Training Track Graduate News

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.

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.

Aiken, S.C., January 3, 2020

The Aiken Training Track announces an outstanding year in 2019.

William Gutfarb, newly elected president of the track’s Board of Directors and Chair of the Finance Committee, tallied the graduates’ year-end results shortly after the November-December 2019 results were posted on the track’s web site.

For the 12 months of 2019, “graduates earned $5,634,932.00 and the track produced 20 stakes winners and 25 stakes placed runners,” Gutfarb said. (more…)

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.