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Super Saver Colt Stays Two Turns; Earns Rising Stardom at Saratoga

Wertheimer and Frere homebred Happy Saver (Super Saver) made good on a flashy debut last month and handled nine panels at Saratoga like he was just getting going to garner the ‘TDN Rising Star’ moniker Sunday afternoon. The Todd Pletcher pupil aired by 5 1/2 lengths at first asking going seven furlongs at Belmont June 20, and was even-money against a solid-looking group of winners this time around. He broke alertly, but was out-footed into the first turn and took up a ground-saving spot in third. Ridden along to avoid getting shuffled back into the second bend after a :48.25 half, he looked briefly like he might be coming up empty as Irad Ortiz, Jr. was all over him to get going as noses pointed for home. Happy Saver tipped out wide while figuring out his leads, soon found another gear kicked on with a flourish to inhale Beau Luminarie (I Want Revenge) and canter away a geared-down four-length winner in 1:49.93.

“He’s been training great–he’s [GI Belmont S. runner-up and GI Haskell S. third] Dr Post (Quality Road)’s workmate and they’ve been working head and head, so we had confidence that his first out [effort] was legitimate,” Pletcher told Acacia Courtney on the Saratoga Live broadcast. “You’re always a little concerned when you’re stretching out off of one race to a mile and an eighth, but he’d trained really well and he’s got a great personality–he’s very relaxed. I got a little worried around the first turn, it got a little crowded and we weren’t exactly where we thought we’d be, but he seemed settled and I was really impressed with his last eighth of a mile.”

While Pletcher acknowledged that the GI Runhappy Travers S. in two weeks would likely come up too quickly, he mentioned the GII Jim Dandy S. Sept. 5 as a possible next spot for Happy Saver.

The winner’s dam Happy Week (Distorted Humor) was a MSP sprinter for these connections and was disqualified from a third-place run in the 2011 GII Shuvee H. over a one-turn mile. She produced a Candy Ride (Arg) filly in 2019 and sold for $30,000 to John Ropes at last year’s Keeneland November sale carrying a full-sister to Happy Saver. Happy Saver’s third dam is Weekend Surprise (Secretariat), best known as the dam of A.P. Indy.

8th-Saratoga, $74,000, Alw, 7-26, (NW1$X), 3yo/up, 1 1/8m, 1:49.93, ft.
HAPPY SAVER, c, 3, Super Saver
                1st Dam: Happy Week (MSP, $228,674),
                                by Distorted Humor
                2nd Dam: Lassie’s Legacy, by Deputy Minister
                3rd Dam: Weekend Surprise, by Secretariat
Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, $75,900. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton. Free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
O-Wertheimer and Frere; B-Wertheimer Et Frere (KY); T-Todd A. Pletcher.

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Outwork Colt Green But Good Sprinting on Spa Lawn

5th-Saratoga, $72,000, Msw, 7-26, 2yo, 5 1/2fT, 1:02.36, fm.
OUTADORE (c, 2, Outwork–Adore You {SP, $276,240}, by Tactical Cat) was let go at 6-1 as the less fancied of a pair of juvenile runners saddled by a trainer whose prowess with young horses–especially on turf–is well documented, and he proved to be the “right” Ward while providing his first-crop sire (by Uncle Mo) with a second winner and first on the lawn. Irad Ortiz, Jr. had ridden Outadore’s stablemate River Tiber (War Front) to a fourth-place run on debut at Belmont June 12, but landed on Outadore this time off a fairly unassuming worktab and it was soon clear why. Away well in typical Ward fashion, Outadore chased two-time runner-up filly Mad Maddy (American Pharoah) through an opening quarter in :21.63 and half in :44.77. The grey had his head cocked towards the stands a bit as he challenged for command in upper stretch, and he took over while racing greenly before pulling away to a 2 3/4-length graduation. Mad Maddy held off River Tiber to be second. The winner is half to Piedi Bianchi (Overanalyze), MSW & MGISP, $476,700. His dam, who was at one point claimed for $12,500 before finishing a close third at long odds turf sprinting in the 2007 Buffalo Trace Franklin County S. at Keeneland, is a half to a stakes-winning juvenile who was second in the 2012 GII Adirondack S. over the local main track. Outwork was also responsible for the debuting runner-up in Sunday’s second race, a maiden special weight for New York-breds on the dirt. Outadore is bred on a version of the same Uncle Mo over Storm Cat as Sunday’s Ellis romper Dream Quist (Nyquist). Sales history: $140,000 Wlg ’18 KEENOV; $290,000 Ylg ’19 KEESEP. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $39,600. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by Fasig-Tipton.
O-Breeze Easy, LLC; B-Deann Baer & Greg Baer DVM (KY); T-Wesley A. Ward.

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Nyquist Filly Relishes Stretch Out to Become Sire’s First Winner

C&H Diamond Racing LLC & Baccari Racing Stable’s Dream Quist (Nyquist) improved significantly on the stretch out at Ellis Sunday to become the first winner for her freshman sire (by Uncle Mo). A debut fifth as the favorite sprinting in the Churchill slop June 28, the $265,000 Fasig-Tipton October yearling was off as the 5-2 second choice this time but was bumped from both sides leaving the gate. She moved up in between horses to sit perched in third and tugged her way up to challenge the pacesetter heading for home after a half in :48 flat. She started to wear down the frontrunner at the quarter pole, and spurted clear as they straightened to kick away convincingly by 3 3/4 lengths. Odds-on favorite Bahama Mischief (Into Mischief), a $300,000 KEESEP yearling who was a close second on debut at Churchill June 26, rallied to complete the chalky exacta.

Dream Quist, who sold on the final day of the final major yearling sale of 2019, is out of a mare who earned a 95 Beyer Speed Figure when taking a Lone Star sprint stakes race as a July juvenile. Dam Seacrettina (Sea of Secrets) produced an American Pharoah filly in 2019 and was bred to Street Sense for 2021.

The winner’s sire, a champion juvenile who would go on to take the 2016 GI Kentucky Derby before retiring to Darley, led all first-crop sires by yearling average last season at $236,318.

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4th-Ellis, $37,000, Msw, 7-26, 2yo, f, 1m, 1:39.74, ft.
DREAM QUIST (f, 2, Nyquist–Seacrettina {SW}, by Sea of Secrets) Lifetime Record: 2-1-0-0, $24,570.
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O-C&H Diamond Racing, LLC & Baccari Racing Stable, LLC; B-Seclusive Farm LLC, Chester & Anne Prince & James Murphy (KY); T-Kenneth G. McPeek. *$265,000 Ylg ’19 FTKOCT.

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Colonial Downs Postpones Opening Day Card Due to Extreme Heat

Colonial Downs has postponed Monday’s opening card due to forecasted dangerous heat conditions with heat index forecasts over 100 degrees. Monday’s races will be re-carded for Sunday, Aug. 2 and horsemen will need to re-enter Tuesday, July 28.

Colonial Downs’s revised opening day features a nine-race card planned for Tuesday, July 28 with a post time of 5:30 p.m. ET.

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