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Gala Brand Beats The Boys In the With Anticipation

Bypassing Wednesday's P. G. Johnson S. against her own sex–a race ultimately washed on to the main track–29-10 second favorite Gala Brand (Violence) bided her time at the back of a the field in a paceless renewal of Saratoga's GIII With Anticipation S., but went through her gears over the last furlong and a half and outfinished favored Carson's Run (Cupid).

Drawn the fence in a field reduced to seven by the scratching of British Sea (English Channel), the flashy chestnut was content to try to save her best for last, as Market Street (Street Sense) took the With Anticipation field along through pedestrian fractions of :25.02 and :51.61. The latter continued to lead after six furlongs in a very moderate 1:16.42, but Gala Blend took her cue at the head of the stretch, dueled heads apart into the final eighth of a mile with fellow debut winner Carson's Run and won the sprint to the wire by three-parts of a length while in receipt of three pounds from her male counterpart.

“The main thing first time going long was to keep her in good rhythm and just let her be and that's what I did,” said winning jockey Jose Ortiz. “I followed Dylan [Davis aboard No. 8, Carson's Run], I liked his horse. I saw him work the other day on the Oklahoma and he worked very well. I followed him every step of the way until we hit the quarter-pole. I went outside of him and it worked out. She was full of run, very nice filly.”

In addition to the winner, trainer Bill Mott also conditions Get Spooled (Hard Spun), who dead-heated for fourth with Nomos (Uncle Mo).

“I owe a lot to her [Megan Jones, managing partner of Arnmore Thoroughbreds]. She made sure she was nominated to both races [Wednesday's off-the-turf P. G. Johnson] and the plan was to enter in both. She was ready to scratch yesterday even before they came off the grass because she wanted the better turf course. As it turned out, there was no decision to make. Everything fell into place and then the other filly [the Mott-trained Magic Cross] won Wednesday.”

Gala Brand marked her debut facing state-bred rivals sprinting 5 1/2 furlongs over the Saratoga lawn Aug. 3, and made short work of her division, winning by 2 1/4 lengths. Runner up that day, Hidden Class (Catalina Cruiser returned to take a pricey allowance at Kentucky Downs Thursday.

Pedigree Notes:
Gala Brand is the 45th worldwide stakes winner and 17th group/graded winner for her Hill 'n' Dale-based Violence. She is out of Olorda, a group/graded winner in France and the US, as well as finishing third in the G1 Prix Saint-Alary. The German-bred mare is also responsible for a yearling filly by Liam's Map. She was bred to Oscar Performance this season.

“The color helped us buy her because I couldn't find any holes in her at the sale. She was a little rangy, I think it was the European in her. She looked pretty awkward [when she was] younger, the white covered more than it does now. She almost kind of grew into her color as she went. I think it helped us in the long term.

“Her personality actually fits her color. She has a lot of charisma and confidence. As soon as I saw her under tack and got to know her, I was like, 'That's just right for her.' She was born to be that color.”

Thursday, Saratoga
WITH ANTICIPATION S.-GIII, $175,000, Saratoga, 8-31, 2yo,
1 1/16mT, 1:45.93, gd.
1–GALA BRAND, 119, f, 2, by Violence
1st Dam: Olorda (Ger) (GSW & G1SP-Fr, MGSW-USA,
              $331,947), by Lord of England (Ger)
2nd Dam: Oligarchica (Ger), by Desert King (Ire)
3rd Dam: Ostwahlerin (Ger), by Waajib (Ire)
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($30,000 Ylg
'22 KEESEP). O-Arnmore Thoroughbreds, LLC and Even Keel
Thoroughbreds LLC; B-Desmond Ryan & Martin Schwartz (KY);
T-William I. Mott; J-Jose L. Ortiz. $96,250. Lifetime Record:
2-2-0-0, $141,900.
2–Carson's Run, 122, c, 2, Cupid–Hot N Hectic, by Henny
Hughes. 1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($35,000
Ylg '22 KEEJAN; $67,000 Ylg '22 FTKJUL; $170,000 2yo '23
OBSAPR). O-West Point Thoroughbreds and Bouchey, Steven;
B-Frankfort Park Farm (KY); T-Christophe Clement. $35,000.
3–Spirit Prince, 118, c, 2, Cairo Prince–Dottie's Spirit, by Curlin.
1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($110,000 Ylg '22
KEESEP). O-Oakwood Stables (Daniel J. Burke), Krase, Scott D.,
Donarra Thoroughbreds, LLC, Beitz, Kenneth G. and Beitz, Gail
P.; B-Ben and Rebekah Henley & Jim Gray (KY); T-Christophe
Clement. $21,000.
Margins: HF, 1 1/4, 2 1/4. Odds: 2.90, 2.55, 3.55.
Also Ran: Get Spooled-(DH), Nomos-(DH), Wine Collector, Market Street. Scratched: British Sea.
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Summer Breezes: Plenty of ‘Anticipation’ for Carson’s Run

Some of the most highly anticipated races during the summer racing season are the 'baby' races during the boutique meetings at both Saratoga and Del Mar and at Ellis Park, which attract its fair share of high-priced offspring from a variety of top national outfits.

Summer Breezes highlights debuting 2-year-olds at those meetings that have been sourced at the breeze-up sales earlier in the year, with links to their under-tack previews. To follow are the entries for Thursday at Saratoga, including previously raced horses in the GIII With Anticipation S.:

Thursday, August 31, 2023
Saratoga 2, 2yo, f, 1m, 1:44 p.m. ET
Horse (Sire), Sale, Price ($), Breeze
Rising Inflation (Mitole), OBSAPR, 200,000, :10.1
Consignor: Niall Brennan Stables, agent
Buyer: Klaravich Stable Inc

 

Sar 8, GIII With Anticipation S., $175k, 4:34 p.m. ET
Carson's Run (Cupid), OBSAPR, 170,000, :10.1
Consignor: Randy Miles, agent
Buyer: West Point Thoroughbreds, L.E.B., agent

 

Wine Collector (Flameaway), OBSMAR, 50,000, :10.2
Consignor: de Meric Sales, agent
Buyer: Lugamo Racing Stable

 

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Boppy O a First Graded Winner for Bolt d’Oro in With Anticipation

Just four days after his son Mounsieur Coco took the Proud Man S. over the Gulfstream all-weather, Boppy O (Bolt d'Oro) became the first graded-stakes winner for his freshman sire (by Medaglia d'Oro) and led home a top-three sweep for first-crop stallions when causing a 23-1 upset in Wednesday's GIII With Anticipation S. at Saratoga.

Ridden for some speed by Dylan Davis while making his first venture on the grass and over a distance of ground, the $190,000 Keeneland September yearling–a half-brother to last year's GII Best Pal S. hero and this season's GI Woody Stephens S. third, stablemate Pappacap (Gun Runner)–sat up right on the moderate pace set by fellow longshot El Conejito (Palace) through a half-mile in :50.09 over a turf course officially rated good, but tossing up times that suggested a fair bit more ease than that. Andthewinneris (Oscar Performance), a debut winner sprinting over the Keeneland turf course in April and favored by just less than $4,000 over the rail-drawn Battle of Normandy (City of Light) clocked the pacesetters from a close-up third and was first to come after them with every conceivable chance to run by. But he could not seal the deal when one-paced into the final eighth of a mile, and Boppy O kept on well enough to hit the line about a neck better than Battle of Normandy, who might have had his momentum stalled ever so slightly in upper stretch, but kicked on strongly to just miss.

“I was training Pappacap and Mr. Oxley called me at the sale and he said, 'Mark, have you looked at Pappacap's half-brother?' recollected rainer Mark Casse, who sent out Coinage (Tapit) to win last year's With Anticipation. “I said, 'I have and I really like him.' Then [Breeze Easy's] Mike Hall came up to me..and he said, 'Have you seen Pappacap's half-brother?' I said, 'I have, and Mr. Oxley's going to try to buy him. This is not going to be good.' So they said, 'Why don't we go together?' I called Mr. Oxley up and said, 'They're going to go after him, what do you think?' He said, 'Let's go partners.' And that's how it worked out.”

Just as Pappacap had done 371 days prior, Boppy O graduated at first asking in a five-furlong Gulfstream maiden May 20, but the bay never fired in this track's GII Sanford S., finishing a distant 10th behind Mo Strike (Uncle Mo).

“I kept telling the Oxleys and Mike Hall and Sam Ross after the race [the Sanford], 'Look, he's better than what you saw. I promise you, he's better than that,” Casse explained.

Pedigree Notes:

Boppy O is one of four winners from four to the races for Pappascat, who earned Grade III black-type with a longshot second in the 2014 GIII Cardinal H. over the turf course at Churchill Downs. The colt's stakes-placed second dam is also responsible for Fate Factor (The Factor), who has done her best work to date over synthetic tracks, with a pair of stakes placings at Turfway Park and a third on the Tapeta at Presque Isle Downs. The further female family includes four-time Peruvian champion Al Qasr (Aptitude), who won the Colonial Downs's Kitten's Joy S. while under the care of Ken McPeek in 2013.

Pappascap is the dam of a yearling colt by Omaha Beach, a colt foal by War Front's Classic-winning son War of Will and was bred to Candy Ride (Arg) this past breeding season.

Wednesday, Saratoga
WITH ANTICIPATION S.-GIII, $175,000, Saratoga, 8-31, 2yo, 1 1/16mT, 1:46.93, gd.
1–BOPPY O, 120, c, 2, by Bolt d'Oro
                1st Dam: Pappascat (GSP, $165,762), by Scat Daddy
                2nd Dam: Redmeansgo, by Red Ransom
                3rd Dam: Majestic Dy, by Dynaformer
1ST BLACK TYPE WIN, 1ST GRADED STAKES WIN. ($190,000
Ylg '21 KEESEP). O-John C. Oxley & Breeze Easy, LLC;
B-Rustlewood Farm, Inc. (FL); T-Mark E. Casse; J-Dylan Davis.
$96,250. Lifetime Record: 3-2-0-0, $140,000. *1/2 to
Pappacap (Gun Runner), GSW & MGISP, $833,000.
Werk Nick Rating: C.
Click for the eNicks report & 5-cross pedigree.
Click for the free Equineline.com catalogue-style pedigree.
2–Battle of Normandy, 122, c, 2, City of Light–Adorable Miss,
by Kitten's Joy. 1ST BLACK TYPE, 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE.
($500,000 Ylg '21 FTSAUG). O-West Point Thoroughbreds &
Woodford Racing, LLC; B-Gage Hill Stables, LLC & W. S. Farish
(KY); T-Claude R. McGaughey III. $35,000.
3–Andthewinneris, 122, c, 2, Oscar Performance–Run Like the
Boss, by Scat Daddy. 1ST GRADED BLACK TYPE. ($67,000 RNA
Ylg '21 KEESEP). O/B-Susan Moulton (KY); T-Wayne M.
Catalano. $21,000.
Margins: NK, 1HF, 1 1/4. Odds: 23.10, 2.40, 2.25.
Also Ran: Determinedly, Noble Huntsman, Our Dream Rye'd, El Conejito. Scratched: Bourbon Therapy, Bramble Blaze, Lachaise, Quincy Cafe.
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Janney Homebred Posts Flashy Keeneland Allowance Win

5th-Keeneland, $109,450, Alw, 4-16, (NW1X), 3yo, 1 1/16mT, 1:43.75, gd, neck.
LIMITED LIABILITY (c, 3, Kitten's Joy–Hold Harmless, by Blame) had just one rival beat for the opening six furlongs of his July 31 debut over the Saratoga turf, only to shoot past the rest of his rivals to graduate by 2 3/4 good-looking lengths. A pace-compromised third as the odds-on choice behind Coinage (Tapit) in the Sept. 1 GIII With Anticipation S. at the Spa, the homebred raced handier to the speed in the Oct. 3 GII Pilgrim S. at Belmont, but could do no better than third. Adding Lasix for this 3-year-old unveiling, Limited Liability was off at a very generous 4-1 and immediately dropped out the back as they went a moderate clip up front. Held together on the turn and still last as they raced inside the final quarter of a mile, the gray was switched out and covered his final 2 1/2 furlongs in a slick :28.57 per Trakus to take best 5-1 Freedom's Way (Declaration of War) by a deceptively comfortable margin. Favored Credit Event (Not This Time) saved ground for the opening six panels and was ridden for luck by Tyler Gaffalione in the stretch, but he was hopelessly locked away passing midstretch and never recovered, finishing 10th. Limited Liability is out of a winning full-sister to GSW Onus, whose daughter Gun Boat (Wait A While) was placed in the grassy Wait a While S. last year at two. The colt's third dam includes MGSW/GISP Ironicus (Distorted Humor),MGSW On Leave (War Front) and GSWs Norumbega (Tiznow), Hunting (Coronado's Quest) and Quiet Harbor (Silver Deputy). Hold Harmless is the dam of a yearling filly by Runhappy and a Ghostzapper filly that was foaled Feb. 1. Lifetime Record: MGSP, 4-2-0-2, $159,233. Click for the Equibase.com chart or VIDEO, sponsored by TVG.
O/B-Stuart S Janney III (KY); T-Claude R McGaughey III.

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