The following comment is quoted from the TDN article HISA Town Hall: Regulatory Reach, Environmental Contamination, Lab Variability and More Discussed: “Probably the racetrack that had the biggest complaints about this rule was Prairie Meadows, and they went from in 2022 at 2.39 [fatalities per 1,000 starts rate], a much higher fatality rate. And this year, they were exceptional–they were 1.14,” said Lazarus. “I'm not suggesting the whole reason is to do with toe grabs, but at least the data shows they're not worse off with that rule than they were previously.”

The facts: in all of 2021, PMRC experienced two breakdowns from 3,849 starters, thus 0.52 fatalities per 1,000. In May and June of 2022 prior to that, when horsemen believed the new zero tolerance on toe grabs was to go into effect, PMRC experienced 0 breakdowns from 1,265 starters, thus 0 per 1,000.

More precisely, for all of 2021 and including the period prior to the implementation of HISA's safety protocols and toe grab rule, there were two breakdowns out of 5,114 starters, thus 0.39 fatalities per 1,000.

Beginning July 11 (the period after which horsemen believed they couldn't have front or rear toe grabs and were trying to come into compliance with the rule), we had our first of eight breakdowns in less than 11 weeks.

The Iowa HBPA, along with the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission's (IRGC) regulatory veterinarians, early on in the spate of breakdowns identified there was an urgent issue and unsuccessfully pleaded with HISA to grant us a waiver of the rule until the end of the racing season. Our stance was that nothing had changed in this environment other than horsemen re-shoeing their horses to be in compliance with the no toe grabs rule, front or rear.

As many others also began to reach out to HISA about the absurdity of no toe grabs at all, HISA acquiesced to the pressure, releasing on July 29, 2022 a newly-updated noncommittal statement saying they would not enforce the rule regarding hind-shoe toe grabs effective Aug. 1. That attempt at communication failed badly, lacking clarity and coming much too late after many horsemen had gone to the considerable expense of re-shoeing their horses.

Nine months later, horsemen–even contenders in last year's Kentucky Derby–were still confused or unaware about an alternative shoe rule to the point that the Kentucky HBPA had to issue a horsemen's advisory trying to explain what was or was not allowed for something as easy as toe grabs!

But while the hind toe grabs ban was in effect and the injuries accumulated, the pleas of the IA HBPA and IRGC's veterinarians went unheard. A back and forth of letters (one of which HISA provided after the end of the racing season in 2022) effectively said our horsemen and IRGC regulatory veterinarians were solely at fault and missed the underlying issues with the horses who had suffered catastrophic injuries.

Point of Fact: not one member of the HISA Racetrack Safety Committee ever made a trip out to Prairie Meadows, reached out to either the IA HBPA, IRGC or jockey colony or spent any time understanding the issues for which we were expressing our heartfelt concerns over a cascading series of events or helped us resolve the horrendous continuation of horses breaking down on our racetrack.

Quite the opposite occurred in fact. Instead we, and specifically PMRC, were spotlighted in a Twitter post by PETA for one of the breakdowns, highlighting the horse's name and calling us all out on where the horse was and what occurred.

At the end of the 2022 racing season, there had been a total of eight breakdowns from 3,762 starters, thus 2.13 fatalities per 1,000. If only reviewing from July 11 through September 19, there were eight breakdowns from 1,754 starters, thus 4.56 fatalities per 1,000 starters in that small time frame.

So, what happened post PMRC's 2022 racing season and the start of the 2023 racing season, all without the help of HISA? The IA HBPA and PMRC did the work.

Work that involved the IA HBPA and PMRC having long discussions on what horsemen encountered, what jockeys experienced riding across the surface, and what veterinarians expressed about the horses coming back from training and racing. PMRC then took the initiative and worked in such a way to ease what the IA HBPA viewed then–and still do now–as an abysmal application of a one size fits all rule to revamp the racing surface to fit the rule.

PMRC added 900 tons of sand, 21 tons of clay and finally 100 yards of pine bark, something that never had been added to PMRC's surface ever in its history nor never needed to be before. But needed to be done now to make the surface fit the rule.

We went from having one of the safest track surfaces in America to a horrific streak of catastrophic injuries. The only thing that changed was HISA's toe-grab ban, implemented with virtually no input from those with boots on the ground. Thankfully our safety record got back on track, and contrary to the figure stated by Ms. Lazarus of 1.14 breakdowns per 1,000, our 2023 record was back to 0.57–with no help from HISA. For Lisa Lazarus to suggest otherwise is disingenuous.

Sent on behalf of the Iowa HBPA.

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“Overnight Thoroughbred purses have been increased approximately 5% across the board for the upcoming 2024 season,” noted Quarter Horse Racing Secretary Chad Keller.

Live racing will be offered on a Friday – Monday schedule with the following exceptions:

• Opening week of racing which will feature racing Friday, May 10 and Saturday, May 11 with no racing on Sunday or Monday May 12-13
• No racing on Monday, July 1 during the week leading up to Independence Day there will be a special Wednesday racing July 3, highlighted by central Iowa's fireworks display taking place after the races with post time set for 4:00 p.m.
• Standard post times for Friday and Saturday programs will be 6:00 p.m. while post times for Sunday and Monday programs will begin at 4:00 p.m.
• Special post times are scheduled for Saturday, May 18 (Preakness) and Saturday, June 8 (Belmont) at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 28 at 4:00 p.m. for the Iowa Classic.

The 2024 Thoroughbred stakes schedule during the Festival of Racing on July 5 and 6 is highlighted by the $300,000 GIII Cornhusker H., $250,000 Iowa Derby, and $225,000 Iowa Oaks, the latter two for 3-year-olds anchoring the Festival.

The top Iowa bred runners will take center stage during the Iowa Classic closing night card on Sept. 28 featuring all Iowa bred races for both breeds including a new addition for 2024 on the Thoroughbred schedule with the Iowa Classic Distaff Sprint overnight stake for Iowa bred fillies and mares going six furlongs with a purse of approximately $51,400.

Prairie Meadows Condition Book 1 is available and features the first 14 days of racing for Thoroughbreds only from May 10 – June 3.

Barn Area Opens for Horses Friday, Apr. 12 at 8:00 a.m. while training resumes Sunday, Apr. 14 (weather permitting). Stall applications for both breeds are due to the Racing Office by Tuesday, Apr. 2.

For more information, click here.

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Daily double pools on Sept. 4 (Races 2/3), Sept. 1 (Races 6/7) and Aug. 25 (Races 5/6) were subject to massive bets on combinations the manipulator(s) expected to lose. In each case, the bets were made in the final betting cycle when projected payouts for each combination are not updated until the race was underway.

TIF has drawn attention to such incidents, and the problems they create, at other U.S. tracks in the past. Most notably, Gulfstream Park eliminated its quinella pools after a significant manipulation event was detected in November 2022.

“These incidents at Prairie Meadows have all the hallmarks of pool manipulation based on TIF's multi-year focus and every time they occur, it calls into question the outcomes of the races involved,” said TIF executive director Patrick Cummings. “Integrity is paramount and when pools are manipulated like this, bettors are rightly confused and can lose confidence that races are run fairly and the betting pools are operated fairly.”

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“He's a big horse and he definitely knows it,” Kennedy said of the imposing gray colt.

Kennedy, who owns Glengarry in partnership with Toby Joseph and trainer Doug Anderson, purchased the colt for $150,000 at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May sale–a price he admits was at the very top of his budget.

“I am sure you know the name Liz Crow,” Kennedy said. “Liz has been my agent for the last few years and every year in the spring, we talk about buying a couple of 2-year-olds. I generally give her a budget with a few partners that I have here and then she comes back with a list. He was estimated above our price range. I think Liz valued him at $200,000 or more. And our price range was $125,000, maybe $150,000 on the high end. So we actually didn't bid on Glengarry and the hammer dropped at $200,000 and he was an RNA. Liz approached the owners–because he is an Iowa-bred and I'm in Iowa–and said, 'I think these guys in Iowa might be interested. I think this is probably their ceiling–which was the $150,000.' Thankfully they said, 'Yeah, we will take that deal.'”

Kennedy said the partners weren't specifically shopping for Iowa-breds when they found Glengarry in May.

“I've owned a few and tried to breed a few in Iowa, but I wasn't shopping specifically for an Iowa-bred,” he said. “But I'm glad to have him. It's fun to have him where he's at. We had a lot of people there last night to watch him.”

Sent off at 1-5, Glengarry was certainly no surprise to the betting public.

“The first time when I was at the barn when [jockey Ken] Tohill got off after breezing him, he said, 'I think this horse is pretty special,' so we had high expectations last night,” Kennedy said. “We expected him to run the way he did. It was a great relief to see him produce the kind of performance he did. I don't think he was even asked.”

With his stylish debut, Glengarry has likely earned a trip to stakes company for his second outing.

“Pretty sure if he comes back as he looked this morning, our next event will be Iowa Classic night, the 2-year-old stakes for Iowa-breds,” Kennedy said.

The $100,000 Iowa Cradle S. is one of seven stakes on the Sept. 30 Iowa Classic card at Prairie Meadows.

Kennedy, meanwhile, is living out a childhood dream with his racing stable.

“I grew up the street from Ak-sar-ben,” Kennedy explained. “So I loved the game from an early age. The very first horse that I ever partnered on was with my trainer, Doug Anderson. He was an Iowa-bred named Callmemrgeorge (Miracle Heights) and he won his first race by a dozen lengths [in 2007]. He was a cheaper horse, but he always tried. I think he ended up winning six races.”

Just a few years into racehorse ownership and again in partnership with Anderson, Kennedy found graded-stakes success with Sugar Shock (Candy Ride {Arg}), who won the 2014 GIII Fantasy S. and took the partners to the GI Kentucky Oaks.

“That was a fun ride,” Kennedy said of his experiences with the filly. “More recently, I've owned horses with Exline-Border Racing out in California and [2019 champion 2-year-old] Storm the Court was my first Exline-Border horse. And then Doug and I owned Stilleto Boy a few years ago. We sold him after winning the Iowa Derby and he's gone on to do great things.”

Kennedy has just one broodmare at the moment, the 6-year-old Catechism (Karakontie {Ire}), who is currently in foal to Goldencents. But that number could increase in the near future.

“That's my foray back into breeding,” Kennedy said of Catechism. “I am a business guy, I don't have land or anything, but Doug and I talk about a future where we will probably have some broodmares. I think Doug may end up in Kentucky before too long. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have eight or 10 mares, but maybe three or four good ones. I think it would be a lot of fun.”

Of his current racing stable, Kennedy said, “I have probably 10-12 in California with Exline-Border and Peter Eurton trains there. I think there are seven or eight of us in that partnership. And then I have six here in the Midwest between Kentucky and Iowa with Doug Anderson and Matt Shirer.”

From his childhood racetrack at Ak-sar-ben to winner's circles around the country, Kennedy is enjoying the ride.

“It's a game I adore,” he said. “It's the best sport in the world.”

6th-Prairie Meadows, $40,326, Msw, 8-28, 2yo, 6f, 1:12.65, ft, 5 3/4 lengths.
GLENGARRY (c, 2, Maximus Mischief–L. A. Way, by Tizway), the 1-5 favorite, broke sharply and was quickly on the lead. The gray colt was pressed through an opening quarter in :22.63, took command on the turn and strode home under a motionless Ken Tohill to win by 5 3/4 lengths. He is the 16th winner for his freshman sire (by Into Mischief). Glengarry was purchased by Raul Reyes's Kings Equine for $55,000 as a FTKJUL yearling and sold for $150,000 following a :10 1/5 work at the Fasig-Tipton Midlantic May sale. L.A. Way has a yearling filly by Good Samaritan and she produced a filly by Maximus Mischief this year before being bred back to Tonalist. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.
Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $27,126.
O-Aaron Kennedy, Toby Joseph & Doug Anderson; B-Highpoint Bloodstock (IA); T-Doug L. Anderson.

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Murphy's landmark victory aboard Crypto Mo (Mohaymen) in the July 8 GIII Iowa Oaks was her first lifetime graded stakes win after 18,131 lifetime mounts. It was also a neat “full circle” score for the Iowa native, because Murphy (who previously rode under the last names Springman and Noll) had piloted the first-ever winner in the history of Prairie Meadows when that track first opened in 1989.

Win number 2,000 also came with a family connection–Crypto Mo is trained and part-owned by her husband, Travis Murphy. Redemption also played a starring role: A little more than a year ago, that very same filly, then age two, flipped out in the starting gate at Prairie Meadows prior to her debut. Murphy sustained eight broken ribs, four pelvic fractures, and a tear in her abdominal wall, knocking her out of action until Apr. 1 this year.

“I know the screenwriters' guild is on strike, but Hollywood is missing out on a fantastic story here,” quipped the Prairie Meadows racing secretary, Stuart Slagle, when TDN phoned the racing office Sunday morning to track down a phone number for Murphy.

“It was perfect,” Murphy said with a buoyant laugh when reached a few minutes later. “I couldn't have planned it better, to be honest with you.”

Murphy–unlike some jockeys who seem to linger for a long time on the cusp of a milestone win–had only been parked at the 1,999 plateau for six days and a span of just four mounts. But that round number of two grand had been in her head as a target for almost half her lifetime.

“When I first started, I could envision 2,000 wins because I was rolling as a younger rider,” Murphy said. “The first thousand came along a little easier and quicker than the second thousand. I thought it would come a lot sooner, to be honest with you. I started getting injured. Then I stopped to have a few children, so it took me awhile. But if you had asked me five years ago? I would have said no, I'm not going to make it.”

Murphy graduated from Iowa's Muscatine High School in 1980 as an all-state track and cross-country runner. She starred in those two sports at Northeast Missouri State University, where she graduated with a focus in equine studies as one of the top 10 agriculture students in her class. She was later inducted into that college's athletic hall of fame, but by the time that happened in 1999, Murphy had long since transitioned from running in races to horsebacking in them instead.

Starting first as an exercise rider, and then trying her luck as a jockey in South America, Murphy's first victory came in Argentina in 1986. She relocated to Florida and won her first stateside race at Tampa Bay Downs on Dec. 8, 1987. After stints in the mid-Atlantic and a brief foray to New York, Murphy returned to the Midwest after outriding her apprentice allowances.

By 1994, Murphy was a Prairie Meadows mainstay at or near the top of the standings. Through the remainder of that decade she emerged as the nation's winningest woman rider on several occasions. She racked up lifetime score number 1,000 at Hawthorne Race Course in 1998, and also that year established a Prairie Meadows meet record with 112 victories.

A spate of injuries took their toll on Murphy as the 21st Century dawned, slowing her down, but not stopping her. In 2001, she fractured six bones, including her pelvis and ribs, in an Oaklawn Park accident. In 2004, she was sidelined by a broken wrist.

For a while, May 11, 2006, looked like it would be not only Murphy's last day in the saddle, but perhaps the last day she ever walked: A Prairie Meadows mount stumbled out of the gate, veered into another horse, and sent Murphy careening headfirst into the dirt.

“I broke my neck, and I had to be life-flighted to the hospital,” Murphy said on Sunday, recalling the accident matter-of-factly. “I was kind of paralyzed for a week, and I slowly came out of it. They weren't sure I was going to come out of it. But I'm one of the lucky ones, and I did.”

The severity of the spill was initially enough to cause Murphy to call it quits, acting upon the advice of her doctors. She had a surgery that fused her C5, C6 and C7 vertebrae together, and wistfully told the Des Moines Register, “I sure wanted to reach 2,000 wins, but my health is more important to me.”

Murphy and her husband, Travis, had bought a 160-acre farm near Remington Park in Oklahoma shortly before that accident, and she began contemplating other career choices, like going back to school to get a nursing degree. The couple, at that time, had begun focusing on legging up horses for outside clients. But eventually, without the pressure of pointing for another comeback or the day-to-day rigors of the racetrack, Murphy said the farm work with the horses won her over again. In 2008, she returned to competing in races at age 46.

“I really wasn't going to come back to riding,” she said. “But I started messing around, getting on a few. And then I guess I'm a little bit on the crazy side, and I wanted to ride a few more. And then I started creeping closer to 2,000, so I thought, 'Well, why not give it a shot?'”

Although that number remained etched in her brain, Murphy told TDN that the one thing she wouldn't grant any headspace to was the thought of getting hurt.

“I always tell the younger riders, if you get scared out there, you better hang it up. Because that's not a good thing when you're riding scared,” Murphy said.

Murphy's riding workload isn't what it used to be, and she hasn't topped 27 wins in a year in any of the past 15 seasons. She had a 2-for-26 record in 2022, with that season being cut short on June 19 when Crypto Mo sent Murphy on yet another unplanned vacation of rehab and recuperation, just eight wins shy of 2,000.

Despite her gate histrionics, the filly herself was not injured. With Cassidy Fletcher subbing for Murphy, Crypto Mo eventually debuted on July 17, 2022, and managed to win one of her first five starts. Early on as a sprinter, she didn't flash enough talent to suggest she'd be a future graded stakes victress.

But that changed on May 28, 2023, when, after having been reunited with Murphy, Crypto Mo stretched out to two turns for the first time and wired a first-level allowance at Prairie Meadows by a whopping 17 3/4 lengths.

Cindy Murphy rides Crypto Mo | Coady Photography

Crypto Mo, who cost $20,000 as a KEESEP yearling, then wired the $50,000 Panthers S. over a mile at Prairie Meadows June 10. On Saturday night, Murphy again asked her for speed from the get-go, and Crypto Mo was never headed in the $225,000 stakes, running her record to 4-for-8 while bankrolling $210,870 in earnings for the partnership of Travis Murphy, Matt Trent, and Triple V Racing. On Sunday, Crypto Mo was supplemented to the Fasig-Tipton July Selected Horses of Racing Age Sale.

“I thought win number 2,000 would come the previous weekend, when I was on a couple of live horses,” Murphy said. “And then [Friday} I had a horse that had a shot, but he didn't do it. But when the win finally came on Saturday, it was even better, because this was the filly I got hurt on last year, and it's one of ours, from our connections.

“We had a lot of supportive crowd there, so that meant a lot. Even trainer Dale Romans, he came in [and won] one of the big races, and he congratulated me and said, 'Man, ever since I set foot in Iowa, nobody can quit talking about you and hoping you would get your 2,000th win.'” Murphy recalled.

Asked what goal is next now that she's equaled the benchmark she's been chasing for decades, Murphy didn't hesitate in replying.

“I am almost 62 years old, and I promised my kids and my grandkids that I would retire soon. So I am going to finish up the Prairie Meadows meet and I am going to hang up my tack,” Murphy said.

“I need to spend more time with the grandkids. I've got five of them now. I go trail riding with them at the farm. We've got a bunch of soccer players in the family, so I'm always going to the kids' games. And my youngest son is going into his sophomore year at college. He's a big track star, and I go to all of his track meets. It will just give me more time to get to things like this, to spend more time with the family,” Murphy said.

“I'll probably help Travis train, and be his right-hand woman, so to speak. I'll probably still gallop and work horses for him. I don't get on the babies that much anymore; they're a little bit more unpredictable. But I am going to retire from race riding,” Murphy said.

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“In my 18 years working in various roles with track maintenance, I've been able to gain valuable knowledge at tracks like Del Mar, Turf Paradise, Zia Park, Sunland Park, Gulfstream Park West and Palm Meadows which will serve me well as Track Superintendent for Prairie Meadows,” Noffsinger said.

Prairie Meadows Vice President for Racing Derron Heldt added, “Ryan brings so much to the table with his experience, dedication and love of the industry as a third-generation horseman and having worked in various roles in track maintenance, I feel confident in his abilities to provide a solid and consistent racing surface for the horses, jockeys and racing industry participants that come to race in Iowa.”

Prairie Meadows' live racing season begins with 20 days of Thoroughbred-only racing from May 12-June 17 and is followed by a mixed Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse schedule of 60 race days from June 18-Sept. 30.

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Jockey Ramsey Zimmerman recorded his first victory in over five years on Friday when he guided Enchanted Nile (Pioneerof the Nile) to a front-running nose victory in the third race at Oaklawn Park.

A Chicago-area native, Zimmerman amassed 1,740 victories and owns riding titles at Prairie Meadows and Lone Star Park, but it was substance abuse that derailed his once-promising career several times since he began riding in 1998.

“All that's behind me,” Zimmerman said. “I'm actually really proud of having six years clean and sober.”

Managing a Thoroughbred farm and working as a driver for a horse-drawn carriage company in St. Louis were a couple of the jobs he did when he wasn't riding. Zimmerman recently reunited with agent Scott Hare of Hot Springs and he said he plans to ride the remainder of the Oaklawn meeting which ends May 6.

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The dark bay hit the ground running from his outside berth and had a bit of early pace pressure, but cleared away from that rival, and with Kylee Jordan a mere passenger into the lane, ran out an easy winner. Tyler's Tribe was then asked to gallop out around the turn and into the backstretch, as he is expected to press on to an appearance at the Breeders' Cup at Keeneland.

Tyler's Tribe has now won his five starts by nearly 60 lengths combined, including an 8 1/2-length romp in the Prairie Gold Juvenile S. in July and a 15 1/2-length tour-de-force when last seen in the Prairie Meadows Freshman S. Aug. 27.

One of 22 winners and one of two stakes winners for his white-hot Three Chimneys-based freshman sire (by Freud), Tyler's Tribe has an Iowa-bred yearling half-brother by Good Samaritan that fetched $15,000 at this year's Keeneland January Sale and his dam was sent to Enticed this past breeding season.

IOWA CRADLE S., $100,000, Prairie Meadows, 10-1, (S), 2yo, c/g, 6f, 1:09.74, ft.
1–TYLER'S TRIBE, 122, g, 2, by Sharp Azteca
1st Dam: Impazible Woman, by Mission Impazible
2nd Dam: Handlewoman, by Elusive Quality
3rd Dam: Bamboo Queen, by Devil His Due
($34,000 Ylg '21 IOWOCT). O-Timothy E Martin & Thomas D
Lepic; B-Clifton Farm & Derek Merkler (IA); T-Timothy E
Martin; J-Kylee R Jordan. $60,000. Lifetime Record: 5-5-0-0,
$306,294.
2–Big Luke, 122, g, 2, Tapiture–Warmhearted Sandy, by Say
Florida Sandy. 1ST BLACK-TYPE. O/B-Big Pine LLC (IA); T-Kelly R
Von Hemel. $20,000.
3–Palace Guard, 122, g, 2, Palace Malice–Addy Annie, by Posse.
($12,000 Ylg '21 IOWOCT). 1ST BLACK-TYPE. O-Kent Bamford
& Randy Patterson; B-MAMAS Thoroughbreds LLC (IA);
T-Tyrone Gleason. $10,000.
Margins: 6HF, NO, 3 1/4. Odds: 0.05, 22.90, 36.40.
Also Ran: Acceleritas, C R Insta Gator, I Love Rocknstroll.
Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

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Sharp Azteca, winner of the GI Cigar Mile H. in 2017, now has seven winners and one stakes winner in his nascent stallion career. He stands at Three Chimneys near Midway, Kentucky.

Tyler's Tribe topped the 2021 Iowa Thoroughbred Breeders and Owners Association Fall Sale at $34,000. His dam produced a Good Samaritan colt last year that sold as a short yearling at Keeneland January for $15,000 to Kentucky River Racing. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

 
PRAIRIE GOLD JUVENILE S., $122,200, Prairie Meadows, 7-9, 2yo, 5 1/2f, 1:03.64, ft.
1–TYLER'S TRIBE, 119, g, 2, by Sharp Azteca
               1st Dam: Impazible Woman, by Mission Impazible
               2nd Dam: Handlewoman, by Elusive Quality
               3rd Dam: Bamboo Queen, by Devil His Due
($34,000 Ylg '21 IOWOCT). 1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O-Timothy
Martin & Thomas D. Lepic; B-Clifton Farm & Derek
Merkler (IA); T-Timothy E. Martin; J-Kylee R. Jordan.
$82,200. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $106,554.
2–Toddchero, 119, c, 2, Bucchero–French Politics, by Political
Force. ($77,000 2yo '22 OBSAPR). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-Mark
Norman & Norman Stables LLC; B-GDS Racing Stable (FL);
T-Jayde J. Gelner. $20,000.
3–Top Recruit, 119, c, 2, Midshipman–Oh So Bella, by Afleet
Alex. ($67,000 Wlg '20 KEENOV; $120,000 Ylg '21 FTKJUL;
$170,000 2yo '22 OBSMAR). 1ST BLACK TYPE. O-Paradise
Farms Corp., David Staudacher, Three Diamonds Farm &
Michael J. Maker; B-Dunwoody Farm (KY); T-Michael J.
Maker. $10,000.
Margins: 8HF, 3HF, 4. Odds: 2.80, 4.20, 0.70.
Also Ran: Undalay, Baytown Get It On, Free From Guilt. Scratched: Prove Right.

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A convincing 5 3/4-length winner of the local Oaks prep in the June 11 Panthers S. over a mile, the chestnut was dragged back to last and dropped down onto the fence to caboose the field through an opening couple of furlongs in a solid :23.50. Content to bide her time in the rear, Butterbean had one beaten entering the turn, but made eyecatching progress inside at the three-eighths pole. Tipped out under a full head of steam by Glenn Corbett, Butterbean raced up to odds-on Falconet (Uncle Mo) with a bit more than a furlong to travel and scampered clear to score impressively. Free Like a Girl (El Deal) made the running inside of Falconet and held gamely for third.

McPeek was also represented by GI Belmont Derby upsetter Classic Causeway (Giant's Causeway) and Runaway Wife (Gun Runner) and Silverleaf (Speightster), second and third, respectively, in the GIII Indiana Oaks.

Runner-up in auction-price-restricted maiden allowances at Churchill in October and November last year, Butterbean completed the exacta in an 'open' Gulfstream maiden Jan. 22, but was only sixth in a similar test at Keeneland Apr. 10. A neck second when in search of a confidence boost against $75,000 maiden claimers beneath the Twin Spires May 4, the $22,000 Keeneland September bargain graduated 23 days later and made it two straight when last seen in the Panthers.

Pedigree Notes:

The first graded winner for the expatriated Klimt, Butterbean is out of an unplaced half-sister to GSW Conquest Daddyo (Scat Daddy) and SW Hangingbyathread (Giant's Causeway). Her 2-year-old half-brother Fast Forward (Bolt d'Oro) is unplaced in a single start in Churchill maiden special weight company this past May and Letting Go produced a full-sister to Butterbean last season.

A really special day, Thank You!! To all those that support us, especially my staff and clients, none of this happens without them. Butterbean!!! Bargain buy. My daughter going nuts because she named her after this fairy. pic.twitter.com/dStSPg1H7l

— Kenny McPeek (@KennyMcPeek) July 10, 2022

Saturday, Prairie Meadows
IOWA OAKS-GIII, $225,000, Prairie Meadows, 7-9, 3yo, f, 1 1/16m, 1:43.72, ft.
1–BUTTERBEAN, 122, f, 3, by Klimt
                1st Dam: Letting Go, by Johannesburg
                2nd Dam: Hangingbyamoment, by Thunder Gulch
                3rd Dam: Kermis, by Graustark
1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($22,000 Ylg '20 KEESEP).
O-Magdalena Racing & William Klimashousky; B-Woodgate
Farm (KY); T-Kenneth G. McPeek; J-Glenn W. Corbett.
$134,400. Lifetime Record: 8-3-4-0, $294,510. Werk Nick
Rating: A++. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
2–Falconet, 122, f, 3, Uncle Mo–Birdatthewire, by Summer
Bird. 1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($250,000
Ylg '20 KEESEP). O-CHC Inc. & WinStar Farm LLC; B-WinStar
Farm, LLC (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher. $44,800.
3–Free Like a Girl, 122, f, 3, El Deal–Flashy Prize, by Flashy Bull.
1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($5,500 Ylg '20 ESLYRL). O-Gerald
Bruno, Jr., Carl J. Deville, Chasey Deville Pomier and Jerry
Caroom; B-Kim Renee Stover & Lisa Osborne (LA); T-Chasey
Deville Pomier. $22,400.
Margins: 3, 5, 1. Odds: 3.90, 0.70, 9.90.
Also Ran: Candy Raid, My Friend Amy, Hartley, Miss Hard Knocks, Nosilverspoonshere.
Click for the Equibase.com chart, the TJCIS.com PPs or the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree. VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

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