yes it's true | Horse Racing Free Tips

Fast Breakin Cash Finds Winner’s Circle In Silver Goblin At Remington Park

For the first time since 2017, there is a Silver Goblin Stakes winner not named Welder and it is Fast Breakin Cash at 9-1 odds Friday night at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, Okla.

Welder won the race four times from 2017-2020 for Ra-Max Farms (Clayton Rash) of Claremore, Okla., and is now retired, getting fed peppermints by trainer Teri Luneack. The stakes races he won regularly for years at Remington Park now continue without him. It was far from the odds-on favoritism Welder garnered as the all-time winningest horse (16 wins) at Remington Park in the winner's circle. One has to go all the way back to Okie Ride in 2016 for a different winner.

Fast Breakin Cash had not won a race, any race, since Nov. 7, 2019, and had never won a stakes race in his career. In contrast, Welder holds the record at Remington Park with 11 stakes victories in his career.

It was almost like the favorites in this $70,000 Silver Goblin Stakes race didn't know how to act without Welder to chase. The top three favorites in the field ran last, next-to-last and second-to-last in this year's edition. Shannon C, the beaten wagering favorite at 8-5 odds, who had run second to Welder four times in his career, was expected to take the crown Friday after winning two stakes in a row. However, he faltered after a half mile and ran last, beaten 15-1/2 lengths. Quality Rocket (2-1) and Mesa Moon (5-2) finished fourth and fifth.

With the favorites falling to the wayside, it opened the door for Fast Breakin Cash to taste the glory of a black-type win for the first time. Jockey Richard Eramia was well back in fifth down the backstretch, leisurely letting the front-runners set fractions of :22.14 for the first quarter-mile and :45.33 for the half-mile. By the time the pacesetters began to collapse at the top of the stretch, Fast Breakin Cash, trained by C.R. Trout, pounced. He was within a 3-1/4 lengths by the time he hit the turn for home and had all the momentum. At the finish line, he was in front by three-quarters of a length, outlasting runner-up Euromantic (6-1), who was another three-quarters up on third-place Tommyhawk (32-1), the longest shot on the board. Fast Breakin Cash hit the line for 6-1/2 furlongs in 1:17.88 over a fast track.

“It was a beautiful trip,” said Eramia. “I knew exactly what I wanted to do before the race. Make one run at the end. He wanted to win so bad.”

Trout also owns and bred Fast Breakin Cash. He won two of the three stakes races on the Friday card, also taking the $75,000 Slide Show for 2-year-old fillies that were Oklahoma-foaled with Hits Pricey Legacy.

It was the first victory in the Silver Goblin Stakes for all the connections. Fast Breakin Cash, a 5-year-old gelded son of Yes It's True, out of the Forestry mare Fast N Fine Lookin, earned $42,000 for Trout and improved his record to 22 starts, four wins, six seconds and two thirds for $265,293 earned. His best stakes effort at Remington Park before Friday night may have been a runner-up finish by one length to Dont Tell Noobody in last year's $175,000 Oklahoma Classics Cup on Oct. 16.

Fast Breakin Cash rewarded his backers with $20.60 to win, $8.60 to place, and $5.60 to show. Euromantic paid $6.60 to place and $4.80 to show. Tommyhawk paid $6.20 to show.

The Silver Goblin Stakes is named after the gray Oklahoma-bred millionaire who won multiple stakes races at Remington Park and numerous graded stakes events around the nation, in a career spanning 1993-1999.

Remington Park racing concludes this week with a Saturday night card of nine races. First post time is 7:07 pm Central.

The post Fast Breakin Cash Finds Winner’s Circle In Silver Goblin At Remington Park appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

‘It Doesn’t Get Any Better’: Utley Wins Stakes At Home With Yes It’s Ginger

Mike “Hotdog” Utley, this Bud's for you!

Utley, who runs his family's Edward Utley Jr. Inc. beer (including Budweiser) distributorship in Henderson, got his biggest thrill in horse racing as favored Yes It's Ginger wore down the speedy Elle Z for a 1 1/4-length triumph in the $100,000 Kentucky Downs TVG Preview Ladies Sprint at Ellis Park. That's where the 59-year-old Utley has been going to the races since he was 12, as well as the hometown track for his eight partners who collectively own 25 percent of the 5-year-old mare with majority owner Brilliant Racing and Tagg Team Racing.

“It's great, in front of everybody,” Utley said. “I don't know how you can describe it… There will be a lot of Bud. I was crossing my fingers, trust me.”

He said the victory ranks No. 1 in his racing career as owner and fan “and it doesn't get any better.”

The Ladies Sprint was part of a turf stakes quartet Sunday that wrapped up the two-day Kentucky Downs TVG Preview Weekend at the RUNHAPPY meet at Ellis Park.

Marcelino Pedroza rode the Greg Foley-trained Yes It's Ginger for the first time, pressing Elle Z through a stiff pace before edging clear late. The Foley-trained Skinny Dip finished another 2 1/4 lengths back in third in the full field of 12 fillies and mares.

“I watched the replays on her and she's quick out of the gate,” said Pedroza, who earlier this meet won the Good Lord Stakes on the Foley-trained Bango. “She was quick out of the gate when she ran (finishing second June 3 at Churchill Downs) against Elle Z. We didn't want to be in the lead. We just wanted to sit there and make sure Elle Z felt the pressure. Turning for home, I asked her to go and she responded like a Quarter Horse. She was running in the end and was very impressive.”

Yes It's Ginger was the only one of the four Kentucky Downs TVG Preview Weekend stakes winners Sunday who didn't set a course record over the very firm turf. But she came close, powering 5 1/2 furlongs in 1:00.71, just off Totally Boss' mark of 1:00.26 set in 2019. Yes It's Ginger, a son of Yes It's True out of Ginger Light, paid $7 to win.

The mare now is 3 for 3 at Ellis Park. Brilliant Racing approached Foley about buying half-interest in Yes It's Ginger when she was a 4-year-old maiden who'd had arthroscopic surgery for a bone chip. Foley liked what he saw and brought in Utley's group, which had been looking for a horse and wanted to be part of the Foley family's Tagg Team Racing.

Yes It's Ginger promptly won a maiden and allowance race last summer at Ellis Park off a 13-month layoff. She came into this race off victory in Lone Star Park's $75,000 Chicken Fried Stakes in her last start. That made her the first stakes-winner for Utley, as well as for Louisville-based Brilliant Racing and Tagg Team, the partnership headed by trainer Greg Foley, wife Sheree and their sons Travis and Alex.

It was no sure thing that Yes It's Ginger would run at Ellis Park. She also was entered for a turf stakes Wednesday at Indiana Grand. While Foley thought the Indiana race's five-furlong distance would be even better, and the competition softer, the forecast for rain this coming week helped make the decision to stay put at Ellis.

“When we decided to run here, there were a lot of happy people, the boys from Henderson,” Foley said. “They're a great group, along with Brilliant, and then our own little group, our family.

“She's just a gutsy little filly. She gives you all every time you run her. From this time last year, when she broke her maiden over here at Ellis, she's just done nothing but gotten better all the time. She ran very impressive in Texas last time and again today. She's just a nice filly.”

Foley also was happy with Skinny Dip, who was making her stakes debut. The goal was to get at least a stakes-placing for the well-bred Into Mischief filly, a mission accomplished.

Yes It's Ginger now is 6-5-0 in 18 starts, earning $295,511. The $40,000 Ocala 2-year-old purchase in 2018 — the first horse bought by Brilliant Racing— was picked out by Brilliant founding members Natalie Gils and Brandon Stauble.

“She's been incredibly special to us — being the first one we bought, giving her all that time not knowing if she was going to come back,” Gils said. “… When it came to the point where we had to sell (part of) her, having the Foleys step in, it's just been a great relationship with them. It was really a blessing in disguise.”

The post ‘It Doesn’t Get Any Better’: Utley Wins Stakes At Home With Yes It’s Ginger appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post

C.R. Trout Could Make History In Friday’s Oklahoma Classics Cup

Oklahoma-bred millionaire Shotgun Kowboy won the Oklahoma Classics Cup four times for breeder-owner-trainer C.R. Trout, including the last three years in a row.

The 8-year-old gelded son of Kodiak Kowboy, out of the Siphon (BRZ) mare Shotgun Jane, still comes to the track just about every morning at Remington Park and is the best looking horse in Trout's barn. However, Shotgun Kowboy will not be running in Friday's $175,000 Oklahoma Classics Cup, a race he won in 2015 and then 2017-19. Shotgun Kowboy is now retired, after incurring an injury during training earlier this year at Oaklawn Park in Hot Springs, Ark.

“We let him (Shotgun Kowboy), with my assistant Dan Ortiz up on him, accompany the horses I'm working in the mornings and he looks fantastic,” said Trout, who earned $1,548,684 by racing this horse from 2014-19. “I don't think I've ever seen him look better. It is tempting to bring him back to training and racing, but that injury was pretty bad.”

Trout of Edmond, Okla., is one win away from being the all-time winningest owner and trainer of the Classics Cup. He has taken the trophy home six times as an owner, tying him with John and Barbara Smicklas, and six times as a trainer, placing him in a tie with Donnie Von Hemel.

It would mean a great deal to Trout to be the top owner and trainer in Cup history by winning this race on Friday: “It certainly would be exciting. Anyone would like to reach that goal.”

This year, Trout's Cup hopes lie with Fast Breakin Cash, one of eight horses entered for the 2020 edition. A 4-year-old gelded son of Yes It's True, out of the Forestry mare Fast N Fine Lookin, Fast Breakin Cash will pick up the baton for the Trout barn. Trout also won the Classics Cup with Imahit in 2013-14.

“Imahit's first win in the Cup was probably the most exciting for me,” Trout said. “We were stretching him out from sprints to a route and he responded in kind. It's great when you do that and it works. As far as this year's race goes, I like my chances. We're not scared of anybody in there.”

Trout is trying to do a similar thing that he did with Imahit. Fast Breakin Cash has run 13 times and 12 of those races were sprints. He could have gone into the Oklahoma Classics Sprint except for one thing.

“Oh, we've tried him against Welder already,” Trout said.

That is good enough reason to stretch him out around two turns to the 1-1/16th miles for the Cup. He was a respectable third to Welder in last year's Oklahoma Classics Sprint, beaten only 4-1/4 lengths by the two-time Oklahoma Horse of the Year. The one race where he did negotiate a route of ground was the $70,000 Jim Thorpe Stakes here last year at one mile, and he ran second, beaten only 1-3/4 lengths by Cowboy Mischief.

“Oh, he's bred to go as far as you want him to go,” said Trout.

To win another Classics Cup and establish a record for most wins in the race would be satisfying but also bittersweet for Trout, who is competing on this night for the first time without his wife Arletta, who passed away Nov. 24, 2019.

“When you live with someone more than 50 years, it's just not going to be the same,” he said. “She was not only my wife, but she was also my best friend. I will have my whole family here, but it still won't be like having your best buddy that's always been here.”

Here's a look at the field with post position, jockey, trainer and odds:

1) Dont Tell Noobody: Sophie Doyle, Federico Villafranco, 15-1

2) Georgia Deputy: Ezequiel Lara, Joe Petalino, 20-1

3) United Patriot: Lori Biehler, Michael Biehler, 10-1

4) Rowdy Yates: Stewart Elliott, Steve Asmussen, 2-1 (morning-line favorite)

5) Fast Breakin Cash: Luis Quinonez, C.R. Trout, 5-1

6) Dak Da Man: Lane Luzzi, Kari Craddock, 6-1

7) Kwik: David Cabrera, Karl Broberg, 10-1

8) Deal Driven: Ramon Vazquez, Robert Mosco, 5-2

Remington Park racing continues Thursday-Saturday, Oct. 15-17, this week with Friday being Oklahoma Classics Night featuring the top Oklahoma-breds in divisional stakes competition worth $1 million. The first race nightly is at 7:07pm-Central.

The post C.R. Trout Could Make History In Friday’s Oklahoma Classics Cup appeared first on Horse Racing News | Paulick Report.

Source of original post