Hi All,
A lot of news with a big win Thursday afternoon, an entry tonight and multiple spots for horses in the next few weeks. Also, we will be holding our last Breakfast and Backside at Monmouth Park on Saturday morning 9/28 weather permitting for another chance to see your horses train and then meet them back at the stables. Please let us know if you are planning on attending and we will send you the details.
Miti Fast Flower is no longer a Maiden as she cruised to a 9 length win under a masterful ride by Julio Hernandez Thursday afternoon at Delaware Park. Congratulations to All Group 84 members and Trainer Mark Salvaggio. Scott’s post-race comments are below and the race chart is attached above.
After knocking on the door of her maiden breaking win the past few races since stretching out to two turns, MITI FAST FLOWER finally broke through with a convincing win earlier today at Delaware Park, going One Mile on the main track! Breaking from the rail in a field of seven horses (no scratches), she broke cleanly and jockey Julio Hernandez sat patient around the Clubhouse turn and up the back stretch, while saving ground and allowing the others to make a first move rounding the far turn. You could tell Miti Fast still had run in her rounding the turn even though she lost some ground, and it didn’t take much to open up off the rail into the straightaway, to draw away from the leaders and rest of the field to win by nearly 10 lengths at the wire! It was another 4-5 lengths back to the 3rd place finisher, and a total of 22+ lengths back to the 4th through 7th place finishers! An impressive win, and she did it professionally. Interesting to note, Miti Fast was not the Post Time favorite and she ended up beating the short-priced, 1-2 favorite handily.
Calming Sea has finally found an entry slot tonight and will leave from post position 6 with Paco Lopez aboard in Race 3 at the Meadowlands. Scott’s pre-race comments are below and the pp’s are attached above.
It’s RACE DAY for CALMING SEA tonight at the Monmouth At Meadowlands Meet! Post Time is 7:55 PM for Race 3, and Calming Sea gets Paco Lopez in the irons for the One Mile turf route. She’s ready to go today, and has been on a consistent workout schedule since her brief R&R, to get her conditioning where it needs to be. Calming Sea’s best races have been on, or near, the lead out of the gate, and she will need a clean break amongst a full field of 10 to get to the front. The only other early speed on paper is #2-Louella Street, but Calming Sea is a few lengths faster on paper, and should be able to make the lead if that is the only contention. The biggest threats in the race are all closers, with #1-First Reign, #5-Singleberylbourbon, #9-Collective Gold and #10-Special Affair all needing a faster pace to close into. With an easy lead, hopefully Paco and Calming Sea can take it gate-to-wire and not let the closers contend, but there are no guarantees in a full field like this, and we’ll likely see more pace presence on the frontend than expected. Calming Sea is the 2-1 ML Favorite, and with the next favorite at 4-1, she looks to be the horse to beat in this spot. Fingers crossed for a clean and safe trip tonight, and please let us know if you’ll be able to make it to the race, as the setup at the Meadowlands for thoroughbred racing is a little funky, to say the least! Scratches have not been announced yet, so we’ll see if it ends up a full field of ten, or less.
Good luck to ARC24, Trainer and co-owner Kelly Breen and all Kenwood Racing Partners! Let’s get lucky!
Vino Limone is doing great after her 4th place finish in the 200K Sorority Stakes at Monmouth Park. She had a very nice breeze last Sunday (see below) and we will look to enter her for a race for two year old winners on Wednesday October 2nd at Delaware Park. More details to follow once the race is carded.
Vino Limone (2-Year-Old Filly)
Date: September 15, 2024
Track: MONMOUTH PARK
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 48:00 Handily
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 8/108
Outlaw Country continues to train well at Monmouth Park with an easy maintenance breeze yesterday (see below) in preparation for a race at the Meadowlands on Saturday October 5th. Once the entries are drawn we will send out the race information.
Outlaw Country (4-Year-Old Gelding)
Date: September 20, 2024
Track: MONMOUTH PARK
Distance: Three Furlongs
Time: 39:80 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 4/4
Red Head Italian has progressed nicely with Trainer Kelly Breen since resuming training early in August. She had a nice gate breeze last Sunday (see video link and report below). Scott’s comments on the outcome are below.
Red Head put together one of her best breezes to date, working in :36.3 seconds for the 3 furlongs, and she handled the turn on the gallop-out with ease! Please use the link below to see a video of the breeze and gallop-out. The Equibase Workout Notification is below, and while it says :37.3 seconds for the time, you can hear Kelly say at the 7/8ths Pole, “36.3”; which was his time. As we’ve said though, with regards to workouts, the time really doesn’t matter; it’s how they look while doing it, and RHI looked like she was ready to go today! We said we would let RHI do the talking as she got back into training and likely “race her into shape” to try and make a race at the Meadowlands, and that remains the target! There is not a NJ Bred race in the book until October 11th, but with racing starting next weekend at the Meadowlands, and the first Overnight due out on Thursday, we’ll have our eyes peeled for an NJ Bred race to pop before mid-October. Our fingers remained crossed (at all times in this game!), but our patience and plan with RHI continues to stay on track.
Red Head Italian - MTH Gate Breeze 09.15.24.mp4
Red Head Italian (3-Year-Old Filly)
Date: September 15, 2024
Track: MONMOUTH PARK
Distance: Three Furlongs
Time: 37:60 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 18/25
Cali Heat is training well with a couple of breezes for Mark Salvaggio at Penn National (see below) and we will be looking for a race for him in the next few weeks.
Cali Heat (3-Year-Old Colt)
Date: September 17, 2024
Track: PENN NATIONAL
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 49:81 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 5/18
Cali Heat (3-Year-Old Colt)
Date: September 10, 2024
Track: PENN NATIONAL
Distance: Four Furlongs
Time: 52:04 Breezing
Track Condition: Fast
Surface: Dirt
Rank: 11/11
Lisa’s Palace is fine and enjoying her brief time off from training at Sunset Meadow Farm. She should return to Monmouth to resume training before the end of the month.
Our Connect / Lisa Limon filly is well at Hidden Brook Farm in Kentucky. She will be vanning to a farm in Delaware in the coming weeks to become Delaware certified for additional race purses when she is eligible next year.