Sold for $200,000 at OBSApril, 3-year-old filly POSIT (Cairo Prince) broke her maiden sprinting at Golden Gate.  Running back in allowance company she wired the field to win her second race in a row. Making her second start back after some months off, she wired the field sprinting to a win at Santa Anita. POSIT is trained by Simon Callaghan for Reddam Racing LLC  and was bred by H. Allen Poindexter.

Come watch her handsome grey half brother by Dominus preparing for the OBS March sale at the Aiken Training Track.

BOURBON BAY (c, 2, Bayern–Savvy Sassy, by Street Sense) got his start with Cary Frommer at Aiken. Running for the first time in a stakes race, he broke well, rated kindly, and rerallied at the wire so that he would not be denied second. He looks great physically, and continues to be very professional in the paddock and while warming up.
Lifetime Record: 2-1-2-0, $70,500.
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.

We mean it when we say “WIN ANYWHERE!”

JASPER PRINCE (Violence) won again in the 2019 FAREWELL STAKES at Nakayama. He was a $100,000 purchase by his trainer Hideyuki Mori from consignor Cary Frommer at OBS March. The 4-year-old colt is owned by Kazuo Kato. Lifetime: 4 Wins (25%) – 3 Placings (44%) – 16 starts. He has earned over $464,000 US dollars.

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6th-Aqueduct, $62,000, (S), Msw, 12-5, 2yo, 6f, 1:11.54, gd.
BOURBON BAY (c, 2, Bayern–Savvy Sassy, by Street Sense) missed by just a neck in his career bow at this venue Nov. 11 and was hammered down to 3-5 favoritism to get the job done this time around. Forced to steady at the start, the bay caboosed the field through the initial stages, but quickly got his hooves beneath him and made his way into mid-pack as the first quarter went up in :22.70. Unleashing a powerful five-wide rally in the lane, Bourbon Bay swept to the front in the final sixteenth and cruised clear to graduate by 2 1/4 lengths, becoming the 20th winner for his freshman sire (by Offlee Wild).

First Deputy (Awesome Again) was the runner-up. The winner is the first foal out of Savvy Sassy, who hassince produced a yearling filly by Malibu Moon. She did not have a foal in 2019, but was bred back to Flatter this spring.
Sales history: $205,000 Ylg ’18 SARAUG; $240,000 RNA 2yo ’19 FTFMAR.
Lifetime Record: 2-1-1-0, $46,500.
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.

Making her third start and off the favorite, 2 year old LONG POINT BEACH (Golden Lad) drove up the inside to take the lead and hold it for the win. She was started in Aiken and sold this past spring at Timonium to her trainer Lacey Gaudet. She is owned by Five Hellions Farm..

Henley’s Joy was purchased for $50,000 from Cary Frommer’s consignment at the 2018 Ocala Breeders’ Sales Spring Sale of 2-Year-Olds in Training

Final North American grade 1 turf race of the year for males.

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  By Byron King

Four weeks after the Nov. 2 Qatar Twilight Derby (G2T) on the Breeders’ Cup undercard at Santa Anita Park, seven of its competitors meet again in the Nov. 30 Hollywood Derby (G1T) at Del Mar, joined by Digital Age and Standard Deviation, eastern invaders trained by Chad Brown.

As the final North American grade 1 turf race of the year for males—and a race restricted to 3-year-olds—the $300,000 Hollywood Derby is a popular destination. Thirteen horses are entered in the 1 1/8-mile race, and though most are California runners, Henley’s Joy, Uncle Bull, and Mr Dumas join the Brown-trained pair as having raced mostly out of state.

Henley’s Joy, the only grade 1 winner, is the most traveled of the group, with 10 starts in 2019 at seven racetracks. Following his victory in the July 6 Belmont Derby Invitational Stakes (G1T) at Belmont Park, he has gone unplaced in four starts, slowed at times by catching paceless races or experiencing troubled trips.

“Winning the race he did, competing against the horses he did, I thought he had a great year,” trainer Mike Maker said. “He got unlucky a few times, but that’s turf racing.”

A son of Kitten’s Joy  owned by Bloom Racing Stable, Henley’s Joy ran fourth in the Twilight Derby, rallying belatedly after racing as far back as ninth. Rapidly advancing late, he closed his final eighth of a mile in :11.14, according to Trakus, checking in a half-length behind third-place Neptune’s Storm and three-quarters of a length behind runner-up Succeedandsurpass.

Those Twilight Derby runners, as well as victorious Mo Forza, fifth-place Kingly, seventh-place Originaire, and 11th-place Nolde, return in the Hollywood Derby.

Wet weather forecast this week in Southern California could leave the turf course with more give in the ground than usual. Del Mar canceled racing Nov. 28 because of safety concerns over racing on a wet track.

“I don’t like the weather they’re going to get, but it’s nothing we can control,” said Maker, whose colt has not placed in three starts over wet courses ranging from good to yielding.

Drayden Van Dyke will ride Henley’s Joy, who remained in California following the Twilight Derby rather than shipping back and forth from Kentucky.

Just three entries are winners on damp turf: Standard Deviation, who took the Tale of the Cat Stakes on a good course at Monmouth Park June 1; Neptune’s Storm, an allowance winner at Santa Anita on similar ground Feb. 1; and Mr Dumas, who won the Commonwealth Turf Stakes (G3T) on good turf at Churchill Downs Nov. 9.

Standard Deviation followed his Tale of the Cat victory with a seventh behind Henley’s Joy in the Belmont Derby, a win in the Jersey Derby at Monmouth Park Aug. 18, and a third in the Hill Prince Stakes (G2T) Oct. 5 at Belmont Park—all of them on firm turf.

Brown has won the Hollywood Derby twice over the past three years. Raging Bull won last year, and Annals of Time won in 2016.

Eastern shippers have won the Hollywood Derby three consecutive years. Sandwiched between Brown’s two winners was the Tony Dutrow-trained Mo Town  in 2017. The race was moved to Del Mar in 2014 after the closure of Hollywood Park in late 2013.

ENTRIES: HOLLYWOOD DERBY (G1T)

Del Mar, Saturday, November 30, 2019, Race 8

• Grade IT
• 1 1/8m
• Turf
• $300,000
• 3 yo
• 3:33 PM (local)

PP	Horse	Jockey	Wgt	Trainer	M/L
1	1Mo Forza (KY)	Paco Lopez	122	Peter Miller	5/1
2	2Kingly (KY)	Mario Gutierrez	122	Bob Baffert	20/1
3	3Uncle Bull (KY)	Joseph Talamo	122	Mark E. Casse	20/1
4	4Digital Age (IRE)	Javier Castellano	122	Chad C. Brown	6/1
5	5Neptune’s Storm (KY)	Abel Cedillo	122	Richard Baltas	9/2
6	6Nolde (KY)	Victor Espinoza	122	John A. Shirreffs	6/1
7	7Proud Pedro (FR)	Tiago Josue Pereira	122	Leonard Powell	30/1
8	8Henley’s Joy (KY)	Drayden Van Dyke	122	Michael J. Maker	6/1
9	9Standard Deviation (KY)	John R. Velazquez	122	Chad C. Brown	6/1
10	10Moody Jim (IRE)	Flavien Prat	122	Jeff Mullins	6/1
11	11Mr Dumas (KY)	Joseph Rocco, Jr.	122	John Alexander Ortiz	30/1
12	12Originaire (IRE)	Heriberto Figueroa	122	Jeff Mullins	20/1
13	13Succeedandsurpass (IRE)	Rafael Bejarano	122	Richard Baltas	12/1

TOUGH IRMA (Stormy Atlantic) wired the field drawing off and holding sway to win in allowance company at Keeneland. She raced a mile on the turf. TOUGH IRMA is owned by  Crystal Racing Enterprises and Contreras Stable, Inc. and is trained by Cipriano Contreras. She was prepared for her career by Cary Frommer.

Racing in the $100,000 Warrior’s Reward Smart Halo Stakes at Laurel, STILL ALIVE (Midshipman) rallied up the inside to run 3rd and add black type. She was prepared by Cary Frommer in Aiken and sold this spring at Fasig Tipton Timonium. She is owned by  Nicholas Cammarano, Jr. and is now trained by Guadalupe Preciado.

Three year old filly VINYASA (Court Vision) settled off the pace, rallied up the rail and rebuffed a challenge to graduate racing 1 1/16 on the all weather track. She was started and conditioned in Aiken by .Michael Keogh
for The Estate of Gustav Schickedanz.