Category: Results

2 year old filly MADONE wins her first start!

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8th-Del Mar, $57,000, Msw, 7-31, 2yo, f, 1mT, 1:36.05, fm.
MADONE (f, 2, Vancouver {Aus}–Indian Love Call, by Cherokee Run), off at odds of 5-1 in her debut, settled into a comfortable spot, idling near the back through the first quarter in :22.47. She edged up on the rail, swept to the outside on the final turn, and continued to inch toward the front, a bit belatedly changing leads, but assuredly in command. She crossed the wire one length to the best of fellow firster and post-time favorite Ivy League (Medaglia d’OroBWith Honors). Indian Love Call has a yearling filly by Astern (Aus) and had a colt this year by Cairo Prince. She was bred back to Gormley. She hails from the immediate family of GISWs Gold Fever (Forty Niner) and Boisterous(Distorted Humor). This is third winner for Vancouver (Aus) (Medaglia d’Oro).
Sales history: $70,000 Wlg ’18 KEENOV; $50,000 Ylg ’19 KEESEP; $125,000 2yo ’20 OBSMAR (:10 1/5). Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $33,000.
O-Kaleem Shah, Inc.;
B-Glendalough LLC (KY)
T-Simon Callaghan.

SHE’S MY TYPE squeezes through on the rail to capture the Coronation Cup at Saratoga

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CORONATION CUP S., $100,000, Saratoga, 7-31, 3yo, f, 5 1/2fT, 1:01.67, fm.
-SHE’S MY TYPE (FR), 120, f, 3, by Dunkerque (Fr)
1st Dam: Theoricienne (Fr), by Kendor (Fr)
2nd Dam: Theorie (Fr), by Anabaa
3rd Dam: Timber Nymph, by Woodman ($27,000 Ylg ’18 KEESEP). O-Ghislaine Head; B-Haras Du Quesnay (FR)
T-Christophe Clement
Lifetime Record: 6-3-1-1, $167,580. *1/2 to Tour to Paris (Fr) (Fuisse {Fr}), Ch. 2yo Colt-Hun, Ch. Sprinter-Hun, Ch. 3yo Colt-Hun, GSW-Fr, $187,848

With no trainer hotter at Saratoga these days than Christophe Clement, who also won the allowance just prior to the Coronation Cup S., the only surprise surrounding the victory of She’s My Type was that the public let her go at 4-1.

Positioned third-last behind fractions of :21.74 and :44.25, She’s My Type was covered up mid-pack and looked beaten in early stretch. Right around the time the leader covered five-eighths in :55.80, the waters parted like the Red Sea for She’s My Type, who burst through an impossible hole, shrugged off some interference, and powered to the front, getting to the wire a half-length in front of Miss J McKay, who had also come on late to erase Shippy’s three-length lead only strides before the line.

“Sometimes we are lucky, sometimes we are not,” Clement said. “Today was lucky. She has a very good turn of foot. When she had the chance to finish, I thought she ran very well. I thought the way she was going at Gulfstream that she could go from seven-eighths to a mile. Her brother [Tour To Paris] won a Group 2 [Prix du Gros-Chene at Deauville] in France a few months ago going five furlongs. That was one of the reasons we went back to sprinting with her and it seems to have worked out very well.”

Now a two-time stakes winner, She;s My Type broke her maiden last December at Gulfstream in her only start as a 2-year-old, then captured the Ginger Brew S. Jan. 20. Placings in the Mar. 28 Sanibel Island S. and the June 21 Lady Shipman S. marked her last two starts. The Coronation Cup was her first time going as short as 5 1/2 furlongs.

Theoricienne (Fr) has a juvenile full-brother to She’s My Type named Sensible, who sold at last year’s Osarus sale as a yearling for the equivalent of $19,748. The mare has a yearling filly by Anodin (Fr).

2 yo KENNY HAD A NOTION graduates at first asking

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6th-Delaware, $47,100, Msw, 7-30, 2yo, 6f, 1:12.91, ft. KENNY HAD A NOTION (g, 2, Great Notion–Darting, by During), favored at 6-5 in this unveiling, sat back off the pace in third through a :22.62 opening quarter. Winding up on the outside in the lane, the bay closed resolutely, getting up in the final jump to deny Don=t Dare Me (Daredevil) by a head. Darting=s most recent offspring is a yearling colt by Divining Rod. Lifetime Record: 1-1-0-0, $30,000. O-Ulman, Louis J. and Glasser, H. Neil; B-Althea Richards (VA); T-Dale Capuano.

YLIKEDIS takes Laurel allowance to make it 2 in a row

Last out, YLIKEDIS (Street Sense) broke her maiden with panache at Laurel going  1 1/16 on the turf. She tracked on the rail until allowed to angle out and clear the field for the win.  Running back in allowance company also at Laurel and at the same distance and surface, she followed the script of rail to outside to make it 2 in a row. The 3-year-old filly was a member of the Gulfstream Gallop contingent. She was purchased for $65,000 and resold for $170,000. She is owned by Kingsport Farm and trained by Kelly Rubley.

SHE’S MY TYPE (FR) 2nd in the LADY SHIPMAN S at Belmont

Earlier this year, SHE’S MY TYPE (FR)(Dunkerque (Fr) won the GINGER BREW S. at Gulfstream for owner Ghislaine Head. She was bred by the Heads at Haras Du Quesnay (FR) and is trained appropriately by Christophe Clement.
Lifetime Record: 5-2-1-1, $112,580

She’s My Type graduated on debut at Gulfstream and added Lasix for this step up to black-type company in the Ginger Brew. Since then she has been on the board in the Sweetest Chant Stakes (Gr. 3) and 3rd in the Sanibel Island S.

Today she chased 3 or 4 wide and came on to garner the place in the Lady Shipman Stakes . They went the 6 furlongs on the turf in 107 and change.

 

JEFFNJOHN’STHUNDR makes it 2 in a row

JEFFNJOHN’STHUNDR (Union Rags)  broke his maiden at Golden Gate racing 6 furlongs and winning by 2 1/2 lengths after hitting the board on all prior starts. Today he made it 2 in a row circling the field to win a 1x at Golden Gate. The 3 year old  was consigned and sold by Kirkwood at FT Timonium for $170,000 to his current owner Del Secco DCS Racing. He is trained by Jeff Bonde.

YLIKEDIS graduates at Laurel

2nd last out, YLIKEDIS (Street Sense) broke her maiden with panache at Laurel going  1 1/16 on the turf. She tracked on the rail until allowed to angle out and clear the field for the win.  The 3 year old filly was a member of the Gulfstream Gallop contingent. She was purchased for $65,000 and resold for $170,000. She is owned by Kingsport Farm and trained by Kelly Rubley.

MILTONTOWN wins his 2nd allowance in a row

MILTONTOWN (Speightstown) won an allowance race at Will Rogers Downs – his 2nd allowance win at that track  in a row. Racing a mile this time, he had his head in front at the half and out finished his foe by 1 1/4 at the wire in an all out duel.
Lifetime Record: 16-4-0-0, $116,984
O-Rick & Clayton Wiest, R 6 Stable & Norman Tremblay
B-G. Watts Humphrey Jr. & St. George Farm, LLC (KY);
T-Robertino Diodoro
*$25,000 RNA Wlg ’16 KEENOV; $80,000 Ylg ’17 KEESEP

 ‘Whale’ of a Start for Miller, Elser & Partners With NZ Venture

Joe Miller | kernlillingston.com

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By Alan Carasso

Joe Miller and Kip Elser are no strangers to success in the American bloodstock business. In a 15-year stint with Kern Thoroughbreds, Miller has helped manage the racing and breeding operations of Tracy Farmer and Len Riggio’s My Meadowview Farm, while Elser’s Kirkwood Stables’ graduates include GI Kentucky Oaks winners Plum Pretty (Medaglia d’Oro), Keeper Hill (Deputy Minister) and Gal In a Ruckus (Bold Ruckus); the top-level winning half-siblings Sharp Cat (Storm Cat) and Royal Anthem (Theatrical {Ire}); and GI Breeders’ Cup Classic hero Alphabet Soup (Cozzene).

Always ready to embrace a new challenge, Elser jumped at the opportunity to attend the 2018 New Zealand Bloodstock Yearling Sales at Karaka. The South Carolina-based horseman, along with Miller–the North American representative for NZB–Justin Casse and consignor Sam Beatson of the New Zealand-based Riversley Park agency teamed up to purchase a pinhooking prospect by the since-departed Tavistock (NZ) (Montjeu {Ire}). The team’s efforts bore fruit when the 3-year-old gelding, now named Beluga (NZ) graduated at second asking at Sha Tin in Hong Kong Mar. 14.

“I wanted to figure out a way to get more involved in New Zealand,” Miller said, just after getting Frozen 2 set up for his daughter to give her a break from distance learning. “I met [NZB Bloodstock Services Manager Danny Rolston and I know that the trade is very good from New Zealand to Hong Kong and he was looking to figure out if there was a way to get more Americans involved in New Zealand. There are obviously plenty of Americans involved in Australia and he asked if I’d help him out with that project.

“Kip loves doing stuff all over the world–he’s been involved in South Africa–and this was sort of a natural fit for him,” he continued. “His wife, Helen, has been to New Zealand several times, has friends there. They came, we decided to raise a little bit of money and put up some of our own money and go buy a couple of horses, with the ultimate goal of playing at the top of the market and pinhook a couple of horses on to Hong Kong.”

Miller explained that he got hooked up with Beatson through fellow bloodstock agent Andrew Williams, who launched his own agency in March 2017.

Hip 491 was consigned to the Book 1 of the 2018 Karaka Sales on the account of Curraghmore and hailed from the sixth crop of Tavistock, whose early successes included 2016 Hong Kong Derby hero Werther (NZ). The Oct. 30 foal is out of a multiple group-placed dam who was a half-sister to Group 3 winner Cassini (Aus) (Reset {Aus}).

“We decided that we wanted to buy something in our first year that was by a proven stallion that could be at the higher end of the market,” Miller explained. “We found a lot of horses we liked, but we weren’t really ready to take a shot with a first-year stallion. We thought that bringing something a little more proven was what we wanted, with some black-type under the first dam.”

The team gave NZ$150,000 for the colt, who Miller categorized as “very straight-forward.”

“Beluga was an October foal and he maybe wasn’t as mature as some of the others, but that was going to be OK, because we had 10 months to the 2-year-old sale,” he said, referring to NZB’s Ready To Run Sale which takes place fully 10 months hence in late November. “We had a lot of things we were looking for, but really, we just wanted to find a horse we thought would make a really good racehorse. A horse that would be sound, vet very clean. Size is kind of a factor when you’re selling to Hong Kong–they don’t really buy small horses–so we knew we wanted to buy a horse that was going to be about 16 hands.

He continued, “He just had a great frame to him, though he was still a little bit immature. But he had a great walk to him and he had a great brain. He just hadn’t quite filled in or muscled up yet into that frame, he was just a baby. We thought he had a ton of improvement in him. Tavistock had done well in Hong Kong–at the time, Werther was one of the best horses in Hong Kong. Physically, he was not the finished product, he was something we thought could develop into a really nice horse.”

Whereas there is often a preference for speed and horses that will be “early” at American juvenile auctions, Miller and partners were taking a longer view when they signed the ticket at Karaka.

“Kip and I really want to buy milers, we’re really not trying to buy a precocious horse,” he said. “We’re actually trying to stay away from things that look like they’re going to be 2-year-olds. That does us no good. We want a horse that’s going to breeze well, but when people go and look at it, they think it’s going to make a good 3-year-old and 4-year-old.

“We’re not looking for the sharp 2-year-old and that’s sort of the same thing Kip and I are doing with our gallop-only consignment,” he added. “We’re not looking for a 2-year-old that’s going to win in May or June or a horse that’s going to breeze in :10 flat. We’re looking for a late-year 2-year-old or 3-year-old sort of horse.”

The gap between the yearling and 2-year-old sales in New Zealands affords horsemen the opportunity to bring their horses along at a more leisurely pace that ultimately does the animals a world of good, Miller opines.

“They have a bit of a different way of training their horses,” he said. “What Sam does is break the horse and then turn it out for 30 days. Get back on it, get it up to a good gallop and then give it another 30 days off. And then once you get into June, you go on from there, but the horse gets two or three breaks from the time it starts. If he feels he needs 10 days in the paddock at some point, there’s really no pressure.”

The team’s purchase went his 200 meters in :10.45 ahead of the Ready To Run Sale and caught the eye of noted judge John Foote, who gave NZ$400,000 for the athletic bay.

“We were very happy with that for sure,” Miller affirmed. “For our first venture down there, to even make a profit was great. Kip and I were both pretty green when you go down to the Southern Hemisphere–you don’t know the pedigrees and you’re not familiar with the farms you’re buying off of. It’s a really different landscape. But it is the least-intimidating landscape. People are so helpful and friendly and now after doing it once or twice, it’s second nature now.

Miller continued, “Sam liked him all along. He thought he was one of his top two or three horses and I thought he breezed really well. He had his head down, breezed really easy. The goal isn’t to get him to go :10 flat, the goal is to try to get him to go just fast enough doing everything the right way. The horse kind of did that on his own.”

Beluga is off to a promising start, having built on a debut second Mar. 1 to graduate by a measured half-length Mar. 14 for G1 Melbourne Cup-winning trainer David Hall (video). This season, the Ready 2 Run Sale has tossed up the likes of 2019 G1 Longines Hong Kong Sprint winner Beat the Clock (Aus) (Hinchinbrook {Aus}) and Golden Sixty (Aus) (Medaglia d’Oro), who landed the BMW Hong Kong Derby Mar. 22. Miller hopes Beluga can be the next good thing in Hong Kong.

“I am hoping that this is just the beginning of a successful career over there,” said Miller. “He couldn’t have won more easily, he’s got tactical speed and I’d have to think he wants to go significantly farther than six furlongs. Any time that they’re successful this early in their career, you have a lot to look forward to. Things don’t really get going for another six or eight months for a horse like him.”

This past January, Miller and Elser teamed with Kilgravin Lodge’s Eion Kemp to purchase a colt by Ocean Park (NZ) for NZ$50,000 at this year’s Book 1 and, in partnership with Beatson, gave NZ$75,000 for a Per Incanto colt during Book 2. In partnership with Kilgravin, they also purchased a No Nay Never colt for A$80,000 at Inglis Melbourne Premier Sale in February. All three are headed to the RTR sale in eight months’ time.

BUSY DAY at GULFSTREAM !

SHE’S MY TYPE (FR),(Dunkerque (Fr) winner of the GINGER BREW S at Gulfstream added to her resume with a 3rd in the Sanibel Island S also at Gulfstream. It was an exciting and close stretch run. The filly is owned by Ghislaine Head and was bred in France at the Haras Du Quesnay (FR). She is trained by Christophe Clement

The winner has a juvenile full-brother named Sensible (Fr) and a yearling half-sister by Anodin (Ire). Her dam is a half-sibling to MGSW Blacktype (Fr) (Dunkerque {Fr}), who was also trained by Christophe Clement.

Christophe Clement appeared in the winner’s circle again with Stone Farm homebred TRAIPSING who traipsed to an 8 1/2 length win in allowance company.