The DAVID BELL Stable at Woodbine heads out for training Mar. 11 – Ericka Rusnak Photo
RECENT ONTARIO-BRED WINNERS
courtesy SIRE POWERED RESULTS FROM DRF.COM
03/19/2016
Line of Best Fit 6/M (ON), Trajectory – Dan’s Duchess, by Domasca Dan
Breeder: Frank Di Giulio Jr. | Trainer: Wayne Potts | Owner: Sheffield Stable
Allowance Optional Claiming – LAUREL PARK (USA), Race Number: 7 | D-Good | Dist: 6f | Time: 1:12.95 | Purse: $45,000 Beyer: 67
03/19/2016
Arctic Joy 3/C (ON), Kitten’s Joy – Parisia, by Tethra
Breeder: Josham Farms Limited | Trainer: Wesley Ward | Owner: Royce Roberts
Maiden Special Weight – TURFWAY PARK (USA), Race Number: 6 | S-Fast | Dist: 8f | Time: 1:38.72 | Purse: $19,000 | Beyer: TBA
Arctic Joy – Keeneland Association September 2014 Yearling Sale
Buyer: Reserve Not Attained | Consignor: Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency | Price: $190,000
03/18/2016
Aegis 3/C (ON), Bellamy Road – Safe Haven, by A.P. Indy
Breeder: Christine Hayden | Trainer: H. Motion | Owner: Robert LaPenta
Maiden Special Weight – LAUREL PARK (USA), Race Number: 3 | D-Fast | Dist: 8.5f | Time: 1:47.28 | Purse: $40,000 | Beyer: 72
Aegis – Keeneland Association September 2014 Yearling Sale
Buyer: Whitehorse Stables | Consignor: Cara Bloodstock | Price: $250,000
03/17/2016
Limitless 3/F (ON), Discreet Cat – Position Limit, by Bellamy Road
Breeder: Adena Springs | Trainer: J. Jones | Owner: Jones, Bret, Spellman, Kent and Welker, Wes
Maiden Special Weight – FAIR GROUNDS (USA), Race Number: 8 | D-Fast | Dist: 6f | Time: 1:11.04 | Purse: $44,000 | Beyer: 76
Limitless – Keeneland Association September 2014 Yearling Sale
Buyer: Bret Jones | Consignor: Adena Springs | Price: $37,000
03/16/2016
Beaukati 3/G (ON), Tale of Ekati – Beaucette, by Mr. Prospector
Breeder: Charles Fipke | Trainer: Peter Walder | Owner: Imaginary Stables, Sweet Sunshine Stable and Aventura Stable
Maiden Claiming – GULFSTREAM PARK (USA), Race Number: 4 | D-Fast | Dist: 6f | Time: 1:12.23 | Purse: $24,000 | Beyer: 59
03/13/2016
Unbridled Juan 4/R (ON), Unbridled’s Song – Sugar Swirl, by Touch Gold
Breeder: Adena Springs | Trainer: James Jerkens | Owner: Stronach Stable
Allowance – GULFSTREAM PARK (USA), Race Number: 9 | D-Fast | Dist: 8f | Time: 1:36.36 | Purse: $44,000 | Beyer: 97
03/12/2016
Conquest Typhoon 4/C (ON), Stormy Atlantic – Swanky Bubbles, by Ascot Knight
Breeder: Josham Farms Limited | Trainer: Mark Casse | Owner: Conquest Stables, LLC
Allowance Optional Claiming – GULFSTREAM PARK (USA), Race Number: 9 | T-Firm | Dist: 8f | Time: 1:32.80 | Purse: $46,000 | Beyer: 97
Conquest Typhoon – Keeneland Association September 2013 Yearling Sale
Buyer: Conquest Stables | Consignor: Hill ‘n’ Dale Sales Agency | Price: $330,000
03/10/2016
Go Go Rocket 6/G (ON), Tapit – Woods Bay, by Mr. Greeley
Breeder: William Graham | Trainer: Michelle Lovell | Owner: War Tide Stables LLC
Allowance Optional Claiming – FAIR GROUNDS (USA), Race Number: 8 | D-Fast | Dist: 8.3f | Time: 1:43.09 | Purse: $47,000 | Beyer: 87
Go Go Rocket – Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company 2012 Selected Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training
Buyer: Frank Fletcher Racing Operations | Consignor: Mighty White Stallion | Price: $200,000
03/09/2016
We’llseeaboutthat 6/M (ON), Graeme Hall – Keep a Knockin, by Pleasant Tap
Breeder: Strouds Lane Farm | Trainer: Kieron Magee | Owner: Moshe Mark
Allowance Optional Claiming – HOLLYWOOD CASINO AT CHARLES TOWN RACES (USA), Race Number: 7 | D-Fast | Dist: 7f | Time: 1:27.96 | Purse: $24,500 | Beyer: 64
Itsmy Zipcode 4/F (ON), City Zip – Ochoa, by Grand Slam
Breeder: Donver Stables | Trainer: K. Amthor | Owner: Kenneth Amthor
Maiden Claiming – PARX RACING (USA), Race Number: 3 | D-Fast | Dist: 7f | Time: 1:27.08 | Purse: $30,000 | Beyer: 46
Ocala Breeders’ Sale 2014 Spring Sale of Two-Year-Olds in Training
Buyer: Reserve Not Attained | Consignor: Wavertree Stables | Price: $25,000
03/05/2016
Commander Maggay 4/C (ON), Midshipman – Pinafore Lady, by Elusive Quality
Breeder: Rod Ferguson | Trainer: Jerry Hollendorfer | Owner: Three Kings Racing
Maiden Claiming – GOLDEN GATE FIELDS (USA), Race Number: 5 | S-Fast | Dist: 6f | Time: 1:11.78 | Purse: $9,000 | Beyer: 60
– Keeneland Association September 2013 Yearling Sale
Buyer: Reserve Not Attained | Consignor: Anderson Farms | Price: $70,000
03/05/2016
Goldspringseternal 5/M (ON), Like the Prospects – Lucy Above, by Wekiva Springs
Breeder: Castle Peak Farm | Trainer: Joshua Faulkner | Owner: Josh Faulkner
Maiden Claiming – MAHONING VALLEY RACE COURSE (USA), Race Number: 2 | D-Fast | Dist: 8f | Time: 1:45.54 | Purse: $7,000 | Beyer: 37
03/05/2016
Let the Saints 4/G (ON), Marchfield – Good Religion, by Giant’s Causeway
Breeder: Michael Deegan | Trainer: Sandee Martin | Owner: Rock Bottom Ranch
Maiden Claiming – PENN NATIONAL (USA), Race Number: 7 | D-Fast | Dist: 8.3f | Time: 1:47.16 | Purse: $10,500 | Beyer: 44
Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Ontario Division) 2013 Canadian-Bred Yearling Sale
Buyer: Rolph A. Davis & Robert P. Tiller | Consignor: Cara Bloodstock | Price: $94,820
03/04/2016
Mythos 5/H (ON), Milwaukee Brew – Classy Credentials, by Golden Missile
Breeder: Adena Springs | Trainer: Jose Corrales | Owner: Stronach Stables
Allowance – HOLLYWOOD CASINO AT CHARLES TOWN RACES (USA), Race Number: 7 | D-Fast | Dist: 9f | Time: 1:53.93 | Purse: $24,000 | Beyer: 76
03/02/2016
Lady of Moray 4/F (ON), Philanthropist – Monarchist, by Salt Lake
Breeder: Spring Farm | Trainer: Catherine Robinson | Owner: Layne Giliforte
Allowance – PENN NATIONAL (USA), Race Number: 5 | D-Fast | Dist: 6f | Time: 1:12.77 | Purse: $29,500 | Beyer: 68
Canadian Thoroughbred Horse Society (Ontario Division) 2013 Canadian-Bred Yearling Sale
Buyer: Reserve Not Attained | Consignor: | Price: $9,482
02/28/2016
Angry Moon 5/H (ON), Langfuhr – Half Sister, by More Than Ready
Breeder: Gustav Schickedanz | Trainer: Chris Englehart | Owner: My Purple Haze Stables
Allowance Optional Claiming – AQUEDUCT (USA), Race Number: 8 | D-Fast | Dist: 6f | Time: 1:10.28 | Purse: $69,000 | Beyer: 99
Keeneland Association September 2012 Yearling Sale
Buyer: Silverton Hill | Consignor: Woods Edge Farm | Price: $285,000
02/28/2016
Broken Game 5/M (ON), Broken Vow – Game (FR), by Montjeu (IRE)
Breeder: Sean Fitzhenry | Trainer: Alfonso Rodriguez | Owner: Los 900
Stakes – Clasico Felipe Pardo y Barreda, HIPODROMO DE MONTERRICO (PER), D-Good | Dist: 9.9f | Time: 2:04.88 | Purse: $6,814
Keeneland Association September 2012 Yearling Sale
Buyer: Stud 900 | Consignor: Keith Lancaster | Price: $15,000
QUEEN’S PLATE NEWS
ARCTIC JOY won his maiden on Saturday for owner Royce Roberts and trainer Wesley Ward. Ward, who loves a trip to Woodbine, sent the colt to Turfway and synthetic dirt after he had run well, but not won in a series of races on grass at Gulfstream Park.
Arctic Joy, bred by Ted Burnett’s Josham Farms, had a previous high Beyer Speed Figure off 77 on the grass. No Beyer Figure was available for the Turfway win but you can watch the replay:
LOUISIANA DERBY SATURDAY
BATTERY, a solid favourite for the Queen’s Plate, has other business for big money going on right now. Harris Ventures’ colt, bred in St. Thomas by Anderson Farms (Ontario) is in the field for Saturday’s LOUISIANA DERBY at Fair Grounds.
The race is going to be a tough one for Battery with horses like Gun Runner, Candy My Boy and Mo Tom in the field.
Saturday, Fair Grounds, post time: 6:12 p.m. EDT
TWINSPIRES.COM LOUISIANA DERBY-GII, $1,000,000, 3yo,
1 1/8m
PP HORSE SIRE JOCKEY TRAINER WT
1 Gun Runner Candy Ride (Arg) Geroux Asmussen 122
2 Greenpointcrusader Bernardini Velazquez Schettino 122
3 Battery Bernardini Castellano Pletcher 122
4 Conquest Windycity Tiznow Rocco, Jr. Casse 122
5 Candy My Boy Candy Ride (Arg) Torres Brueggemann 122
6 Mo Tom Uncle Mo Lanerie Amoss 122
7 Tom’s Ready More Than Ready Hernandez, Jr. Stewart 122
8 Uncle Walter Uncle Mo Albarado Maker 122
9 Dazzling Gem Misremembered Bridgmohan Cox 122
10 Zapperini Ghostzapper Leparoux Foley 122
11 Forevamo Uncle Mo Hernandez Stall, Jr. 122
Owners: 1-Winchell Thoroughbreds LLC and Three Chimneys Farm, 2-St. Elias Stable, MeB Racing Stables LLC and Brooklyn Boyz Stables, 3-Harrell Ventures, LLC (Curtis Harrell), 4-Conquest Stables, LLC (Ernie Semersky & Dory Newell), 5-Frank Mancari, 6-G M B Racing (Gayle Benson), 7-G M B Racing (Gayle Benson), 8-Kenneth L. & Sarah K. Ramsey, 9-Steve Landers Racing, LLC (Steve Landers), 10-Lloyd Madison Farms IV, LLC (Fred Schwartz, et al), 11-Brittlyn Stable, Inc. (Evelyn Benoit).
Breeders: 1-Besilu Stables, LLC, 2-Oakbrook Farm, 3-Anderson Farms (Ontario) Inc., 4-WinStar Farm, LLC, 5-Craig B. Singer,
6-Hargus & Sandra Sexton & Silver FernFarm, 7-Blackstone Farm LLC, 8-Lantern Hill Farm, 9-Lisa Reynolds & Jennifer Feiner, 10-Lloyd Madison IV, LLC,
11-Ocala Stud
The 103rd running of the Grade II TwinSpires.com Louisiana Derby offers a $1,000,000 purse, awards 170 Kentucky Derby points (split 100-40-20-10) and has attracted a field of 11 3-year-old colts to travel its 1 1/8 miles over Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots’ main track on Saturday, March 26. Won by the likes of Kentucky Derby winner Grindstone, Preakness Stakes winner Master Derby and Preakness and Belmont Stakes-romping champion 3-year-old Risen Star, the major Triple Crown trail prep has a distinct local flavor in 2016.
Tom Amoss-conditioned Mo Tom, who will attempt to give his New Orleans native and 11-time Fair Grounds champion trainer his first victory in the track’s marquee event, flies the colors of the Benson Family of New Orleans Saints ownership’s G M B Racing and has been established as the 5-2 morning-line favorite. To be ridden by Corey Lanerie from post six, the son of Uncle Mo won the Grade III $200,000 Lecomte Stakes stylishly in January before a turbulent trip cost him any chance at victory last out in the Grade II $400,000 Risen Star Stakes. Since finishing third in that Feb. 20 event, the late-running $150,000 Keeneland yearling purchase has trained forwardly over the local surface, including a half-mile work on Mar. 5 in 47.80.
The Bensons will not have to look far at the beginning of the race to see their rooting interests, as their Dallas Stewart-trained Tom’s Ready (15-1) breaks directly to the outside of Mo Tom in post seven under Brian Hernandez, Jr. Winless since breaking his maiden in late September, the son of More Than Ready has placed in a pair of stakes behind Mo Tom, including the Lecomte, and will look to improve upon a seventh-place finish last out in the Risen Star.
Another of Louisiana’s prominent families will be represented in the Pelican State’s premier horse race with a serious contender in Evelyn Benoit’s – who races as Brittlyn Stable – Forevamo (10-1), from the barn of New Orleans native and Breeders’ Cup Classic-winning conditioner Al Stall, Jr. Drawing the outside post 11, the son of Uncle Mo will try to do one better than his runner-up finish in the Risen Star, while continuing the upward trajectory of his last few efforts. Louisiana native Colby Hernandez, currently second in the local standings, has the mount.
Winchell Thoroughbreds and Three Chimneys Farm’s Gun Runner – second choice at 3-1 on the morning line – also has improved with each start for trainer Steve Asmussen, including a win last out in the Risen Star to kick off his sophomore campaign. The good-looking chestnut son of Candy Ride signaled his readiness with a bullet five-furlong move in 1:00.60 on Mar. 14 and will be ridden once again by meet-leading jockey Florent Geroux from the rail.
St. Elias Stable and MeB Racing Stables’ Dominick Schettino-trained Greenpointcrusader, the beaten lukewarm favorite two back in the Grade I $2,000,000 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, leads a three-pronged ship-in attack from South Florida. An easy winner of the Grade I $500,000 Champagne Stakes as a juvenile, the classy son of Bernardini has not raced since kicking off his campaign on Jan. 30 with a game second to divisional co-leader Mohaymen in the Grade II $350,000 Holy Bull Stakes. Hall of Fame jockey John Velazquez has the mount from the two-hole on the 7-2 morning-line third choice.
Harrell Ventures’ Todd Pletcher-trained Battery (10-1) and Kenneth and Sarah Ramsey’s Mike Maker-trained Uncle Walter (20-1) – whose conditioners have collectively won four of the last six Louisiana Derbies – must be taken seriously in this spot. Battery, a son of Bernardini, is the only contestant with a race and victory over the nine-furlong trip, doing so last out in allowance company at Gulfstream Park. Javier Castellano retains the mount on the improving sort from post three. Uncle Walter showed promise when third in the Lecomte, beaten only three lengths in his third lifetime start. Beaten more than 40 lengths to last in the Risen Star, in what is presumed a non-effort, the bay colt quelled any doubts of his connections with a bullet five-furlong work on Mar. 15 in 1:00.60 at his Gulfstream base. Robby Albarado picks up the mount from post eight.
Invading from the north will be the Oaklawn Park-based duo of Steve Landers Racing’s Brad Cox-trained Dazzling Gem (12-1) and Conquest Stables’ Mark Casse-conditioned Conquest Windycity (15-1). Dazzling Gem was slated to compete in the Grade II $900,000 Rebel Stakes on Mar. 19, but missed a work with a minor foot abscess and returned to the tab on Mar. 15 with a bullet five-furlong drill in 1:00.60 in advance of his contingency excursion to New Orleans. Raced only twice, the bay colt won both events in two-turn Oaklawn trials and has shown improvement for a barn that is batting 35% at the Fair Grounds meet. Shaun Bridgmohan, who flew up from his Fair Grounds base to ride Dazzling Gem in each of his wins, reconnects with him on his home oval from post nine.
Conquest Windycity was an $800,000 OBS March 2015 purchase who hails from a stamina-rich family and races from the same barn as beaten Risen Star favorite Airoforce. By Tiznow out of a full-sister to Grade II winner Jump Start, the dark bay colt was a visually pleasing winner over Grade I-placed Rated R Superstar in a one-mile Oaklawn allowance last out. Since that Feb. 19 run, the promising winner of his last two has worked a pair of bullets at said Hot Springs track, including a five-furlong move in 59.80 on Mar. 5. Joe Rocco, Jr., who was aboard for his victory last out, rides again from post four.
Rounding out the Louisiana Derby is a pair of Risen Star also-rans who have each shown vast improvement since turning three. Frank Mancari’s Roger Brueggemann-trained Candy My Boy (15-1) broke from the outside post 11 in said Feb. 20 event and set a wicked tempo before giving in begrudgingly to lose by 2¼ lengths in fourth. A speedy two-time meet winner who broke his maiden three back on New Year’s Eve over well-regarded Creator and returned 18 days later to defeat Forevamo in allowance company, the son of Candy Ride hails from a barn that has struck at 27% during the meet and won three of its previous 10 attempts in graded stakes. Francisco Torres, who was aboard for his Jan. 18 allowance victory, returns to ride from post five.
Lloyd Madison Farms’ Zapperini (20-1) closed from last in the Risen Star to finish fifth of 11, beaten 9¾ lengths at odds of 47-1. One of only four competitors with a victory over the surface, the lightly raced son of Ghostzapper won a two-turn Fair Grounds maiden one race prior on Jan. 21 before stepping up considerably in class in the Risen Star for trainer Greg Foley. Julien Leparoux picks up the mount from post 10.
KENTUCKY DERBY POINTS
1 Mohaymen Kiaran McLaughlin 70 $760,350
2 Destin Todd Pletcher 51 $338,000
3 Gun Runner Steve Asmussen 51 $249,200
4 Cupid Bob Baffert 50 $540,000
5 Danzing Candy Cliff Sise Jr. 50 $240,000 (Career: $308,650)
6 Shagaf Chad Brown 50 $240,000 (Career: $298,800)
7 Mor Spirit Bob Baffert 44 $416,800
8 Nyquist Doug O’Neill 30 $1,700,000
9 Exaggerator Keith Desormeaux 26 $1,028,000
10 Whitmore Ron Moquett 24 $300,000
11 Sunny Ridge Jason Servis 23 $525,600
12 Mo Tom Tom Amoss 22 $288,326
13 Laoban Eric Guillot 22 $92,000
14 Forevamo Al Stall Jr. 20 $210,000
15 Zulu Todd Pletcher 20 $79,200
16 Outwork Todd Pletcher 20 $70,000
17 Flexibility Chad Brown 15 $232,500
18 Brody’s Cause Dale Romans 14 $500,000
19 Greenpointcrusader Dominick Schettino 14 $369,300
20 Swipe Keith Desormeaux 12 $597,130
21 Fellowship Stanley Gold 12 $115,590
22 Adventist Leah Gyarmati 12 $65,000
23 Collected Bob Baffert 11 $105,000
