Fasig-Tipton Catalogues 33 Additional Entries To Winter Mixed Sale

An additional 33 supplemental entries have been added to the Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Winter Mixed Sale to be held Feb. 5 and 6 in Lexington, Kentucky. These entries, announced Monday by Fasig-Tipton, are catalogued as hips 417-450 and include Plenty of Vision (Pollard's Vision), Les Bon Temps (Laoban), More Than Vows (More Than Ready), Headland (Paynter), Ontheonesandtwos (Jimmy Creed) and Unjokable (Practical Joke). The entire catalog including the supplemental entries can be viewed here.

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Talented Maiden Winner Hidden Connection Steps Up In Pocahontas

Deuce Greathouse, Cindy Hutson, Madaket Stables and Thomas Romano's Ontheonesandtwos will be in search of her first graded stakes win in Saturday's 53rd running of the $300,000 Pocahontas (Grade 3) – the kickoff to the “Road to the Kentucky Oaks.”

Saturday's Pocahontas Stakes, which goes as Race 8 with a post time of 9:39 p.m., is part of the Breeders' Cup “Win and You're In” series where the winner will receive an automatic entry-fees paid berth to the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) on Nov. 5 at Del Mar.

The 1 1/16-mile race also offers points to the Top 4 finishers on a 10-4-2-1 scale to the Longines Kentucky Oaks (G1).

The Pocahontas shares the Saturday spotlight with the $300,000 Iroquois, its counterpart for 2-year-olds that begins the “Road to the Kentucky Derby” along with the $400,000 Locust Grove (G3), $300,000 Open Mind and $275,000 Louisville Thoroughbred Society. The first of 11 races will get underway at 6 p.m. for Downs After Dark presented by Budweiser.

Ontheonesandtwos, a 2-year-old Jimmy Creed filly trained by Norm Casse, won her debut in May at Churchill Downs by 1 ¾ lengths. The former $37,000 purchase from the 2020 Keeneland September Yearling Sale finished second behind Behave Virginia in the $150,000 Debutante and sixth in the $200,000 Adirondack Stakes (G2) at Saratoga. Jockey Ricardo Santana Jr. will ride from post No. 4.

Among Ontheonesandtwos' rivals in the Pocahontas is Hidden Brook Farm's flashy debut winner Hidden Connection. Trained by Bret Calhoun, Hidden Connection won four weeks ago at Colonial Downs by 7 ½ lengths under jockey Reylu Gutierrez. Hidden Connection is among the first-crop of 2-year-olds from her sire Connect. She was purchased at the 2021 OBS June Horses of Racing Age Sale for $85,000. Gutierrez has the return call from post 9.

The complete field from the rail out (with jockey and trainer):

  1. Code for Success (Rafael Bejarano, Vicki Oliver)
  2. Goddess of Fire (Javier Castellano, Todd Pletcher)
  3. Mama Rina (Brian Hernandez Jr., Kenny McPeek)
  4. Ontheonesandtwos (Santana, Norm Casse)
  5. Majestic d'Oro (Martin Garcia, Brendan Walsh)
  6. Kneesnhips (James Graham, Tom Amoss)
  7. Miss Chamita (Gregory Romero, Michel Doulhy)
  8. Hidden Connection (Gutierrez, Calhoun)
  9. Lemieux (Tyler Gaffalione, Mark Cassse)
  10. Joyrunner (Joe Ramos, Laura Wohlers)

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Nine Maiden Winners Seek First Stakes Win in Adirondack

A field of nine maiden special weight winners–eight of them at first asking–line up in search of their first black-type win in the GII Adirondack S. going 6 1/2 panels Sunday at Saratoga. Both Mainstay (Astern {Aus}) and Saucy Lady T (Tonalist) are exiting the July 15 GIII Schuylerville S. over the track, where they finished one-two, respectively, while Ontheonesandtwos (Jimmy Creed) and Wicked Halo (Gun Runner) filled the same spots in the June 26 Debutante S. at Churchill Downs.

Morning-line favorite is Deuce Greathouse, Cindy M. Hutson, Madaket Stables LLC, and Thomas J. Romano's Ontheonesandtwos, who followed up a wide but winning debut with an extremely wide second in the Debutante. A length away from victory, she finished willingly and got an 81 Beyer, co-highest in the Adirondack field. Trainer Norm Casse seeks his first Adirondack win and replaces Florent Geroux with Irad Ortiz, Jr. on the filly.

From the powerful Steve Asmussen stable, who won this race last year with Thoughtfully (Tapit) and has two other Adirondack victories since 2011, Wicked Halo is from the first crop of Asmussen's 2017 Horse of the Year. She shares the co-highest 81 Beyer in the field, notched in her debut at Lone Star June 5, and set the pace after bobbling at the start of the Debutante but yielded late. A homebred for Winchell Thoroughbreds, her 79 Beyer that day keeps her in the hunt here.

Butch Reid, Jr.'s Mainstay made headlines before her debut as a half-sister to last year's 2-year-old filly champion Vequist (Nyquist), then backed it up with a June 4 first-asking graduation by 7 3/4 lengths in the slop at Monmouth. She subsequently stumbled at the Schuylerville start and couldn't catch the loose-on-the-lead winner, but chased her in second all the way around and held her spot by daylight at the wire. Swilcan Stable LLC and LC Racing campaign the filly, who switches to a new rider in Joel Rosario.

Tom Amoss sends Joel Politi's Microbiome (Twirling Candy), the sole runner in the field with a win over the surface. She aired in the second race on opening day, went straight to the front, and never looked back to graduate by 5 1/2 lengths.

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Norm Casse Has Pair Of Talented 2-Year-Olds In Saturday Stakes

Trainer Norm Casse's talented 2-year-old duo of maiden winners Glacial and Ontheonesandtwos will compete against stakes company for the first time in Saturday afternoon's $150,000 Bashford Manor (Grade 3) and $150,000 Debutante (Listed), respectively, at Churchill Downs.

“We have some really nice 2-year-olds in our barn and these are two of them,” Casse said.

Glacial won his first-career start under jockey Joe Talamo. The son of Frosted completed 5 ½ furlongs in 1:04.99 and earned an 80 Brisnet Speed Rating. The gray colt will break from post No. 4 under Talamo as the 3-1 morning line favorite.

“Glacial's gate works really excited us,” Casse said. “He's quick from the gate and professional. I really like this horse. Compared to Ontheonesandtwos and (first-out maiden winner) Pretty Birdie, his numbers won't come back as strong. I think he probably ran the better race in his debut of the three. He got away from the gate poorly, rushed up on the rail and put away a horse that has run twice. And he did all of that comfortably and came back to the barn as if he's never raced. The main thing is I'm excited to see how he runs back. I didn't train them as hard going into their first race so I'd have to think they move forward going into their second race.”

In the Debutante, Ontheonesandtwos enters the race as the 5-2 morning line favorite with jockey Florent Geroux in the saddle. The Jimmy Creed filly cruised to a 1 ¾-length debut victory on May 13 at Churchill Downs at odds of 6-1.

“Ontheonesandtwos has worked three times since she's won,” Casse said. “She's a little bit different than Glacial. She's really forward and aggressive in her gallops. She's a sweetheart in the barn but on the racetrack she's down to business.”

The Debutante, run at six furlongs for 2-year-old fillies, will go as Race 8 at 4:22 p.m. while its counterpart, the Bashford Manor, will go as Race 9 at 4:55 p.m.

The complete field for the Debutante from the rail out (with jockey, trainer and morning line odds):

  1. Wicked Halo (Jose Ortiz, Steve Asmussen, 4-1)
  2. Cartel Queen (Colby Hernandez, Tom Amoss, 6-1)
  3. Tizplenty (Ricardo Santana Jr., Steve Asmussen, 4-1)
  4. Classiness (Gabriel Saez, Jason Barkley, 20-1)
  5. Catchusifyoucan (Adam Beschizza, Bret Calhoun, 10-1)
  6. Mollie Kate (James Graham, John Ennis, 8-1)
  7. Behave Virginia (Brian Hernandez Jr., Kenny McPeek, 9-2)
  8. Ontheonesandtwos (Geroux, Casse, 5-2)
  9. Compressed Energy (Fernando De La Cruz, Genaro Garcia, 30-1)
  10. Mi Estrella (Marceleno Pedroza, Garcia, 30-1)

The field for the Bashford Manor from the rail out (with jockey, trainer and morning line odds):

  1. Vodka N Water (Jose Ortiz, Steve Asmussen, 6-1)
  2. Landsdowne (Jon Court, Dallas Stewart, 7-2)
  3. Tapped Off (Drayden Van Dyke, Darrin Williams, 12-1)
  4. Glacial (Talamo, Casse, 3-1)
  5. Whatstheconnection (Marcelino Pedroza, John Ennis, 20-1)
  6. Knocker Down (Cindy Murphy, Travis Murphy, 20-1)
  7. Whislewhileyoumow (Gabriel Saez, Jon Arnett, 30-1)
  8. Double Thunder (John Velazquez, Todd Pletcher, 4-1)
  9. Red Run (Ricardo Santana Jr., Steve Asmussen, 4-1)
  10. Rising Outlaw (Rafael Bejarano, Jimmy Chapman, 30-1)
  11. Shesgotattitude (James Graham, John Ennis, 20-1)

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