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Never Surprised The One To Beat In Oversubscribed Tropical Park Derby

Multiple graded stakes-placed Never Surprised will shock absolutely no one if the Todd Pletcher trainee is victorious in Sunday's $100,000 Tropical Park Derby at Gulfstream Park.

The Tropical Park Derby, a 1 1/16-mile turf stakes for 3-year-olds, will co-headline Sunday's day-after-Christmas program with the $100,000 Tropical Park Oaks, a mile turf stakes for 3-year-old fillies.

Mike Repole's Never Surprised enters Sunday's co-feature off a dominating 6 ¼-length triumph in the 1 1/16-mile Gio Ponti over the turf at Aqueduct Nov. 26. In his three prior starts, the son of Constitution was graded stakes-placed, finishing second in the Kitten's Joy (G3) at Gulfstream before settling for runner-up honors behind Public Sector in the Saranac (G3) at Saratoga and Hill Prince (G2) at Belmont.

“I was very pleased with his last race and he's trained enthusiastically for this race,” Pletcher said.

Luis Saez has the call aboard Never Surprised, who tops a full field of 12 3-year-olds (plus three also-eligible entries).

WellSpring Stables' Safe Conduct, who finished second in the Gio Ponti, is scheduled to take on Never Surprised again in the Tropical Park Derby. The Phil Serpe-trained son of Bodemeister captured the $1 million Queen's Plate over Woodbine's Tapeta surface three starts back before finishing off the board in the Breeders' Stakes, the second leg of Canada's Triple Crown run over a yielding turf at Woodbine, and rebounding with a solid Gio Ponti effort.

Paco Lopez is slated to ride Safe Conduct for the first time Sunday.

Stuart Janney III's Scarlett Sky brings graded-stakes credentials into the Tropical Park Derby, having captured the Transylvania (G3) at Keeneland in the spring. The son of Sky Mesa, who lost the Palm Beach by a head last season at Gulfstream, finished off the board in a Keeneland stakes over a soft turf last time while coming off a five-month layoff.

Trainer Shug McGaughey has awarded the mount to fellow Hall of Famer Javier Castellano.

Edge Racing's Yes This Time is also a Grade 3 stakes winner in Sunday's field. The Kelly Breen-trained son of Not This Time captured the Kent (G3) at Delaware Park last July, capping a five-race winning streak, including four straight wins at Gulfstream.

Tyler Gaffalione has the mount aboard Yes This time, who is coming off in-the-money finishes in Dueling Grounds Derby at Kentucky Downs and Bryan Station at Keeneland.

Victoria's Ranch's King of Dreams and Lea Farms LLC's Fighting Force will enter the Tropical Park Derby, off a 1-2 finish, respectively, in the Showing Up over Gulfstream's Tapeta course.

ABL Stable, Dominic Bossone, Peter Donnelly and William Oberdorff's Mohs and Calumet Farm's Grey Streak, who finished 1-2, respectively, in the Hawthorne Derby, will clash again Sunday. Calumet will also be represented by Jack Sisterson-trained In Effect in Sunday's field.

Gelfenstein Farm LLC's Siglioso and Melvin Simonovich's Lamplighter Jack and Palm Beach Racing Partnership's Hot Blooded round out the main body of the field.

Michael Dubb and Madaket Stables LLC's Kygo, Deuce Greathouse's Shady McGee, and Irving Cowan's American Prince are also-eligible entrants.

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Accredit Scores Upset With Gate-To-Wire Win In Dueling Grounds Derby

It was a day to be on the lead at Kentucky Downs, as another front runner came home the winner at the Franklin, Ky., track. Adventuring had won in near gate to wire fashion the race before, with Accredit doing much the same in the 1 5/16-mile Dueling Grounds Derby.

Breaking from post one, jockey Martin Garcia hustled Accredit to the lead, the field of ten other 3-year-old colts and geldings strung out behind him through the early part of the race. Behind him, Modern Science took up second with Yes This Time and Hillard rounding out the top four. Accredit controlled the pace throughout, setting fractions of :24.17, :49.03, and 1:14.31 over the first six furlongs. By the time the field reached the final bend, Accredit was three lengths in front.

Into the long Kentucky Downs stretch, the easy early pace allowed Accredit to hang on to front runner status, as Modern Science and Cellist made a run at him early in the straight. The son of Flatter had plenty in reserve, holding off those challengers and then a surging Yes This Time in the final sixteenth to win the Dueling Grounds Derby by a length. Yes This Time, Cellist, and Modern Science rounded out the top four.

The final time for the 1 5/16-miles was 2:10.58. Find this race's chart here.

Accredit paid $75.00, $28.80, and $12.20. Yes This Time paid $5.60 and $4.00. Cellist paid $3.60.

Bred in Kentucky by E. H. Beau Lane III, Accredit is out of the unraced Bernstein mare Berncredit. He is trained by Pavel Matejka, who also co-owns the colt with Bob Grayson, Jr. Accredit was a $60,000 RNA consigned by Beau Lane Bloodstock at the 2019 Keeneland September Yearling Sale. With his win in the Dueling Grounds Derby, the 3-year-old colt has three wins in seven lifetime starts for career earnings of $572,619.

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An Offshoot of MyRacehorse, Edge Racing Off to a Fast Start

As the MyRacehorse syndicate continued to grow, the team there kept hearing what became a familiar refrain from some of its many partners. They wanted something more.

While the microshare concept proved to be innovative and popular, there are some limitations when you might own only a tiny fraction of a horse. With that in mind, last fall, MyRacehorse created a spinoff business, launching Edge Racing. Edge is more along the lines of traditional partnerships, which may include about a dozen owners instead of several hundred or even a thousand.

“As MyRacehorse grew and developed, people started wanting a little bit more,” said Joe Moran, the stable manager for Edge Racing, who also oversees MyRacehorse's contingent in California. “We saw people venturing off, whether going to other partnerships or going out on their own. We decided to put this new group together. We wanted to give people the sort of service and experience that comes along with owning a larger share of a horse. We wanted to let them take the next step in ownership.”

Just nine months after its inception, Edge Racing has burst out of the gate, in large part thanks to its star horse, Yes This Time (Not This Time), who is entered in Saturday $1-million GI Saratoga Derby Invitational. A winner of five straight, the colt will be facing the biggest test of his career.

“He deserves a shot to go against the best,” Moran said.

Back in the winter, Moran was scouting around for good candidates to add to the Edge Racing roster and came upon Yes This Time. He was coming off a win in a $30,000 maiden claiming race at Fair Grounds in his first try on the grass. Knowing that he was eligible for plenty of winnable races, Moran made the purchase, paying $100,000 for the colt. Edge Racing sold 10% shares in the horse and brought in six partners.

“This was a horse I found from browsing the races on a daily basis,” Moran said. “We thought he was coming off an impressive performance and we thought he had a lot of potential with his pedigree. But did I think we'd be running in a $1-million Grade I seven months down the road? Maybe not quite. He had run in a maiden claimer so he had multiple conditions left. That was really the play, to take advantage of those conditions.”

Kelly Neely was among the first to sign up for a piece of Yes This Time.

“I had had a lot to do with the Standardbred business for decades, but I wanted the real horses,” she said. “I didn't want to buy them myself. I went to sales and kept studying for about three years. I said to myself, 'Wow, I need to get involved in a partnership.' I went to MyRacehorse and after I bought a few microshares, thought I want a real percentage. They put me in touch with Joe Moran and it's been a wonderful ride.”

Edge Racing looks to keep its partners informed and involved. They hold bi-weekly Zoom meetings so that Moran can fill in each owner on the latest developments with the stable and because they own a large enough interest to get an owner's badge they can visit their horses on the backstretch any time they please.

Now trained by Kelly Breen, Yes This Time finished fourth in a Jan. 21 starter allowance at Gulfstream in his debut for Edge Racing. He hasn't lost since. After winning another starter allowance, he captured an allowance race at Gulfstream and then the English Channel S. He showed up next at Delaware Park for the GIII Kent S, which he won by a length.

“The fact that we are in this race at Saratoga and we belong in this race is overwhelming to me,” Neely said. “It's a dream come true.”

Yes This Time is one of nine horses currently owned by Edge Racing. The horses are spread around the country, in California, Texas, Kentucky, New Jersey, New York and Florida. The stable got off to a quick start, winning with its first starter, Escape Route (Hard Spun). He was claimed for $40,000 out of an Oct. 10, 2020 maiden claimer at Keeneland and came right back to win a starter allowance at Del Mar. The stable also includes In Due Time (Not This Time). A $95,000 purchase at the Ocala Breeders' Sale Spring Sale, he won a July maiden special weight race in his debut. He is also trained by Breen.

While the selling of microshares will remain the company's core business, Moran said the MyRacehorse team believes Edge Racing will eventually knock heads with more well-known syndicates, like West Point, Starlight and Eclipse Thoroughbreds.

“I think we can turn this into one of the top traditional syndicates around the nation,” he said. “We've already had some short-term success. From a brand standpoint, we haven't marketed a ton. We have kept this close knit because we really want to let the people involved know exactly what they are getting into. We want to be all around the country and get people involved, to get people to love horse racing. That's our thing. We have so much passion for the game and that's what we're trying to bring to all our new owners out there.”

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Yes This Time Sneaks Up On Like The King To Take Kent Stakes

Riding the rail under Joe Bravo, Yes This Time went from last on the final turn to first in the final furlong of the 1 1/8 mile Grade 3 Kent Stakes at Delaware Park in Wilmington, Del. The soft turf and a stubborn front running Like the King were no trouble for the son of Not This Time, who earns his fifth win of six starts in 2021.

After an even start, Like the King took an easy length-and-a-half lead over Be Here and Eamonn, with Wootton Asset in fourth. The pace was slow, Like the King cruising through fractions of :25.63 for the first quarter and :51.21 for the first half. He maintained that easy lead, controlling the pace through the first mile. Into the stretch, Like the King held on to the lead, unwilling to give it up as Bravo and Yes This Time snuck up on the rail to challenge. Like the King tried to hold on, but Yest This Time was able to pass him in the final strides to win by a length in a slow 1:52.39 on soft turf.

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Wootton Asset, Doubleoseven, Eamonn, and Be Here rounded out the field of six in the G3 Kent Stakes.

“I was concerned about the pace,” said winning trainer Kelly Breen. “Honestly, the leader (Like the King) got out there and went a half in :51 and three-quarters in 1:16 and two races before, they did not go that slow. I was concerned about being towards the back early, but the rail opened up and he came running. We are schooling him for the Kentucky Downs race (Dueling Grounds Derby – Sept 5) by getting him used to going up and down the hills and being able to rate. He is a pretty neat horse with a lot of guts. He is a nice horse to train and he is pretty cool. Other than his first race, everything has been basically win pictures. He is a pretty nice horse.”

Yes This Time paid $4.20, $2.60, and $2.10. Like the King paid $3.80 and $2.60. Third-place Wootton Asset paid $3.40 to show.

Yes This Time is a 3-year-old colt from the first crop of Taylor Made stallion Not This Time. Bred by Barry Golden, he is out of the Smart Strike mare Smart Jilly. He is owned by Edge Racing and trained by Kelly Breen. His win in the Kent Stakes marks his sixth win in eight lifetime starts for earnings of $201,825.

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