Courtesy of the TDN

IN ORDER OF PURSE: 4th-Oaklawn, $61,000, Alw (NW1$X)/Opt. Clm ($80,000), 4-11, 3yo, 1m, 1:36.66, ft.
SHOOTERS SHOOT  – sold by CARY  FROMMER for $300,000 – (c, 3, Competitive Edge–Repeat, by Bernardini) was a well-beaten second behind Baffert=s unbeaten buzzsaw Charlatan (Speightstown) at Santa Anita Feb. 16, then successfully stretched to two turns with a powerful maiden breaker in Arcadia last time Mar. 15. Off at 5-2 in this first attempt outside of Southern California, he was sent to the front from his inside draw, but was quickly greeted by favored Blackberry Wine (Oxbow), who has been a lightning rod for conversation since getting disqualified from a pair of wins for medication violations by trainer Joe Sharp while remaining eligible for this condition. Those two threw down through fractions of :23.10 and :45.87, and kept on sluggging it out down the stretch. Shooters Shoot wanted it just a little bit more and got the better of that rival by a neck in a race that didn’t deserve a loser.

Sales history: $90,000 Wlg ’17 KEENOV; $70,000 Ylg ’18 KEESEP; $300,000 2yo ’19 OBSAPR.
Lifetime Record: 6-2-1-1, $94,880.
O-ERJ Racing, LLC, Exline-Border Racing LLC & Dan Hudock
B-Nancy C. Shuford (KY)
T-Peter Eurton.

BOURBON BAY (Bayern) graduated at Aqueduct in his second start as a 2 year old. Racing back in the Jerome going a mile on the dirt also at Aqueduct, he dead-heated for second. Getting underway at 3, he added black-type running third in the Gander S. at Aqueduct and today added a 3rd in the Damon Runyon.  BOURBON BAY was started at the Aiken Training Track and consigned at Fasig Tipton Gulfstream by Cary Frommer.
O-Bourbon Lane Stable (J. Hill, M. McMahon), Seidman Stables LLC and Lake Lonely Racing
B-Oak Bluff Stables, LLC & Christophe Clement (NY)
T-Mark A. Hennig.

Racing a mile and a sixteenth, TOY (Tapizar) ran in second early and then drew away to an easy win at a gallop – by 6 widening lengths. He was started by Cary Frommer at the Aiken Training Track and sold at Fasig Tipton Midlantic Two Year Old in Training Sale for $45,000. He is a Dark Hollow Farm homebred.

Three-year-old MONTAUK TRAFFIC (Cross Traffic) broke his maiden last out and followed that up earning his first black-type circling the field to win the MONTAUK TRAFFIC. He is owned by Chris Fountoukis and trained by  Linda Rice.

Twirling Candy filly is pointed toward the Jenny Wiley (G1T) at Keeneland Apr. 11.

Courtesy of the BloodHorse

By Byron King

At a midwinter stage in February when many Kentuckians are dreaming of warmer climates, trainer Rusty Arnold is in Florida, thinking about Kentucky.

Bluegrass native Arnold has the spring meet at Keeneland on his mind, training four high-class turf horses that are just now gearing up for 2020 returns. Leading the charge for his squad is millionaire Concrete Rose, a four-time stakes winner in 2019 who resumed breezing Feb. 17 at Palm Meadows Training Center in South Florida. The filly worked three furlongs on grass Sunday in :36 4/5 and is being pointed toward a start in the April 11 Coolmore Jenny Wiley Stakes (G1T) at the Lexington oval.

The 4-year-old daughter of Twirling Candy , owned by Ashbrook Farm and BBN Racing, is already proven at the grade 1 level, having won the Belmont Oaks Invitational Stakes (G1T) last summer at 3. Other triumphs last year included the Edgewood Stakes Presented by Forcht Bank (G3T), the Florida Oaks (G3T), and the $750,000 Saratoga Oaks

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CONCRETE ROSE works 3 furlongs at Palm Meadows with ears pricked and under a hold

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GSW KILLYBEGS CAPTAIN was a runaway winner of the Pelican S. at Tampa last February and he won it again this year with an Equibase Speed figure of 105. Off in 2nd briefly he vied between horses and essentially wired the field. The 6-year-old horse is owned by the Curragh Stables and trained by John P. Terranova II. He was bred by H. Allen Poindexter. He was trained in Aiken and consigned and sold at OBS April to his owner for $75,000.

G2 stakes winner of the Woody Stephens S.at Belmont, and  Maryland Champion 3-year-old male and champion sprinter, STILL HAVING FUN (b.c., 2015, by Old Fashioned—Casual Kiss, by Dehere) added to his laurels with a 3rd in the General George G3. He is owned by Gary Barber, Wachtel Stable and Terp Racing LLC and trained by Timothy L. Keefe. He was readied for racing by Cary Frommer at the Aiken Training Track.