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Bucchero Represented By First SW In Blue Sparkler

Sent off at overlaid odds of 13-1 from a 5-1 morning line, Ironhorse Racing Stable's Beauty of the Sea (Bucchero) was given a perfect ride by Jairo Rendon and held off My Sweet Affair (Twirling Candy) and Love Appeals (Speightstown)–each scratched out of Friday's rained-off Coronation Cup S.–to become the first black-type winner for her Florida-based stallion, also campaigned by Ironhorse.

Nicely drawn in gate two, the Florida-bred broke with them, but eased back to sit just behind a strong pace set by Coronation Cup entrant Bosserati (Holy Boss) with two-time course-and-distance winner Lady Irvine (Accelerate) not far behind. Committed to an inside run around the turn, Beauty of the Sea came after and collared Bosserati in upper stretch, but was confronted either side by My Sweet Affair at the fence and Love Appeals one path to her outside. Any of the three had claims at the sixteenth pole, but Beauty of the Sea fought on bravely from between the two market leaders and was home narrowly best.

 

Unplaced in a single juvenile appearance over the Gulfstream main track, Beauty of the Sea was runner-up in a five-furlong turf maiden in Hallandale Apr. 7 and donned cap and gown over that same track and trip May 5. No better than a 4-1 chance in her first start against winners over the Gulfstream synthetic June 3, she gamely split horses late and went on to punch her ticket to stakes company with a two-length success.

“We sent her here with this race in mind,” said winning trainer Joe Orseno. “She handled the turf so well so we figured let's keep her on the turf and see where we can go with it. “Jairo never panicked. I thought she would be laying right off the leaders. But he sat back there and when she moved up I saw she was running. It was just a question of the heavyweights coming at her. They were coming too, but we held them off.”

Harlan Malter, managing partner of Ironhorse Racing, made the trip in from California and will be on hand Sunday at Woodbine, where Bucchero's son Mattingly is a live chance in Sunday's Victoria S.

“I always referred to her as my mini-Bucchero,” Malter said. “To win the first stakes for him that sort of way is everything I thought of what Bucchero could be as a stallion. It means an enormous amount to me and my partners and we think that this filly is the first of many stakes winners to come for Bucchero.”

One of 36 winners from 58 starters for Bucchero, Beauty of the Sea, a $29,000 OBS June buyback last year, hails from the female family of the nails-tough Second of June (Louis Quatorze), Grade I winner Any Given Saturday (Distorted Humor) and GSW Bohemian Lady (Carson City). The unraced Belong to Sea, the only daughter of Poseidon's Warrior to have a foal of racing age, is also the dam of the 2-year-old colt Little Starships (Gone Astray). Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

 

 

 

BLUE SPARKLER S., $104,000, Monmouth, 7-15, 3yo, f, 5 1/2fT, 1:02.68, fm.
1–BEAUTY OF THE SEA, 116, f, 3, by Bucchero
1st Dam: Belong to Sea, by Poseidon's Warrior
2nd Dam: Niebla, by Belong to Me
3rd Dam: Whow, by Spectacular Bid
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. ($29,000 RNA 2yo '22 OBSOPN). O-Ironhorse Racing Stable LLC; B-Shade Tree Thoroughbreds Inc (FL); T-Joseph F Orseno; J-Jairo Rendon. $60,000. Lifetime Record: 5-3-1-0, $118,960. *First stakes winner for second-crop sire (by Kantharos).
2–My Sweet Affair, 116, f, 3, Twirling Candy–Illicit Affair, by Midnight Lute. ($72,000 2yo '22 OBSAPR). O-R A Hill Stable & Gatsas Stables; B-Highclere Inc, Dr Amy Rabanal & Constance Wickes (KY); T-George Weaver. $20,000.
3–Love Appeals, 118, f, 3, Speightstown–Gioia Stella, by Medaglia d'Oro. 1ST BLACK-TYPE. O/B-Moyglare Stud Farm Ltd (KY); T-Christophe Clement. $10,000.
Margins: HD, NK, 2 3/4. Odds: 13.10, 2.50, 2.50.

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Ham Sandwich A First Winner For Heart to Heart

1st-Ellis, $40,000, Msw, 7-15, 2yo, 6 1/2f, 1:18.23, sy, 7 1/2 lengths.
HAM SANDWICH (c, 2, Heart to Heart–Voodoo Lounge, by Pleasant Tap) didn't show much in his Horseshoe Indianapolis debut June 10, never advancing further than eighth in a 7 1/2-furlong turf contest. Over a sloppy main track Saturday in a sales price-restricted race, he was eased from the gate and had only one rival beat through a half in :46.22. Kept inside of horses around the turn, he angled through a gap at the top of the lane and drew off nicely to the wire, defeating Tiz My Hero (Bernardini) by 7 1/2 lengths. From the extended family of MGISW Videogenic (Caucasus) and GI King's Bishop S. winner Valid Video (Valid Wager), Ham Sandwich is his dam's last reported offspring and the first winner for his freshman sire (by English Channel). Sales History: $17,000 Ylg '22 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $23,540. Click for the Equibase.com chart.
O-MJM Racing; B-Laura Mckinney (KY); T-Kenneth G. McPeek.

 

 

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Summer Breezes: Sunday, July 16, 2023

Some of the most highly anticipated races during the summer racing season are the 'baby' races during the boutique meetings at both Saratoga and Del Mar and at Ellis Park, which attract its fair share of high-priced offspring from a variety of top national outfits.

Summer Breezes highlights debuting 2-year-olds at those meetings that have been sourced at the breeze-up sales earlier in the year, with links to their under-tack previews. To follow are the horses entered for Saratoga and Ellis Park Sunday:

Sunday, July 16, 2023
Ellis 3, $70k, 2yo, 5 1/2fT, 1:43 p.m. ET
Horse (Sire).Sale, Price ($), Breeze
Final Draft (Constitution)–AE, OBSMAR, 150,000, click
C-CM Thoroughbreds, agent; B-D J Stable LLC
Star Performance (Oscar Performance), OBSAPR, 50,000, click
C-McKathan Bros. Sales, agent; B-Mark Cherry, Cerasus TBs LLC
White Dove (Violence)–MTO, OBSMAR, 50,000, click
C-30-30 Ranch; B-Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners

Ellis 6, $40k, 2yo, f, (R), 6f, 3:18 p.m. ET
Annamaria (Preservationist), FTMMAY, 10,000, see below
C-New Horizons Bloodstock; B-McMahon & Hill, agt. Robert Clary

 

 

Saratoga 5, $88k, 2yo, (S), 5 1/2f, 3:32 p.m. ET
Collected Special (Collected), OBSAPR, 85,000, click
C-Ordonez Thoroughbreds, agent; B-Lea Farms LLC
Jake's Orchard (Coal Front), OBSAPR, 35,000, click
C-Goldencents Thoroughbreds; B-Dave Cannizzo, agent

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Unified Alliance ‘Rains’ In Off-Turf Coronation Cup

Trainer Tom Morley admitted that he was doing a bit of a rain dance Thursday, and his prayers were answered when Friday's Coronation Cup was washed onto the Saratoga main track. Scratched down to a field of just four sophomore fillies, Unified Alliance (Unified) took full advantage while making her first start for Morley and the in-form Javier Castellano.

Nicely into stride from gate three, the dark bay filly had early company to her inside in the form of Anna's Arabesque (Munnings), as odds-on L Street Lady (Munnings)–the lone main-track-only entrant–chased that pair from third. Unified Alliance cut the corner into the stretch and kept finding up front en route to an ultimately comfortable first black-type success.

Unified Alliance made the first six starts of her career for John Servis, winning her maiden at first asking at Parx last December before adding a romping 10 1/4-length allowance score in Bensalem Apr. 3. A distant last of four in the rained-off Memories of Silver S. at Aqueduct Apr. 29, she led into the final furlong of the June 11 Jersey Girl S. at Belmont, but was outfinished by L Street Lady and settled for second.

“We were sitting at the table with claps of thunder and bolts of lightning [last night], and I said, 'I could really do with this going on for four more hours just to really knock it on the head,'” the winning trainer said. “It didn't last four hours, but we got enough [rain]. She actually worked really, really well on the grass at Belmont, so we were definitely going to roll the dice and see if she could [run on] turf today, but obviously it cut up into an easier race when it came off.”

The fourth stakes winner for her Lane's End-based sire (by Candy Ride {Arg}), Unified Alliance is the only of her dam's foals to race and hails from the female family of GISW A. P. Adventure (A.P. Indy). Star Power did not produce a foal in any of the last three years and was bred to McKinzie this season. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

CORONATION CUP S., $139,500, Saratoga, 7-14, 3yo, f, 5 1/2f (off turf), 1:03.80, ft.
1–UNIFIED ALLIANCE, 120, f, 3, by Unified
1st Dam: Star Power, by Speightstown
2nd Dam: Sequel, by A.P. Indy
3rd Dam: Nataliano, by Fappiano
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. ($170,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP; $60,000 2yo '22 EASMAY). O-Reagan Jack Racing; B-Calvin & Shane Crain (KY); T-Thomas Morley; J-Javier Castellano. $82,500. Lifetime Record: 7-3-2-1, $193,500.
2–Anna's Arabesque, 118, f, 3, Munnings–Classy Music, by Maclean's Music. ($220,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-Rigney Racing, LLC; B-Patrick Waresk (KY); T-Philip A Bauer. $30,000.
3–L Street Lady, 122, f, 3, Munnings–Lady Gayle, by Scat Daddy. ($125,000 Ylg '21 FTKJUL). O-Madaket Stables LLC; B-T & G Farm of Kentucky LLC (KY); T-Brittany T Russell. $18,000.
Margins: 1HF, 6 3/4, 5 3/4. Odds: 2.75, 2.25, 0.95.
Also Ran: Wildhawk. Scratched: Bosserati, Love Appeals, Love Reigns (Ire), My Sweet Affair, Violet Gibson (Ire).

 

 

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