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Seven Supplemented To Triple Crown Series

Seven 3-year-olds, headed by recent G2 UAE Derby runner-up Summer Is Tomorrow (Summer Front), have been supplemented to the 2022 Triple Crown series for a fee of $6,000 prior to the late closing date this past Monday, Mar. 28.

Owned by Michael and Negar Burke, Summer Is Tomorrow is a two-time winner from seven starts in Dubai, having won a Feb. 25 allowance by 8 1/4 lengths going seven furlongs prior to his effort in the UAE Derby, in which he set the pace and was run down late by Japan's GI Kentucky Derby hopeful Crown Pride (Jpn) (Reach the Crown {Jpn}). The bay, trained by Bhupat Seemar, earned $200,000 and 40 Kentucky Derby points for the effort.

Azure Coast (Street Sense), who came from the clouds to win the G3 UAE 2000 Guineas at Meydan Feb. 11, has also been supplemented by owner Vladimir Kazakov and trainer Pavel Vashchenko. A distant ninth behind Summer Is Tomorrow in the UAE Derby, Azure Coast has yet to amass any Derby points.

The other late Triple Crown nominees include Bye Bye Bobby (Quality Road), second in Sunday's GIII Sunland Derby; O Captain (Carpe Diem), third in the GII Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth S.; Shake Em Loose (Shakin It Up), winner of Laurel's Private Terms S.; recent Gulfstream allowance winner Skippylongstocking (Exaggerator); and Win the Day (Midshipman), who graduated at third asking in his dirt debut going a mile at Santa Anita Mar. 6.

The seven supplements take the number of 2022 Triple Crown nominees to 321. Any horse that has yet to be nominated at the first two stages can become Triple Crown eligible through supplemental payments made at the time of entry for the GI Kentucky Derby ($200,000), GI Preakness S. ($150,000) and GI Belmont S. ($50,000).

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Simplification, Smile Happy Highlight Saturday Gulfstream Worktab

Tami Bobo's Simplification (Not This Time) returned to the Gulfstream Park worktab Saturday morning for the first time since scoring a dominant 3 1/2-length victory in the GII Fasig-Tipton Fountain of Youth S. Mar. 5 in Hallandale. The Antonio Sano trainee breezed five furlongs in 1:01.81 (15/28) under jockey Jose Ortiz before galloping out six furlongs in 1:14.85.

“It was a very good work. The horse worked in hand. He went very easy,” Sano said. “The gallop was good. The horse came back very good. That's what's important for me.”

Simplification rated well off the early pace before making a sweeping move to the lead and drawing away with authority to capture the Fountain of Youth. In the Feb. 5 GIII Holy Bull S., the Florida-bred colt, who had won the Jan. 1 Mucho Macho Man in frontrunning style, broke last from the starting gate and was caught wide throughout before rallying to finish second behind loose-on-the-lead White Abarrio (Race Day).

Trainer Kenny McPeek sent Lucky Seven Stable's Smile Happy (Runhappy) and Rattle N Roll (Connect) to the Gulfstream track to breeze in company following the break Saturday morning. Rattle N Roll on the inside and Smile Happy on the outside were credited with a joint bullet workout after breezing five furlongs in 58.81 (1/28).

“They worked super. They both needed a steady one and they both zipped along,” McPeek said. “I was really pleased with both of them.”
McPeek said he hadn't yet chosen between the GI Florida Derby and the Apr. 9 GI Toyota Blue Grass S. at Keeneland for Smile Happy's next start. Rattle N Roll, who finished fifth in the Fountain of Youth, is being pointed to next Saturday's GII Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds.

Smile Happy closed to be second behind pacesetting Epicenter (Not This Time) in the Feb. 19 GII Risen Star S. in his 2022 debut after winning both of his races, including the GII Kentucky Jockey Club S. at Churchill Downs, in 2021.

OGMA Investments and Jack Hardin Towell Jr.'s O Captain (Carpe Diem), who closed from last to finish third in the Fountain of Youth at 87-1, breezed five furlongs at Gulfstream in 1:01.14 (11/28) Saturday morning. The Gustavo Delgado pupil, who broke his maiden at first asking and finished third in the Limehouse S. in his two prior starts, is being pointed to the Florida Derby.

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What’s in a Name? O Captain and Leopold Bloom

On this side of the Atlantic, Gulfstream 2-year-old winner O CAPTAIN (c, 2, Carpe Diem–Mama Nadine {SW}, by A.P. Indy) connects Walt Whitman's most famous poem (“O Captain, My Captain,” on the death of President Lincoln) with Roman bard Horace's “Carpe Diem/Seize The Day,” probably via the 1989 movie “Dead Poets Society,” where an English lit teacher played by Robin Williams inspires his students to great ambitions with the help of both poets.

On the other side of the pond, Thirsk juvenile winner LEOPOLD BLOOM (c, 2, Ulysses {Ire}–Zuhoor Baynoona {Ire} {SW-Eng}, by Elnadim) is tied to his sire's name via the 1920 modernist masterpiece novel by James Joyce, whose protagonist is so called and represents an everyman on a personal odyssey, one June day in Dublin in 1904. ULYSSES (the book) is notoriously not an easy read: this did not prevent the final chapter–the sensual stream-of-consciousness monologue by Leopold's wife Molly– from becoming very popular. I therefore expect that somewhere there is a filly called MOLLY BLOOM waiting in the wings.

8th-Gulfstream, $45,000, Msw, 8-14, 2yo, 5 1/2f, 1:05.27, gd, 9 1/4 lengths.
O CAPTAIN (c, 2, Carpe Diem–Mama Nadine {SW}, by A.P. Indy) Sales History: $17,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $27,000. O-OGMA Investments, LLC; B-WinStar Farm, LLC (KY); T-Gustavo Delgado.

1st-Thirsk,10,100, Novice, 8-13, 2yo, 7fT, 1:28.00, gd.
LEOPOLD BLOOM (GB) (c, 2, Ulysses {Ire}–Zuhoor Baynoona {Ire} {SW-Eng}, by Elnadim) Sales history: 25,000gns Ylg '20 TATOCT; 95,000gns 2yo '21 TATBRE. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $7,531.
O-Dewhurst, Batters & JCH Bloodstock; B-Cheveley Park Stud Limited (GB); T-David Loughnane

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