper.

A total of 55 horses changed hands for revenues of $408,300 during this year's sale, for an average sale price of $7,424 and a median of $3,400. The buyback rate was 28 percent.

This year's sale introduced online bidding for the first time, which accounted for $94,500 in purchases – 23 percent of the overall gross.

The yearling portion moved 48 horses for revenues of $389,400, down 17 percent from last year's slate of yearlings, when 38 sold for $469,800. The average yearling sale price fell 33 percent to $8,285 from $12,363.

This year's sale-topper was Hop To It, a Grasshopper gelding who sold to NBS Stable for $60,000.

The dark bay or brown gelding is out of the winning Speightstown mare Islet, whose two foals to race are both winners. The Iowa-bred hails from the family of Grade 2 winner Windward Islands and French Group 1-placed Deveron.

Though the overall figures were down, Hop To It's $60,000 price tag tied the record for the most expensive horse ever sold at the Iowa auction, equaling the mark set last year.

Iowa State University consigned the sale-topper, and it topped the sale's consignors by both gross and number sold, moving 26 horses for $273,800.

NBS Stable was the sale's leading buyer with two purchases totaling $79,000. Dick Clark bought eight horses to be the most active buyer by bulk.

To view the auction's full results, click here.

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Unicorn Girl, Dam Of Grade 1 Winner Jackie’s Warrior, Supplemented to Keeneland November Sale

Keeneland announced Sunday that Unicorn Girl, dam of undefeated two-time Grade 1 winner and leading TVG Breeders' Cup Juvenile Presented by Thoroughbred Aftercare Alliance candidate Jackie's Warrior, and her weanling colt by American Pharoah have been supplemented to the November Breeding Stock Sale, to be held Nov. 9-18.

Unicorn Girl, who is in foal to leading sire Into Mischief, and her weanling son both are consigned by Beau Lane Bloodstock, agent, in the premier Book 1 on opening day.

Catalog pages for the two horses will be released later this week.

In Saturday's Grade 1 Champagne Stakes at Belmont, Jackie's Warrior dominated his rivals with a front-running 5 1/2-length victory. The effort solidified the colt's status as a favorite in the Nov. 6 Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Keeneland and set the graduate of Keeneland's 2019 September Yearling Sale on course for an Eclipse Award as division champion.

“It was a very impressive victory for Jackie's Warrior in the Champagne, and Unicorn Girl in foal to Into Mischief on one cover and carrying a colt will be well received at Keeneland November,” said Carlo Vaccarezza, who owns the mare and weanling with John Williams. “Also selling the weanling half-brother to Jackie's Warrior by American Pharoah will show what she's capable of moving forward. John and I are extremely excited for this opportunity.”

The Champagne continued Jackie's Warrior's roll this year. He won his June 19 career debut by 2 1/2 lengths at Churchill Downs and next took the Aug. 7 G2 Saratoga Special Presented by Miller Light by three lengths. On Sept. 7, Jackie's Warrior captured the G1 Runhappy Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga by 2 1/4 lengths in stakes-record time.

Unicorn Girl, by the A.P. Indy stallion A. P. Five Hundred, is in foal to the powerhouse Into Mischief, whose stud fee recently climbed to $225,000 for 2021. His recent headliners include Kentucky Derby hero Authentic and Test Stakes winner Gamine. Into Mischief was the leading sire by gross sales at the recent Keeneland September Yearling Sale, where 19 of his sons and daughters commanded $500,000 or more. Five sold for $1 million or more, including the $1.9 million sale-topping filly.

“There is no telling what Unicorn Girl can do with a foal by Into Mischief,” Beau Lane said. “She is a powerhouse. She tried her heart out every time she raced. She's a quality mare who was an overachiever, and she passes that on to her babies. They have the same attitude. She is the kind that can give you that special horse.”

Unicorn Girl has a pedigree page loaded with quality. Out of stakes winner Horah for Bailey, she is a half-sister to eight winners, including stakes winner Bernie the Maestro, who earned $694,317, and a pair of stakes horses who banked nearly $200,000 each.

On the race track, Unicorn Girl was competitive, classy and sound. Racing on the East Coast, she won 19 races and earned $483,508 in 54 races.

“Jackie's Warrior proved his star power with his dominating performance in the Champagne, and we look forward to seeing him at Keeneland for the Breeders' Cup Juvenile,” Keeneland President-Elect and Interim Head of Sales Shannon Arvin said. “Keeneland is especially excited to offer his dam, Unicorn Girl, who is in foal to the popular stallion Into Mischief, and his weanling half-brother in the November Sale.”

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