The 4YO son of Big Brown, SOMELIKEITHOTBROWN, wins the G2 Bernard Baruch in wire to wire fashion at Saratoga. SOMELIKEITHOTBROWN, was raised at Crestwood Farm and is now a MGSW of over $500K.
Read the full story from the Bloodhorse at: https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/242540/somelikeithotbrown-proves-the-best-in-bernard-baruch
7/18/20 No Bull Jack
1st Monmouth Park $61,407 MSW 3YO 6F DIRT
No Bull Jack, F, 3YO, Jack Milton–Lost Crown, by Hit the Trail. No Bull Jack was out of the gate slowly from the rail, rushed up inside to contend, then dueled with rival. Around the turn, No Bull Jack lengthened her stride and pulled away from the field impressively to win by 10 ½ lengths.
Watch the Race 8 replay here: https://www.monmouthpark.com/race-replay/july-18-2020/
7/21/20 Warlock Doc
1st-Lone Star, $40,120, MSW, 2YO, 5F DIRT
WARLOCK DOC C, 2, Jack Milton–Destiny’s Reward, by Horse Chestnut (SAF). Warlock Doc won his debut via disqualification. Warlock Doc broke from post 10 advanced on the outside down the backstretch to stalk the pace. Warlock Doc continued to improve his position as the pacesetter, Spotted Bull, drifted and bumped him late. Spotted Bull held on by a head, but had his number taken down for the infraction.
Watch the replay here: https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/race-replays/0/202007211433LSE1/
The first 2YO winner for G1 BC Juvennile Champion, Texas Red, is My Girl Red who takes the field gate to wire and draws away to win by 4 1/2 lengths. My Girl Red is owned and bred by Erich Brehm and trained by Keith Desormeaux.
Read about it here:
BloodHorse Daily: https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/241774/my-girl-red-gives-texas-red-first-win-as-a-sire
Thoroughbred Daily News: https://www.thoroughbreddailynews.com/texas-reds-connections-send-out-his-first-winner-at-santa-anita/
Category : FIRING LINE , News , Stallions
Filly by Firing Line o/o Ever Nice (Arg) brought $210,000 at OBS June Sale.
Breeder-Clearsky Farms
Consigned by Wavertree Stables, Inc. (Ciaran Dunne), Agent IV
Purchased by Team Orange Stables/Gary Stevens
Paul Reddam and Ciaran Dunne’s Red Wings pinhooking partnership purchased the filly for $50,000 at the 2019 Fasig-Tipton July sale. The juvenile filly worked a quarter mile in :20.3
Watch the work: http://obssales.com/aprcatalog/2020/1010.mp4
Tobys Heart wins at first asking for owners Terry Hamilton & Brian A Lynch, and trainer Brian A Lynch. Read about the performance and watch the video by clicking on the link below to the Thoroughbred Daily News.
Category : FIRING LINE , News , Stallions
Firing Line was represented at the March OBS 2YO Sale by HIP 208, a filly out of Lu Baton, a daughter of MAMSELLE BEBETTE who is a MGSW of over $400,000. The Firing Line filly worked :10 flat and was purchased by Steve Landers out of the Coastal Equine LLC (Jesse Hoppel) consignment for $160,000.
Getmotherarose kicked away from her competition in the G3 Honey Fox S. to win clear by 1 ½ lengths. This is the first stakes victory for the 4 year-old filly by Get Stormy and becomes the 5th Graded Stakes winner for Get Stormy. Getmotherarose has been in the money in 9 of 15 starts and has earnings of $276,623.
Read more here: https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/articles/238793/getmotherarose-makes-the-grade-in-honey-fox
Watch Replay here: https://www.bloodhorse.com/horse-racing/race/usa/gp/2020/2/29/5/honey-fox-s-g3t
DOWN ON DA BAYOU was a dominating winner of the Grade 3 UAE Oaks by 18 1/2 lengths at Meydan on February 20th. DOWN ON DA BAYOU was bred by McCann Bloodstock, Mark Kelder, & Doug Richards.
DOWN ON DA BAYOU was raised and sold by Crestwood Farm. The daughter of Super Saver earned 50 points towards the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks.
DOWN ON DA BAYOU is the second G3 UAE Oaks winner out of the Empire Maker mare, Bayou Tortuga. In 2016, POLAR RIVER won the G3 UAE Oaks and later finished 2nd in the G2 UAE Derby.
Watch the Grade 3 UAE Oaks: https://youtu.be/y6RzRZLT584
GET STORMY (Stormy Atlantic–Foolish Girl by Kiri’s Clown), $7,500 Crestwood
From Chris McGrath, TDN Kentucky Sires Series, February 21, 2020
Last year he was favoured by the most helpfully named of advertisements in dual Grade I scorer Got Stormy, a $23,000 yearling ($45,000 2-year-old) who broke the Saratoga track record as the first female winner of the GI Fourstardave H. in 1:32 flat, besides also finishing second in the GI Breeders’ Cup Mile. But Get Stormy is no one-trick pony, with four other graded-stakes performers in 2019 headed by dual Grade I-placed Clyde’s Image, himself a $24,000 yearling.
Though he is viewed absolutely as a turf sire, I have a bit of a crackpot theory about Get Stormy. Physically he has all the bone and power you seek in a dirt horse and it might be wrong to typecast him at what remains an early stage of his career. Last year 71 of his 106 starters raced on turf; but this group accounted only for 26 of his 48 winners (leaving 22 winners from the remaining 35). Similar story in 2018: 75 of 114 starters raced on turf, but included basically only half his total winners at 27 out of 53 (leaving 26 winners from the other 39). Even allowing for the fact that some of these others scored on synthetics, I just have a feeling that he’s not being given adequate opportunity on dirt.
Get Stormy himself certainly carried his speed relentlessly, the premier hallmark of dirt racing, having made the running for all three of his Grade I wins. Obviously the Storm Cat line is associated with versatility and while there’s plenty of grass in his pedigree, it’s a healthy mix overall: his damsire is by Foolish Pleasure, for instance, and his sire’s dam is by Seattle Slew. In terms of sheer quality, moreover, he also carries Claiborne champion and matriarch Moccasin 4×5. Anyhow that constitution of his (won graded stakes four years running) would be worth replicating for any discipline of racing.
So let’s forget prescribing any rules for Get Stormy and just recognize how he’s upgrading the limited material he can expect at this level of the market. Got Stormy herself, for instance, is out of a $4,500 Malabar Gold mare who raced in Puerto Rico.
Just imagine what Get Stormy might achieve with the mares lavished, at more industrial farms, on newcomers who will never make the grade. As it is, he is in excellent hands; and last year already expanded his book from 47 to 86. And that was before his first big star had remotely hit her full stride.
The barometer says Stormy, but that means a sunny outlook for breeders.
Category : FIRING LINE , News , Sales News
Firing Line was represented at the Fasig-Tipton October Yearling sale by HIP 1129, a filly out of the Street Cry (IRE) mare, Red River Jane, who sold for $150,000. The Firing Line filly was bought by JCE Racing / Travis Durr, out of the Eaton Sales consignment.
