Over the past five months, Stuart Janney III’s Celestial City was knocking on the door of a winning stake.
Two started again, the 3-year-old purebred son of Uncle Mo finished in a deadly rush in second place in Saranac Staking (G3T) after an equally talented Annapolis who defeated the older horses in capturing the Coolmore Turf Mile Stakes (G1T) in the next start.
Before that, Celestial City finished third in the National Museum of Hall of Fame Racing (G2T) in August and second in the Jersey Derby in May for Hall of Fame coach Shug McGaughey.
“His races have been very good,” said McGaughey.
All those lessons and the near misses finally paid off on October 22 when Celestial City put it all together and rose from ninth to a 2nd win. 1/4 of the $300,000 Hill Prince Stakes (G2T) with a score of 3 in Aqueduct race track.
“I think we learned a little something about him today with the fact that he’s not good,” said McGaughey. “He’s a lot farther back than I thought. But he made a pretty explosive run, so maybe that’s what he wanted to do. It’s a bit of my style but the way the pitches are. grass played here most of the time you have to set up.”
The win is the third win in nine career starts for the Malibu moon horse product Lunar evening . He won a permit race on September 24 at the Aqueduct against older horses.
While McGaughey was uncertain about the next step for the $347,920 earner, the way he ended up with excitement from the back of field 10 of 1/8 mile bets got him thinking about the bets. Tests like the December 3 Hollywood Derby (G1T) at 1 1/8 mile or the January 28 Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational bet (G1T) at 1 3/16 miles.
McGaughey said: “I’m not ready to stop if he’s ready to leave. “I’m happy with him. I think he raised the bar today and gave us more to work with. He’s not a Malibu Moon mare, a Janney breed, because so you know he has a lot of stamina in his pedigree.”
After stumbling at halftime, Celestial City and equestrian Jose Lezcano placed 9th as the Nantasket Beach put a: 49.83 half mile while pressured by Mackinnon. Midway through the ramp, Mackinnon, a first-time starter for coach Chad Brown, walked away from Nantasket Beach, but couldn’t resist a late bid from Celestial City, who darted off the tracks and past him to sixteenth column again.
The last was 1:50.27 on the pitch for Celestial City ($9.60), a 7-2 favorite in a competition field.
ERJ Racing, Madaket Stables, and Dave Kenney’s Mackinnon, son of American pharoah who finished third in last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T), second ahead of Whisper Hill Farm’s Grand Sonata one Medaglia d’Oro ponies trained by Todd Pletcher.
Celestial Moon is the second of four ponies from the Lunar Evening and its first winner. She also produced Waxing Moonone Candy Ride longing colt, and a year 2022 Competently pony.
Evvie Jets Give Kantarmaci First US Ranked Bet Win
While trainers can be masters at picking the right spot for one of their races, finding time for a personal vacation in their 24/7 world is a task. much more difficult.
So when the opportunity came for Mertkan Kantarmaci to run from the New York barn to visit some friends in England, he jumped at the opportunity.
Of course, there can always be some difficulty, which for Kantarmaci has come in the form of across the Atlantic for a major event: the first-ranked bet win in North America for coach 31 age of birth in Istanbul. , Turkey.
With his brother, Ilkay, handling the barn in his absence, Kantarmaci demanded $80,000 for owner Robert Amendola, Evvie Jets Grab an early lead in the race and register a 1/4-length win of $145,500 Noble Damsel Stakes (G3T) for character and mares, Saturday’s on-card assist feature at Aqueduct .
“It means a lot. We have won a lot of shares abroad, but this is our first time in the US,” said Ilkay, whose father, Tuncay, is a top coach in Turkey. Turkey, said. “I hope many others will come.”
Evvie Jets, a 4-year-old child Spinning candy dubious, was claimed $80,000 for nostrils in an optional claimant on September 16, 2021 in her seventh career kick-off. Kantarmaci then used her conditions to the fullest, scoring two wins and three seconds out of seven attempts in the pension company before taking her into the holdings.
That first attempt at an extra money event resulted in a neck drop after setting the pace for 1 1/8 mile Athenia Stakes (G3T) and setting her up perfectly for an even attempt. even stronger in the Noble Damsel range.
“In the end, she got the title she deserved,” said Mertkan from the UK. “She knocked on doors for a long time in the first and second run allowance races and then came back with two stakes. Her last race was not a loss for her. – it came in second at the string. She won for us one last time.”
Evvie Jets, bred by Farfellow Farms in Kentucky in addition to Unified person mare Traces of Natchez second to pacesetting Por Que No before taking charge in the ramp and mile coverage in 1:35.65 on grass.
Beaten at 7-2 by jockey Eric Cancel, Evvie Jets ($9.90) took her fourth win in 16 starts and raised her earnings to $364,530.
She was purchased by Team D for $75,000 from a Hidden Brook shipment at the September 2019 Keeneland Sale.
Plum Ali (First Samurai ) spent 9-5 favorites Messidor one Vadamos 4 years old, second place. Both fillings are trained by Christophe Clement.
Video: Hill Prince S. (G2T)
Video: Noble Damsel S. (G3T)
