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Arrest Me Red Goes Gate To Wire In Aqueduct Turf Sprint Championship

Lael Stable's homebred Arrest Me Red made every pole a winning one, staving off an inside rally from Pulsate to prevail in Saturday's $150,000 Aqueduct Turf Sprint Championship at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, N.Y.

Trained by Wesley Ward, Arrest Me Red was scratched out of the Grade 1 Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint on November 6 at Del Mar Thoroughbred Club in Del Mar, Calif., which was won by his stablemate Golden Pal. Re-routed to the Big A, the sophomore son of Pioneerof the Nile turned back older company with a game display in the six-furlong outer turf test.

“He did great. He ran very, very professional,” Ward said. “I just feel bad that he had a minor foot issue, otherwise he would have had a good run in the Breeders' Cup.”

Arrest Me Red, with Paco Lopez up, marked off splits of :22.69 and :45.60 over the firm going with defending race winner Turned Aside tracking in second and Backtohisroots pressing three-wide in third.

Pulsate, with Manny Franco up, settled into fourth position as Arrest Me Red took the field to the turn with Backtohisroots advancing with purpose. Arrest Me Red opened up a one-length lead at the stretch call and kicked for home with a ground-saving Pulsate trying to surge up the rail.

Lopez kept to task aboard Arrest Me Red and the talented bay held on for a neck win in a final time of 1:09.43. Pulsate completed the exacta by 1 3/4 lengths over the late-running Chewing Gum.

Lopez, aboard Arrest Me Red for the first time, said he was impressed by the colt's winning efforts in the Mahony in August at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and the G3 Belmont Turf Sprint Invitational at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y., last out on October 2.

“I saw his last couple races and knew he was fast,” Lopez said. “There wasn't much speed today. I broke and put my horse in the race and waited for competition. I saw the horse coming to the inside [Pulsate] and I put a little pressure. That horse is a very good horse. Wesley knows what he is doing.”

Franco said Pulsate, who he guided to victory in the Lucky Coin in September at the Spa, was timid when asked to pass along the hedge.

“I had the room to go through, but my horse just hesitated a little bit,” Franco said. “He was coming the last sixteenth of a mile. When I rode him to the wire, he responded to me. He just got a little bit tired. He ran well though.”

Backtohisroots, Value Proposition, Big Package, Maxwell Esquire, Omaha City, and Turned Aside completed the order of finish. Grateful Bred, who broke through the gate ahead of the race, was scratched.

Bred in Kentucky by his owners, Arrest Me Red banked $82,500 in victory while improving his record to five wins from seven starts. He paid $6.50 for a $2 win ticket.

Live racing resumes Sunday at the Big A with a 10-race card featuring the $150,000 Autumn Days in Race 7, the $200,000 G3 Fall Highweight in Race 8, and the $100,000 Tepin in Race 9. First post is 11:50 a.m. Eastern.

America's Day at the Races will present daily coverage and analysis of the fall meet at Aqueduct Racetrack on the networks of FOX Sports. For the complete broadcast schedule, visit https://www.nyra.com/aqueduct/racing/tv-schedule.

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Pulsate Seeks Second Stakes Win In Friday’s Oyster Bay

Marc Keller's Pulsate will stretch out in distance while taking on a loaded field for Friday's inaugural $100,000 Oyster Bay for 3-year-olds and upward going seven furlongs over the Widener turf at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y.

Trained by Bobby Ribaudo, the 5-year-old Speightstown chestnut arrives of a runner-up effort in the Grade 3 Belmont Turf Sprint Invitational on October 2, where he displayed stalking tactics and finished a length behind pacesetter Arrest Me Red.

In his previous start, Pulsate captured his first stakes victory when taking the restricted Lucky Coin on September 3 going 5 ½ furlongs at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. He finished second in last year's Lucky Coin, 1 ¼ lengths behind Oyster Bay rival Battle Station.

The Oyster Bay will be a third overall start going seven furlongs on grass for Pulsate, who made his stakes debut with a close second in the seven-furlong Paradise Creek in May 2019.

Pulsate has consistently raced at the beginning of each month since finishing a close second in his seasonal debut going six furlongs over the inner turf in July at Belmont.

“Last time, there wasn't much pace and Wesley's [Ward] horse went wire-to-wire. He thinks highly of that horse, so it wasn't a bad race,” Ribaudo said. “My only question here is, he's run twice at Saratoga and the races are coming close together. But he seems to be doing well.”

Ribaudo added that the Oyster Bay could be a springboard to the $150,000 Aqueduct Turf Sprint Championship on November 27 at the Ozone Park, N.Y., racetrack.

“You never know if the weather will cooperate during that time of year. We'll take this one first and if the weather holds up, we'll run in the Aqueduct Turf Sprint,” Ribaudo said.

Pulsate boasts a consistent 18-4-5-2 record with his first two victories taking place on dirt in early 2019 at Aqueduct. Ribaudo said a 6-year-old campaign is in play.

“He had been knocking on the door ever since he was a 3-year-old, so it's always nice to get a stakes win,” Ribaudo said. “He's doing so well as a colt, and he's not difficult to handle at all, so I'd like to bring him back next year.”

Manny Franco has piloted Pulsate in 10-of-18 starts and will return to the irons from post 5.

Chad Brown will saddle a trio of contenders in Value Proposition, Flavius, and Emaraaty.

Klaravich Stables' Value Proposition, a 5-year-old Dansili ridgling, scored at stakes level for the first time with a last-out triumph in the Red Bank on September 4 at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, N.J. The consistent five-time winner has finished in the money in all five starts this season, including a late-closing second in the Grade 3 Forbidden Apple on July 14 at Saratoga.

Value Proposition will be ridden by Luis Saez from post 11.

Juddmonte's Flavius will attempt to make amends following a fifth as the beaten favorite in the Grade 3 Mint Million in September at Kentucky Downs in Franklin, Ky. Two starts back, the son of War Front was a wire-to-wire winner of the restricted Lure on August 7 at Saratoga.

Through a record of 13-4-3-1, Flavius brags the highest bankroll in the field with $719,651 in earnings.

Hall of Famer John Velazquez will ride from post 6.

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Emaraaty will seek two consecutive victories, arriving off a 1 ½-length optional claiming score on September 3 at Saratoga over next-out winner Voodoo Zip. The 6-year-old son of Dubawi, out of Group 1 winner Zee Zee Top, won his last effort emerging off a five-month layoff.

Leaving from post 4, Emaraaty will be piloted by Hall of Famer Javier Castellano.

Trainer John Terranova will saddle Gatsas Stables' Backtohisroots, who seeks his first stakes triumph since capturing an off-the-turf edition of the Atlantic Beach in 2018 at Aqueduct. The dark bay or brown son of Mark Valeski was a close second to Pulsate in the Lucky Coin off an 11-month hiatus ahead of a fourth in the Grade 3 Belmont Turf Sprint last out.

Backtohisroots will leave from post 8 under Jose Lezcano.

Completing the field are Ballydooley [post 1, Jorge Vargas, Jr.], Battle Station [post 2, Abner Adorno], Made You Look [post 3, Eric Cancel], Buy Land and See [blinkers off from post 7, Kendrick Carmouche], Maxwell Esquire [post 9, Dylan Davis], Guildsman [post 10, Hector Diaz, Jr.], and Fauci [post 12, Junior Alvarado].

Wendell Fong and Lil Commissioner are entered for the main track only.

The Oyster Bay is carded as Race 9 on Friday's 10-race program. First post is 12:35 p.m. Eastern.

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A ‘Pulsating’ Finish In the Lucky Coin

A troubled fifth in the GIII Troy S. over this course and distance last August, Pulsate (Speightstown) settled for second in this event just shy of 12 months ago before hitting the shelf. The chestnut resumed following a 10-month absence to just miss to the ill-fated Fiya (Friesan Fire) in a hand-timed Belmont turf sprint on Independence Day and was a latest fourth in a rare appearance over the local main track Aug. 6.

Away without incident, Pulsate landed in third position early on as Noble Emotion (Noble Mission {GB}) was ridden to keep pace inside of favored Maven (American Pharoah). Stalking that leading duo into the turn, Pulsate was asked to come after the leaders three deep in upper stretch, found his way to the front with less than a furlong to travel and scraped home first. The comebacking Backtohisroots (Mark Valeski) exchanged bumps twice with Maxwell Esquire (Discreet Cat) in the opening strides, rallied wide into the lane and was getting to the winner, who was saved by the wire.

“Did it set up perfect? You can't write the script any better,” said winning trainer Bob Ribaudo. “The fact that you're inside and can outrun the rest of the field, so that you're not boxed down on the fence. So, he stalked the leaders and was able to get out a little bit. No problem. Manny rode him perfect, as usual.”

Pulsate is the 126th black-type winner for Speightstown, who has crossed well with Sadler's Wells-line mares, predominantly through Medaglia d'Oro (including G1/GISWs Rock Fall, Competitionofideas and She's Happy {Arg}) and other graded winners Essence Hit Man, Souper Stonehenge, Strike Power and Shirl's Speight. Celestial Kitten is the dam of a colt foal by Palace Malice and was bred to Flatter this term. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.

LUCKY COIN S., $120,000, Saratoga, 9-3, (C), 4yo/up, 5 1/2fT, 1:02.39, fm.
1–PULSATE, 118, h, 5, Speightstown–Celestial Kitten (MGSP,
$233,843), by Kitten's Joy. 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. ($135,000
Ylg '17 FTKOCT; $280,000 2yo '18 OBSAPR). O-Marc Keller;
B-Austin Paul (KY); T-Robert Ribaudo; J-Manuel Franco.
$66,000. Lifetime Record: 17-4-4-2, $307,655.
2–Backtohisroots, 118, g, 5, Mark Valeski–Great Family, by
Harlan's Holiday. ($6,500 RNA Ylg '17 KEESEP). O-Gatsas
Stables; B-Brereton C Jones (KY); T-John P Terranova II.
$24,000.
3–Guildsman (Fr), 124, g, 4, Wootton Bassett (GB)–Dardiza
(Ire), by Street Cry (Ire). (€67,000 Ylg '18 AROYRG; €125,000
2yo '19 ARQMA; 160,000gns RNA 2yo '19 TATAHI). O-Sanford J
Goldfarb, Nice Guys Stables, Jorge Casal & Beast Mode Racing
LLC; B-SCEA Haras de Saint Pair (FR); T-Robert N Falcone Jr.
$14,400.
Margins: NK, 1 1/4, HD. Odds: 6.50, 4.40, 37.50.
Also Ran: Noble Emotion, Holiday Stone, Maven, Maxwell Esquire. Scratched: The Connector.

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Maven Heads Lucky Coin Field On Friday Card At Saratoga

Richard Ravin's Group 3-winner winner Maven headlines Friday's $120,000 Lucky Coin at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Trained by Wesley Ward, Maven enters the Lucky Coin, a 5 1/2-furlong Mellon turf sprint for older horses who have not won a stakes this year, from an off-the-board effort in the Group 1 King's Stand on June 15 at Ascot.

The 4-year-old American Pharoah chestnut has been a boom-or-bust proposition with four wins and four off-the-board efforts from eight starts. As a 2-year-old, Maven graduated on debut on the main track at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, N.Y., in April 2019 and two months later shipped to France and captured the Group 3 Prix du Bois traveling five furlongs on the Chantilly turf.

Last year, Maven won a turf allowance sprint at Keeneland Race Course in Lexington, Ky., but finished off-the-board in the Mahony at Saratoga and the Grade 3 Franklin-Simpson at Kentucky Downs.

“He didn't really run too well at Saratoga, but he may have been on a bit of a downward spiral then,” Ward said. “We gelded him last year [in October] and at the time that we gelded him, it was getting to be the fall of the year and I didn't really want to take him down to Florida so we just gave him the extra time. He had no issues. He just ran a couple of poor races.”

Maven kicked off his 4-year-old campaign with an allowance score on the Keeneland turf in April that garnered a career-best 104 Beyer Speed Figure before shipping overseas and finishing 11th in the five-furlong King's Stand under Hall of Fame rider John Velazquez.

“We brought him back in the spring and he was a little short going into his first race. He really amazed me how he just exploded that day to the front like he does,” Ward said. “Turning for home, I was expecting him to stop and he just kind of re-broke, and he really wasn't ready. So, that's what inspired me to take him over to Royal Ascot at a distance that I thought would be just awesome for him, five-eighths, off the big numbers he got off his Keeneland run.

“It was good spacing and everything you want to see. I had my rider, Johnny, on him that won on him,” Ward continued. “He broke and kind of sprinted out there and when the running started, he just didn't have it. I'm not sure if this is a horse that is just a horse-for-course or if he can take his show on the road. That's a little bit of a question mark. That said, he's training really, really well right now.”

Velazquez will pilot Maven from the outermost post 8.

Marc Keller's Pulsate, a 5-year-old Speightstown chestnut trained by Robert Ribaudo, was a prominent second in last year's Lucky Coin, finishing 1 1/4-lengths back of Battle Station.

A strong second in his seasonal debut in a six-furlong optional-claiming turf sprint at Belmont on July 4, Pulsate faded to fourth last out sprinting 6 1/2-furlongs on the main track on August 6 at the Spa.

Manny Franco [post 4] will look to provide Pulsate his first win since December 2019.

Patricia Generazio's New York homebred Maxwell Esquire finished 2 1/4-lengths back of Pulsate last out on July 4.

Trainer Christophe Clement said the 4-year-old Discreet Cat colt has trained well enough to earn a fourth career stakes start and first since finishing fifth in the Aqueduct Turf Sprint Championship in November.

“He's training well and doing well,” Clement said. “We were looking at other races but we'll see if he can face good horses and see what happens.”

Irad Ortiz, Jr. has picked up the mount from post 5.

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Gatsas Stables' Backtohisroots will look to make amends after stumbling at the start last out on October 4 in the Grade 3 Belmont Turf Sprint Invitational and unseating Jose Lezcano.

The 5-year-old son of Mark Valeski, a first-time gelding trained by John Terranova, boasts a record of 13-3-4-2 with purse earnings of $196,075, including a rallying score in an optional-claiming turf sprint in August 2020 at the Spa.

Backtohisroots will exit post 6 under Luis Saez.

Rounding out the field are Noble Emotion [post 3, Jose Ortiz] a four-time winner from 10 starts for trainer Horacio DePaz; Holiday Stone [post 7, Tyler Gaffalione], an eight-time winner with purse earnings of $532,159 for trainer George Weaver; The Connector [post 2, Willie Martinez], a Monmouth Park ship-in for trainer Michael Dini; and Guildsman [post 1, Ricardo Santana, Jr.], a three-time winner for trainer Robert Falcone, Jr.

The Lucky Coin is slated as Race 9 on Friday's 10-race card. First post is 1:05 p.m. Eastern. Saratoga Live will present daily television coverage of the summer meet on FOX Sports. For the complete Saratoga Live broadcast schedule, and additional programming information, visit https://www.nyra.com/saratoga/racing/tv-schedule.

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