Though discovering a Kentucky Derby (G1) winner among the many victors within the Remsen Stakes (G2) might ship you again to 1994, recently the 1 1/8-mile stakes has produced greater than its fair proportion of top-level 3-year-olds.
The 2021 Remsen winner, Mo Donegal , prevailed within the Belmont Stakes (G1), and the runner-up, Zandon , earned $2.2 million in his profession. In the meantime, final yr’s race, which featured Dornoch nosing out Sierra Leone , noticed Dornoch take the Belmont Stakes and Haskell Stakes (G1) and Sierra Leone triumph within the Breeders’ Cup Basic (G1). For good measure, 2023 Remsen seventh Home Product gained the H. Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes (G1).
“The Remsen has developed into a really stable race,” coach Chad Brown stated.
A yr after Brown suffered that slender defeat within the Remsen with Sierra Leone, the four-time Eclipse Award winner will attempt to declare his first Remsen win since his preliminary one in 2014 when he sends out the duo of Keewaydin and Aviator Gui within the $250,000 Remsen for 2-year-olds Dec. 7 at Aqueduct Racetrack.
“They’re each doing nicely coming into the race,” Brown stated.
OXO Equine’s Keewaydin appears the extra promising of Brown’s two juveniles within the area of seven. The son of Instagrand , a stallion who raced for proprietor Larry Greatest’s OXO Equine and was educated by Brown, is coming off a pair of sharp efforts in his two profession begins.
In his Aug. 24 debut, Keewaydin completed third however was solely a head and a nostril behind Tip High Thomas who later ran second within the Champagne Stakes (G1).
The son of the Officer mare Nothing However Coronary heart then confirmed extra early pace and posted a 1 3/4-length victory in an Oct. 12 seven-furlong maiden take a look at, overlaying the space in a fleet 1:22.09.
“He is stretching out from seven furlongs to a mile and an eighth, however he put in two actually quick figures. It is only a query of whether or not he can go a mile and an eighth,” Brown stated. “He is an enormous, handsome horse that we at all times have appreciated. I am optimistic he can deal with it.”
Bred by Terrazas Thoroughbreds, Keewaydin offered for $140,000 on the 2022 Fasig-Tipton The November Sale as a weanling.
Three Chimneys Farm’s homebred Aviator Gui was shifted to turf for his third profession begin and completed fourth within the Awad Stakes. In his prior strive, he registered a size win in an off-the-turf maiden race at a one-turn mile.
“I attempted him on the turf as a result of he had a superb turf work and I am attempting to determine which route to go together with him,” Brown stated. “After the turf race he is been galloping out stronger on the filth than he had been, so I’m optimistic to strive him within the Remsen.”
Aviator Gui is a son of Uncle Mo out of the mare Paulistinha, a Tapit half sister to 2017 Horse of the Yr and Three Chimneys sire Gun Runner .
The sector additionally options LNJ Foxwoods’ debut winner Tux , a homebred Tapit colt who recorded a 3 1/2-length rating for coach Invoice Mott in a Nov. 9 maiden race at 6 1/2 furlongs.
The lone stakes winner within the area is David Hughes’ Studlydoright , a Nyquist colt who posted a victory within the Nov. 2 Nashua Stakes on the Large A. Runner-up within the Sanford Stakes (G3) at Saratoga Race Course, his lone end worse than second in six profession begins for coach John Robb was a seventh within the Hopeful Stakes (G1).
Godolphin’s Poster is undefeated in two begins for coach Eoin Harty, however the homebred Munnings colt notched each of these wins on turf.
As a part of the Highway to the Kentucky Derby, the Remsen gives factors to the highest 5 finishers on a 10-5-3-2-1 foundation.
Entries: Remsen S. (G2)
Aqueduct Racetrack, Saturday, December 07, 2024, Race 7
- Grade II
- 1 1/8m
- Filth
- $250,000
- 2 yo
- 2:36 PM (native)
