The final time Godolphin gained a graded stakes race for 2-year-olds in New York was in 2019, when Lake Avenue (Tapit ) gained the Demoiselle Stakes (G2) at Aqueduct Racetrack, and in response to Equibase statistics relationship again to 2000, the worldwide racing and breeding group had by no means gained a grade 1 for juveniles at Saratoga Race Course, no less than till homebred Immersive obtained up within the remaining strides to win the $300,000 Spinaway Stakes (G1) Aug. 31.
“We’re simply delighted to get an enormous one right here at Saratoga,” mentioned Michael Banahan, Godolphin USA’s director of bloodstock.
Ridden by Manuel Franco, Immersive broke from put up 1 on a monitor that had been downgraded to muddy (sealed) after a heavy rain hit Saratoga late within the afternoon. Franco saved her again off the early leaders up the backstretch of the seven-furlong Spinaway, with a pack of fillies to her entrance and to her rear, principally within the clear.
Franco swung her off the rail and vast coming across the remaining flip and gave chase to favored Quietside , her lengthy strides propelling her to the wire 1 1/4 lengths in entrance. Quietside was second, and Sherbini ran third by 4 lengths, adopted throughout the end line by Sturdy State , The Queens M G , Dependable Supply , Pondering , Salted , Tiz Purple , and Bellacose . Slang was pulled up on the backstretch and left the race in an equine ambulance.
The Queens M G was anticipated to be the post-time favourite off two multi-length wins at Saratoga this summer time, together with a nine-length romp within the Adirondack Stakes (G3) Aug 4. Runner-up Quietside simply edged her on the home windows, gaining favored standing late within the betting.
Immersive paid $27.40 and stopped the timer in 1:25.31.
“The (moist) floor was in all probability an unknown for all of them,” mentioned Banahan, “so that you go on the market and hope for one of the best. We have been a bit disenchanted in drawing the one gap after which the rain, however you go on the market and hope for one of the best. Manny gave her a fantastic trip.”
Educated by Brad Cox, Immersive is out of the Bernardini mare Hole Yr and by Nyquist , who stood the 2024 season at Darley close to Lexington for $85,000.
“Nyquist is considered one of our greatest younger stallions,” Banahan mentioned, “And Hole Yr was race mare. We additionally felt that she had the potential to be a graded winner. The mixture of Bernardini and Nyquist/Uncle Mo has gone down very well, and we have at all times preferred this filly. These bloodlines are combine.”
Nyquist is the sire of three millionaires and has produced 14 graded stakes winners, together with a number of grade 1 winners Randomized and Vequist , the latter of which gained the Spinaway in 2020, and a number of graded stakes winner Gradual Down Andy .
As a part of the Breeders’ Cup Grime Dozen Bonus Sequence, the Spinaway gives $30,000 to the winner, $15,000 to the runner-up, and $7,500 to the third-place finisher to use towards entry charges for the $2 million Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies (G1) Nov. 1 at Del Mar.
“You’d hope that that is the place we’ll go,” mentioned Banahan. “We’ll see how she comes out and what Brad thinks, and whether or not we have to go once more, within the Alcibiades (Oct. 4) at Keeneland. We would stretch her out a bit of extra to see if that is what she needs to do, however in the present day is proof that that is what we expect she’d love to do.”
IMMERSIVE, the 2YO daughter of @DarleyAmerica stallion Nyquist, pulls off an upset at 12-1 to win the G1 Spinaway Stakes! This marks @jockeyfranco’s third win of the day and one other G1 victory for coach @bradcoxracing. pic.twitter.com/gSe3JaQiTS
— NYRA (🎪) (@TheNYRA) August 31, 2024
