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‘A Big Deal’: Anderson Charting What He Hopes Is Record-Setting Path For Rosario

Ron Anderson was agent for jockey Jerry Bailey in 2003 when he won 55 graded stakes to set an all-time North American record. He was agent for Garrett Gomez in 2007 when the latter recorded 76 stakes victories to set the all-time single season record in that category.

Anderson is taking aim at both records this season with Joel Rosario, the leading jockey in North America by stakes, graded stakes and money won in 2021. The 36-year-old native of Dominican Republic also has a very good chance of surpassing the single-season earnings record of $34,109,019 set in 2019 by Irad Ortiz Jr.

“We get up every morning to try and do things that other people haven't done,” Anderson said, adding that the records are important to both him and Rosario, the favorite to win his first Eclipse Award as outstanding jockey of 2021.

“Joel is a humble kid and not an 'all me' type of person,” Anderson said. “At the end of the day, to be mentioned in the same breath as Jerry Bailey and Garrett really is a big deal. He's the nicest, sweetest kid, respectful to hot walkers and grooms, a very special person. I don't know that I've ever been around anyone like him.”

Entering Thanksgiving week, Rosario has won 49 graded stakes and 69 stakes overall in 2021, with $32,159,053 in mount earnings for the year.

He is currently riding at Churchill Downs, where he has picked up mounts for Mike Maker on Army Wife in Thursday's Grade 2 Falls City Stakes and on Midnight Bourbon for trainer Steve Asmussen in the G1 Clark Stakes. Churchill Downs has four stakes scheduled on Saturday, including the G2 Golden Rod Stakes and G2 Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes.

Rosario will then go to Aqueduct to ride Dec. 2-5, including the Dec. 4 program that features four graded stakes: the G1 Cigar Mile Handicap, G2 Demoiselle, G2 Remsen, and G3 Go for Wand Handicap.

After that, Rosario will take a week off while serving a three-day suspension he received Preakness week in Maryland last May. He'll then surface at Remington Park on Dec. 17 for a day that includes five ungraded stakes, topped by the $400,000 Remington Springboard Mile. The following day, he'll be at Gulfstream Park for a Dec. 18 card featuring five stakes, four of them graded.

The following weekend, Rosario will ride the opening day card at Santa Anita on Dec. 26, featuring six graded stakes and Anderson has plans for Rosario to ride in the final graded stakes of the year, the G3 Robert Frankel, at Santa Anita on Dec. 31.

Rosario will kick off 2022 at Oaklawn, where he has not ridden full time, though two years ago won with 17 of 45 mounts at the Hot Springs, Ark., track, a 38% strike rate. Rosario appears to be well situated to pick up mounts at Oaklawn from the powerful stable of leading trainer Steve Asmussen, whose partnership with jockey Ricardo Santana Jr. seems to have soured after the latter went through a prolonged slump this fall and lost mounts to Rosario on G1 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies winner Echo Zulu and G1 Preakness and G1 Travers Stakes runner-up Midnight Bourbon in Friday's Clark Stakes at Churchill Downs.

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Son of Kingman Takes Red Smith

Saturday, Aqueduct
RED SMITH S.-GII, $200,000, Aqueduct, 11-20, 3yo/up, 1 3/8mT, 2:16.60, fm.
1–SERVE THE KING (GB), 124, h, 5, by Kingman (GB)
              1st Dam: Fallen In Love (GB) (GSP-Eng), by Galileo (Ire)
              2nd Dam: Fallen Star (GB), by Brief Truce
              3rd Dam: Rise And Fall (GB), by Mill Reef
1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. (260,000gns Ylg '17 TATOCT).
O-Peter M. Brant; B-Normandie Stud Ltd (GB); T-Chad Brown;
J-Irad Ortiz, Jr. $110,000. Lifetime Record: 11-5-2-1, $406,180.
*1/2 to Loving Things (GB) (Pivotal {GB}), GSW-Fr, SW &
GSP-Eng, $107,896. Werk Nick Rating: A+. Click for the
   eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Channel Cat, 126, h, 6, English Channel–Carnival Kitten, by
Kitten's Joy. O/B-Calumet Farm (KY); T-Jack Sisterson. $40,000.
3–Soldier Rising (GB), 118, g, 3, Frankel (GB)–Sahrawi (Ger), by
Pivotal (GB). (240,000gns RNA Ylg '19 TATOCT). O-Madaket
Stables LLC, Dubb, Michael, Bailey, Morris, Wonder Stables
and Michael J. Caruso; B-Dayton Investments Ltd. (GB);
T-Christophe Clement. $24,000.
Margins: NK, NK, HF. Odds: 2.05, 4.80, 3.35.
Also Ran: No Word, Shamrocket, Corelli, Sanctuary City,
Value Engineering, Price Talk, Tide of the Sea. Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
Peter Brant's Serve the King and Irad Ortiz, Jr. bided their time in the early going of the GII Red Smith S. and while it appeared they might not make it up in time in Saturday's 11-furlong Big A feature, the English-bred found another gear late to best pacemaker Channel Cat by a neck. The latter, this season's GI Man O' War S. winner and sporting blinkers for the first time, went straight to the front, doling out early fractions of :24.96 and :50.02 with No Word (Silent Name {Jpn}) in pursuit while the 2-1 favorite lingered in a rail-skimming fifth. Still moving easily midpack down the backstretch, the Chad Brown trainee finally came off his inside perch and started to inch forward approaching the quarter pole. Fanned out five wide and with still a handful of rivals in front of him turning for home, the handsome bay appeared to idle for a moment at midstretch but came on in the final strides to eke out the win over the game pacesetter. Soldier Rising closed impressively to finish third over No Word.
“I had a really good trip,” said Ortiz, Jr. “He broke sharp and was forwardly placed. He put me in a good position, so I saved all the ground for the whole race. At the half-mile, I started moving and he responded really well. I was able to tip him out and when he hit the clear, he was running.”
He continued, “He was off the bit sometimes, but that's him. He's not a horse that's going to pull you all the way. That's not him. Sometimes, you have to wake him up and let him know he's running. He's there for you, that's the good thing.”
Serve the King hit the board in four of five starts last season, including a nine-furlong optional claiming win and a runner-up finish in the GIII Monmouth S. in October. Fourth in his first two starts of 2021, including in the 11-furlong GI United Nations S. in July, the 260,000gns Tattersalls October grad appreciated the extra yardage in Saratoga's John's Call S. at 13 furlongs Aug. 25 ahead of a second behind Rockemperor (Ire) (Holy Roman Emperor {Ire}) in the GI Joe Hirsch Turf Classic S. Oct. 9. “A lot of credit goes to my Monmouth crew, who really did a good job helping this horse,” said winning trainer Chad Brown. “As a younger horse, he was a little bit quirky and wouldn't want to train all the time and for whatever reason down there he has a comfortable situation and would train on. That's why he spent a lot of his time down there…After the Hirsch, we left him here and he picked right up and has been cooperative and he's fine now. My crew here did a great job. It was a real team effort from different divisions to keep this guy on track.”

Pedigree Notes:
With his GII Red Smith S. win, Serve the King became the 23rd graded/group winner for his sire and fourth in the U.S., each trained by Chad Brown. He is the second of Kingman's GSWs out of a Galileo, joining G3 Musidora S. victress Nausha (GB). Out of Group 2 placed Fallen In Love (GB), the 5-year-old is a half to French Group 3 scorer Loving Things (GB) (Pivotal {GB}). The 15-year-old mare is also represented by an unraced 3-year-old colt by Siyouni (Fr) and a juvenile colt by Fastnet Rock (Aus). Her latest produce is a weanling filly by Expert Eye (GB).

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Serve The King Rallies Late To Win Red Smith At Aqueduct

Channel Cat looked poised to take the field gate to wire in the Red Smith at Aqueduct, but Serve the King's late rally in the stretch gave the Chad Brown trainee enough to pass Channel Cat in the final sixteenth of a mile and take the Grade 2 stakes by a neck at the Ozone Park, N.Y., track.

From the gate in the 1 3/8-mile Red Smith, Channel Cat took a one-length lead over the field of ten, setting early fractions of :24.96, :50.02, and 1:15.59, a moderate pace that left John Velazquez with plenty of horse for the stretch run. Serve the King hung back in fifth, nestled on the rail behind No Word and Price Talk. Around the far turn, No Word pulled within striking distance of Channel Cat, while Irad Ortiz Jr. moved Serve the King off the rail and to the outside of horses, six-wide into the stretch.

Down the Aqueduct straight, Channel Cat was able to shake off the challenge for No Word and increase his lead, but Ortiz had Serve the King set down for a drive, taking over the lead in the last strides to win by a neck over Channel Cat and a surging Soldier Rising. No Word was fourth and Shamrocket fifth. Corelli, Sanctuary City, Value Engineering, Price Talk, and Tide of the Sea rounded out the order of finish.

The final time for the 1 3/8 miles was 2:16.60. Find this race's chart here.

Serve the King paid $6.10, $3.80, and $2.60. Channel Cat paid $6.00 and $4.20. Soldier Rising paid $3.30.

“At a certain point of the race, he [Irad Ortiz, Jr.] said he just wanted to get him clear because he was losing the bit a little bit while inside. Once he got him to the clear, he picked up the bit again,
trainer Chad Brown said after the race. “A lot of credit goes to my Monmouth crew, who really did a good job helping this horse. As a younger horse, he was a little bit quirky and wouldn't want to train all the time and for whatever reason down there he has a comfortable situation and would train on. That's why he spent a lot of his time down there.”

“I had a really good trip. He broke sharp and was forwardly placed. He put me in a good position, so I saved all the ground for the whole race. At the half-mile, I started moving and he responded really well. I was able to tip him out and when he hit the clear, he was running,” Irad Ortiz Jr. told the NYRA Press Office after the Red Smith. “He was off the bit sometimes, but that's him. He's not a horse that's going to pull you all the way. That's not him. Sometimes, you have to wake him up and let him know he's running. He's there for you, that's the good thing.”

Bred in England by Normandie Stud, Serve the King is by Kingman (GB) out of the Galileo (IRE) mare Fallen In Love (GB). The 5-year-old horse is owned by Peter Brant. Consigned by Norris Bloodstock, the son of Kingman was purchased by White Birch Stable for $361,616 at the 2017 Tattersalls October Yearling Sale. With his win in the G2 Red Smith, Serve the King has two wins in five starts in 2021, for a lifetime record of five wins in 11 starts and career earnings of $406,180.

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Brown Wins 10th Straight Belmont Fall Meet Training Title

Chad Brown registered 29 wins to earn his 10th consecutive title at the recently concluded Belmont Park fall meet, while Irad Ortiz, Jr. won three races on closing day to pace all jockeys with 33 victories during the 31-day meet.

Inflation Adjusted's win in Sunday's 10th race finale gave Seth Klarman's Klaravich Stables its eighth win of the meet, which broke a three-way logjam allowing Klaravich to become leading owner of the Belmont Park fall meet for the fifth consecutive year.

“I have to just thank my team, my owners and the horses,” Brown said. “Those are the three real key parts to the whole success and I'm very fortunate in all three areas to have the best. I have great horses to work with and terrific owners and a really super talented team and they deserve all the credit.”

Ortiz Jr. added, “It feels great and it's always special every time I win a title in New York. This is my hometown. I'm happy, I thank my owners, trainers, my agent for doing a great job and I'm also thankful to stay healthy. We always compete no matter what. We try to do our best out there so thankfully it paid off with hard work and dedication.”

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