Tell Your Daddy Tops Loaded Field for Artie Schiller

With solely two extra weekends of turf racing left in New York, a loaded area of horses hoping to safe one final black-type victory earlier than the season ends drew into the Nov. 11 $100,000 Artie Schiller Stakes at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Flying P Steady’s Tell Your Daddy  looms as a heavy hitter in the 12-horse field. The Tom Morley trainee enters Saturday’s one-mile turf contest off a respectable runner-up finish in the Oct. 9 Keeneland Turf Mile Stakes (G1T). Prior to that effort, he aced the Sept. 6 Bernard Baruch Handicap (G2T) at Saratoga Race Course in a gate-to-wire rating.

The 5-year-old Scat Daddy gelding, who was claimed for $40,000 in January on the Honest Grounds Race Course & Slots, has made a gradual development with a report of 1-2-1 from six begins for his new connections.

Jay Provenzano of Flying P Steady mentioned a greater journey within the Keeneland Turf Mile, a “Win and You are In” occasion may have despatched the enhancing gelding to the FanDuel Breeders’ Cup Mile Offered by PDJF (G1T).

“I believe we may have received the race if we had received a clear journey just like the winner did down the lane. We received a little bit bumped right here and there,” Provenzano mentioned. “We thought we stood an opportunity to get into the Breeders’ Cup however we ended up third on the listing.

“Tom and I’ve at all times caught to our plan with this horse and it is normally paid off,” Provenzano added. “We determined if we had been first or second on the AE listing we would ship and if not we’d keep for this spot and that is the plan.”

Provenzano mentioned that whereas he’s disenchanted to have missed out on this 12 months’s Breeders’ Cup with Inform Your Daddy, he’ll sit up for blazing a path to subsequent 12 months’s occasion.

“I believe we made the suitable alternative staying right here,” Provenzano mentioned. “It is a long way and subsequent 12 months we all know that we have now to marketing campaign him a little bit otherwise and deal with him like an actual good horse now.”

John Velazquez, who partnered with the gelding within the Bernard Baruch, returns to the irons.

A number of graded stakes-placed Bodecream  will also look to go from claim to fame. The 4-year-old son of Bodemeister  , trained by Jeffrey Englehart for Darryl Abramowitz, was claimed for $80,000 out of a winning effort in a 1 1/16-mile optional-claiming tilt last out Oct. 21 at Belmont Park, registering a career-best 106 Equibase Pace Determine.

“I assumed he was in for the suitable value and that he’d be a very good horse for us to have for subsequent season,” Englehart mentioned. “He ran a pleasant quantity final time so we nominated him to this race. He is been coaching good since, so we’ll take a shot. This spot is sensible for him.”

The constant Bodecream, who captured the Texas Turf Mile Stakes and positioned in two graded stakes on the New York circuit final 12 months, boasts a report of 2-2-0 from seven begins this 12 months.

Jose Lezcano may have the decision.

Field Pass , a multiple graded stakes winner for owners Three Diamonds Farm and trainer Mike Maker, cuts back in trip in the Artie Schiller after being denied late in the Oct. 10 1 1/8-mile Knickerbocker Stakes (G3T) at Belmont. Two starts back, the versatile 4-year-old took down the Baltimore/Washington International Turf Cup Stakes (G3T) at Pimlico Race Course over the Artie Schiller’s mile journey.

Javier Castellano will likely be aboard the son of Lemon Drop Kid   as he pursues a seventh lifetime stakes victory.