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Shannon C Headlines Field For Silver Goblin At Remington

For the first time since 2016, there will be a new horse rewarded with the Silver Goblin Stakes trophy on Friday, Nov. 12 at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Okla.

Remington Park's all-time winningest horse, Welder, has won the race the past four years for owner Ra-Max Farms (Clayton Rash) of Claremore, Okla., three times for trainer Teri Luneack.

The 8-year-old gelding who retired on Oct. 15 with 16 wins at Remington Park and 27 overall has won the Silver Goblin Stakes a record number of times, one ahead of Okie Ride. This year, there were 20 nominations to the 6-1/2 furlong race, including the horse that beat Welder in the final race of his career. The race is written for 3-year-olds-and-older that are Oklahoma foals. Shannon C won the Oklahoma Classics Sprint on Oct. 15 and Welder ran third.

Shannon C had been beaten by Welder four times in his career before winning the Oklahoma Classics Sprint, but the fifth time was the charm. The 6-year-old gelded son of Latent Heat, out of the Fistfite mare Miranda Diane, is owned by B and S Racing (Robert Smith) of Springfield, Mo., and trained by Scott Young. He was ridden to his Classics win by Leandro Goncalves.

Shannon C could very well be the heir apparent to picking up the dropped baton. He is on a two-stakes win streak, having taken the $70,000 Remington Park Turf Sprint on Sept. 3. He could easily be the favorite in the Silver Goblin off those consecutive stakes wins.

“Shannon has been an iron horse from Day One,” said Young. “The Classics win was his day. It took a while but he showed why Bob and Ted (Bozarth and Smith) breed horses to Miranda Diane. It's come full circle now. He got that Oklahoma Classics win that we've been shooting for, for what? The past four years.”

Shannon C drew away impressively at the end, winning by three lengths at 5-1 odds. Young ran 1-2 in the race as Mesa Moon held off Welder by one length. The trainer has also nominated Mesa Moon for owner Cimarron TTT Farms (Marvin Triplett) of Edmond, Okla. Mesa Moon was three lengths back of his stablemate in the Oklahoma Classics Sprint at 6 furlongs.

Shannon C earned $78,000 for the win and improved to 27 starts, seven wins, 11 seconds, and two thirds for $368,766 in earnings.

Another multiple stakes winner that figures to vie for favoritism, if he should hit the entry box of this race, is Quality Rocket. He was soundly defeated in seventh in the $130,000 Oklahoma Classics Turf on Oct. 15, after winning it last year and taking the Red Earth Stakes two years in a row on the turf. His talents go far beyond routing on the grass, however. He has won the Route 66 Stakes at Fair Meadows in Tulsa, Okla., two years in a row on the dirt at the distance for the Silver Goblin Stakes.

Quality Rocket, a 7-year-old gelded son of Backstabber, out of the King of Scat mare, has an impressive lifetime record of 36 starts, 11 wins, nine seconds, and one third for $409,006 in earnings. If he were to go in the Silver Goblin, he would be the top money earner. That's not too shabby for a horse that had been put in for a $7,500 claiming tag three races in a row in the early part of his career. He is owned by Jeremy Ball of Shawnee, Okla., trained by Boyd “Jobe” Caster. Ramon Vazquez has been in the saddle for his last two stakes tries.

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The record time for the Silver Goblin is 1:15, set by Zee Oh Six in 2005, the first year of the race named for one of the greatest Oklahoma-breds in history. Silver Goblin is seventh among Okie-breds in lifetime money earned with $1,083,895. He is behind Kip Deville ($3,325,489), Lady's Secret ($3,021,325), Shotgun Kowboy ($1,548,684), Clever Trevor ($1,388,841), Welder ($1,263,359), and She's All In ($1,102,489). Silver Goblin had 26 career starts with 16 wins, four seconds, and three thirds from 1993-99. He will long be remembered for running second to Cigar in the 1995 Oaklawn Handicap at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark. Cigar was in the middle of a 16-race win streak. Cigar won just short of $10 million in his career.

Racing continues next week with a Wednesday-Saturday night schedule. First post time is 7:07 p.m. Central.

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Three Rules Retired To Wesfield Farm In Florida

Three Rules, named the Florida-bred Horse of the Year and champion 2-year-old male in 2016 after sweeping the male division of the prestigious FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes that year, has been retired and will stand the 2022 breeding season at Robert Smith's Wesfield Farm in Ocala, Fla.

The graded stakes-winning son of Gone Astray out of Joy Rules, by Full Mandate won the first five races of his career for trainer Jose Pinchin including the $75,000 Birdonthewire Stakes by five lengths at Gulfstream Park in his second start on July 2 of 2016. He then went on to dominate the $100,000 FTBOA Florida Sire Stakes Dr. Fager in early August, winning the six furlong test by seven lengths while earning a 92 Beyer Speed Figure and setting the stakes record in 1:09.49 that continues to stand today. He then won the $300,000 Affirmed by five-and-a-half lengths over seven furlongs on Sept. 3 before crushing his rivals with a 10-length romp in the $500,000 In Reality going a mile-and-one-sixteenth.

Three Rules finished his juvenile year by traveling to Santa Anita for the $2 million Sentient Jet Breeders' Cup Juvenile and finished sixth behind winner Classic Empire with now popular stallions Not This Time and Practical Joke finishing second and third.

Three Rules was bred in Florida and raced for Bert Pilcher in the name of his Shade Tree Thoroughbreds in partnership with Geoff Roy and Tom Fitzgerald, both of Toronto, who are all still partners in the horse.

“Robert Smith at Wesfield will stand Three Rules for us,” Pilcher said. “He wants to breed some of his mares to him and some of his clients have inquired about breeding some of their mares. Of course, I will be supporting him and I have clients who are excited to see him at stud and plan to breed their mares to him. I think he will be very popular in Florida and I think he will produce a very nice race horse.

“He was a fabulous 2-year-old who only lost one race that year and that came in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile and he beat some nice horses in that race. And then he competed well in the [Kentucky Derby] preps at Gulfstream before becoming a graded stakes-winner later that year.”

He began his sophomore year on the Kentucky Derby trail with a second-place finish to Favorable Outcome in the Grade 2 Swale before finishing third behind winner Gunnevera in the G2 Fountain of Youth, both at Gulfstream Park in February and March respectively. He then finished fifth in the G1 Xpressbet Florida Derby won by eventual Kentucky Derby winner Always Dreaming at Gulfstream on April 1.

Later in 2017, Three Rules was third in the $200,000 Chick Lang Stakes won by future graded stakes-winner Recruiting Ready at Laurel before winning the Grade 3 Carry Back at Gulfstream in July, defeating future multiple stakes-winner Mo Cash.

Three Rules finished his career with six wins, two seconds and two thirds while earning $972,825.

His fee has not been announced.

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Shannon C Finally Gets The Win In Remington Park Turf Sprint

There was no one more excited to see that Welder was not entered for this year's $70,000 Remington Park Turf Sprint Stakes than the connections of Shannon C, this year's winner on Friday night.

Four times in his career, Shannon C had finished second to Remington Park's all-time winningest horse, Welder, in stakes races, including by only a neck in the Remington Park Turf Sprint Stakes last year. Shannon C has been to Welder what Alydar was to Affirmed or Sham to Secretariat, the ultimate of runners-up of stakes quality. Shannon C had a three-race winning streak going as a 3-year-old, including the $30,000 Oklahoma Stallion Stakes, his only other stakes win before Friday night. Then he ran into Welder for the first time. He was beaten 4-3/4 lengths in second of the 2018 $130,000 Oklahoma Classics Sprint and the $70,000 Silver Goblin Stakes, losing by 6-1/4 lengths as the bridesmaid. He also watched in second as Welder won the $55,000 TRAO Classic Sprint in 2020 at Will Rogers Downs in Claremore, Okla., losing by 6-1/2 lengths. His final silver medalist run to Welder came in last year's version of this race.

“We've been chasing Welder a long time,” said Shannon C's trainer Scott Young. “We thought we had him last year in this race and then he got us by a neck.”

Welder, a winner of an unprecedented 16 races at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Okla., lifetime, opted to run in Sunday's $150,000 David M. Vance Stakes on Oklahoma Derby Day. Young and jockey Floyd Wethey, Jr., couldn't be happier.

“He's been taking swings at giants,” said Wethey. “This horse knows what he's doing. I'm proud of him. It finally worked out.”

Young seconded that.

“He's fast,” Young said of Shannon C. “When it's his day, it's his day.”

Wethey kept the 6-year-old gelded son of Latent Heat, out of the Fistfite stakes-winning mare Miranda Diane, in perfect position, sitting just off the shoulder of front-runner Denver City, the even-money betting favorite. Broodmare Miranda Diane was a multiple stakes winner in her career.

When they came to the wire, Denver City had faded to fourth and Shannon C (2-1) was able to hold off the closing No Lak of Speed (10-1) in second by a neck. Those two had run second and third in this race last year behind Welder, so it was almost an exact replay. Getting up for third was Pomeroy Haze (8-1), a half-length back of No Lak of Speed. Shannon C paid $6.20 to win, $3.60 to place and $2.60 to show.

Owned by B and S Racing (Robert Smith) of Springfield, Mo., Shannon C earned $42,000 for the win in the 5 furlongs sprint on the grass. He improved his record to 26 starts, six wins, 11 seconds, and two thirds for $290,766. That is a ton of money earned from those runner-up spots and only six trips to the winner's circle.

Shannon C covered the distance in :56.05 over the firm turf. The early fractions were :21.34 for the first quarter-mile and a blistering :43.91 after a half-mile. Shannon C was bred in Oklahoma by his owner.

This is the first win in the Remington Park Turf Sprint for owner B and S Racing and for jockey Floyd Wethey. Shannon C gave trainer Scott Young his second win in the race as he also saddled Devious Runner to victory in 2016.

Racing continues this week with a Saturday-Sunday schedule. It's the only Sunday race day of the meet, serving as Oklahoma Derby Day. Post time is 3 p.m. on Sept. 26, while Saturday night begins at 7:07 p.m. All times Central.

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