Endlessly Gets 100 Derby Points With Jeff Ruby Steaks Win

ENDLESSLY (c, 3, Oscar Performance–Dream Fuhrever, by Langhfur) is on to Louisville with a no-doubt win in Saturday's GIII Jeff Ruby Steaks Picking up 100 points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby, the El Camino Real Derby winner stormed to the front with a furlong to run and was not for catching, coming home all alone to pick up his third graded-stakes win. West Saratoga (Exaggerator) outran his 36-1 odds to fill the exacta slot. Lifetime Record: 6-5-0-0.

O-Amerman Racing LLC; B-Mrs. Jerry Amerman; T-Michael W. McCarthy.

 

Saturday, Turfway
JEFF RUBY STEAKS-GIII, $700,000, Turfway, 3-23, 3yo, 1 1/8m (AWT), 1:50.15, ft.
1–ENDLESSLY, 123, c, 3, by Oscar Performance
                1st Dam: Dream Fuhrever, by Langfuhr
                2nd Dam: Society Dream (Fr), by Akarad (Fr)
                3rd Dam: Society Bride, by Blushing Groom (Fr)
O-Amerman Racing LLC; B-Jerry Amerman (KY); T-Michael W.
McCarthy; J-Umberto Rispoli. $408,000. Lifetime Record:
6-5-0-0, $707,200. Werk Nick Rating: D+.
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2–West Saratoga, 123, c, 3, Exaggerator–Mo Wicked, by Uncle
Mo. ($11,000 Ylg '22 KEESEP). O-Harry L. Veruchi; B-Two
Hearts Farm II LLC (KY); T-Larry W. Demeritte. $136,000.
3–Seize the Grey, 123, c, 3, Arrogate–Smart Shopping, by Smart
Strike. 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($300,000 Ylg '22 FTSAUG).
O-MyRacehorse; B-Jamm, Ltd. (KY); T-D. Wayne Lukas.
$68,000.
Margins: 4, HD, HD. Odds: 1.44, 36.25, 6.60.
Also Ran: Triple Espresso, Lucky Jeremy, Woodcourt, Dancing Groom, Northern Flame, Otello, Noted. Scratched: Agate Road, Baytown Chatterbox, Circle P, Freedom Principle.
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Saturday Insights: Million-Dollar Gun Runner Colt Kicks Off Louisiana Derby Day

5th-FG, $75K, MSW, 3yo, 6f, 3:00 p.m.
CORPORAL (Gun Runner) went the way of partners Mrs. John Magnier, Michael B. Tabor, Derrick Smith, Westerberg, John Oxley and Breeze Easy on a final bid of $1.15-million at the 2022 Keeneland September Sale. His dam MSW/MGSP Kathballu (Bluegrass Cat) is a full-sister MGSW/GISP Kathmanblu, and this is also the family of $1.15-million Stonestreet broodmare GISW Friendly Michelle (Artax). Corporal has flashed speed in the morning, firing bullets in three of his last four works and Flavien Prat takes the reins Saturday afternoon for trainer Brad Cox.TJCIS PPS

4th-FG, $75K, MSW, 3yo, f, 1mT, 2:30 p.m.
Mischief My Way (Into Mischief), the homebred half-sister to GISW Adare Manor (Uncle Mo), makes the races for Town and Country Racing and trainer Chris Block. In addition to her million-dollar earning half-sister, she is a daughter of GSW Brooklynsway, who herself RNA'd for $1.2-million at last fall's FTKNOV sale. TJCIS PPS

6th-SA, $65K, MSW, 3-5yo, f, 6f, 6:33 p.m.
The second-highest price at last year's Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale, In Theory (Mendelssohn) was an $800,000 buy for Speedway Stables after breezing in :10.1. Trainer Bob Baffert has lined up Juan Hernandez for a filly that fired a best-of-27 work two back, going five furlongs from the gate in :59 2/5 (1/27) Mar. 13. TJCIS PPS

2nd-TP, $70K, MSW, 3yo, f, 6f, 1:13 p.m.
Kicking off Jeff Ruby Steaks Day at Turfway is LNJ Foxwoods and NK Racing's Sabatini (Uncle Mo), a $625,000 2-year-old purchase from the same Fasig-Tipton Midlantic Sale last year after also working in :10.1. The filly is out of a half-sister to champion 2-year-old and GI Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist (Uncle Mo). TJCIS PPS

4th-TP, $70K, MSW, 3yo, 6f, 2:13 p.m.
Claiborne Farm and Adele Dilschneider homebred Term (Medaglia d'Oro) lines up inside for his debut. He is out of a full-sister to GISP Chide (Blame) and a half-sister to the dams of MGISW Elate (Medaglia d'Oro) and MGSW Tax (Arch). This is also the family of Claiborne stallion Flatter (A.P. Indy). TJCIS PPS

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Arnold Receives Seven-Day Suspension for Tramadol Positive; Raises Contamination Questions

Trainer Rusty Arnold has been suspended seven days and fined $1,000 after the 2-year-old filly he trains, Figgy (Candy Ride {Arg}), tested positive for a metabolite of Tramadol.

“I received notification and today am accepting the penalties for a horse in my care testing for a controlled substance under current HISA/HIWU regulations,” said Arnold in a letter circulated by the National Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association. “To be clear,” continues Arnold, “I have no issue that I have a positive post-race test. The problem is why it is a positive. We can't afford to just stand on the rail expressing outrage whenever one of our training colleagues gets ensnared in HISA and HIWU testing policies and penalties that defy common sense and ignore the realities of our environment. We need to speak not amongst ourselves but to speak up together to regulators–loudly–that the system in place is unfairly hurting livelihoods and reputations while doing nothing to make our horses and industry safer. I'm not anti-HISA (Horseracing Integrity & Safety Authority). But I'm very much against some of the policies they've put in place–and allowed its enforcement arm HIWU (Horseracing Integrity & Welfare Unit) to put into place–in determining drug and medication violations.”

Arnold said the drug was detected in Figgy's post-race test after her win in a Dec. 27 maiden race at Turfway, at a level of three nanograms per millileter of urine.

Tramadol is a narcotic used for moderate to moderately severe pain, according to the Mayo Clinic, which says it is also used to treat severe pain when opioids cannot be used or are not effective. It is often given post-surgery.

Officials at HIWU released a statement to TDN upon request. The statement read:

“A first-time presence violation for Tramadol, a Class B Controlled Medication under HISA's ADMC rules, calls for a period of Ineligibility of up to 15 days. This mirrors the penalty recommended for Tramadol in the ARCI's Model Rules, which predate HISA. Mr. Arnold chose to admit the violation, which reduces his period of Ineligibility to 7 days.”

Arnold continued: “I am accepting my penalty and will move on. However, I do 100 percent deny giving or instructing anyone on my staff to administer Tramadol to Figgy,” Arnold wrote. “We interviewed every person who came in contact with Figgy and no one had a Tramadol prescription. Figgy is under 24/7 state-of-the-art video surveillance supplied by Keeneland. This was offered to HISA, but they never responded to the offer to make that video available. We do not believe Figgy received Tramadol in our care.

“It is our belief that Figgy was contaminated with Tramadol either on the van ride to Turfway Park that day or in the receiving barn where she was in her assigned stall for approximately eight hours prior to her race. We have no control over those factors.”

Arnold said that he felt that HISA was unrealistic in its views and penalties for environmental contamination. “Horses are grazing animals,” he wrote. “They eat dirt. They love to lick smelly wet spots in stalls. They eat manure. They lick the walls of ship-in stalls. It is unreasonable to think we can control this.”

HIWU's statement to TDN continued: “HISA has introduced a cleanliness review of receiving barns into its racetrack accreditation visits and will continue to emphasize to racetracks the importance of maintaining the highest level of cleanliness standards in receiving barns to minimize any risks to horses.”

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Godolphin’s Encino Gets By Epic Ride In John Battaglia Upset

Godolphin homebred Encino broke his maiden over course and distance Jan. 26 and parlayed that right into points on the Road to the Kentucky Derby with a win in Saturday night's John Battaglia Memorial S. at Turfway Park. Debuting as the beaten favorite, albeit by only a neck, over a mile on the Tapeta Dec. 29, the Brad Cox trainee stepped up with a gate-to-wire run second-time out in a better than it seemed half-length win. Sent at 5-1 Saturday behind race favorite Epic Ride, Encino broke nearly widest of the field but was able to tuck in on the run to the first turn and sit a stalking trip behind a quartet of pacers up front. Situated just off the hip of the favorite up the backstretch, he followed that one's move into the far turn, had to swing outside of him as they straightened away and dug in gamely to get by close to home.

“After I broke pretty well from the gate I was able to get over and begin to follow Epic Ride,” said winning rider and reigning Eclipse Award winner Axel Concepcion. “He relaxed very well down the backside and around the far turn I was able to ask him for his best run. I had a lot of horse still left down the lane and he continued to run hard all the way to the wire.”

His dam's second foal and first to race, Encino is the 23rd stakes winner for his sire and out of a half-sister to champion 2-year-old, GI Kentucky Derby winner and sire Street Sense (Street Cry {Ire}). Glittering Jewel has since produced back to back fillies by Street Boss before visiting Good Magic for this year. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by FanDuel TV.

 

JOHN BATTAGLIA MEMORIAL S., $142,500, Turfway, 3-2, 3yo,
1 1/16m (AWT), 1:44.22, ft.
1–ENCINO, 118, c, 3, by Nyquist
                1st Dam: Glittering Jewel, by Bernardini
                2nd Dam: Bedazzle, by Dixieland Band
                3rd Dam: Majestic Legend, by His Majesty
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN. O/B-Godolphin (KY); T-Brad H. Cox;
J-Axel Concepcion. $87,536. Lifetime Record: 3-2-1-0,
$141,971.
2–Epic Ride, 124, c, 3, Blame–Pick a Time, by Gio Ponti.
($160,000 Ylg '22 KEESEP). O-Welch Racing LLC; B-Fred W.
Hertrich (KY); T-John Ennis. $28,560.
3–Blue Eyed George, 120, c, 3, Flameaway–Acting Naughty,
by Offlee Wild. ($50,000 Ylg '22 TTAYRL; $200,000 2yo '23
OBSAPR). O-BG Stables; B-Clear Creek Stud LLC (LA); T-Michael
McCarthy. $9,280.
Margins: 1, 1 3/4, 4 3/4. Odds: 5.69, 1.16, 3.88.
Also Ran: Mugatu, Ode to Balius, Bolt At Midnight, Mission Ready, Karlwithanarl, Good Bali, Fidget, Mr. Faversham. Scratched: Break Out, Gettysburg Address, Katheeb.

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