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From Dusk A First Japanese Winner for Bolt d’Oro

5th-Kokura, ¥13,400,000 ($95,295), Newcomers, 2yo, 1200mT, 1:10.1, yl.
FROM DUSK (c, 2, Bolt d'Oro–Foolish Cause, by Giant's Causeway) was crunched down to 9-10 favoritism to open his account at first asking and gutted it out over a turf course that might have been easier underfoot than he prefers. Away alertly, the dark bay set the pace, but had company to his outside in the form of third choice Yoshi Tanrei (Jpn) (Satono Aladdin {Jpn}) as they raced into the turn. More or less on even terms as they cut the corner into the straight, From Dusk poked his head in front while fairly conservatively handled approaching the final furlong and fought on bravely to score by three-parts of a length. “He had a nice draw and broke well from the gate,” said winning jockey Kohei Matsuyama. “He was very fresh and fit and had plenty left at the finish.” He is the first Japanese starter for his freshman sire (by Medaglia d'Oro) and became his 13th winner at the time. A $200,000 graduate of last year's Keeneland September Sale, From Dusk was knocked down to trainer Hideyuki Mori for $900,000 at this year's OBS March Sale after the Top Line Sales-consigned colt worked a furlong in :9 4/5. On behalf of this owner, Mori also bought Clos de Mesnil (Practical Joke) from Top Line for a sales-topping $750,000 at OBS last March. The filly is a three-time winner from seven starts in Japan. From Dusk is a half-brother to Foolish Humor (Distorted Humor), SW-US, SP-Can, $123,803, and his dam is a half-sister to the late three-time Grade I-winning turf router Get Stormy (Stormy Atlantic). Foolish Cause is the dam of a colt by ClassicEmpire foaled Feb. 9 of this year and was bred back to Bolt d'Oro. Sales history: $200,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP; $900,000 2yo '22 OBSMAR. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $49,926. VIDEO (SC 6) (see below)
O-Susumu Fujita; B-Springhouse Farm (KY); T-Hideyuki Mori.

 

 

 

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Lieutenant Dan Earns Breeders’ Cup Berth in Green Flash

Sunday, Del Mar
GREEN FLASH H.-GIII, $152,500, Del Mar, 9-4, 3yo/up, 5fT, :55.87, fm.
1–LIEUTENANT DAN, 125, g, 6, by Grazen
1st Dam: Excusabull, by Indian Charlie
2nd Dam: Otti, by Rahy
3rd Dam: Grifix, by Green Forest
O/B-Nicholas B. Alexander (CA); T-Steven Miyadi; J-Juan J.
Hernandez. $90,000. Lifetime Record: 18-9-4-4, $923,740.
Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree or the
free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. Werk Nick
Rating: F.
2–Lane Way, 120, g, 5, Into Mischief–Corderosa, by Aldebaran.
1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($550,000 2yo '19 OBSMAR).
O-MyRacehorse; B-GWTW Horses LLC (KY); T-Richard E.
Mandella. $30,000.
3–Coulthard (Ire), 119, g, 4, Coulsty (Ire)–Iamnoangel (Ire), by
Dark Angel (Ire). (€2,000 RNA Ylg '19 TIRSEP; £27,000 2yo '20
TTIGOR; 90,000gns 2yo '20 TATAHI). O-Jay & Julie Manoogian;
B-J. Waldron & J. Barton (IRE); T-Philip D'Amato. $18,000.
Margins: 1 1/4, HD, HF. Odds: 0.90, 9.10, 24.20.
Also Ran: Dubai Key (Arg), Whatmakessammyrun, Chasin Munny, Super Ocho (Chi), Barristan The Bold (GB), Nero, Maven. Scratched: Yes He Can. Click for the Equibase.com chart or the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

Lieutenant Dan, runner-up in last year's GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, punched his ticket for the 2022 renewal in his first start since, successfully defending his title in the GIII Green Flash H. Sunday at Del Mar.

A winner of two California-bred stakes in 2019, the gelding added a third in the Sensational Star S. in March of 2020, then headed to the bench for over 13 months following a runner-up effort in the Crystal Water S. Returning with a local allowance/optional claiming success last July, he repeated in the Green Flash and added a score in the GII Eddie D S. at Santa Anita before running second to Golden Pal (Uncle Mo) over this course in the Breeders' Cup.

Backed to odds-on here, Lieutenant Dan found a perfect spot in third at the rail, drafting behind second choice Dubai Key (Arg) (Key Deputy) as that rival clicked off a :21.77 quarter. Well held by Juan Hernandez on the turn, the chalk found an inside seam straightening for home as Dubai Key came off the fence, swept to the front at the eighth pole and kicked clear under hands and heels for the victory. Lane Way won a photo for the place.

Pedigree Notes:

One of 16 stakes winners and four graded stakes winners for stalwart California sire Grazen, Lieutenant Dan is the lone black-type performer from eight foals to race thus far out of his stakes-winning dam. He has a yearling full-brother named Butch O'Hare.

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Leave No Trace ‘Outworks’ Rivals in Spinaway

Let go at odds of 14-1 trying the deep waters of Sunday's GI Spinaway S., LEAVE NO TRACE (f, 2, Outwork–Tanquerray, by Red Ransom) negotiated the apparently steep hike from restricted maiden company with aplomb to cause the upset. Allowed to sit up on a moderate early tempo while tracking two and three wide, the $40,000 Fasig-Tipton October yearling bid three wide into the lane, with Kaling (Practical Joke) launching a rally at the fence and with favored Wonder Wheel (Into Mischief) to her outside. Kaling led between calls in upper stretch, but Leave No Trace sustained her run, took command about a furlong from home and held sway late. Wonder Wheel did enough for second ahead of Kaling in third, while American Rockette (American Pharoah), who ducked to the outside at the break, did exceptionally well to be fourth. Leave No Trace is the eighth stakes winner and first graded winner of any kind for WinStar's Outwork, while trainer Phil Serpe was unsaddling a Grade I winner for the first time since Birdonthwire won the 1993 Vosburgh S.

Sunday, Saratoga
SPINAWAY S.-GI, $300,000, Saratoga, 9-4, 2yo, f, 7f, 1:24.03, ft.
1–LEAVE NO TRACE, 120, f, 2, by Outwork
 1st Dam: Tanquerray, by Good Journey
 2nd Dam: Kitty Galore, by Mountain Cat
 3rd Dam: Patriot Star, by Torsion
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN, 1ST GRADE I WIN. ($8,000 Ylg '21 FTKFEB; $40,000 Ylg '21 EASOCT). O-WellSpring Stables; B-Red Cloak Farm, LLC (KY); T-Philip M. Serpe; J-Jose Lezcano. $165,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $210,650. Werk Nick Rating: F. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree or free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Wonder Wheel, 122, f, 2, by Into Mischief
                1st Dam: Wonder Gal (MSW & MGISP, $904,800), by Tiz Wonderful
                2nd Dam: Passe, by Dixie Union
                3rd Dam: Gal On the Go, by Irgun
1ST GRADED BLACK-TYPE, 1ST G1 BLACK-TYPE. ($275,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-D. J. Stable LLC; B-Three Chimneys Farm, LLC & Clearsky Farms (KY); T-Mark E. Casse. $60,000.
3–Kaling, 120, f, 2, by Practical Joke
                1st Dam: Proud Indian, by Indian Charlie
                2nd Dam: Shufflin n Seatle, by Seattle Slew
                3rd Dam: Darby Shuffle, by Darby Creek Road
1ST BLACK-TYPE, 1ST GRADED BLACK-TYPE, 1ST G1 BLACK-TYPE. ($220,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-Eclipse Thoroughbred Partners; B-John R. & Frank Penn (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher. $36,000.
Margins: 1HF, 1 1/4, HF. Odds: 14.80, 1.45, 3.85.
Also Ran: American Rockette, Sabra Tuff, Just Cindy, Apple Picker, Aunt Shirley, Naughty Gal, Miss Georgie.
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Midnight Memories a First SW for Mastery in Torrey Pines

Midnight Memories made her two-turn and stakes debut a winning one when resolutely holding off favored Desert Dawn to capture the GIII Torrey Pines S. Sunday at Del Mar.

Scoring first out at 4-5 with a 95 Beyer going 6 1/2 furlongs Apr. 30 at Santa Anita, the homebred repeated by a neck after stumbling at the start in an allowance/optional claimer there June 5 before disappointing when a well-beaten third as the chalk with blinkers added here July 28.

Taking the blinkers off for this test, the dark bay made the lead without much resistance under Ramon Vazquez and showed the way through a :23.25 quarter. Desert Dawn, third at the rail, moved off the fence to take up the chase as the half went up in :46.95. The favorite picked up the pressure around the turn and she and Midnight Memories passed three-quarters in 1:11.23 on even terms. Midnight Memories never relinquished the lead however, and started to do the better work around the eighth pole, holding firm from there to score.

Pedigree Notes:
Midnight Memories is the first stakes winner for Claiborne Farm's second-crop stallion Mastery, who retired with a perfect four-for-four record, three of those wins coming in graded stakes company. She is the second foal to race out of Tiz Midnight, who broke her maiden by 11 1/2 lengths with a 102 Beyer in her fourth career start and later won the GII Bayakoa S. Second dam Tough Tiz's Sis was a six-time stakes winner who ended her career with a 12 1/4-length romp and 113 Beyer in the 2008 GI Ruffian H. Tiz Midnight is responsible for a yearling colt by Collected and foaled a filly by Maximum Security this season before being bred to McKinzie.

Sunday, Del Mar
TORREY PINES S.-GIII, $125,500, Del Mar, 9-4, 3yo, f, 1m, 1:36.32, ft.
1–MIDNIGHT MEMORIES, 120, f, 3, by Mastery
                1st Dam: Tiz Midnight (GSW & GISP, $339,800), by Midnight Lute
                2nd Dam: Tough Tiz's Sis, by Tiznow
                3rd Dam: Leaseholder, by Taylor's Falls
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. O/B-Michael
Pegram, Paul Weitman & Karl Watson (KY); T-Bob Baffert;
J-Ramon A. Vazquez. $75,000. Lifetime Record: 4-3-0-1,
$166,680. Werk Nick Rating: B.
Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Desert Dawn, 124, f, 3, Cupid–Ashley's Glory, by Honour and
Glory. ($32,000 RNA Ylg '20 OBSOCT). O/B-H & E Ranch (AZ);
T-Philip D'Amato. $25,000.
3–Grace Adler, 120, f, 3, Curlin–Our Khrysty, by Newfoundland.
($700,000 Ylg '20 FTKSEL). O-Willow Grace Farm & Michael
Lund Petersen; B-Blue Heaven Farm (KY); T-Bob Baffert.
$15,000.
Margins: 3/4, 4 1/4, 7 1/4. Odds: 5.50, 1.20, 6.10.
Also Ran: Cinnamon Cat, Under the Stars, Malibu Marie. Scratched: Kirstenbosch.
Click for the Equibase.com chart and the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

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