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Horse Racing Women’s Summit Event Set For Breeders’ Cup

The Horse Racing Women's Summit (HRWS) will host its first event Breeders' Cup on Tuesday, Nov. 1 at Keeneland Race Course as a follow-up to the Horse Racing Women's Summit at Santa Anita Park in September. HRWS Meet Up at the Breeders' Cup will be highlighted by an address from Keeneland President & CEO, Shannon Arvin, a panel featuring women of the Breeders' Cup organization, and networking opportunities.

Tickets to the event will include access to 'Breakfast at the Breeders' Cup Presented by WinStar Farm and Keeneland' on Tuesday Nov. 1, beginning at 6 a.m.

For more information or to purchase a ticket, click here.

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Caravel Skips Clear in Franklin

Caravel, purchased for $500,000 at last year's Fasig-Tipton November sale, captured her second graded win for the new connections this year when she sauntered clear to the wire to win the GIII Franklin S. at Keeneland Sunday. Sent off the 2-1 favorite, the gray mare sat settled in a tracking third along the rail behind and opening quarter in :21.40. She charged up four wide into the lane and collared pacesetting second-choiceTwilight Gleaming (Ire) (National Defense {GB}) with a furlong to run before skipping clear late.

“The mare ran a great race,” said winning rider Tyler Gaffalione. “She broke alertly today. I knew [jockey] Johnny [Velazquez's] horse [Twilight Gleaming] was the one to beat, so I worked my way out to get behind her, and coming into the stretch, I attacked her as soon as I could. My horse was game, and she finished the job well.”

Caravel began her career racing in the silks of her breeder and trainer, Elizabeth Merryman, for whom she won four stakes. Bobby Flay joined the ownership line ahead of her first graded score in last summer's GIII Caress S. at Saratoga and the mare moved to the barn of trainer Graham Motion to finish third in the Aug. 22 GI Highlander S., sixth in the Sept. 25 GIII Turf Monster S. and 12th in the Nov. 6 GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint.

Fergus Galvin of Hunter Valley Farm signed the ticket to acquire Caravel for $500,000 at the Fasig-Tipton November sale. Transferred to Brad Cox, she took the Queen S. at Turfway in March in her first start for the new owners. She added wins in the June 10 GIII Intercontinental S. at Belmont Park and Aug. 20 Smart N Fancy S. at Saratoga and was coming off a fourth-place effort in the Sept. 19 GII Presque Isle Downs Masters S.

Asked whether Sunday's win had earned Caravel a return trip to the Breeders' Cup in three weeks, Cox said, “That will ultimately be up to the owners [Qatar Racing, Marc Detampel and Madaket Stables], but we'll talk to them about it. I do know she's in the [Keeneland November Breeding Stock] sale, but there's been some talk about possibly running her next year as well, so who knows? At the end of the day I'm just proud of what she's been able to accomplish, and congratulations to the ownership group. She's a tough filly. She always brings it.”

Caravel is entered in the Keeneland November sale as hip 224.

Pedigree Notes:

Caravel is the first foal out of Zeezee Zoomzoom, who is also the dam of multiple stakes winner Witty (Great Notion). The 10-year-old mare produced a colt by Great Notion in 2021 and a filly by Street Boss this year. She is a daughter of multiple stakes winner and multiple graded placed Zee Zee.

Sunday, Keeneland
FRANKLIN S.-GIII, $263,000, Keeneland, 10-16, 3yo/up, f/m,
5 1/2fT, 1:02.59, fm.
1–CARAVEL, 122, m, 5, by Mizzen Mast
               1st Dam: Zeezee Zoomzoom, by Congrats
                2nd Dam: Zee Zee, by Exchange Rate
                3rd Dam: Emblem of Hope, by Dynaformer
($330,000 RNA 3yo '20 WANOCT; $500,000 4yo '21 FTKNOV).
O-Qatar Racing, Marc Detampel & Madaket Stables LLC;
B-Elizabeth M. Merryman (PA); T-Brad H. Cox; J-Tyler
Gaffalione. $143,375. Lifetime Record: 19-11-0-3, $811,152.
*1/2 to Witty (Great Notion), MSW, $275,900. Werk Nick
   Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
   Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Thundering Creed, 122, f, 4, Jimmy Creed–Thundering Gale,
by Thunderello. 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($14,000 Ylg '19
KEEJAN). O-Blackout Racing Stables; B-C. Kidder & N. Cole (KY);
T-Michael A. Tomlinson. $55,500.
3–Star Devine (Ire), 120, f, 4, Fastnet Rock (Aus)–Stars At Night
(Ire), by Galileo (Ire). 'TDN Rising Star' (200,000gns Ylg '19 TATOCT).
O-Lawrence Goichman; B-Rockhart Trading Ltd. (IRE); T-Jorge Abreu. $23,125.
Margins: 1 3/4, NO, 1. Odds: 2.44, 19.73, 7.77.
Also Ran: Twilight Gleaming (Ire), Have A Good Day (Ire), Creative Credit, Brooke Marie, Tobys Heart, Querobin Dourada, Bout Time, Elle Z. Scratched: Change of Control, Illegal Smile (Ire), Miner's Queen, Violenza. Click for the Equibase.com chart and the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

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Malathaat Li’l Sis Green, But Good; Also Named a ‘Rising Star’

The immaculately bred Julia Shining (f, 2, Curlin–Dreaming of Julia, by A. P. Indy) looked the unlikeliest of winners as the field for Sunday's sixth race at Keeneland raced down the backstretch, but she found her best stride on the turn, inhaled her rivals with a wide sweep and fought on the to the wire to join her MGISW full-sister Malathaat as a 'TDN Rising Star.'

Bet down to 2-1, the Stonestreet homebred broke well enough, but then traveled extremely awkwardly and as green as the turf course, climbing badly for the opening quarter mile and looking like her mind was somewhere other than on the task at hand. Vigorously ridden by Luis Saez into the final half-mile, she finally picked up the bit about three furlongs from the wire and began to make eyecatching headway, but she had no choice but to take the overland route and traveled some six or seven wide into the stretch.

In front soon after, Julia Shining carried the lead into the final eighth of a mile, but her inexperience began to catch up with her yet again, as drifted noticeably to her left and down towards the fence. But Saez managed to keep her alive and she'd done enough by then to hit the wire 2 3/4 lengths to the good of Positano Sunset (Goldencents). The winner covered 29 feet (about three lengths) more than the runner-up and unsurprisingly endured the widest trip among the 12 juvenile fillies. Julia Shining is the 21st 'TDN Rising Star' for her Hill 'n' Dale-based super-sire.

Dream Rush, winner of the 2007 GI Test S., was acquired by Halsey Minor for $3.3 million at that year's Fasig-Tipton November Sale and remained in training through early 2009, when she was acquired privately by Stonestreet. Sent to A.P. Indy for her first covering, the result was Dreaming of Julia, also named a 'Rising Star' on her Saratoga debut in 2012 and subsequent winner of that year's GI Frizette S. Also third to Beholder (Henny Hughes) in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, she won the 2013 GII Gulfstream Park Oaks by nearly 22 lengths, was a troubled fourth behind stablemate Princess of Sylmar (Majestic Warrior) in the GI Kentucky Oaks and finished runner-up in the GI Mother Goose S. in what became her final career appearance. Dream Rush is also responsible for 'Rising Stars' GSW Dream Pauline (Tapit) and SW Atreides (Medaglia d'Oro).

Dreaming of Julia's third foal was Malathaat (Ch. 3yo Filly, $2,750,825), a $1.05-million purchase by Shadwell at the 2019 Keeneland September Sale, who was named a 'Rising Star' just over two years ago and followed up in the 2020 GII Demoiselle S. Malathaat was the no-brainer choice for champion of her generation in 2021, courtesy of her wins in this track's GI Central Bank Ashland S., the GI Longines Kentucky Oaks and GI Alabama S. She will attempt to improve on her third-place effort in last year's GI Breeders' Cup Distaff in three weeks' time, having prepped with a smooth success in the GI Juddmonte Spinster S. over the Distaff track and distance just last Sunday.

Dreaming of Julia is the dam of a yearling filly by Medaglia d'Oro and a weanling full-sister to Malathaat foaled this past Apr. 4. She was sent to Into Mischief this term.

6th-Keeneland, $100,000, Msw, 10-16, 2yo, f, 7f, 1:29.43, ft, 2 3/4 lengths.
JULIA SHINING, f, 2, by Curlin
1st Dam: Dreaming of Julia (GISW, $874,500), by A.P. Indy
2nd Dam: Dream Rush, by Wild Rush
3rd Dam: Turbo Dream, by Unbridled
Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $56,575. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
O-Stonestreet Stables LLC; B-Stonestreet Thoroughbred Holdings LLC (KY); T-Todd A Pletcher.

 

 

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Constitution Leads WinStar ’23 Roster

With Constitution leading the way at $110,000, WinStar Farm has released the 2023 stud fees for its stallion roster. Constitution, the sire of eight individual runners who have earned 100+ Beyers in 2022, has been represented this year by GIII Peter Pan S. winner 'TDN Rising Star' We the People, GIII Distaff H. winner Glass Ceiling, GIII Greenwood Cup S. winner Ridin With Biden and GIII San Juan Capistrano S. winner Breakpoint (Chi). He was also responsible for a pair of seven-figure yearlings at the Keeneland September sale. Constitution stood the 2022 season at $85,000.

WinStar Farm's  roster will be bolstered next year by the addition of multiple Grade I winner and fellow 'Rising Star' Life is Good (Into Mischief), who will stand his first season at $100,000, pending results of the upcoming Breeders' Cup championships.

Also new to the roster in 2023 is track-record setting Nashville (Speightstown), yet another 'Rising Star' who will stand for $15,000. His sire Speightstown will stand for $80,000, down from $90,000 in 2022.

“We are excited about our roster for 2023, and feel we offer a range of quality horses and value to all breeders,” said Elliott Walden, president, CEO, and racing manager for WinStar Farm. “We will also be offering a limited number of seasons to Life Is Good before the Breeders' Cup Classic.”

The WinStar roster also includes: Audible, $25,000; Improbable, $25,000; Always Dreaming, $10,000; Global Campaign, $10,000; Independence Hall, $10,000; Outwork, $10,000; Take Charge Indy, $10,000; Tom's d'Etat, $10,000; Yoshida (Jpn), $10,000; Good Samaritan, $7,500; Paynter, $7,500; Promises Fulfilled, $5,000; and Tourist, TBD.

Stallions will be available for showings at WinStar's Open House, Nov. 7-15, during the Keeneland November Sale.

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