Aiken trained Honor A P colt brings $300,000 at OBS – Consigned by Cary Frommer

03/21/2024 |

Courtesy of Maryland Thoroughbreds

Nine Maryland-breds went through the ring, with eight selling for an average of $109,625 and a median of $57,500. Those figures represent an increase from last year, when six Maryland-breds sold for an average of $67,333 and a median of $56,000.

A dark bay or brown colt from the first crop of Honor A. P. led the way among both Maryland-breds and Mid-Atlantic breds, fetching $300,000. Consigned by Cary Frommer LLC, Agent I, and bred by Dark Hollow Farm, he sold to Amerman Racing LLC. He breezed an eighth of a mile in 10.1 at the under-tack show the week prior.

A headliner when named Grand Champion of the MHBA Yearling Show last year, the son of the Not For Love mare Flit went through the ring at last fall’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic yearling sale and listed as sold to Hillwood Stables for $87,000. He’s a half-brother to $222,427-earner Betcha by Golly; his dam is a half-sister to stakes winners O Dionysus (Bodemeister) and Joy (Pure Prize) and stakes-placed Combat Diver. The colt’s third dam, Safe At the Plate (by Double Zeus), is a half-sister to Maryland-bred legend and Racing Hall of Famer Safely Kept and graded stakes winner and sire Partner’s Hero.

 

Private Creed Repeats As Aiken-Trained Horse Of The Year In 2023

03/19/2024 |
Courtesy of the Paulick Report
For the second consecutive season, graded stakes winner Private Creed was named Aiken-trained Horse of the Year, the Aiken Standard reports.

The 4-year-old son of Jimmy Creed became the fourth horse to earn the honor in multiple seasons, joining Quality Road (2009 and 2010), Palace Malice (2013 and 2014), and Curalina (2015 and 2016). Private Creed was first given the honor during his 2-year-old season in 2022, and followed up with his sophomore campaign last year.

The winner is decided by the Aiken Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame and Museum’s advisory board. To qualify, candidates must have trained in Aiken, S.C., and won at least one graded stakes race during the year or compiled earnings in excess of $500,000.

Private Creed was purchased by Aiken-based Marcus and Crystal Ryan’s Mason Springs for $45,000 at the 2021 Keeneland September Yearling Sale, and after receiving his initial training in South Carolina, the colt sold to owner Mike McCarthy for $155,000 at the following year’s Fasig-Tipton Midlantic 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale.

The colt was placed in the barn of trainer Steve Asmussen, for whom he has won five of 12 starts and earned $1,329,166.

In 2023, Private Creed won two of seven starts. His campaign began with a runner-up effort in the Bob Bork Texas Turf Mile Stakes at Sam Houston Race Park, and after a brief detour to test the Kentucky Derby trail in the Grade 2 Risen Star Stakes, he returned to the turf for the remainder of the season.

Private Creed picked up steam once again in the summer, running second in the listed Mahony Stakes at Saratoga Race Course, then finishing the season with wins in the G2 Franklin-Simpson Stakes at Kentucky Downs and a Churchill Downs allowance.

More on new stakes winner CAMARO Z

03/04/2024 |

Courtesy of the Paulick Report

In an all-out slugfest down the Fair Grounds homestretch on Saturday, Camaro Z outfought Count Dracula to win the 66th running of $100,000 Black Gold.

Owned by Terry Stephens, Pravin Patel, and Tagg Team Racing, Camaro Z delivered and overcame multiple blows while battling his outside rival to prevail by a neck.

Trained by Greg Foley, Camaro Z’s pilot was Corey Lanerie. A winner of three races on the day, Lanerie who made the traditional walk to Black Gold’s grave in the infield to lay the ceremonial wreath. Descendants of Black Gold’s owner Rosa Hoots were on hand to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of becoming the first Louisiana Derby champion to go on and win the Kentucky Derby.

CAMARO Z a new stakes horse

03/04/2024 |

CAMARO Z broke his maiden, was second in an allowance race and jumped right into stakes company in the Black Gold S at the Fair Grounds. He had to forge a path through tight quarters but he got the job done to win by a neck.  He was purchased for the Cary Frommer consignments by his trainer Gregory D. Foley. He is owned by  Terry Stephens, Pravin Patel, and Tagg Team Racing. Breeder: Al Shaqab Racing