Shake Em Loose, With 59-1 Upset, Favored Buy The Best Take Pair Of Laurel Juvenile Stakes

JR Sanchez Racing Stable's Shake Em Loose, making his seventh career start and the first for new connections, paid immediate and thrilling dividends by collaring Last Romance approaching the wire and pulling away to a 59-1 upset in Sunday's $100,000 Heft at Laurel Park in Laurel, Md.

The 20th running of the Heft for 2-year-olds and 14th renewal of the Gin Talking for 2-year-old fillies, both sprinting seven furlongs, were among six $100,000 stakes on a nine-race Christmastide Day program.

Ridden by Yomar Ortiz for trainer Rodolfo Sanchez-Salomon, Shake Em Loose ($120.80) completed the distance in 1:25.69 over a fast main track to beat Last Romance by three-quarters of a length. It was 1 ¼ lengths back to 3-5 favorite Life Is Great in third, followed by Run to Daylight, Uncle Buddy, Dontcrossfuzzy and Amidships.

“I was feeling really good about him, that's why I ran him in there,” Sanchez-Salomon said. “I was going to run him for [$25,000] but I couldn't by the way he was training, and God helped us.”

Claimed for $16,000 out of a maiden victory Nov. 19 at Laurel and racing as a new gelding, Shake Em Loose found himself trailing the field but gaining momentum as Uncle Buddy led through a quarter-mile in 23 seconds and a half in 46.85 chased by Dontcrossfuzzy and Life Is Great down inside. Run to Daylight overtook Uncle Buddy on the turn and was passed by Last Romance as they straightened for home, as Shake Em Loose came rolling on the far outside. Shake Em Loose reeled in Last Romance and surged past for his second straight win.

“I thought he was going to be a little closer. He broke a little bad coming out of the gate but the jockey put him right in the race. Thank God he came to the wire first,” Sanchez-Salomon said. “I was hoping to improve 20 percent from what he did last time, and he did.”

Shake Em Loose, by Shakin It Up, had one win, one second and one third through six starts dating back to Aug. 7 at historic Pimlico Race Course. He notched a popular 3 ¾-length score in mid-November over Heartness, who came back to win a Parx maiden claimer by 10 ½ lengths Dec. 22.

“I was following this horse for a while,” Sanchez-Salomon said. “Thank God I got him.”

Buy the Best winning the Gin Talking Stakes

Buy the Best Extends Streak to Four in $100,000 Gin Talking
Hope Jones' Buy the Best collared pacesetter Beneath the Stars in mid-stretch and edged past to extend her win streak to four races with a popular two-length victory in the $100,000 Gin Talking.

Buy the Best ($2.20), a bay daughter of Tapiture ridden by Jaime Rodriguez and trained by Cathal Lynch, ran seven furlongs in 1:26.79 over a fast main track. Beneath the Stars, making her stakes debut off back-to-back wins, was 6 ½ lengths clear of Moody Woman in third.

Beneath the Stars broke sharply from the rail and set a comfortable pace of 23.11 seconds for a quarter mile while Buy the Best raced in second between Sommer Velvet to her inside and My Thoughts. Buy the Best had moved clearly into second after a half in 46.77, closed the gap on the turn and steadily gained ground on the leader through the stretch before taking over.

Buy the Best, a $70,000 yearling purchase last fall, ran second in debut May 23 at historic Pimlico Race Course then made her next three starts at Delaware Park, graduating in a Sept. 29 maiden special weight and beating winners Oct. 28. She entered the Gin Talking off a 3 ¼-length triumph in the six-furlong Smart Halo Nov. 13 at Laurel over Luna Belle, who came back to win the Maryland Juvenile Fillies Dec. 18.

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Can The Queen Best In Sensible Lady At Pimlico

Joanne Shankle's Can the Queen, beaten less than three lengths in the Jameela Stakes last out after setting the pace, came from just off the pace Saturday to win the $100,000 Sensible Lady at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Md. by 1 ¾ lengths over Flyingontheground. What a Trick finished third while 7-5 favorite Golden Can was fourth.

Can the Queen, a 5-year-old daughter of Can the Man, covered a firm five-furlong turf course in :56.41 under jockey Victor Carrasco for trainer Rodolfo Sanchez-Salomon.

Can the Queen broke alertly and raced three-wide outside pacesetter What a Trick and Golden Can past an opening quarter in :21.63. After Golden Can dropped back a bit on the turn, Can the Queen chased What a Trick and jockey Feargal Lynch into the stretch before driving to the lead and finish line.

The mare set the pace in the Jameela July 4 with an opening quarter in :22.60 before finishing fourth.

“I'm so excited for this filly,” said Sanchez-Salomon. “I never expected her to run this good. She just needs a good ride, patient, and she can run a little bit. At the end when she started moving up, I was just hoping she wouldn't stop because she usually stops a little bit when she gets in front. She got a perfect ride. She wasn't rushed in the beginning; she was just sitting there waiting for the moment to move on.”

“The instructions were to be forwardly placed,” Carrasco said. “I got out there the first few jumps to make sure I'm on the lead or second and then when we got near the quarter pole I was just sitting on her and I see Feargal already asking and I'm just sitting there. When I said go, she exploded and got the job done.”

Can The Queen has now won four of 12 starts. She was bred in Maryland by Carol Ann Kaye.

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