West Level Thoroughbreds and Steven Bouchey’s Carson’s Run didn’t compete in all three legs of the New York Racing Affiliation’s collection of turf races for 3-year-old males, skipping the primary leg of the collection, the July 6 Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes (G1T). However he made his presence felt within the last two races of the collection.
He received the Aug. 11 Saratoga Derby Invitational Stakes (G1T), the center leg, and Oct. 5, took the collection finale in rallying from final to seize the $500,000 Jockey Membership Derby Invitational Stakes (G3T) at Aqueduct Racetrack.
CARSON’S RUN will get it performed within the Grade 3 Jockey Membership Derby Invitational with @DavisJockey aboard for coach @clementstable and house owners @westpointtbred & @StevenBouchey! pic.twitter.com/4uXPc3Vw06
— NYRA (🌳) (@TheNYRA) October 5, 2024
Dylan Davis, who piloted Carson’s Run within the Saratoga Derby, was once more within the irons Saturday, and the chestnut 3-year-old Cupid colt responded for him simply as he did almost two months earlier. Carson’s Run exploded down the stretch of Saturday’s 1 3/8-mile turf race to take over in midstretch and maintained a secure benefit to defeat stablemate Deterministic by three-quarters of a size. The latter raced in visitors and got here up the fence to seize second
El Rezeen was a detailed third.
Christophe Clement trains the highest two finishers.
“Each of them progressed by means of the 12 months. I wasn’t positive if they might each keep the mile and three-eighths, however the way in which they ran there isn’t any subject with the space,” Clement mentioned. “It may be a whole lot of enjoyable subsequent 12 months.”
If both of Clement’s duo races once more in 2024, it is going to probably come within the Nov. 30 Hollywood Derby (G1T) for 3-year-olds at Del Mar, the coach mentioned. They may alternatively be freshened and pointed towards races in 2025.
Carson’s Run, a grade 1 winner final 12 months at 2, went off favored after ending second within the Aug. 31 Nashville Derby Invitational (G3T) at Kentucky Downs between the Saratoga Derby and the Jockey Membership Derby. He paid $5 to win, with the general public making him a prohibitive alternative after the scratch of Godolphin’s Legend of Time , who had been a detailed second to Carson’s Run within the Saratoga Derby. The winner, bred by Frankfort Park Farm in Kentucky from the Henny Hughes mare Scorching N Hectic , was timed in 2:14.22 for the space on agency turf.
Together with Desert Daybreak , Carson’s Run is one in all two graded stakes winners this 12 months for Cupid, who stood at Atlanta Corridor Farm in Maryland for $8,000 this previous breeding season.
Video: Jockey Membership Derby Invitational S. (G3T)
Senbei Provides Clement A stakes Double
A race later, one other chestnut Clement trainee, Senbei , mirrored Carson’s Run’s closing cost by catching five-time stakes winner Nothing Higher by 1 1/4 lengths within the $200,000 Belmont Turf Dash Stakes (G3T). He raced six furlongs in 1:07.74, returning $10 to win.
Nothing Higher, carried broad down the stretch, completed second forward of Alogon in third.
SENBEI, the 5YO son of @LanesEndFarms stallion Sweet Journey, wins the Grade 3 Belmont Turf Dash Stakes underneath @jockeyfranco for coach @clementstable. pic.twitter.com/5BTalssHoI
— NYRA (🌳) (@TheNYRA) October 5, 2024
Manny Franco rode Senbei, who improved to 2-for-2 over the Aqueduct turf course after taking an allowance non-compulsory claiming race on the New York oval in July, additionally over six furlongs. Most lately, he had been third within the Aug. 17 Choose Stakes at 5 1/2 furlongs on grass at Monmouth Park, a head behind Nothing Higher within the that race.
Reeves Thoroughbred Racing and Darlene Bilinski personal the 5-year-old gelding. Bred in New York by Dr. Jerry Bilinski, he’s by Sweet Journey , sire of fellow 2024 graded stakes winners Hit Present and Most Needed . Sweet Journey stood in 2024 for $75,000 at Lane’s Finish Farm close to Versailles, Ky.
Video: Jockey Membership Derby Invitational S. (G3T)
