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More Matriarch Domination: Brown Runners 1-2-3-4 at Del Mar

Chad Brown sent four horses to the West Coast in search of his sixth victory in the GI Matriarch S. at Del Mar Sunday and the New York-based conditioner's quartet ran one-two-three-four with the aptly named Surge Capacity (Flintshire {GB}) getting free late to just edge stablemate Fluffy Socks (Slumber {GB}) on the wire. Beaute Cachee (Fr) (Literato {Fr}) was third and Whitebeam (GB) (Caravaggio {Ire}) was fourth. It was the first time that a trainer had swept the top four in a Grade I win Del Mar history.

“It's really my DNA from Bobby Frankel,” Brown, a former assistant to the late Hall of Famer, said of his Matriarch record. “This was one of his favorite races, everybody knows that. He always pointed fillies to this race every year and I worked in Southern California for him for some time and I remember him pointing certain horses to this race and winning.”

Brown continued, “I still use a lot of what he taught me to get horses to this race and I always think of him when I am designing a campaign for a horse to get to the Matriarch. It's just one of those races that I decided early on in my career, when I started getting better horses, that it was going to be part of my program to point horses to it. We've been very successful and I want to thank my team for really executing the things that I've taught them that he passed down to me.”

Making just the fifth start of her career, Surge Capacity was away a tad awkwardly before settling in midpack along the rail as stablemate and favorite Whitebeam tracked pacesetting longshot Gracelund Gray (Goldencents) through fractions of :22.80 and :45.89. Surge Capacity inched closer down the backstretch, but was mired in traffic into the far turn and was shuffled back approaching the stretch as Fluffy Socks was rallying in the clear on the outside.

Whitebeam had a short-lived advantage in upper stretch as Fluffy Socks produced a powerful rally down the center of the course to take the lead inside the final furlong. Surge Capacity finally found her way into the clear as the wire loomed and finished with a late flourish to just edge her stablemate in the dying strides.

Surge Capacity's completed the race in 1:33.95, the fastest mile grass race of the meeting.

“She's a fighter, you know, she likes to run,” said winning rider Joel Rosario. “She likes the competition. I kind of had no choice but to stay inside [in the stretch]. I was just trying to save the ground and then go from there. I was very lucky, with her kick. She is a very nice horse.”

Surge Capacity, a debut winner over the Monmouth lawn in June, quickly added a graded stakes victory to her resume in the July 21 GIII Lake George S. She suffered her lone defeat to date when second behind Aspray (Quality Road) in the Aug. 19 GII Lake Placid S., but rebounded to win the Oct. 27 GIII Valley View S. at Keeneland last time out.

“She has always trained like a really good horse,” Brown said of the winner. “She didn't run at two because she had some sore shins, but she is a beautiful horse. And a little bonus, she is by Flintshire, who I was lucky enough to train his last year in training and he was a champion turf horse. He was a really remarkable horse and this filly seems to be one of his best offspring. And I trained her mother and a lot of the siblings.”

Brown said he was impressed with all four of his Matriarch runners.

“Beaute Cachee had trouble around the eighth pole and then found her stride again and kicked on to be third which, watching the replay, was a really remarkable run by her,” he said. “And then when you look at Whitebeam, she was much closer to the pace then we had planned on being. For her to still hang on for fourth after being right on a very fast pace, I thought was a really good race. That was not the plan at all. Flavien [Prat] said afterwards that he didn't think they were going that fast and she was doing it comfortably, but it's really not the trip that she wants and the fact that she was able to hang on for a minor award showed that she ran a great race because she had every right to cave and fall back through the field as the wire came up, given how fast the pace was. All four horses ran terrific.”

Still the trainer admitted the photo finish between the winner and runner-up was a little bittersweet.

“It's always a difficult position when it's your two horses going for the wire in a Grade I race. I was pleased that it was my horses in the stretch, all four of them battling down there to try to win. But it was slightly bittersweet with Fluffy Socks being the 5-year-old of the two in the photo versus the 3-year-old. Not that I would pick between them, but once the result was up, I have to feel for Fluffy Socks a little bit because she is such a courageous, consistent horse who is in the later stages of her career. And it would have been nice to see her win a Grade I, but on the other hand, that's horse racing. And Surge Capacity really ran a terrific race.”

Pedigree Notes:

Surge Capacity is one of three graded winners for her sire Flintshire (GB) (Dansili {GB}), Eclipse champion turf horse of 2016, and she is his first Grade I winner. The stallion's son Verbal won the GIII Cecil B DeMille on this same card in 2021.

Klaravich Stable purchased Surge Capacity's dam Strong Incentive for $200,000 at the 2014 OBS April sale. Racing for the partnership of Seth Klarman's Klaravich and William Lawrence, the bay won two of six starts, including the 2015 Jammed Lovely S.

Bloodstock agent Mike Ryan purchased the mare on behalf of Klaravich as part of the dissolution of the partnership for $40,000 at the 2018 Keeneland November sale. The mare's 2-year-old daughter Ways and Means (Practical Joke) was second in this year's GI Spinaway S. in the Klaravich colors. Put through the ring at Fasig-Tipton November last month, Strong Incentive sold in foal to Good Magic for $2.15 million to Alpha Delta Stables.

 

Sunday, Del Mar
MATRIARCH S.-GI, $303,500, Del Mar, 12-3, 3yo/up, f/m, 1mT, 1:33.95, fm.
1–SURGE CAPACITY, 120, f, 3, by Flintshire (GB)
                1st Dam: Strong Incentive (SW, $123,568),
                                by Warrior's Reward
                2nd Dam: G G's Dolly, by Comic Strip
                3rd Dam: Parfait, by Kingmambo
1ST GRADE I WIN. O/B-Klaravich Stables (KY); T-Chad C.
Brown; J-Joel Rosario. $180,000. Lifetime Record: 5-4-1-0,
$518,975. *1/2 to Highly Motivated (Into Mischief), GSW,
$667,375; and Ways and Means (Practical Joke), GISP,
$117,750. Werk Nick Rating: B+.
Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
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2–Fluffy Socks, 123, m, 5, 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. $60,000.
3–Beaute Cachee (Fr), 123, f, 4, by Literato (Fr)
                1st Dam: Sign And Seal (Ire), by Hurricane Run (Ire)
                2nd Dam: Seraphine (Ger), by Dashing Blade (GB)
                3rd Dam: Sovereign Touch (Ire), by Pennine Walk (Ire)
1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE, 1ST G1 BLACK TYPE. (€1,500 Ylg
'20 ARQAU). O-Madaket Stables LLC, Michael Dubb and Louis
Lazzinnaro LLC; B-Gregor Vischer (FR); T-Chad C. Brown.
$36,000.
Margins: HD, 1HF, HD. Odds: 4.70, 6.10, 18.70.
Also Ran: Whitebeam (GB), Ruby Nell, Closing Remarks, Elm Drive, Gracelund Gray, Queen Goddess, Hamwood Flier (Ire), Wakanaka (Ire), Elounda Queen (Ire).
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Klaravich Homebred ‘Surges’ To Valley View Victory

Favored on the morning line at 3-1 for Friday's GIII Bank of America Valley View S. at Keeneland, Klaravich Stable's Surge Capacity (Flintshire {GB}) launched a furious final-furlong flourish and was along in the dying strides to–somewhat remarkably–give trainer Chad Brown a first victory in the event at an overlaid 5-1.

The homebred was off alertly from gate nine and was able to cross down to ride the rails into the first turn as Yesternight (Midnight Storm) was hard sent from the 11 hole to make the running. Appearing to overrace while traveling on the back of the speed through the middle furlongs, Surge Capacity continued to sit a good trip, but took an awkward stride as the field approached the stretch. Shuffled back a few spots as a result, the well-related filly commenced her rally in earnest at the eighth pole, was switched to the inside of GIII Music City S. winner Secret Money (Good Samaritan) shortly after and charged home along the fence to just touch off Heavenly Sunday (Candy Ride {Arg}), who raced prominently throughout. Bling (American Pharoah) was third. The victory provided a timely and valuable pedigree update for her dam, who just Thursday was supplemented to the Fasig-Tipton November Sale Nov. 7.

A debut winner over the Monmouth turf course June 10, Surge Capacity offered similarly juicy odds off 11-2 when proving 3/4 of a length too strong for her better-fancied and commonly owned stablemate Tax Implications (GB) (Mehmas {Ire}) in the GIII Lake George S. over yielding Saratoga turf July 21. No better than the third choice to Tax Implications in the GII Lake Placid S. Aug. 19, Surge Capacity was beaten to the punch by the Brown-trained Aspray (Quality Road) and was forced to settle for second.

Pedigree Notes:

Surge Capacity's dam was acquired by Klaravich for $200,000 at the 2014 OBS April Sale and, campaigned in partnership with William H. Lawrence, she won the 2015 Jammed Lovely S. The mare's first foal, Dew Springs (Temple City), was bred in partnership, but future GSW Highly Motivated (Into Mischief), Surge Capacity and 'TDN Rising Star' and troubled GI Spinaway S. runner-up Ways and Means (Practical Joke) all raced or race as Klaravich homebreds.

A half-sister to MSP Hall Pass (Freedom Child) and to the dam of 2022 GII Penn Mile S. upsetter Wow Whata Summer (Summer Front), Strong Incentive was blank the past two years and is currently in foal to Good Magic.

 

Friday, Keeneland
BANK OF AMERICA VALLEY VIEW S.-GIII, $299,375, Keeneland, 10-27, 3yo, f, 1mT, 1:35.80, fm.
1–SURGE CAPACITY, 118, f, 3, by Flintshire (GB)
         1st Dam: Strong Incentive (SW, $123,568), by Warrior's Reward
         2nd Dam: G G's Dolly, by Comic Strip
         3rd Dam: Parfait, by Kingmambo
O/B-Klaravich Stables (KY); T-Chad C. Brown; J-Joel Rosario. $169,725. Lifetime Record: 4-3-1-0, $338,975. *1/2 to Highly Motivated (Into Mischief), GSW, $667,375; and Ways and Means (Practical Joke), 'TDN Rising Star', GISP, $117,750. Werk Nick Rating: A. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree or free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Heavenly Sunday, 120, f, 3, Candy Ride (Arg)–Alien Giant, by Giant's Causeway. ($170,000 RNA Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-Miacomet Farm (William Harrigan); B-Randal Family Trust (KY); T-Brad H. Cox. $54,750.
3–Bling, 118, f, 3, American Pharoah–Blonde Bomber, by Fort Larned. ($160,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-G. Watts Humphrey, Jr.; B-Clarkland Farm LLC (KY); T-Victoria H. Oliver. $27,375.
Margins: 3/4, HF, NK. Odds: 5.08, 6.47, 5.36.
Also Ran: Sacred Wish, Safeen, Eternal Silence, Pride of the Nile, Speirling Beag (Ire), Secret Money, Flashy Gem, Abundancia, Yesternight. Scratched: Bolivie (Ire), Erna, Junipermarshmallow, Sweetlou'sgotaces.
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Sacred Wish Looks To Stay Clean On the Green In Valley View

The GIII Bank of America Valley View S. kicks off the graded action on the final two days of the fall meeting at Keeneland, and a mostly evenly matched group of sophomore fillies will head to the post.

Sacred Wish (Not This Time) was something other than a failure on the main track, with placings in the GII Gulfstream Park Oaks–in her first start following a private acquisition by a partnership group headed up by Black Type Thoroughbreds and Swinbank Stable–and a near miss behind Wet Paint (Blame) in the GI CCA Oaks in July. The dark bay never reached contention in the GI Alabama S. after some problems getting out of the gate and tried the turf for the first time in the Sept. 15 Winter Memories S. at Aqueduct. She took to it beautifully, coming away late to score comfortably and looks to have trained on strongly since.

Klaravich Stable homebred Surge Capacity (Flintshire {GB}) is the 3-1 favorite on the morning line and with good reason, as she won Saratoga's GIII Lake George S. at second asking July 21, where she had Secret Money (Good Samaritan) back in third, and was second best to stablemate Aspray (Quality Road) in the GII Lake Placid S. Aug. 19. Secret Money did her part to flatter the Lake George form when edging next-out Glen Cove S. winner Danse Macabre (Army Mule) in the 6 1/2-furlong GIII Music City S. at Kentucky Downs Sept. 2.

Trainer Jessica Harrington sends in Moyglare Stud homebred Eternal Silence (War Front) for her U.S. debut. Third to the recently retired Tahiyra (Ire) (Siyouni {Fr}) in the Group 1 stakes sponsored by her owner last fall, the bay won her maiden by 11 lengths going a mile a Naas June 28 and exits a fourth in listed company at Killarney the following month. Shane Foley ships in to ride.

So rich in quality is the Valley View that three fillies that have already struck at the graded level are no better than bit players. The rail-drawn Heavenly Sunday (Candy Ride {Arg}) wired Churchill's GII Edgewood S. May 5, while Safeen (War Front) picked up her graded score in the GIII Pucker Up S. at Ellis in August. The most intriguing of this trio is Abundancia (California Chrome), a Group 2 winner on the dirt in Peru and Group 1 placed on both surfaces.

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Surge Capacity Gives Brown Yet Another Lake George

It's a tall task to beat Chad Brown at Saratoga, especially when he has half the field. SURGE CAPACITY (f, 3, Flintshire {GB}–Strong Incentive, by Warrior's Reward)–one of four entrants from the Brown barn in the GIII Lake George S.–was the least experienced of the field but carried the day, taking Friday's featured race at the Spa after scraping the paint and finishing bravely for the win. A first-out Monmouth maiden winner June 10 at a sixteenth further with an 80 debut Beyer Speed Figure, Surge Capacity gave Brown a fifth consecutive victory and seventh overall–all since 2015–in the race, while Seth Klarman's Klaravich Stables was winning the race for the third time in the last four renewals. The team also scored the 2023 exacta as Klaravich's Brown-trained Tax Implications (GB) (Mehmas {Ire}) was the runner-up.

Away sharply, Surge Capacity was prominent early before Joel Rosario eased her back a bit to sit a joint third on the rail through the :24.97 first quarter and :49.84 half set by Secret Money (Good Samaritan) with Princess Bettina (Will Take Charge) hounding the leader from second. Restrained behind the frontrunners, Surge Capacity was ready to pounce when a hole opened up into the lane. The dark bay had the measure of Secret Money, poking her head in front a furlong from home, and still had enough to hold off her surging stablemate. Brown's Revalita (Fr) (Recoletos {Fr}) and Liguria (War Front) were fourth and fifth, respectively.

“She's been straightforward,” said Brown of the winner. “She took a while to get to the races, but she's two-for-two to start her career in only her second start winning a graded stakes against some nice fillies. She's a pretty talented horse, I'd say.”

The turf was marked as yielding Friday with the Lake George remaining the day's only race kept on the grass.

“This was the [filly] I was going to run if it came off [the grass]. I know, Flintshire on the dirt, but she has never trained bad on the dirt. I'm not saying I'll put her there off this, but I'm going to see how she trains over it. She might be a pretty versatile horse. The female family is all dirt, so it wouldn't surprise me.”

Pedigree Notes:

You'll be forgiven a case of deju vu if a graded-winning Klaravich homebred trained by Brown out of Strong Incentive (Warrior's Reward) sounds familiar. Last year's GIII Monmouth Cup S. winner and GII Toyota Blue Grass S. runner-up Highly Motivated (Into Mischief) is a half-brother to Surge Capacity. Klaravich Stable bought Strong Incentive as a 2-year-old for $200,000 at the OBS Spring sale and she was a minor listed winner at Woodbine for Brown in 2015 before turning into a two-time graded producer. Her most recent produce is an unraced juvenile filly named Ways and Means (Practical Joke), who posted a five-furlong work at Saratoga July 15 in 1:01 (6/31).

Surge Capacity is by Juddmonte's 2016 U.S. grass champion Flintshire (GB)–also a Group 1 winner in France and Hong Kong–who began his stallion career at Hill 'n' Dale in Kentucky before moving to Haras de Montaigu in France prior to the 2022 season. She marks the third graded/group winner and fourth overall black-type winner for the stallion who won three graded races at Saratoga himself, including the GI Sword Dancer S. twice. Surge Capacity also denotes the 10th black-type winner out of a daughter of the Medaglia d'Oro son Warrior's Reward, whose others include the aforementioned Highly Motivated and 'TDN Rising Star', GI Champagne S. winner, and Friday's Curlin S. third-place finisher Blazing Sevens (Good Magic).

 

 

 

Friday, Saratoga
LAKE GEORGE S.-GIII, $175,000, Saratoga, 7-21, 3yo, f, 1mT, 1:38, yl.
1–SURGE CAPACITY, 118, f, 3, by Flintshire (GB)
1st Dam: Strong Incentive (SW, $123,568), by Warrior's Reward
2nd Dam: G G's Dolly, by Comic Strip
3rd Dam: Parfait, by Kingmambo
1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. O/B-Klaravich Stables Inc (KY); T-Chad C Brown; J-Joel Rosario. $96,250. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $129,250. *1/2 to Highly Motivated (Into Mischief), GSW, $667,375.  Werk Nick Rating: F. Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree. Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Tax Implications (GB), 118, f, 3, Mehmas (Ire)–Country Madam (Ire), by Medaglia d'Oro. 1ST GRADED BLACK-TYPE. (75,000gns Wlg '20 TATFOA; 250,000gns Ylg '21 TATOCT). O-Klaravich Stables Inc; B-Aoife Kent (GB); T-Chad C Brown. $35,000.
3–Secret Money, 120, f, 3, Good Samaritan–Awesome Humor, by Distorted Humor. 1ST BLACK-TYPE, 1ST GRADED BLACK-TYPE. ($35,000 Ylg '21 KEESEP; $40,000 2yo '22 EASMAY). O-Fortune Farm LLC (Richard Nicolai), Robert G Hahn, Emcee Stable LLC & It's All About The Girls Stable LLC; B-WinStar Farm LLC (KY); T-Brendan P Walsh. $21,000.
Margins: 3/4, NK, 2HF. Odds: 5.50, 3.75, 9.20.
Also Ran: Revalita (Fr), Liguria, Tryinmyheartout, Princess Bettina, Lil Miss Moonlight. Scratched: Queen Picasso (GB), Utilization Rate (Fr). Click for the Equibase.com chart and the TJCIS.com PPs. VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

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