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Going Global Gets The Right Trip To Win Del Mar Oaks

After finishing second to Madone in the Grade 2 San Clemente last out, Going Global (IRE) returned to the familiar confines of the winner's circle thanks to Flavien Prat's bold move between horses at the top of the Del Mar stretch. Clear of the field, Going Global drew away to win the Grade 1 Del Mar Oaks by a length at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, Calif.

The Phil D'Amato trained 3-year-old filly broke cleanly from the third post, with Prat putting his mount in the middle of the field early in the 1 1/8-mile G1 stakes. Javanica, coming off a wire-to-wire win in an optional claiming race in mid-July, took the lead, with Feathers, Ivy League, and Closing Remarks behind her. With early fractions of :24.35 and :48.66, Javanica ran easily on the front, Going Global still in fifth behind her entering the final turn. After a moderate three-quarters in 1:13.59, Javanica entered the stretch with the closers on her heels, Feathers trying to pass her as Prat split horses to move his filly into position.

Javanica could not hold on to her lead as Going Global found clear running off the rail, passing the former front-runner and striding out to a one-length victory. Closing Remarks was second, with Fluffy Socks third and Feathers fourth. Madone, Javanica, Ivy League, Soaring Sky, and Tetragonal rounded out the field.

The final time for the 1 1/8-mile G1 Del Mar Oaks was 1:48.91. Find this race's chart here.

Going Global paid $4.80, $3.00, and $2.40. Closing Remarks paid $5.40 and $3.40. Fluffy Socks paid $2.80.

Bred in Ireland by N. Hartery, Going Global is by Mehmas out of Wrood, by Invasor. She is owned by CYBT, Michael Dubb, Saul Gevertz, Michael Nentwig, and Ray Pagano. Consigned by the Castlebridge Consignment, she was purchased by Pioneer Racing for $16,987 at the 2019 Goffs Sportsman's Yearling Sale. With her win in the G1 Del Mar Oaks, Going Global has five wins in six starts in 2021, for a lifetime record of six wins in 10 starts and career earnings of $468,792.

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Going Global Makes Amends in Del Mar Oaks

Going Global (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}) was given a letter-perfect steer from the in-form Flavien Prat and outkicked an unlucky Closing Remarks (Vronsky) to salute in Saturday's GI Del Mar Oaks.

Looking to avenge her defeat at the hands of Madone (Vancouver {Aus}) in the GII San Clemente S., Going Global was off without incident from gate three and took up a mid-field position as Javanica (Medaglia d'Oro) led at a moderate tempo from 60-1 Feathers (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) and Ivy League (Medaglia d'Oro) into the first turn. Switched off nicely under a long hold down the backstretch, Going Global was felt for at the three-eighths marker and loomed up into contention, getting first run on the rail-skimming Closing Remarks and leaving Umberto Rispoli praying for a way out. The favorite bulled her way out three deep at the top of the lane, splitting Feathers to her inside and Ivy League to the outside, kicked it into another gear at the eighth pole and won the 220-yard sprint home. Closing Remarks was locked away into the final furlong, and when she saw daylight, she hit her best stride, but it was all a fraction too late. Fluffy Socks (GB) (Slumber {GB}) came with an unimpeded run from the latter third of the field to round out the triple.

A maiden winner over the Dundalk all-weather in four Irish starts for trainer Mick Halford, Going Global made an immediate impression upon import, winning the GIII Sweet Life S. sprinting over the Santa Anita turf course on Valentine's Day. She won her next three going a route of ground–the one-mile China Doll S. Mar. 6 following by the GIII Providencia S. Apr. 3 and the May 22 GIII Honeymoon S.–and was beaten a half-length into second by Madone in the San Clemente.

“I was up a little closer today because the pace was slow early,” Prat said after winning his third stakes of the afternoon and scoring his first Del Mar Oaks. “But she was always traveling well, so I wasn't worried. I had plenty of horse. I was just waiting to find a spot to run. When I asked her she really got going.”

Pedigree Notes:

Going Global is one of 14 stakes winners and one of seven group/graded winners from the first two crops for his Tally-Ho Stud-based stallion, a son of Acclamation (GB) who was represented as recently as Friday by G2 Gimcrack S. winner Lusail (Ire).

Going Global is one of three winners from three to race for her dam, each of which has achieved black-type, including the mare's 4-year-old Group 3–placed son Finans Bay (Ire) (Kodiac {GB}) and 2-year-old colt Mitbaahy (Ire) (Profitable {Ire}), who was third in Saturday's five-furlong Listed Julia Graves Roses S. at York.

Wrood, a half-sister to GSW Racer Forever (Rahy) and to the dam of SW & GSP Gallic Star (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), has a yearling filly by U S Navy Flag and a filly foal by Saxon Warrior (Jpn).

Saturday, Del Mar
DEL MAR OAKS-GI, $302,000, Del Mar, 8-21, 3yo, f, 1 1/8mT, 1:48.91, fm.
1–GOING GLOBAL (IRE), 122, f, 3, by Mehmas (Ire)
                1st Dam: Wrood, by Invasor (Arg)
                2nd Dam: Ras Shaikh, by Sheikh Albadou (GB)
                3rd Dam: Aneesati (GB), by Kris (GB)
1ST GRADE I WIN. (€15,500 Ylg '19 GOFSPT). O-CYBT, Michael
Dubb, Saul Gevertz, Michael Nentwig & Ray Pagano; B-N.
Hartery (IRE); T-Philip D'Amato; J-Flavien Prat. $180,000.
Lifetime Record: 10-6-1-0, $468,792. Werk Nick Rating: C.
   Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Closing Remarks, 122, f, 3, by Vronsky
                1st Dam: Orange Cove, by Unusual Heat
                2nd Dam: Aspen Gal, by Talkin Man
                3rd Dam: Treegees, by Geiger Counter
O-Harris Farms, Inc.; B-Harris Farms (CA); T-Carla Gaines.
$60,000.
3–Fluffy Socks, 122, f, 3, by Slumber (GB)
                1st Dam: Breakfast Time, by Kitten's Joy
                2nd Dam: Costume Designer, by Capote
                3rd Dam: Ravnina, by Nureyev
O/B-Head Of Plains Partners (KY); T-Chad C. Brown. $36,000.
Margins: 1, 3/4, 1. Odds: 1.40, 6.00, 3.20.
Also Ran: Feathers (Ire), Madone, Javanica, Ivy League, Soaring Sky (Ire), Tetragonal (Ire).
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Ain’t Easy Gives Into Mischief Coast-to-Coast Rising Stars Saturday

Ain't Easy (Into Mischief) was given an 8-1 chance in this debut and will certainly be a much lower price next out after a 'TDN Rising Star'-worthy victory. The bay settled on the fence in mid-pack through a :21.98 opening quarter and improved her position turning for home. She overtook favored Keychain Girl (Practical Joke) in early stretch and powered clear with ease to win for fun by 5 1/4 lengths.

The winner is the 26th 'TDN Rising Star' for Spendthrift super sire Into Mischief and the second of the day, following My Prankster's impressive first-out romp at Saratoga. Ain't Easy was also bred by Spendthrift, which lost its leader B. Wayne Hughes earlier this week. Her dam Ameristralia is a daughter of MGSW Heart Ashley (Lion Heart), who in turn is a half-sister to GISW young sire Cupid (Tapit). Spendthrift purchased her for $370,800 at the 2014 Inglis Easter Yearling Sale and she was Group 3-placed for those connections. Her first foal Zunith Moon (Malibu Moon) brought $300,000 at OBS March and Ain't Easy was a $400,000 KEESEP yearling. Ameristralia produced a Bolt d'Oro colt in May of 2020 and a Mendelssohn filly May 9 of this year. She was bred back to champion Vino Rosso.

1st-Del Mar, $71,000, Msw, 8-21, 2yo, f, 5 1/2f, 1:04.65, ft,

5 1/4 lengths.

AIN'T EASY, f, 2, Into Mischief

1st Dam: Ameristralia (Aus) (GSP-Aus, $103,115), by Fastnet Rock {Aus})

2nd Dam: Heart Ashley, by Lion Heart

3rd Dam: Pretty 'n Smart, by Beau Genius

Sales history: $400,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $42,000. O-Old Bones Racing Stable, LLC, Lombardi, Michael V. and Platts, Joey; B-Spendthrift Farm, LLC (KY); T-Philip D'Amato.

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Gregorian Chant Heads Green Flash Field At Del Mar

Slam Dunk Racing and Old Bones Racing Stable's Gregorian Chant, ending an 11-week layoff, carries 5-2 morning line favoritism against seven rivals in Sunday's $100,000 Grade 3 Green Flash Handicap at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, Calif.

The Green Flash, a five-furlong sprint over the Jimmy Durante Turf Course, is the last of seven graded stakes presented during the three-day Pacific Classic weekend with combined purses totaling $1.95 million.

Gregorian Chant, a 5-year-old English-bred gelding, took a three-race winning streak at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Calif., to Belmont Park in Elmont, New York for the Grade 1 Jaipur on June 5 and, after being forwardly-placed early in the six-furlong turf sprint, tired and finished seventh of nine.

“I don't think it was as much the (listed 'good') turf as the tactics,” trainer Phil D'Amato said. “He likes to come from off the pace and we wound up dueling with the co-favorite on the lead.”

Brought back to the West Coast and given a break, Gregorian Chant has had five turf works here since the July 16 start of the meeting.

“We freshened him up with this race in mind,” D'Amato said. “We'll see if the distance is good for him for the Breeders' Cup.”

The $1 million Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint will be run over the same course on Saturday, November 6.

The field for the Green Flash from the rail out with jockeys and morning line odds in parentheses: Kneedeepinsnow (Drayden Van Dyke, 20-1); Texas Wedge (Umberto Rispoli, 6-1); Lieutenant Dan (Giovanni Franco, 7-2); Collusion Illusion (Flavien Prat, 7-2); Chasin Munny (Jose Valdivia, Jr., 10-1); Little Juanito (Ricky Gonzalez, 6-1); Give Me the Lute (Kent Desormeaux, 6-1), and Gregorian Chant (Juan Hernandez).

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