FORBES’ FIRSTERS FOR MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3

Sunday, September 02, 2012

Jon Forbes

RACE 6, ALL TWO-YEAR-OLDS, 5 ½ FURLONGS, DIRT, 3:11 P.M.

REVOLUTIONARY (2yo War Pass—Runup the Colors, by A.P. Indy) is out of a mare who won the Grade 1 Alabama and was second in the Grade 1 Spinster and Grade 1 Ballerina Handicap. Runup the Colors’ dam won the Grade 2 Delaware Oaks and also produced Group 1 winner and Irish and Italian highweight Flagbird, Grade 1 Acorn heroine Prospectors Delite, and Grade 2 King’s Bishop victor Top Account. Runup the Colors has five winners from six foals to race, including Grade 2 placed runners Tafaseel and Ice Road. Revolution was the most expensive of 14 juveniles by his sire to sell at auction this year.

Owner: WinStar Farm
Trainer: Todd Pletcher
Jockey: John Velazquez
Sales history: $80,000 Keeneland September yearling; $235,000 OBS March 2-year-old (one furlong in 10 2/5 seconds, video)

FORBES’ FIRSTERS FOR SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2

Saturday, September 01, 2012

Jon Forbes

RACE 2, TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLIES, SEVEN FURLONGS, DIRT, 1:32 P.M.

CUE THE MOON (2yo bay filly, Malibu Moon—Red Hot Bertie, by Tabasco Cat) is a half-sister to Red Hot Buddha, who won a minor stakes on dirt at the Fair Grounds as a 2-year-old and the listed Inaugural Stakes on Tapeta at Presque Isle as a 3-year-old. All four of Red Hot Bertie’s foals, which also include stakes-placed runners Knock Out Bertie and Red Hot Maria, have won. Red Hot Bertie is a winning half-sister to Allamerican Bertie, who captured four graded stakes and was second in the Grade 1 Alabama, and Hurricane Bertie, whose three graded stakes wins include the Grade 2 Prioress and who was third in the Grade 1 Ballerina Handicap. Cue the Moon was the second most expensive of 47 yearlings by her sire to sell at auction in 2011.

Owner: Spendthrift Farm LLC
Trainer: Harold James Bond
Jockey: Ramon Dominguez

ANTIPATHY (2yo bay filly, A.P. Indy—Love Style, by Mr. Prospector) is a half-sister to Scat Daddy, who won the Grade 1 Champagne as a 2-year-old and the Grade 1 Florida Derby as a 3-year-old, and minor stakes winner Grand Daddy. Love Style is an unraced daughter of Grade 1 Las Virgenes heroine Likeable Style, who is also the dam of minor stakes winner Grat, who in turn produced Grade 2 La Jolla Handicap victor Old Time Hockey.

Owner: Darley Stable
Trainer: Kiaran McLaughlin
Jockey: Irad Ortiz, Jr.

FORBES’ FIRSTERS FOR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

Friday, August 31, 2012

Jon Forbes

RACE 7, ALL TWO-YEAR-OLDS, SEVEN FURLONGS, DIRT, 4:07 P.M.

PUGET SOUND (2yo chestnut colt, A.P. Indy—Balletto, by Timber Country) is the third foal and second to race out of his dam, who won the Grade 1 Frizette and was second in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies as a 2-year-old and placed in five Grade 1 races as a 4-year-old. Her lone foal to race, Villanesca, was fifth in a maiden special weight at Saratoga on Thursday in her lone start to date.

Owner: Darley Stable
Trainer: Thomas Albertrani
Jockey: Irad Ortiz, Jr.

MICROMANAGE (2yo bay colt, Medaglia d’Oro—Catnip, by Flying Paster) is a half-brother to Indescribable, who won a trio of Grade 3 races on the all-weather, captured a single Grade 3 on turf, and was third in the Grade 1 Go for Wand Handicap on dirt; and Elaflaak, who took a listed stakes in England as a 2-year-old. Another half-sibling, unraced Catchofthecentury, produced Spring Awakening, winner of the listed Moccasin and second in the Grade 1 Del Mar Debutante; and minor stakes winner Cat’s Cat. Their dam, Catnip, won a pair of stakes as a 4-year-old and is a half-sister to European Champion Two-Year-Old Colt Hold That Tiger and Belmont Stakes winner Editor’s Note.

Owner: Repole Stable
Trainer: Todd Pletcher
Jockey: Javier Castellano

FORBES’ FIRSTERS FOR FRIDAY, AUGUST 31

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Jon Forbes

RACE 1, TWO-YEAR-OLD FILLIES, 5 ½ FURLONGS, DIRT, 2:30 P.M.

DIXIE SMILE (2yo gray/roan filly, Dixie Union—Broad Smile, by Broad Brush) is out of a multiple stakes-winning mare whose greatest victory came in the Grade 3 Columbia Stakes at Pimlico but who also won Fair Grounds’ Pontalba Stakes at age two. Broad Smile’s dam, Wings of Jove, won on debut and was also victorious in the Grade 1 Matron and Grade 2 Astarita Stakes at age two. Broad Smile has produced multiple stakes winner Procreate and stakes winner Perilous Song.

Owner: Michelle S Sharp
Trainer: Barclay Tagg
Jockey: Rajiv Maragh

BLAZING WHIP (2yo dark bay/brown filly, Street Boss—Timely Legend, by Navarone) is a half-sister to stakes winners Song of Navarone and Celluloid Hero. Song of Navarone won a total of five stakes races, all at Sunland Park and Zia Park. He also ran third in both the Grade 2 San Diego Handicap at Del Mar and the Grade 3 Sham Stakes at Santa Anita. Celluloid Hero was multiple stakes placed, with his stakes victories coming in Oaklawn Park’s Dixieland Stakes and Canterbury Park’s St. Paul and Minnesota H.P.B.A. Sprint Stakes. Six of her seven foals to race are winners.

Owner: JW Singer LLC
Trainer: Michael Matz
Jockey: Javier Castellano
Sales history: $85,000 Keeneland September yearling

MRS. BEAN (2yo bay filly, Spring at Last—Zambezi Belle, by Lord at War) is out of an unraced daughter of Medici Bells, whose multiple stakes placings include a runner-up effort in the Grade 2 Landaluce Stakes and a third-place effort in the Grade 3 Sorrento Stakes at age two. Medici Bells also won the Fairfield Stakes at Solano at age three. This filly is a half-sister to multiple stakes-winning New York-bred Law Enforcement, who to date has won six of 30 starts with earnings of $458,638. His four stakes victories include a winning effort in the Aspirant Stakes at Finger Lakes in his two-year-old season.

Owner: Tic Stables
Trainer: Christophe Clement
Jockey: Rosie Napravnik
Sales history: $50,000 Keeneland September Yearling, $90,000 OBS April 2-year-old (one furlong in 10 seconds, video)