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Cross Traffic Filly Runs to the Buzz At Saratoga

6th-Saratoga, $88,000, (S), Msw, 8-10, 2yo, f, 6f, 1:11.48, ft, 5 lengths.
MAPLE LEAF MEL (f, 2, Cross Traffic–City Gift, by City Place), named after trainer Jeremiah Englehart's assistant trainer Melanie Giddings, entered this unveiling with a reputation that preceded her, and garnered 3-5 favoritism in this state-bred affair. Quick to the front from mid-pack, the $150,000 EASMAY purchase (:10.2) set the tempo against the fence and expanded her gap at each point of call as Spinning Colors (Hard Spun) chased in vain. In much of a one-horse race from the far turn on, Maple Leaf Mel stayed clear under a hands-and-heels ride, cruising home to win by five lengths over Security Code (Frosted), who led the rest of a strung-out field. A half-sister to Eddie's Gift (El Corredor), SP, $167,950, Maple Leaf Mel has a yearling half-brother by Brody's Cause who, is her dam's last reported foal. Sales History: $18,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP; $150,000 2yo '22 EASMAY. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $48,400. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
O-August Dawn Farm; B-Joe Fafone (NY); T-Jeremiah C. Englehart.

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Weekly Rulings: Feb. 8-14, 2022

Every week, the TDN publishes a roundup of key official rulings from the primary tracks within the four major racing jurisdictions of California, New York, Florida and Kentucky.

Here's a primer on how each of these jurisdictions adjudicates different offenses, what they make public (or not) and where.

California
Track: Santa Anita
Date: 02/11/2022
Licensee: Aaron Eric Kroul, owner
Penalty: Suspension
Violation: Failure to appear before stewards on financial responsibility charges

Explainer: Owner Aaron Eric Kroul, having failed to respond to written notice to appear before the Board of Stewards at Santa Anita Park on Feb. 10, 2022, is suspended for violation of California Horse Racing Board rule #1547 (Failure to Appear) pending an appearance at a hearing before the Board of Stewards to answer to charges alleging violation of CHRB rule #1876 (Financial Responsibility–DVM John Araujo, $829.50). Suspension to commence on Feb. 18, 2022. During the term of this suspension, all licenses and license privileges of Aaron Eric Kroul are suspended and pursuant to California Horse Racing Board rule #1528 (Jurisdiction of Stewards), subject is denied access to all premises in this jurisdiction.

Track: Santa Anita
Date: 02/11/2022
Licensee: Ruben Valdes, owner
Penalty: License restoration
Violation: N/A
Explainer: Owner Ruben Valdes, having complied with the provisions of California Horse Racing Board rule #1876 (Financial Responsibility–$4,240.00 to K C Horse Transport, Inc.) is restored to good standing. LATS #31 ruling issued at Santa Anita Park on Jan. 28, 2022, is set aside.

Track: Santa Anita
Date: 02/12/2022
Licensee: Ruben Gomez, trainer
Penalty: $500 fine
Violation: Late declaration
Explainer: Trainer Ruben Gomez, who was scheduled to start LADY MO in the fourth race at Santa Anita Park on Feb. 11, 2022, is fined $500.00 for violation of California Horse Racing Board rule #1629 (Penalty for Late Declaration–didn't want to run). *Rule #1532. Fine shall be paid to the Paymaster within calendar days from the date of this ruling, or the license of the person upon whom the fine has been imposed shall be suspended.

Track: Santa Anita
Date: 02/13/2022
Licensee: Jonathan Wong, trainer
Penalty: $500 fine
Violation: Late declaration

Explainer: Trainer Jonathan Wong, who was scheduled to start ATLANTIC STRIKE in the third race at Santa Anita Park on Feb. 12, 2022, is fined $500.00 for violation of California Horse Racing Board rule #1629 (Penalty for Late Declaration–didn't want to run).

New York
Track: Aqueduct
Date: 02/11/2022
Licensee: Michael Simmonds, trainer
Penalty: $500
Violation: Late scratch
Explainer: Trainer Mr. Michael Simmonds is hereby fined the sum of $500.00 dollars for failing to tend to business in a proper manner necessitating a late scratch in the sixth race on Jan. 23, 2022 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Track: Aqueduct
Date: 02/11/2022
Licensee: Michael Simmonds, trainer
Penalty: $300
Violation: Late scratch
Explainer: Mr. Michael Simmonds is hereby fined the sum of $500.00 dollars for failing to tend to business in a proper manner necessitating a late scratch in the ninth race on Jan. 23, 2022 at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Track: Aqueduct
Date: 02/14/2022
Licensee: Jeremiah C Englehart, owner/trainer
Penalty: $500 fine and 7-day suspension
Violation: Medication violation

Explainer: Having received a report from the NYS Gaming Commission Equine Drug Testing Laboratory of the finding of Prednisolone in the body fluid sample taken from Horse “Catch That Party” (#5) which finished 2nd in the 6th race on Oct. 17, 2021, and having waived his right to appeal, Owner/Trainer Mr. Jeremiah C Englehart is suspended for 7 Calendar days effective Feb. 14-Feb. 20, 2022 inclusive and fined $500.00 dollars. Furthermore, the Stewards order horse “Catch That Party” disqualified from any part of the purse and the purse redistributed as follows:

(#1) Chulainn
(#9) Grape Nuts Warrior
(#10) Cotton
(#7) Agent Creed
(#8) Fatima's Blessing
(#4) Mr. Kringle
(#2) Missionatthespa
(#6) Regality
(#3) Work Out

Ordered that during your period of suspension, you shall not directly or indirectly participate in New York State pari-mutuel horse racing. You are denied the privileges and use of the grounds of all racetracks, you are forbidden to participate in any share of purses or other payment. Every horse is denied the privileges of the grounds and shall not participate in pari-mutuel racing in New York State , that (a) is owned or trained by you, or by any individuals who serves as your agent or employee during your suspension; or (b) for which you during your suspension are directly or indirectly with training, including any arrangements to care for, train , enter, race, invoice, collect fees or other payments, manage funds, employ or insure workers, provide advise or other information or otherwise assist with any aspect of the training of such horses.

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Competitive Filly Sprinters Kick Off Spa Juvenile Action

5th-SAR, $100k, Msw, 2yo, f, 5 1/2f, 3:21 p.m. ET

Split divisions of juvenile filly sprinters get the Saratoga baby race season underway on opening day Thursday, with this latter half appearing to be clearly the saltier spot on paper. Heads turned when a filly by thus-far unheralded freshman sire Valiant Minister hammered for $360,000–120 times the Bridlewood Farm resident's stud fee–at OBS April, but one viewing of OUTFOXED's breeze-show effort quickly explains why. The dark bay barreled through a powerful :20 4/5 quarter-mile work, sparking a bidding war that ended with Solis/Litt as the last entity standing on behalf of LNJ Foxwoods. The Bill Mott trainee shows a modest local worktab, but did work a half-mile in :49 flat (3/12) from the gate on the Oklahoma training track June 25. Two other debutantes have live looks in Solasta (Goldencents) and Echo Zulu (Gun Runner). The former, owned by Jeff Drown and Don Rachel, is a half-sister to GISW Mia Mischief who cost $300,000 as a Fasig-Tipton Selected Yearling buy. The bay has breezed sharply for Jeremiah Englehart, including a best-of-31 bullet half-mile from the gate over this strip in :47 3/5 July 1. The latter, who goes out for L and N Racing and Winchell Thoroughbreds, is a half to last summer's GI H. Allen Jerkens S. hero Echo Town (Speightstown) and GSW J Boys Echo (Mineshaft). She sports a four-furlong gate bullet of her own, going the distance in :47 2/5 (1/44) June 15 at Keeneland. One of only two horses in the 10-horse group with racing experience, Pop-A-Top's Lady Scarlet (Union Rags) gets the slight nod on the morning line at 5-2 after showing good speed and finishing a clear second for Brad Cox in the opener June 4 at Churchill. TJCIS PPs

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Lynch Hoping There Is A Wendell Fong Laurel Park Stakes Win In Her Future

Still seeking her first career win as a trainer, Maryland's own Natalia Lynch couldn't imagine a better horse getting it done in a better place than Gold Square's Wendell Fong in Saturday's $100,000 Fire Plug at Laurel Park in Maryland.

Lynch, 26, has a long association with Wendell Fong going back to when she was working as an assistant to trainer Jeremiah Englehart, overseeing his Laurel string. Lynch helped prepare the now 5-year-old son of Flat Out for his debut, which he won in the final month of 2018, as well as his lone stakes victory in the 2019 Gold Fever at Belmont Park.

After getting a class break in his last two starts, Wendell Fong returns to stakes company looking to reward Lynch's devotion and dedication. Lynch is winless with four seconds from 16 starters since going out on her own last summer; Wendell Fong will be No. 17.

“He got sent to me before his first start and he just kind of became the barn favorite real quick. He's got a real cool personality. He's just one of those special horses,” Lynch said. “I don't think there could be a more fitting horse for me to get my first win.”

Lynch began galloping horses while at Walter Johnson High School in Montgomery County and continued while pursuing a nursing degree, first at Towson University and then at Shepherd University in West Virginia.

She worked for trainers Graham Motion at Fair Hill and Brendan Walsh in Florida, eventually hooking on as the top exercise rider and assistant for Englehart's Laurel string, overseeing 29 horses during the winter. The daughter of a horse dentist, she also worked for trainers Brittany Russell and Phil Schoenthal in Maryland and Jim Bond in New York.

“Just to see the horse win would be more amazing to me than anything else,” Lynch said. “For me it's cool because I came from Laurel and it's kind of like full circle to see my name back there as a trainer. It means a lot.

“I love it. I feel like it's always kind of what I've worked for,” she added. “I always put a lot of pressure on myself but when you see your name in the program it's about 10,000 times more pressure than before. But it's been really good and my support system has been awesome. There have been days where if I don't believe in myself, they believe in me. So it's helped.”

Wendell Fong ran in the Woody Stephens (G1), Amsterdam (G2) and Count Fleet (G3) while still with Englehart, finishing behind the likes of Hog Creek Hustle, Shancelot and Whitmore. He made one start for Robertino Diodoro before landing back with Lynch when she went out on her own.

After two off-the-board finishes, Wendell Fong rediscovered his form running second by 1 ½ lengths behind fellow stakes winner Taco Supream in a six-furlong optional claiming allowance Dec. 3 at Laurel, where he has a 2-1-0 record in four tries.

“We were all very, very happy with that. It was really good to see him come and get his confidence back and he came out of that race very well. He seems a little bit more like the old horse he used to be,” Lynch said.

“I think that's kind of what makes him special. I think he went under the radar for a little bit,” she added. “You look at the company he was running against. He was running against Mind Control and Whitmore and definitely never really hit an easy field. Even though he didn't win, he was still running great races.”

Sheldon Russell will ride Wendell Fong from Post 1 in a field of seven.

To achieve Lynch's breakthrough win, Wendell Fong will have to beat a solid collection of sprinters led by Hillside Equestrian Meadows' Laki, nose winner of the Frank J. De Francis Memorial Dash (G3) Oct. 3 at Pimlico Race Course, his sixth career stakes win. Three of his others have come at Laurel, where he was second in the Frank Y. Whiteley and fourth in the Dave's Friend to cap 2020.

Silvino Ramirez's Share the Ride, last out winner of the six-furlong Fall Highweight (G3) Nov. 29 at Aqueduct. The 6-year-old gelding won the Mr. Prospector last summer at Monmouth Park, a race where Wendell Fong ran fourth, and was beaten a head when second to Majestic Dunhill in the Bold Ruler (G3) in October.

Penguin Power, a multiple stakes winner at Charles Town with 13 career victories who ran third by two lengths in the Dave's Friend; upset Maryland Million Sprint winner Karan's Notion; Lebda, winner of Laurel's Miracle Wood and Private Terms last winter; and New York-bred stakes winner Arthur's Hope complete the field.

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