Friday, June 15, 2012
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- Oaks winner Believe You Can to depart for NY Saturday for possible start in G1 Mother Goose
- Broadway’s Alibi, Disposablepleasure to breeze Sunday as Pletcher eyes Mother Goose; Caixa Eletronica aims for G3 James Marvin on
- It’s Tricky doing “outstanding,”
- Giant Ryan euthanized after complications arise from injury sustained in True North
Believe You Can, a Brereton C. Jones homebred, has remained at Churchill Downs since the Oaks and will depart for
“The biggest thing is getting her there,” said the trainer. “There are no flights available. If she handles the trip and handles the track, we’re running.”
Jones noted how Believe You Can already has experience on the
“She did well over the track last year,” said Jones.
In addition to Believe You Can and Broadway’s Alibi, the Mother Goose is expected to attract Contested and Zo Impressive, first and second in Memorial Day’s Grade 1 Acorn, according to NYRA stakes coordinator Andrew Byrnes.
“[The Mother Goose] looks like a good one, with the top four or five fillies in the country,” said Jones. “We’ve never ducked anybody, otherwise we never would have been in the Kentucky Oaks.”
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Todd Pletcher will wait until after Broadway’s Alibi and Disposablepleasure breeze on Sunday before he makes a final decision on whether he runs either or possibly both fillies in the Mother Goose.
“If they both breeze as well as they did last Sunday, there’s a good chance we’ll run them both, but we’ll see,” the trainer said.
Pletcher pondered starting E. Paul Robsham Stables’ Broadway’s Alibi, a hard-fought second in the Kentucky Oaks, in the Grade 1 Acorn on Memorial Day but decided to await the Mother Goose.
“She ran very hard in the Oaks and was taking a little while to recover, but she is rounding back into form,” said Pletcher.
Unlike the Oaks, the Mother Goose will be contested around one turn.
“I don’t think the mile and an eighth or the two turns were a problem [for Broadway’s Alibi in the Oaks],” said Pletcher. “She just got outrun on the day. I think she’s a pretty versatile filly; she’ll be effective anywhere from six furlongs to a mile and an eighth.”
Glencrest Farm’s Disposablepleasure, winner of last year’s Grade 2 Demoiselle, has been training at
Pletcher added that Mike Repole’s Caixa Eletronica, winner of Saturday’s Grade 2 True North Handicap, could make his next start in the Grade 3 James Marvin on July 20, a seven-furlong race on opening day at Saratoga Race Course.
“[The Marvin has] come up a really strong race the last couple of years,” noted Pletcher. “[Caixa Eletronica is] a great horse to have. You can look at any race [with him].”
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It’s Tricky, Godolphin Racing’s multiple-Grade 1 winning filly, will likely next contest the Grade 2, $750,000 Delaware Handicap at Delaware Park on Saturday, July 21, with the long-term summer goal remaining the Grade 1, $600,000 Personal Ensign at Saratoga Race Course on Sunday, August 26.
The ultra consistent 4-year-old daughter of Mineshaft has only run the 1 ¼-mile distance of the Delaware Handicap once, finishing 2nd by 5 ½ lengths to eventual Eclipse champion Royal Delta in the Grade 1 Alabama at Saratoga last summer.
The Personal Ensign, which had been run at 1 ¼ miles from 1995 through 2011, will return this year to the same distance it was contested over from 1976 through 2004 – 1 1/8 miles.
“She can go a mile and a quarter, but a mile and an eighth is probably better,” said Artie Magnuson, assistant trainer to Kiaran McLaughlin. “She has been training very well, outstanding.”
In nine career graded races, It’s Tricky has only run worse than second once, and boasts Grade 1 wins in last year’s TVG Acorn and TVG Coaching Club American Oaks, and this year’s Ogden Phipps Handicap. She is undefeated in three 2012 starts, all in graded competition.
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Last year’s New York-bred champion sprinter, older male and New York-bred horse of the year Giant Ryan was euthanized Thursday afternoon after developing laminitis resulting from an injury sustained during the running of the Grade 2 True North Handicap at
“They couldn’t do the surgery right away because there were problems with blood flow to his ankle, he had a clot,” Parbhoo said. “They treated him and Wednesday afternoon, the clot went away, but by Thursday morning there was a 10 percent trace of laminitis, the horse was starting to feel pressure, and we had to make a decision.”
“I didn’t want him to suffer at all,” the owner continued. “He was happy until the end, he was eating and drinking, but there was nothing more to do. It was a part of the game that we never really see – or, we see it, but before this we didn’t know how it feels. We look at racing in a different way now…it makes you think about how fast they go and it’s very, very scary.”
Giant Ryan finished his career with a record of 8-1-1 from 17 starts and $686,841 in earnings. Winner of the Grade 1 Vosburgh Invitational at Belmont last fall, Giant Ryan was trained by Shivananda Parbhoo’s father, Bisnath Parboo. The horse carried the red and yellow colors of Shivananda Racing, with which a large segment of the Parbhoo/Parboo family is involved.
Shivananda Racing also campaigns Trinniberg, winner of three graded stakes this year including a bittersweet victory in last Saturday’s Grade 2 Woody Stephens presented by VisitNassauCounty.com.
“The whole family is kind of leaning on Trinniberg because of what happened to Ryan,” Shivananda Parbhoo said. “It was very sad and very hard.”
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