Brookdale Racing, Mark Edwards, Judy Hicks, and Magdalena Racing’s a number of grade 1 winner Thorpedo Anna breezed 5 furlongs in 1:00.40 Oct. 19 on the Oklahoma dust coaching observe at Saratoga Race Course.
Thorpedo Anna posted the sharp work in firm with a number of stakes-placed 4-year-old gelding Denington (1:01.50), who she began behind however was properly in entrance of through the gallop-out. The Quick Anna darkish bay or brown filly has been working weekly en path to the Breeders’ Cup Distaff Nov. 2 at Del Mar.
“It was a unbelievable work, truly,” stated coach Kenny McPeek, including that she is going to work once more earlier than heading west. “She goes to work subsequent weekend.”
McPeek stated Thorpedo Anna met the targets of the transfer beneath common train rider Danny Ramsey.
“Simply sit off Denington, be affected person, and vary as much as him, and end down the lane,” stated McPeek. “He’s a pleasant horse in his personal proper. He’s stakes-placed and has made fairly a bit of cash, however she is hitting on all cylinders.”
Thorpedo Anna, who captured the Kentucky Oaks (G1) in Might, boasts a 7-2-0 file in 9 begins with $2,803,663 in earnings, together with further grade 1 wins within the Cotillion Stakes (G1) final out Sept. 21 at Parx Racing, the Teaching Membership American Oaks (G1), and the Acorn Stakes (G1), together with the Fantasy Stakes (G2)—all this 12 months. She additionally stole the hearts of many racing followers when crushed a head within the Travers in a courageous try versus colts within the Spa’s premier occasion.
Thorpedo Anna will seemingly be a brief value within the Distaff together with reigning champion older dust feminine Idiomatic, who labored a half-mile in :49 4/5 for twin Eclipse Award-winner Brad Cox Oct. 18 at Churchill Downs.
“I do not fear concerning the horses that I do not prepare,” McPeek stated of the much-anticipated matchup.
Sierra Leone Leads Chad Brown Staff at Belmont
Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor, Derrick Smith, Westerberg, Rocket Ship Racing, and Peter Brant’s twin graded stakes winner Sierra Leone posted a half-mile work for the Breeders’ Cup Basic (G1) as one in all many Breeders’ Cup hopefuls to breeze Oct. 19 at Belmont Park for four-time Eclipse Award-winning coach Chad Brown.
The son of Gun Runner hit the dust coaching observe shortly after reopening from a renovation break at 9:30 a.m. and breezed solo in :49.25 over the quick observe. It was his third work at Belmont since transferring south from Saratoga Race Course about three weeks in the past.
“It went tremendous. He labored a half-mile and galloped out six furlongs in 1:13 and 1. It was extraordinarily spectacular,” Brown stated. “The horse has been coaching very well and I am actually enthusiastic about him going into the Breeders’ Cup.”
Sierra Leone appears to cap a sophomore marketing campaign that features wins within the Blue Grass Stakes (G1) at Keeneland and Risen Star Stakes (G2) at Truthful Grounds Race Course & Slots, in addition to on-the-board efforts in marquee grade 1 occasions when a narrowly crushed second within the Kentucky Derby (G1), and third at Saratoga in each the Belmont Stakes (G1) and Travers Stakes (G1).
Brown stated he’s hopeful a successful end result might put Sierra Leone within the combine for Eclipse Award honors as champion 3-year-old male as he takes on Travers winner Fierceness for the third straight race.
“I feel Fierceness is clearly the chief of the division and it is properly earned. I do know a few of these horses have taken turns beating one another however he has had a spectacular summer time in my view and he isn’t solely the one to beat within the Basic, but additionally the chief of the division proper now,” Brown stated. “But when Sierra Leone was to interrupt by way of and take down a race just like the Breeders’ Cup Basic dealing with largely older horses, I feel he’d be in critical consideration given his consistency.”
Brown additionally despatched out prime sophomore middle-distance competitor Home Product as he readies to make his ultimate profession begin within the two-turn Breeders’ Cup Dust Mile (G1) earlier than retiring to stud alongside his sire Sensible Joke at Coolmore’s Ashford Stud in Kentucky.
The darkish bay or brown colt, a Kentucky homebred for Klaravich Stables, lined a half-mile solo in :48.42 in an earlier set earlier than Sierra Leone.
“Excellent—extra of the identical from him. Very constant,” stated Brown, who indicated the Breeders’ Cup Dash (G1) can be into consideration for Home Product. “He is gotten stronger and quicker because the 12 months has gone on and I am actually wanting ahead to his race.”
Home Product was final seen successful the H. Allen Jerkens Memorial Stakes (G1) Aug. 24 on the Spa and has put collectively a robust marketing campaign that features a 7 1/2-length romp within the Dwyer Stakes (G3) in July at Aqueduct Racetrack, and a gutsy win within the Tampa Bay Derby (G3) in March.
Brown additionally despatched out two proficient juveniles for half-mile works in Chancer McPatrick (:48.01) and Zulu Kingdom (:48.63), who’re focusing on the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile (G1) and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T), respectively. Zulu Kingdom labored in firm with older graded stakes winner Working Bee .
Chancer McPatrick has stamped himself as a number one dust juvenile with back-to-back grade 1 victories within the Hopeful Stakes (G1) and Champagne Stakes (G1). Zulu Kingdom has additionally rapidly established himself on the prime of the juvenile turf division with back-to-back graded wins as properly, taking the With Anticipation Stakes (G3T) in August and the Pilgrim Stakes (G2T) Sept. 28.
“A little bit fast, however did it straightforward in a solo breeze,” stated Brown of the Chancer McPatrick work. “He acts a 12 months older than he’s actually in the whole lot he does—each within the morning and within the afternoon. He’ll want some tempo in entrance of him along with his working fashion, however he is definitely coaching properly.”
On the filly aspect, Alpha Delta Stables’ grade 1-winning homebred Raging Sea , with Flavien Prat up, breezed a half-mile in firm with their current Spinster Stakes (G1) runner-up Occult , the pair overlaying the space in :49.46.
“She was touring properly,” Prat stated. “It was a reasonably customary work and he or she went good. She’s completely satisfied and transferring properly.”
Raging Sea is being pointed to the Breeders’ Cup Distaff (G1) off three straight graded wins when taking the Shuvee Stakes (G2) in July upsetting divisional chief Idiomatic within the Private Ensign Stakes (G1) Aug. 23, and following with a slim victory over Batucada within the Beldame Stakes (G2) Oct. 6
Prime feminine sprinter Methods and Means additionally breezed Saturday, overlaying 4 furlongs in :48.21 in firm with sophomore filly Fairly Ana . The daughter of Sensible Joke notched her first top-level rating with a formidable victory within the Take a look at Stakes (G1) in August and adopted with a commanding rating within the Gallant Bloom Stakes (G2).
“She was the one one final week I believed obtained a bit misplaced in her work switching to the coaching observe after primarily being based mostly in Saratoga all 12 months,” Brown stated. “At this time, I gave her a workmate and he or she labored dynamite. A little bit little bit of focus for her and he or she was all enterprise.”
Additionally on the tab Saturday at Belmont was Breeders’ Cup Mile (G1T) attainable Gina Romantica , who went a solo half-mile in :49.51 and Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf (G1T) possible Virgin Colada , who breezed a half-mile in :49.42 in firm with older a number of graded stakes winner Fluffy Socks .
This press launch has been edited for content material and elegance by BloodHorse Employees.
