After Strategy bird her first career win on November 13 at Gulfstream Park by 12 3/4 length, it’s fair to ask how she could handle a challenge in the $50,000 Sandpiper Stakes on Dec. Tampa Bay Downs.
Florida Juvenile Breeds Answered the Question Clearly, Back Devine charger by the neck after a lengthy bout to win the fourth fastest Sandpiper in its 44 laps. She provided her neophyte sire, Noble Bird , with the winner of his or her first black bet.
“It was something unbelievable,” said winning driver Antonio Gallardo after she held on to the ropes, completing the six-way distance in 1:10.05.
Owned by Gary Barber and coached by Hall of Famer Mark Casse, Strategic Bird paid $4 to win.
Casse assistant Jimmy Miranda on the Devine Charger challenge said: “I had a couple of people with me and they said ‘This race is over.’
“She laid out some good fractions (: 21.93, :44.91) and won, so we’re really happy with the result. When you get a winner the first time around. like she did, you just want to see if they take the next step, and today she’s handled things well. She’s a stubborn person.”
“I tried not to rush into her too much because I knew she had a lot of natural speed,” Gallardo added. “She slowed down a bit and still put those fractions like nothing. Having a #1 was perfect, and after I gave her a chance to relax, she moved on and never gave up. the.”
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Raised by the John Oxley Living Trust, Strategic Bird is beyond Afleet Alex mare Strategize . Two of her six ponies started and won. Among the uninitiated was a pony of Noble Bird.
The winner was TMC buying $40,000 from Royal Thoroughbreds consignment for Ocala Breeders’ Sales Company 2021 June 2 & Racing Age Horses, where she worked a quarter mile:21 leading up to the auction.
As a multiple ranked bet winner of over $1.3 million, Noble Bird’s most prestigious win came in the 2015 Stephen Foster Handicap (G1) at Churchill Downs. He enrolls in 2018, and will stand for the 2022 season for a $4,000 fee at Ocala Stud in Florida.
Chasing Happiness finished third in the 10-horse field, seven lengths behind the Devine Charger.
Also on the seventh card in Tampa, the 2 year old puppy was bred in Florida Cattin take $100,000 Inauguration Share. His time for six feathers is 1:10.90.
During the Inauguration, winning racer Samy Camacho was close to having a dream ride on Cattin, who improved to a 2 to 4. The young were owned by Corinne Heiligbrodt, William Heiligbrodt and Spendthrift Farm, bred. by Curtis Mikkelsen and Patricia Horth. Ralph Nicks train.
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