Flanagan Racing’s Grayosh , a piece in progress for coach Chad Brown, put all of the items collectively simply in time for an upset victory within the $200,000 Lake Placid Stakes (G2T) Aug. 17 at Saratoga Race Course.
The three-year-old Yoshida filly “purchased for a tune”, in keeping with proprietor Sean Flanagan, defeated heavy 3-4 favourite and grade 1 winner She Feels Fairly by a neck in an exhilarating duel to the wire. Grayosh, unaware of her price ticket, handed Flanagan his first graded stakes win as an proprietor.
“I do not even know what to say I had nothing ready,” Flanagan mentioned after the race. “I am overjoyed. To do that with a horse I paid the least for. I imply it could actually occur, have a look at Thorpedo Anna.”
Bred in Kentucky by Susan Bedwell and out of the Paddy O’ Prado mare Rosie O’Prado , Grayosh had been entered within the 2022 Fasig-Tipton Kentucky Fall Yearling Sale and caught the attention of Flanagan’s good friend, bloodstock agent Jeff Macker.
“I actually preferred the sire Yoshida, that horse might run on these items (turf), the grime, the freeway, and he was a horse I actually loved betting. So I mentioned (to Macker) let’s do it,” mentioned Flanagan. A bid of $25,000 landed the filly from the Taylor Made Gross sales Company consignment.
Brown mentioned Grayosh had impressed him all winter coaching at Payson Park in South Florida, which can have defined the coach’s formidable marketing campaign for her as soon as she broke her maiden.
“In the event you have a look at her kind, I form of overentered her early on in her profession (as a result of) I assumed a lot of her, after which it actually did not work out … She’s been a bit unfortunate. She had a horrible spill if you’ll at Gulfstream that day (in her second begin March 3 at Gulfstream Park) and was actually nearly put out of fee for some time. She’s a tricky filly and got here again from it.”
Breaking her maiden in her third begin at Gulfstream Park, Grayosh was a good fourth in opposition to stakes firm to fellow Brown trainee Segesta earlier than being nosed out of the picture in an allowance race July 18 on the Spa.
Every little thing would click on for Grayosh this go round.
Jockey Flavien Prat and Grayosh raced in placing place, by no means too far off the tempo behind a reasonable early tempo of :24.22, :49.67, and 1:14.30. Into the far flip, She Feels Fairly launched a threatening three-wide transfer to take her from fourth and headed the front-running Ori on the prime of the lane. When Ori started to tire, drifting in by the eighth pole, Prat struck with Grayosh, who moved off the hedge and cut up horses with an attention grabbing flip of foot to take command in deep stretch. Grayosh fended off a recreation She Feels Fairly to the end in a closing time of 1:43.74.
She Feels Fairly was a half-length forward of a furiously closing Dynamic Pricing , one other Brown trainee, in third.
Grayosh additionally grew to become the primary graded stakes winner for her sire Yoshida. Initially retired to WinStar Farm, Yoshida stood the 2024 season at Darley Japan for a charge of ¥1.5 million.
“Grayosh confirmed a number of coronary heart there to search out extra and actually outfinish horse,” Brown mentioned. She’s on monitor now.”
On monitor for a potential bid within the $750,000 Queen Elizabeth II Problem Cup (G1T) Oct. 12 at Keeneland, the place Grayosh might once more depart Flanagan speechless ought to she seize her first grade 1.
