Churchill Downs, $80.418, Msw, 5-20, 2yo, 4 1/2f,: 52.05, ft, 1/2 length.
SEPTEMBER (c, 2, Munnings–Hello Maggie May {MSW, $264,687}, by Lemon Drop Kid) O-Dew Sweepers LLC; B-Coteau Grove Farms, LLC (LA); T-George R. Arnold, II
A number one song in America during the long hot summer of 1971 had the first two lines: Wake up, Maggie, I think I’ve got something to tell you / It’s the end of September and I really should back to school.
The song was called “Maggie May” and co-writer Rod Stewart had the mullet-haired, raspy voice that became a world star.
It’s only been fifty years or so, and now the Churchill Downs winning team last September connects to his name with his mother HELLO MAGGIE MAY – for audiences old and new, domestic and international (he could go to Royal Ascot). This connection is confusing and bittersweet, like the end of a summer. The song “Maggie May” is, after all, the story of a difficult and perhaps ill-fated emotional journey between two runaways – one very young, the other not so much.
GAZELLE S.-GIII, $250,000, Aqueduct4-9, 3yo, f, 1 1/8m, 1: 50.41, ft. first-NOSTALGIC, 118, f, 3, by Medaglia d’Oro First Dam: Been Here Before (SP), by Tapit. O/B-Godolphin (KY); T-William I. Mott; J-Jose L. Ortiz.
The NOSTALGIC Class III winner’s name contains an elegant reference to her dam HERE BEFORE.
Happy marriagec, 3, The best–True Bliss, by Yes It True. Indianapolis horseshoe, 4-27, 1m, 1:41.07. Lifetime record: 3-1-0-1, $28,580. B-Sally J. Andersen (FL). * USD 70,000 Ylg ’20 FTKSEL; $130,000 2 years 21 EASMAY
Here’s a great name: real marital happiness should be unified and real happiness – yes, that’s true.
