OVER

 Happy Friday wherever you may be – if on the grass at Gulfstream today – take a little look at Ontario bred DUKE OF LANGFUHR in race 4…debuting fellow has power turf pedigree!

 

 

Josie Carroll among New Shooters at Oaklawn This Meet

EDITED BY THOROUGBLOG

Trainer Josie Carroll, the only woman [TRAINER] to win the $1 million Queen’s Plate, Canada’s most prestigious race for 3-year-olds, has a string in Hot Springs for the first time and hopes that Oaklawn will be the path to victory in some of the premier races for 3-year-olds on both sides of the North American border.

“I’ve never stabled at Oaklawn before, although I have run a few horses there in the past,” said Carroll, who captured the 2006 Queen’s Plate with Edenwold and the 2011 edition with the filly [INGLORIOUS]. “I’m coming in with 10 horses and I’ve got quite a few nice young horses. We are pointing them to Oaklawn’s strong three-year-old stakes program.”

The track’s highly-regarded program, which includes the $150,000 Smarty Jones Jan 20, Grade 3 Southwest Stakes February 17, the Grade 2 Rebel Stakes March 15, and the $1 million Grade 1 Arkansas Derby April 12, in has produced the winners of 10 Triple Crown races since 2004. Afleet Alex, 2007 and 2008 Horse of the Year Curlin, Lookin at Lucky, Oxbow, Smarty Jones, Summer Bird, Super Saver, and 2013 Horse of the Year finalist Will Take Charge have all used Oaklawn as a launching pad.

Moreover, Rachel Alexandra took advantage of Oaklawn’s sensational series of stakes for sophomore fillies by winning the Martha Washington and the Fantasy Stakes on the way to capturing the 2009 Preakness and Horse of the Year honors.

“I’ve been looking at Oaklawn for a long time. The quality of racing keeps improving and the purses are excellent,” Carroll said while referring to the $20 million up for grabs, which is the highest purse allotment in the track’s 110 year history, with $6.1 million allocated for the stakes schedule.

Carroll, one of several prominent new trainers competing in Hot Springs this season, counts Ami’s Holiday, winner of the 2013 Grade 3 Grey Stakes over Woodbine’s all-weather track, among her top 3-year-old prospects. The well-bred son of the multiple Grade 1-winning Harlan’s Holiday is out of Victorious Ami, who was sired by 1999 Arkansas Derby and Belmont Stakes winner Victory Gallop. The colt, whose last recorded work was at Woodbine at the end of November, figures to be a stable star and his pedigree suggests he’ll get better as the races in the series stretch out in distance.

“He’s a very nice horse,” said Carroll, who plans to arrive next week from her home in Toronto once her husband gets medical clearance to travel after undergoing hip replacement surgery. “He’s not on the grounds yet. He’s at the farm in Ocala (Florida) and we’re still freshening him up and letting him kick out and just be a horse. He’ll be shipping in and going into training again soon.”

Ami’s Holiday has two wins and one third in four starts and has bankrolled $176,734. After winning the Grey Stakes in his second start on October 6, he was seventh in the Coronation Futurity in November and then finished his juvenile campaign with a third place finish in the Display Stakes in December.

“I also have a brother to Ami’s Holiday, Victory Exchange, and he’s a very nice horse, too,” said Carroll, who began her career in 1975 as an assistant to Canadian Hall of Famer Mac Benson when he trained for the famed Windfields Farm. “He’s one of the four-year-olds I’m bringing that fit in the allowance ranks and possibly some of the stakes races.”

Ivan Dalos owns both Amie’s Holiday and Victory Exchange, an Exchange Rate colt who won both of his 2013 starts by breaking his maiden at first asking and then taking a first level allowance test on August 5 at Woodbine.

“He hurt his shoulder after that but he’ll be ready,” said Carroll, one of the leading trainers at Woodbine in the past several years. “I’m really looking forward to stabling at Oaklawn this year. The competition will be tough, but I hope we’ll win a lot of races.”

 

GOOD LUCK TO EURICO!

Top Woodbine rider EURICO ROSA DA SILVA is not resting this winter, he starts back up at OAKLAWN PARK today as the main rider for trainer MARK CASSE. It is the first trip to Oaklawn for Da Silva.

 

EVERATTS SELL  YEARLING AT JANUARY KEENELAND $150,000
Adena Springs buys 29 horses for $1.6 million

James and Janeane Everatt and Arika Everatt Meeuse sold a Scat Daddy – Hanginbyamoment, by Thunder Guck short yearling colt for $150,000 at the 2nd session of the Keenalnd Jam. sale. The colt is a half brother to a stakes winner and the dam of this one is a half sister to BC champion SENATE APPOINTEE. The Ontario bred is from a mare that the Everatts bought for just $5,000.

 

 

Canadian buyers
BAR NONE RANCH – mare CASUAL FLAIR $8,000
mare LINOVISION (Vision and Verse) $35,000

BEAR STABLES mare CRISPY (maria’s Mon) $105,000
yearling colt by Put It Back – Pleasant Quality $25,000
mare BARONESS (Regal Classic) $11,000
mare POST HOUSE (Bernstein) $18,000

DOMINION BLOODSTOCK, 4yo colt English Channel $5,500
colt Sligo Bay $7,000 Ontario bred 3yo
Silent Name 3yo colt $9,000

TOM PATTON 3yo colt Papa Clem $5,500
ANDERSON FARMS, mare PRECISION FARMING (Smart strike) $52,000

WINDWAYS FARM, yearling by Mineshaft – Spy Novel $115,000, full to SW Miner’s Escape

JOSHAM FARMS, mare CHAMPANGE EYES (Flatter) $95,000

RACHEL HALDEN – yearling Drosselmeyer – Chope Mockery $20,000

BUTTIGIEG TRAINING CENTRE – mare HEMISSESU (Smarty Jones) $35,000

NICK NOSOWENKO – 3yo filly, Ont.-bred  Giant Gizmo $12,000

SHERRY MACLEAN – 4yo filly Aragorn $5,000

 

 

UNCAPTURED IN HAL’S HOPE (G3)
The 2013 Canadian Horse of the Year UNCAPTURED will try the 1 mile Hal’s Hope at Gulfstream tomorrow and he is 5 to 1 in the morning line. He has a rider change to Joel Rosario. Uncaptured was 6 for 7 as a 2yo with $510,000 in earnings and he was 1 for 8 last year, but with $509,000 in earnings. He won the Prince of Wales Stakes at Fort Erie on dirt. He looks good in this spot.
Saturday, Gulfstream Park, post time: 5:03 p.m. EST
HAL’S HOPE S.-GIII, $100,000, 4yo/up, 1m
PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT
1 Simmstown Limehouse Zayas Wolfson 117
2 Csaba Kitten’s Joy Lopez Gleaves 121
3 Strike One Street Cry (Ire) Lanerie Walsh 117
4 Jackson Bend Hear No Evil Castellano Gold 117
5 Nikki’s Sandcastle Castledale (Ire) Jaen Kassen 121
6 Lea First Samurai Saez Mott 117
7 Neck ‘n Neck Flower Alley Leparoux Wilkes 117
8 Goodtimehadbyall K Quiet American Carmouche Navarro 117
9 Uncaptured K Lion Heart Rosario Casse 117
10 Purple Egg K Lion Heart Rocco Jr. Cibelli 117

 

 

 

 

 

 

CANADIANS ELSEWHERE

MALCOLM PIERCE won a race at Fair Grounds yesterday with Sam-Son Farms’ SHIP’S TELEGRAPH, who took a $25,000 maiden claiming race at 5 1/2 furlongs. The filly is by Student Council out of Sails Unfurled. Rosie Napravnik rode.

NICK GONZALEZ won another GUlfstream race with the useful 3yo EASE ON BAI, a son of E Dubai who won a $35,000 claiming race at 1 mile on the dirt. He was 8 to 5 and won by 2 1/4 lengths under Joe Rocco.

 

STEVE ZORN BLOG – OF DAVID JACOBSON and the like…

a must read…

http://businessofracing.blogspot.ca/2014/01/some-thoughts-on-end-of-road.html

 

ECLIPSE AWARD FINALISTS

awards on Jan 18

Horse of the Year:
Mucho Macho Man (Macho Uno)
Will Take Charge (Unbridled’s Song)
Wise Dan (Wiseman’s Ferry)

Male Sprinter:
Points Offthebench (Benchmark) (deceased)
Sahara Sky (Pleasant Tap)
Secret Circle (Eddington)

Female Sprinter:
Dance to Bristol (Speightstown)
Groupie Doll (Bowman’s Band)
Mizdirection (Mizzen Mast)

Male Turf Horse:
Magician (Ire) (Galileo {Ire})
Point of Entry (Dynaformer)
Wise Dan (Wiseman’s Ferry)

Female Turf Horse:
Dank (GB) (Dansili {GB})
Laughing (Ire) (Dansili {GB}) (deceased)
Mizdirection (Mizzen Mast)

Steeplechase Horse:
Divine Fortune (Royal Anthem)
Gustavian (Giant’s Causeway)
Italian Wedding (Alphabet Soup)

Older Female:
Joyful Victory (Tapit) (Canadian bred)
Royal Delta (Empire Maker)
Tiz Miz Sue (Tiznow)

Older Male:
Game on Dude (Awesome Again)
Mucho Macho Man (Macho Uno)
Wise Dan (Wiseman’s Ferry)

3-Year-Old Female:
Beholder (Henny Hughes)
Close Hatches (First Defence)
Princess of Sylmar (Majestic Warrior)

3-Year-Old Male:
Orb (Malibu Moon)
Palace Malice (Curlin)
Will Take Charge (Unbridled’s Song)

2-Year Old Female:
Chriselliam (Ire) (Iffraaj {GB})
Ria Antonia (Rockport Harbor)
She’s a Tiger (Tale of the Cat)

2-Year-Old Male:
Havana (Dunkirk)
New Year’s Day (Street Cry {Ire})
Shared Belief (Candy Ride {Arg})

Breeder:

Adena Springs
Morton Fink
Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey

Owner:
Juddmonte Farms
Midwest Thoroughbreds
Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey

Trainer:
Bob Baffert
Bill Mott
Todd Pletcher

Jockey:
Javier Castellano
Joel Rosario
Gary Stevens

Apprentice Jockey:
Victor Carrasco
Manuel Franco
Edgard Zayas